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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
American Idol: The Stockholm Syndrome
In their first year, American Idol was fun. They had a limited number of contestants, and the producers weren’t out there milking their fans. In their more recent years, they figured that they can increase the number of shows by increasing the number of participants. The risk of having 30 teams make the playoffs is the possibility that the Royals win the World Series. But, the AI producers figure that a public that loves their show will make sure that the best go on. Even the untalented Antonella Barba only went so far. But, when you’ve got David Letterman and Howard Stern giving exposure to VoteForTheWorst.com, the producers get their comeuppance. Since it was their own judges (Simon, Paula, Randy) who selected the even less talented Sanjaya into the “final 24”, then this means that they’ve got to live with the possibility that the Royals will make it to the final round. Getting Howard and his millions of fans on this bandwagon is the perfect balance against the producers trying to milk AI for all its worth. That’s the deal. You try to make millions of dollars every week by selling to the public a lemon, and you’ve got Howard and VoteForTheWorst balancing things out. If you really didn’t want to have Antonella and Sanjaya anywhere near the finals, then you have only two entities to blame: the producers for allowing such a large field and the judges for being the ones who selected the participants. Sanjaya was voted off, which Howard said was rigged, much the same way that Rory Fitzpatrick was blacklisted by the NHL in its All-Star game.
Be a man AI, and take responsibility. Don’t let your fans think that what Howard and VoteForTheWorst did was wrong.
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