On 5/19/2007 8:22:12 PM, Ronn! Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you're a female singer, you'd better be sexy > > > She was an "amazing talent," a young singer with a wonderful voice > who wrote beautiful songs. But she was no beauty, plus flat-chested > and overweight to boot. > > Remembering the aspiring star, music executive Jody Gerson still > feels terrible about thinking: > "She's never going to get signed, even > though she's fabulous." > > Gerson might feel even worse after Wednesday > night's exit of the > matronly Melinda Doolittle from "American Idol." In today's > music > industry, Plain Janes need not apply. Sex appeal was once considered > a bonus for a woman; now it's practically a requirement. > > <http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/18/music.sexysingers.ap/index.html> >
In recent weeks she had trimmed up a bit and was looking better than she did early on. Fact is, she was beyond any doubt the best singer on the show by a great margin. My wife is a humongous AI fan, but she is sooooo incensed by Doolittle's being booted off by fan voters that she has sworn to boycot the finale. Even Simon Cowell decries the unfairness of the situation. The fans voted to keep a human beatbox who is just a fair singer and a teen with a very good vocal tone but only maginal control. In comparison, Doolittle ran through the paces of the shows weekly themes and perfomed strongly and convincingly at every step. No real surprises here. American Idol is crap. The show is usually entertaining through most of the season, but in the end the fans decide and they almost always decide poorly in the last few weeks. Almost every AI winner was second best as a singer or even as an entertainer. Most of the time the second place finisher is more successful at selling records and drawing crowds to concerts. Speaking for myself, I enjoyed last seasons Rock Star: Supernova much more that any season of American Idol. It had less of a tendency to pander to children and teens. But then, we know who is doing the voting on American Idol. xponent Musical Monkey Wrench Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
