I agree CI should celebrate their former contestants.
That's a good point for sure, but I was referring to former winners. Not Carly or the Pigott Bros. That's more like what I said about Jacob.
I just think the show shouldn't treat former winners (other than the previous year's) like they don't exist. It just makes the whole show seem hypocritcal to ignore the very people who they made such a big deal of when they won it. It's called "Canadian Idol" and is supposed to be a contest to find the best. The people who won the foolish thing get passed over for Jacob, or whoever. The show is the one place that that shouldn't happen! They act ashamed or forgetful of their own winners.
Anyhow, it probably won't come back, so it's kind of a moot point.
Thanks for answering my question about the Seacrest countdown.
I know now what was getting me down, earlier -- it was all the crap I've been reading online yesterday and today (esp. you know where). This was a great week for Kris. He made Top 10 on on HAC (yay!), his video made the Top 5 on VH1 (yay!), his single went gold (yaaay!). And I think his album made gains, too (yay!). I was really happy about all this until I read all the negative posts about him and his prospects ... you know where.
I realized all this when I went to the mall and walked by the Hollister store and heard Live Like We're Dying blasting out of the doors. Our boy has a hit, folks.
I grew up in a different era, I guess, when having a hit record on the radio was the goal of every artist. Because that meant fame and success. People knowing who you are, knowing your song, liking you and your song. Album sales matter, of course, but for a new artist (which is how I see Kris), first you have to sell the song on the radio, and establish yourself as somebody popular and important.
Not that Kris's album sales are even bad. This has been pointed out many times. They're just not "American Idol super successful".
Someone on MJ's called Kris a failure because of his album sales, but common sense told me with all the success I mentioned above, "failure" would hardly be the word.
The person was an Adam fan. I thought: Kris really has had no actual flops (maybe NB, I don't know about that. It probably sold better than a lot of things have). He won the show, he sold his single well, his Jingle Ball and other live performances were successful, etc. His album is not a flop, either. And it's still selling.
This is the thing about Kris, to me. Not really messing up. Going steadily forward. Making nice gains.
Adam has had some actual flops. Time For Miracles was not expcted to flop, and it did. FYE, also a flop. His AMA performance was a mess. I would call it a flop -- it was a failure as a performance and it failed to sell the record or to launch him into the stratosphere professionally. All his fans can point to are his album sales, which is fine, he deserves credit. And WWFM is doing reasonably well and is not yet a big hit, but not a flop. But still. Not a stellar track record, exactly.
Just saying.
I agree with you about CI vs. AI. But maybe it's easy to say all those good things about CI now that we haven't seen it for a while. I loved the judges and the themes mostly, but I still remember how the talent was very uneven in season 5 and how regional voting could give some weird results. But, yeah, I don't have any respect for the AI judges. I'm curious to see how Ellen does, but I'm not incredibly optimistic.
I was mainly saying I personally love CI compared to AI. It's a personal thing. I feel a warm feeling for it. I feel compatible with it. I would probably like to hang out with some of those people.
Like, I just read how Simon arrives only shortly before going on the air, and fifteeen minutes after the show is over, he's gone. While Zack is known as someone who's available to the contestants. Just as an example.
