Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your Brain
Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your BrainRiddle me this, Batman. Why is it "News" when they decide who won a rigged Teeee-Veeee "talent" show, and have the latest loser to get "kicked off The Island" on CBS morning "News", but we never hear a squeak about who won last night's "Wheel of Fortune", or who outsmarted Bob and won the showcase on "The Price is Right"?
Who answered the "$64,000 Question"?
Just proves to me that we have an ample supply of circuses, now, where's the BREAD?
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I can't remember who said it, but some person on NPR was talking about American Idol and said that what makes it interesting is that often the people who win go on to have bigger careers than "mainstream" artists. I think he/she was confused over what constitutes mainstream because I certainly think a fake contest designed to give the illusion of democracy to talent is arguably about as mainstream as it gets. Plus it plays on the old American meritocratic "by your bootstraps" mythos that we so love as a culture.
...Artists who have come up the hard way, high school homecoming dances, street fairs, one-nighters in some honkee-tonkee off the interstate exit, etc.
It's so much easier the other way, go on a TV show, make Simon like you, give Paula a thrill in her dressing room, and Boom! next thing you know, they're playing your songs on XM 5 times an hour...
Round and Round it Goes...
