The bottom two on American Idol tonight were Stefano Langone and Casey Abrams. In an unbelievable act of stupidity on the whole of America tonight, Casey Abrams got the lowest number of votes. The judges had him perform one last time for the save, but Randy stopped him mid-performance to tell him that they were using the only save of the season on him. I am completely bumfuzzled that they even had to consider using the save on him. He should never have been in the bottom two or even thought about going home this early.
Usually in my Idol blog posts, I am pretty civil and courteous. I will remain to do so, but I will instead write out my anger about the voting on Wednesday night. This will be a diatribe against the current state of popular music and how teenage girls are undermining legitimately good music. I apologize in advance for fans of Thia Megia, because she is going to be mentioned in this post several times. I also apologize to Taylor Swift fans, because she will also be brought up several times. I am very happy that the judges saved Casey, but he should have never even been in the bottom two, let alone almost going home.
For the most part, I enjoy popular music. I like rock, jazz, classical, pretty much everything. But there is one type of music that I do not like: teenybop music. You know the music I am talking about. The type where guys such as Justin Bieber, Big Time Rush, The Jonas Brothers, and Cody Simpson shoot to international superstardom solely due to the fact that girls like them and that they think that they are either cute or handsome. This sort of half-baked voting translates into the adult political spectrum also. Adult voters tend to maintain their childhood likes and tend to base their political decisions and votes on who they think is the prettiest, who wears the best clothes, who talks the smoothest, and so on. In both music and politics, there is a sort of popularity contest happening instead of voting on actual talent (in American Idol's case) or voting on political stances (in American politics).
First, the American Idol results. I just found a website that polls American Idol viewers on how they voted on the performance this week and each week. It is called VoteFair.org
Results for This Week: Top 11
The most preferred and most representative choice is:
James Durbin
Overall popularity ranking:
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The most popular contestant, according to VoteFair.org, is James Durbin. Not that big of an issue. He is a very talented performer.
Now, the thing I have an issue with is Thia Megia. Now, I give her credit in the first couple of weeks that we heard her sing. She did pretty good, but after that chose dud songs to sing. I ended up not voting for her this week because she was giving off that sort of Taylor Swift vibe that dramatically influences any and all reality competitions. Teenage girls typically side with a younger girl or younger boy, and will vote for them based solely on their likes of that person, or due to their dislikes of other contestants. Sometimes, talent is second-rate to popularity and appearance.
Americans should vote in both their reality show competitions and in politics in a similar way: For the competition, vote for talent: For the election, vote on expertise, knowledge, stances on issues, instead of both things being a popularity contest.
Until next time...D-RIZZ OUT!!
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