Thursday, May 18, 2006
idol5 and politics
I don't mean to be obsessed by this but since the media are, why not me too. Anyway, Good Morning America just did a piece about how the AI winner comes down to politics. Aside from thinking this is making waaayyyyy too much of everything, taking it all much too seriously, I found it weird. They compared Hicks (Southerner, gray hair, gyrating soul-ish singer) to Bill Clinton (Southerner, gray hair, occasional gyrator and saxaphone player) and McPhee to a generic politician (kissing babies (her goddaughter), greeting crowds at her high school and the mayor's welcome). I didn't think these seemed like campaigns but like relishing their more-than-15 minutes of fame. GMA concluded by saying that Simon Cowell is the ultimate determiner, which seems logical given that he's one of the producers, but he predicted Pickler and Daughtry would be finalists with Hicks - so much for his accuracy. He also compliments McPhee's voice all the time and derides Hicks. What are your theories?
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