SleepinIn...thanks for responding to my rant.
Let me now answer what you originally wrote, a bit more.
I was really irked the way B. Mansfield kept harping on the crowd at Kris's concert. Lots of space. Half filled. Crowd not very responsive. Kris telling the crowd to make some noise. People not dancing a lot.
Someone on some other forum or blog told me that Idol bloggers/reporters for the bigger newspapers are obsessed with things like ticket sales, album sales, single sales, income, fans, etc. Rather than with the quality of the music, or the creativity or musicality of the performers. I guess this has to do with Idol supposedly creating instant superstars, and guaging how effective that is. I don't know.
Anyhow, just wanted to include that, before moving on.
I think Idol fans are sometimes lost to sublties. They get caught up with certain party lines. For example.. Idol says Adam is a rock god.. therefore Adam is a rock god. Nevermind the fact that he sings pop/dance music.
I think the fans are smarter than the critics. I think this stuff is lost on the critics even more than on the fans!
This is one of the reasons I'm so happy about the opening slots on this tour.
I agree. But unlike the MJ's crowd, I don't think it's going to suddenly increase album sales, or that kind of thing. It's more long-term.
I doubt opening bands gain a huge amount of
real fans, but they gain positive recognition, and if they hold their own playing on the bill with a bigger act, people notice. Also, I think there's a cachet to touring with certain performers like Keith Urban and Maroon 5. It's good to be associated them.
But the opening slots put them in front of large crowds of people that aren't really there to see them and don't automatically do the comparison thing with Adam. They are looking at Kris and band cold and judging them on their own merits.
I think it's great how they get in front of large crowds that aren't there to see them. I'm not certain who actually does compare Kris and Adam except the media, and people like us on forums and blogs. I don't think the average person finds Kris inferior to Adam. I mean, I don't know, it's just that I've never heard a negative thing said about Kris by anyone since he won Idol. The only people who ever were critical were the two sisters I know who both felt Adam was robbed, and that Kris would not be able to follow him (or Danny) in the Idols concert. But even they thought Kris was good. So does the old lady I know who is the Adam fan. It only seems to be critics and extreme Adam fans who have huge problems with Kris.
I'm generalizing, but I mean, it's been a year, and I live in the USA where this show originates, and I've never really heard much bad about Kris from *actual* people. Which is nice.
I think if he does succeed, it will be in his usual way of doing it the long way 'round, sneaking up quietly on the unsuspecting world and insinuating himself until all of a sudden there he is, someone they can't deny or ignore.
Did you see the whole Adam Gold thing? I actually agree in part with some of his responses to the Glamberts, such as:
How is it possible that we live an a world in which mere men figured out how to send a man to the moon more than 40 years ago, yet it's still utterly futile to try and explain to people that it doesn't matter how good a singer's voice is if what they're singing f***ing sucks?
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