{"id":226,"date":"2007-08-08T03:08:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T08:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/08\/08\/1186560514786.html"},"modified":"2007-08-08T03:08:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T08:08:34","slug":"blogentry-americas-got-talent-we-dont-need-another-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] America&#039;s Got Talent : We Don&#039;t Need Another Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I pointed out that although America&#039;s Got Talent is supposed to be a variety\/talent show, and although it is produced by the same people that do Idol, somehow 7 out of 10 of the finalists on Talent are singers.  This is horrible for the show, as it brings the spotlight down on two very obvious things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If only singers stand a chance, then variety acts shouldn&#039;t even bother showing up.\n<li>None of the singers are even close to American Idol standards.\n<\/ol>\n<p\/>This week the Calypso Tumblers, one of the few non-singing acts, were kicked off, along with family act The Duttons.  That leaves only two variety acts: martial arts group Sideswipe, and singing ventriloquist Terry Fator.  I really hope Fator goes all the way through, he&#039;s got the most unique talent I&#039;ve ever seen (a ventriloquist that does impressions of singers??).  If he manages to win, it will redeem the show&#039;s existence.  Sideswipe is not going to win.<\/p>\n<p\/>Quick note on &#034;Butterscotch&#034;, who is also a &#034;singer with a unique talent&#034;.  Namely that she sings and beatboxes simultaneously, which is intriguing the first time you see it.  The problem is that after a few tries it gets dull and boring and all of her song sound like the teacher from Charlie Brown on slow motion.  WahWAHWahwahwahWAH, wah WAH&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I pointed out that although America&#039;s Got Talent is supposed to be a variety\/talent show, and although it is produced by the same people that do Idol, somehow 7 out of 10 of the finalists on Talent are singers. This is horrible for the show, as it brings the spotlight down on two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}