Hello and welcome to our new column here at Vote For The Worst. I am Professor Chan. I will be your music critic each week and grade the performance of the wannabes on Star Search... I mean American Idol. I will grade each performance on an easy to understand A through F scale, and if I want to get creative, I'll throw in a plus or minus. Feel free to disagree, but since I am the one with the column and therefore the power, my opinion will always be the most correct. What are my qualifications for judging a silly talent competition that has bamboozled-- I mean, captured the attention of millions of Americans each and every week? None, really. Except that I am smarter than Randy, Paula and Simon combined. Also I have a basic enough understanding of both music and the English language to know that "pitchy" is neither a real word, nor one that can be used to describe music. I also know that American Idol is not a "singing competition" as Simon likes to call it. If that were the case they could do it on the radio and nobody would care what the sets look like. American Idol is a popularity contest first AND THEN a semi-amateur talent competition second.
Hello and welcome to our new column here at Vote For The Worst. I am Professor Chan. I will be your music critic each week and grade the performance of the wannabes on Star Search... I mean American Idol.
I will grade each performance on an easy to understand A through F scale, and if I want to get creative, I'll throw in a plus or minus. Feel free to disagree, but since I am the one with the column and therefore the power, my opinion will always be the most correct. What are my qualifications for judging a silly talent competition that has bamboozled-- I mean, captured the attention of millions of Americans each and every week? None, really. Except that I am smarter than Randy, Paula and Simon combined. Also I have a basic enough understanding of both music and the English language to know that "pitchy" is neither a real word, nor one that can be used to describe music. I also know that American Idol is not a "singing competition" as Simon likes to call it. If that were the case they could do it on the radio and nobody would care what the sets look like. American Idol is a popularity contest first AND THEN a semi-amateur talent competition second.