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I just read the news that Simon Cowell, the British entertainment mogul who's terrible bedside temper brings an edge to the popular reality TV show "American Idol" is now considering leaving it. My reaction? YEAH! DO IT!
Look, I never really watched American Idol at all -- but I've seen at least once -- and the reason was Cowell. I've got to be honest. I don't like it when people are mean to each other when they're supposed to work together in the real world, and I like it even less on reality TV. Cowell tossed insults at fearful contestants like they're hand grenades then he sits back and watches them cry!
Maybe Cowell is the perfect poster child for our fashionably rude society, and if that's the case and his departure would help improve American Culture, then the faster the better.
Cowell says he's tired; that going between two countries and doing three shows is hard "so one had to go" he told the British press. All I can say is please let it be "Idol" so he's not on in the American states for a while.
(And after unknown Susan Boyle's beautiful, blow-you-away rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables on "Britains Got Talent", I'm willing to be he's not skipping out on that show.)
Cowell's departure is good for Idol. Even Ryan Seacrest says this, pointing out the ratings drop I referred to earlier. But even then American Idol still rules the ratings its time slot. Maybe Americans like a villian, and Cowell is that. He told Seacrest to "Come out of the closet" and has been called childish, insulting, and a ton of names I can print here.
So who would replace Cowell? Well, someone mean, childish, ambitious, and cold for starters. For fun, let's make a list. Here's mine:
1. Dick Cheney for throwing President Obama under the bus, or trying to.
2. Sarah Palin for throwing everyone under the bus she's worked with.
3. Jamie Foxx for telling 16-year old Mylie Cyrus to make a sex tape and use heroin.
4. Rush Limbaugh for everything.
5. Chelsea Handler for having a cheap, racist TV show.
6. Alec Baldwin for yelling at his young daughter.
7. Jim Cramer, who I like but can wreck a company's stock in moments.
8. Naomi Campbell for throwing her cell phone at an employee.
9. J.J. Abrams for messing-up the San Francisco Skyline in "Star Trek" '
10. Perez Hilton who tosses made-up Internet rumors around weekly.
I'm sure you have your own list. Let's see it! Make a video of your "Top 10." I left "me" out because I didn't use the term "ego". I have a large one.
Zennie: By virtue of the fact that you don't watch the show, you've got it backwards.
ReplyDeleteSimon is not a "poster child for society's modern fashionable meaness," "[tossing] insults at unsuspecting contestants"; he's an ANTIDOTE to America's modern fashionable mushy dishonesty and tendency to tell everyone, no matter how self-deluded (or how many years beyond kindergarten), that they not only deserve but are entitled to the highest praise and acclaim just for being themselves. In fact, Idol itself is the antidote to the rest of the "reality" genre, which tends to consist of raw footage of entitled people throwing hissy-fits because they can't handle being amongst other entitled people.
Cowell has always made Idol watchable, because he's kept it honest, and called out self-delusion and entitlement. If honesty is now supposed to be inherently mean, then America is screwed.
-- warren
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