America Got It Wrong

Ok, first let me say that Gilles should have won on Dancing With The Stars. Shawn won, not because of her dancing abilities, but because of her gymnast abilities. Now before I go further I might state I enjoy reality tv and watch it because it is fun to watch. But one gets annoyed when they see the finals of certain shows and realizes that the best talent is not winning. In the case of Dancing With The Stars, this incredible french actor, Gilles, was a graceful and yes, very sexy dancer, from day one. And therein lay the problem. It was a GYMNAST, rather than a DANCER who won the dancing show. But then these shows are based on popularity when it comes to votes, rather than on who is the best in a given genre. I am a former dancer and it has always annoyed me how often the public will vote for the acrobats and gymnasts over a DANCER. Back handsprings and various things are all well and good BUT it has nothing to do with DANCE. All too often so called "dancers" will get up and do leaps and turns and handsprings and there will be little or no footwork involved. Dancing involves footwork. DUH. About the only thing more annoying than acrobats calling themselves dancers is when some hootchie cootchie tramp will refer to herself as a "dancer" while costumed in her birthday suit and gyrating a bump and grind. But that is a different topic. 

Now on to last night and when America got it wrong again. American Idol choose a new idol according to the votes of a supposed 100 million. What that means is that a little of 12 year old girls text messaged a gazillion times for the guy they thought was "cute" which was Kris Allen. No offense to this guy who just won but he is not that good of a singer. Yes, he is cute and seems like a nice person but he was often off key. And as a singer, when I see a preformance that is mediocre at best ( when he sings on key ) then I find it annoying that he wins because of his cuteness. Well I suppose it could have been worse. There was a horrible contestant this year, Megan, who made Kris sound like Pavarotti. She is in the top ten ( my fave, Alexis was not ) and it was painful to listen to her sing. My favorite singer was this incredible future super star by the name of Adam Lambert. Ok, my fave came in second. I can't really complain about that. And in the long run he will probably be better off ( minus the million that the winner picks up ) as he will have more freedom in his choices of what he does  with his music. And poor Kris will get stuck recording this horrible song that was co-written by the new judge, Kara Dioguardi, who has written for the likes of such marginal ( if that ) "talents" as Paris Hilton. 

My sister Libby and I both love Adam's singing and we will be watching his career in the future. On the finale last night the last performance was Adam and Kris preforming with the members of Queen. While Kris faded into the woodwork, Adam showed why he should have won. And he also showed why he would be able to step into Freddie Mercury's shoes and do him proud by preforming with Queen. Will that happen in the future or will he go solo or get in a band? Who knows?  Time will tell that story. 

One thing about America Idol is that often the losers ( with the exception of Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood ) do better than the winners. I have a feeling that is what will happen with Adam. Maybe I am wrong about Kris and he will have a huge career but I am doubtful. But I believe Adam will be an international star. America might have got it wrong last night but I think in the future that the world will get it right.