American Idol
At about 8:20 tonight I found myself sitting in my hotel room, eating dinner, doing work so my company can make more money, listening to American Idol on TV. Like most Americans, I?ve seen the show before but am not a regular viewer (the ?most Americans? part referred to seeing the show before, apparently many actually do watch it on a regular basis).
Anyway, I am listening and realized it was terrible. The singers were, in the words of Tommy, ? absolutely ******* gash?. The songs were awful, really awful. Now, with so few contestants, I figured they were the best of the lot. Or at least good enough to make it this far. But it was horrendous. I sing better after dropping a few beers and going along with Elvis Costello. And I realized why it was so bad. They were all signing Gloria Estefan songs. Sorry to say this, but Gloria Estefen songs suck when GLORIA ESTEFAN sings them.
My sweet loving God what were they thinking? And Gloria is sitting there on a fold up table with the fat dude, idiot cheerleader and the Brit trying to find some morsel of good to tell the poor idiots who are butchering her songs. She is probably thinking ?I am going to fire my agent as soon as this living hell ends?forget my comeback tour?. Elton John, Burk Bacharack, the only two that I have watched, I can see. They have nice songs that sound nice when people sing them nicely. But Gloria Estefan?s Latin salsa stuff is not for most Americans. Who?s next week? Vanilla Ice? Bobby Mcferin? Brad Roberts from the Crash Test Dummies? Please, American Idol producers, if by some chance of fate you read this, shame on you and your stupid tribute shows.