Idling

Tonight is the final American Idol performance show.  It all comes down to this.  From hundreds of thousands lining up to audition.  To a select few getting through to be chastised and put down by Simon.  Never has a singing show been done on such a grand scale.  However in the end, it is just a singing competition.  People debate over and over again the merits of their favorites and you would think at some point we'd get tired of it.  I mean, some of us already have.  The ratings for the show are down and I for one couldn't be happier.  Not that I have a problem with people enjoying the show it's just that the thing is too big.  Every other singer you hear nowadays seems to be connected to it.  Pop singers, country singers, soul singers, rock singers and a couple that we just can categorize.  The days of the garage band writing some songs and hitting the road and working their way to the top seem to have passed us by.  Last year American Idol even ran a spin off where they looked for the next great band.  The problem is, no one is putting in their dues.  Working hard to build up a reputation.  It's all so immediate.  Disposable singers for a disposable society.  Jordin Sparks who??  We will soon have a new American Idol winner and we'll junk Jordin Sparks just like we junked that that bread that's past it's best before date.  In fact, singers today might as well come with an expiration date on them.  Thirty years from now, no one will be sitting around listening to a David Cook record on an oldies station.  No one will still have a copy of that David Archuletta's CD they just have to put on every once in a while.  American Idol is to popular music what the Bic Lighter was to matches.  The end. Until We Type Again, Take It Ease !