Beside the producers and the network, that is. How about the judges?
Posts Tagged ‘Aerosmith’
Who really benefits from American Idol?
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011Mixing it up
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Great post on Riff City about the difficulties some people still have with the concept of musical miscegenation. Since I look at all of this from within the pop bubble, this strikes me as a given; miscegenation, not just between races but between genres and styles, is an essential part of the process. It’s interesting to see that some people are still shocked by the concept, even though the music they listen to is the product of years of cross-breeding that they’re most likely unaware of. Normally, I’d be irritated by a piece that makes references to things I assume everyone knows (“Walk This Way”, duh), but here it makes sense. It’s hard sometimes to remember that members of the next generation (whichever letter is currently assigned to it) find anything before their conscious lifetimes (i.e. 1995 and before) as difficult to fathom as I once found anything that happened prior to 1964. But they’re out there, and they need to know.
(HT: The Daily Swarm)
Who needs viral when you’ve got Fox?
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010They flirted with this last season, but the promise of an all-Britney-Spears episode with Spears herself making an appearance cements the idea: Glee is now more than just a TV show, it’s a handy promotional tool for established pop stars, just like American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance. It won’t be long, I imagine, until that’s all it is. I expect the announcement of an all-Aerosmith episode any day now, with Steven Tyler as some student’s long-lost great-grandfather.
