American Idol = funny/sad
It was a tough day for me when I noticed that American Idol judge Randy Jackson once played bass on a Springsteen record. I bet he didn't have the balls to call Bruce, "Dawg."
Anyway, Springsteen fan site Backstreets thought they'd have a little fun with an April Fools Day posting. The alleged news was that Bruce would be on American Idol this week, coaching the kids through his songs a la Barry Manilow. No dice - it's artiste extraordinaire Kenny Rogers.
It's something of a relief that Bruce Springsteen still has enough artistic integrity for such a story to be an obvious joke as opposed to, say, Prince.
In a non-April Fools story, the following three facts are revealed about the Purple One:
-He hates American Idol
-He has never seen American Idol
-He is likely to appear on the show to help the sales of his new album
Nice.
the news comes from Pagesix.com which is a big boy when it comes to gossip, so take it with as many grains of salt as you see fit.
Lastly, I know it's simultaneously one of the highest rated shows in history and a patheticly lame easy target, but you still have to like the boys in Broken Social Scene taking it to the Canadian franchise and its spawn.
In the article, bandleader Kevin Drew says that "I feel really sorry for those kids in Canadian Idol because they're going absolutely nowhere," and I dare someone who is neither involved with the show, nor a teenager, to refute it.
Anyway, Springsteen fan site Backstreets thought they'd have a little fun with an April Fools Day posting. The alleged news was that Bruce would be on American Idol this week, coaching the kids through his songs a la Barry Manilow. No dice - it's artiste extraordinaire Kenny Rogers.
It's something of a relief that Bruce Springsteen still has enough artistic integrity for such a story to be an obvious joke as opposed to, say, Prince.
In a non-April Fools story, the following three facts are revealed about the Purple One:
-He hates American Idol
-He has never seen American Idol
-He is likely to appear on the show to help the sales of his new album
Nice.
the news comes from Pagesix.com which is a big boy when it comes to gossip, so take it with as many grains of salt as you see fit.
Lastly, I know it's simultaneously one of the highest rated shows in history and a patheticly lame easy target, but you still have to like the boys in Broken Social Scene taking it to the Canadian franchise and its spawn.
In the article, bandleader Kevin Drew says that "I feel really sorry for those kids in Canadian Idol because they're going absolutely nowhere," and I dare someone who is neither involved with the show, nor a teenager, to refute it.
posted by Heavy Early at 11:43 AM
2 Comments:
Kalan Porter has likely already made more money than you will in this lifetime, likely a hell of alot more than Kevin Drew as well.
Sure, artistically undeveloped, but he has nice hair, can play the fiddle, and is stinkin' rich. Not such a bad consolation prize.
If you buy that money is any measure of success, then Kalan Porter's "artistically underdeveloped" music is certainly priceless.
Since that is utterly meaningless to me - and I'm not even a big Broken Social Scene Fan - I'll take GOOD music every time.
Five years from now you won't remember Kalan Porter's name and BSS will be huge (at best) or remembered as a great influential band like The Replacements at worst.
Kalan won't even pass Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken on the way to nothingness. But he is pretty - I'll give you that. I didn't know about the fiddle.
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