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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2006-05-25 02:34 pm
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Okay, wow, you American Idol people are starting to frighten me.

[identity profile] kmg-365.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Starting to frighten you?

Some have frightened me from the beginning.
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[personal profile] dorothy1901 2006-05-25 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't watch American Idol (except for the last two minutes before House comes on). What happened?

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't watch it, either, but some of the people who do seem to take it inordinately seriously. Yikes!

[identity profile] tangleofthorns.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
What'd we do?

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the ones who reallyreallyreally care about who wins, man. I'm looking at people I had previously considered rational, who are more worked up about the AI result than they were about, like, the last two general elections combined. Dayum.

[identity profile] kmg-365.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, when you consider that there are probably more Americans know who Taylor Hicks is than those who know who the Secretary of State is...

I don't watch the show, but the impression I had after watching snippets here and there: these contestants are marginally talented at best.

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
They may be very talented -- I happened to be passing through when some friends of mine were watching the results show one week, and apparently they make the week's loser do a number before leaving, which seems unusually cruel, but the kid who was singing at the time was really pretty good -- but whether they are or aren't seems to be independent of their likelihood of success.

[identity profile] tangleofthorns.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The mistake you made was in considering anyone on LJ rational. ;)

I have a (completely, admittedly irrational) hate for Taylor Hicks that knows no bounds, but I also don't give a damn enough to vote. Such is the life of an elf.

[identity profile] fafou.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You're tellin' me!
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[identity profile] the-star-fish.livejournal.com 2006-05-25 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup.