"AMERICAN" IDOL PART II

After weeks of voting people off, the viewing public was now left with Tamayra, Justin and Kelly. I didn't happen to know the results of that elimination day until I came home the next week and found my old roomie Lori watching the show, but this time sans Tamayra. "What happened to the black girl with that tight voice?" I asked her. "Oh she got voted off." "What?!"

So now we were left with Justin and Kelly, too not bad looking people with okay voices. There's nothing about their voices that impressed me. As far as I was concerned, the 'real' singers were already gone.

It then dawned on me. The American Pop Music Industry isn't just about talent. That's obvious in the fact that most of the so called girl/boy 'bands' [though the word band is just a label; most of them, save a rare few, actually play their own instruments] only have/had one or two principal singers -- the rest were 'just there'.
For example:
New Kids on the Block - Jordan, Joe, Donnie
Backstreet Boys - Nick, Brian
NSync - JC, Justin [one day I'll tell you about my brush with NSync]

So what's my point?
You may have the talent, but you need to be marketable to actually make it in the industry. Go ask those groups made up of Asian Americans of 'Latin' Americans singers -- groups with loads of talent but unfortunately still look too much like foreigners.

Still, I'm pulling for the Pinoy, who if I'm not mistaken used to be a member of 'Innerlude' from the San Jose area. [I have another story about singing "In the Still of the Night" with them waaaaaaay back in '94!]

Am I gonna watch the show? NO.
But do I want the Filipino to win? HELL YEAH.