Winning a contest does not make you a star!<\/p>\n
The reason those American Idols had success was because of Simon Cowell.\u00c2\u00a0 Not the acerbic judge you saw on TV but the record exec who guided the careers of the winners after their victories.<\/p>\n
And if this year’s winner succeeds, it’ll be because of Jimmy Iovine and the Interscope team.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re invested in him…whatever his name was again…<\/p>\n
You see the name is not important, it’s the music.<\/p>\n
We love to watch and laugh, see the mistakes on TV, but when we listen, we only want to hear the hits.\u00c2\u00a0 A hit is not just something played incessantly on Top Forty radio, although that qualifies, a hit is something so infectious you can’t get it out of your head, you need to hear it again.\u00c2\u00a0 As Ahmet Ertegun so famously said, something you hear on the radio at midnight that forces you to get dressed and go to the all night record shop to buy.<\/p>\n
Granted, record stores are on their way to extinction.\u00c2\u00a0 But if you haven’t heard a song on your car radio and come home and immediately searched to hear it online, like a starving "Survivor" contestant searching for food, you’re not a music fan.<\/p>\n
The special sauce is not the contest, but the music!<\/p>\n
Remember that VH1 show, "Bands On The Run"?\u00c2\u00a0 The winner was Flickerstick.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, they were much better than the rest of the contestants, but where are they today?\u00c2\u00a0 They just didn’t have enough good songs.<\/p>\n
And someone sent me a video of one of the finalists in that "Rolling Stone" contest.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch it here:<\/p>\n
\n‘Who’ The Sheepdogs Performance<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nUnless "Rolling Stone" becomes a manager, gives this act more than ink, it’s gonna sink like a stone.<\/p>\n
And I didn’t like the track either.<\/p>\n
And speaking of tracks…check out Lexi’s:<\/p>\n
\nLexi St. George – Dancing to the Rhythm (With Me) – (OFFICIAL VIDEO) — ‘GMA’ Pop Star<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nMakes me think Ark Factory got lucky.<\/p>\n
I don’t know about you, but I still can’t get that "Friday" chorus out of my head.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, Rebecca Black was talentless and the verses were inane but there was a surefire hook there, that grabbed you as much as the one Vanilla Ice ripped off to make "Ice Ice Baby".<\/p>\n
So score one against the Ark Factory tribe.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re looking like one hit wonders.<\/p>\n
But isn’t it fascinating that all the original songs written for TV contest finalists fall flat?\u00c2\u00a0 The ones on the ultimate episodes of "Idol" and "The Voice"?\u00c2\u00a0 If it was easy, don’t you think they’d sing hits?<\/p>\n
But it’s incredibly difficult to write a hit.\u00c2\u00a0 And those who do don’t want to waste them, they want to place them with superstars, not wannabes.<\/p>\n
And these paper-thin two-dimensional acts are at the mercy of writers, because they can’t write themselves, they’ve got no experience, either being alive or composing, hell, Lexi St. George is FOURTEEN!<\/p>\n
So don’t get your knickers in a twist.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t complain that some TV nitwit stole your chance. They’ve got some fame, but so does that guy who performs the Evolution of Dance on YouTube, what, he’s got 175,000,000 hits? <\/p>\n
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