You've heard me say it before and I'll say it again: American Idol is a ridiculously pointless and flawed contest that is made for record and television executives and crappy reality TV junkies. I ran a long diatribe about this a couple years ago which you can read right here. And now it gets better.
The website VoteForTheWorst.com not only busts the whole show wide open exposing it for what it really is, but also allows you the viewing public the opportunity to get back at the producers who created this monstrosity.
The idea behind the site is to have everyone pool together and collectively vote for the most "entertaining" contestant possible and make them go as far as possible. This could be a really terrible singer or a drama queen or an ugly person or a complete idiot...or quadfecta. It really doesn't matter so much as the contestant keeps moving on as far as the votes will take them.
What is American Idol really? It's a reality TV show. That's it. Is there talent involved? Sure, some of the contestants are actually good singers. Does American Idol care? Eh, somewhat. They'd much rather craft an entertaining show with a bunch of great story lines that viewers will be able to gravitate to not unlike the serialized dramas we see on television these days a la Heroes, The Wire, The Sopranos, and Lost.
People were surprised and somewhat offended when they learned a few years back that Survivor wasn't really as "survivorish" as it was made out to be on TV. No one's going to be let starve or anything. But eventually people embraced the reality of reality TV at least for that show. Now, with the help of VFTW, the lid is popped off America's favorite television show. Click here to read about the truth about the audition process and how it's a randomized fraud that leaves thousands of potential singers with real talent out on the street.
I've always hated reality television and I've always hated crappy pop music so naturally hating American Idol made sense. Now there's a reason for everyone else to hate it - it's disingenuous and misleading. It's fake and only weeds out the singers the producers want you to vote on. VoteForTheWorst.com is all about fighting back. The Fox executives don't want oddballs and "humorous but just for kicks" contestants to go far but this site lets you stick it to the execs. Keep the oddballs in there. Keep the "real" talent the producers want cruising through on their heels.
Make the show funny for you if you can't fix the show completely (which no one can or will). If you can't win the war you might as well win a few of the fights. And if any show deserves to get kicked in the nuts, it's this one.
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