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It's about Frickin' Time
05.24.04 (11:54 am)   [edit]
In the tradition of Naked Gun, Loaded Weapon, Scary Movie, Austin Powers, Kids in the Hall and South Park comes the latest in the spoof genre - the WB's Superstar USA. Everything under the sun has been spoofed - the spy films, the cop dramas, teen horror films. Now it's Reality TV's turn. I say, "It's about frickin' time!"

The show is an obvious spoof of American/Pop/[insert the name of your country] Idol. Idol selects contestants from all over the [respective] country based on singing talent. So does Superstar. Idol has three judges with music industry connections including one former pop diva and a black guy who likes to say "Dawg" and "Aiiight". So does Superstar. Hundreds of thousands of people audition - even those who should know better. On idol, contestants must have singing talent and star quality and there in lies the difference. On Superstar "only the bad survive." Contestants must not only be untalented, God-awful and tone-deaf, they must also believe that they are absofrickin' fabulous. The judges praise the "William Hungs" and insult and utterly reject anyone with an ounce of talent.

The show is funny and sad all at the same time. It's hard to watch people with obvious talent being rejected and scarred for life while watching individuals who were in the crapper when God handed out vocal skills be told that they are simply awesome. It's a grand hoax and in the end the winner will be crowned as the worst singer in America. One of the contestands, this scrawny guy in a striped sweater danced and wriggled while belting out the worst rendition of cat's f**king I have ever heard. The "Simon Cowell" type judge immediately picked up his cell phone and said, "Call 911. I think ***** has stolen the show." I fell onto the floor laughing and convulsing. Cat f**ker is in for a rude awakening.

Contestants are treated like celebrities and not allowed to hear each other sing in order to keep the hoax a secret. After watching the first two episodes this weekend on the WB, I was hooked. The show re-airs pretty often and the new episodes air on Mondays at 9pm ET.

For those of you who couldn't understand the William Hung phenomenon, this show is revenge.
 


posted by: anonymousx (reply)
post date: 05.24.04 (9:05 am)

ha ha maybe I should submit my entry on this one..I might really win something for once lol.




posted by: Saint027 (reply)
post date: 05.24.04 (9:05 am)

Nice blog. Keeps me laughing. Can't watch that crap though.



posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 05.24.04 (9:06 am)

Reply to: Saint027
I don't blame you.



posted by: mblog (reply)
post date: 05.24.04 (11:52 am)

I've never actually watched Idol, and I haven't watched WB either, although I think I once read about it in The Boondocks. Or maybe I'm thinking of UPN, or possibly BET. Well, anyway, I never did find them compelling but I did find William Hung on the Internet.

It does go to show me that Simon has no brains. One does not even need to see the show to have heard of that clown, Simon.

William Hung may not be a superstar, but he can sing. Not to the standards of a professional singer, but when his weird little exercise was put to music, he was actually singing in key, which is more than a lot of people can do. As for his accent, Asia is full of people who sing in English with accents. I suppose that Julio Iglesias' accent is fine with us, but we won't take that from a Chinaman. Yes, I know Iglesias sings better, but if accents are inherently bad, Iglesias still has the same problem. Besides, it's easier to make fun of William Hung. It's easy to make fun of anybody who is surviving primarily on academic ability, because that's the easiest type to beat up in the schoolyard.

There's also an issue of image. Asian males are simply not in style and never were. Asian women are hot, even though they were irrelevant just a few decades ago, but we have to keep those stereotypes alive.

But it's about music, not image, right? Of course not. Music has nothing to do with it. If it did, you'd actually see the people playing the instruments. You'd care just as much about picking the bass player or guitarist as you would about the singer, and you might even care who wrote the songs. The idea is to do everything else ahead of time and just get somebody who looks the part and can sing too. Basically, it's a karaoke contest.

You might get a big heavy black guy by mistake, but the public can take care of that. After all, it's all about talent. Wink, wink.

So instead of letting the industry do its job of culling out what is not mainstream and filtering through to us only what appeals to the greatest common denominator, they can do it in public instead. That way, they can get paid for going though it, and by the time they find somebody, the advertising has already been done. maybe if they had televised the auditions to Cats, they would have had a bigger audience on opening day.




posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 05.24.04 (9:11 pm)

Reply to: mblog
I don't know the circles you travel in, but Asian men are hot...don't get me started...



posted by: Anne-Marie (reply)
post date: 05.25.04 (2:31 pm)

or me either lol lol



posted by: mblog (reply)
post date: 05.27.04 (11:34 am)

Reply to: dangerkitty

It's not my opinion, but the way things are right now. You simply don't see leading Asian men in TV or in the movies, except for martial arts films, and even there they don't get to be romantic. I think it's ridiculous.

But I won't get you started because you wouldn't really need my help.



posted by: Joolie (reply)
post date: 05.29.04 (10:34 am)

And I so wish I was there with you to watch it, we could send out Monkey Boy to HEB for supplies.....Joolie xxx



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