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Call the show “I’m a Wannabe Anka” or something else, for short 😆 Sharon could be a judge, I’d love to see her face:
“I’ve finished… bap-baah with my woman cause she couldn’t…
der-dee der-der-dee-der help me with my mind… bap-de-baaah
People think… doo-doo doooh-de-dedoo I’m insane cos I’m…
bap-bap frowning aaaall of the time, yeah…” -
Well there is always at least 20 of the white rapper wannabes here. Half the people watch just to see them.
You could churn out a few a year I think. Rap idol, Christian Metal idol and the cream of the crop, Paul Anka idol. That’s got to be easy in the UK with so many people and so little distance to travel – cheap as chips.
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The first series of “X Factor” did have a bloke who looked exactly like a junior office clerk. Reckoned he “had the looks, personality and talent” to win as a rapper. Did a lame (and much spittle-producing) version of Stan and was told to get off.
The best bit was only seen on the minority, satellite follow-up channel. Much finger pointing and impromptu (is it called “face-off”?) stuff. “Simon Cowell, he’s a complete ….ker – wouldn’t trust him if he was my personal banker. Sharon Osbourne, get a life – my hands would shake if I had you for a wife…”
Actually, he wasn’t even that good. I made up that stuff for him. He was pricelessly bad. I’d go for a “Rap” version of the show; maybe call it EnemaMan and see what comes out.
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I don’t think they would let the bands perform original material. No one would tune in. It would be covers and themed Style Council and INXS nights.
But your right about the setup of auditioning bands – in the same setting as they do now with idol – it couldn’t be done unless the judges selected based on video applications, and they are frankly boring compared to some twit in a robot costume singing out of tune.
Rap/Hip-Hop Idol however, low maintenance just like the current, and plenty of fans. Chances are it would be a total shit fest, but it has to be on the cards. It may have already been done??? You would have the Tupac dude, the Eminiem dude, the Streets dude and some chick dude who can breakdance and there’s your final four. It would rate the tits off a cow.
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Phew 😯 , it would take some doing for the format to work with bands. The thing about Idol/X-factor is that the initial, entertaining bit (“we auditioned 75,000 acts and 74,900 of them were total caca”) is currently the cheapest TV imaginable. Two nights in a suite for the judges and a couple of conference rooms in the local Holiday Inn for auditions. You can’t do it like that with bands, even if you say “that’s the backline – just get up and play it”
Mind you, having watched some of the, er, minority interest, satellite channels, I reckon there are several thousand comically crap bands out there. Finding, say, 10 bands who have enough material to last through the knockout finals could be the real challenge. The final stage is self-financing for the TV company. The phone-in votes and ads pay for the staging, a bigwig like Cowell’s BMG pays for the prize, etc. All that disappears once the dreaded “original songwriting band” phrase comes up. Only one rich megalomaniac who could pull it off springs to mind.
Richard Branson, have you logged in to reply yet? 🙂
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I’ve never enjoyed being in, or watching, a “Battle of the Bands”. All of the “snapped a string, can I borrow your guitar?” friendliness goes out of the window. Plus, in dreary little provincial cities like mine, they dredge up some “expert” who played session sax for Simply Red as a judge. The winners are invariably safe, MOR covers bands that couldn’t get a contract if they were in a lawyer’s filing cabinet.
Anyone with a hint of street-cred would avoid these shows like the proverbial. F’r’instance, no TV show is going to risk 12 unknown bands performing their own material on prime-time TV. Look at the “groups” chosen for X-Factor; always boy/girl/family harmony rubbish.
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Can anyone remember when the “best” singer actually won an idol or xfactor craptition??? ,..rather than the one with more friends,family and sympathy!!
Bring on a new idol like series,like mayb
“THE BATTLE OF THE BANDS”…and if theres a band (with its furry little pets) that needs wiping from history,prob be “pet shop boyzzzz”.
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X Factor was a huge bomb in AU, artist and TV wise. Idol artists awlays sell well here.
The latest “punk” churn out from Idol here was thankfully dismissed last week. One of the judges summed him up perfectly when he said he was “Punk Wiggles,” The Wiggles being a very popular aus group of guys who wear bright coloured t-shirts and sing to kids. He had 6 year olds screaming for him when he was doing his punk™ rendition of George Michael’s Faith and punk™ rendition of Eye of the Tiger.
I prefer crazy frog over some of those idol types.
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Blimey Stacey, an excuse is needed? I’ve been here a while, posting up unremitting caca, and now I find out I should’ve looked for an excuse. “Robbie Williams; back, sack and crack wax?” is the nearest I ever came to an excuse for posting a thoughtful 🙂 .
Anyhoo, I can forgive Nickelback a career. “How You Remind Me” is a decently crafted song. I can think of many bands that have been around longer without managing this simple feat. I go along with Tim and glw, the “manufactured” band:
[quote]Whichever “boy band” started it all. (How can you have a “band” where no one plays any instruments?)
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It then leads onto the “Idol” type of TV show. The new-variant CJD (Crappy Judges Display) here in Blighty, and soon the world, is “The X Factor”.Groups are allowed to enter, but not with so much as a guitar, never mind a drum-kit. Same old boys, girls, boys + girls, singing some resurrected BeeGees number. Competition winner almost guaranteed a number 1 single. Better still, after auditioning 10,000 useless people and finding one excellent pub-singer, they repeat the process again a year later. Am I alone in thinking there is an end-point in this process? And it’s already been reached?
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[quote=”glw”]Whichever “boy band” started it all. (How can you have a “band” where no one plays any instruments?)[/quote]
Totally agree, it would have to be a ‘band’ that influenced a generation to forget what instruments are and take up synchronised dancing instead, I’m going to go for ‘Take That’.
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