American Idol Worship

[whatchamacallit]

Kinda sad and creepy...

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Think ROME... at the end of the Empire

I am not kidding

[whatchamacallit]

4. Funny, I said that to someone today too

The more Rome burns the faster we fiddle...

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. And people love it

we changed channels,

But as that happens, we have real serious crisis going on.

Silly shit like infrastructure collapse in the US... the Empire falling apart... but hey, we need to worship our distractions.

[YOY]

2. A-yup.

Getting a weeks worth of news out of a 30 minute worth news event...and getting attacked for pointing it out.

[damntexdem]

3. Hey, good idea! American Idol: Worship.

Instead of trying to find entertainment performers on the program, instead find preachers.

Yeah, I like the concept.

;-)

[Ron Green]

5. The saddest part is that "pop culture" is but a pale shadow of what it used to be.

I mean, "Star Dust" was a pop song. Ella Fitzgerald was a pop singer. The Beatles were pop performers.

When I saw the Beatles in 1964 I couldn't really hear their performance for the screaming, although I knew that beneath the noise was some vital music, played in real time by the composers of the tunes.

There's certainly some vital music being made today, but it's not what you hear through the "pop" delivery system.

[BlueJazz]

8. Amen...You said it.

Once upon a time Good Music was Popular and Popular Music was Good.

[mikelgb]

6. Heal the World?

[get the red out]

7. Bread and circus

Our celebrity culture is self-defeating.

[Subdivisions]

9. I do not worship Michael Jackson. My feeling is simply that he

contributed in large part to the soundtrack of my life. From my ealiest childhood to this day he has provided the trigger for many of my fondest memories including my first day of school when I'll Be There played on the radio as I dressed in those new-smelling clothes - scared to death and as curious as could be. He was there when I kissed my first crush and he was there at my junior and senior proms. He was there all along.

[whatchamacallit]

11. I get that

But if all great and influential performers deserve to be canonized...

[Orwellian_Ghost]

12. Quite insane

Here it is a political discussion board and it's celebrity-ism everywhere you turn. Even the politicians are discussed, for the most part, in the same idolatrous language we see being used to discuss the pop celebrity icon.

Careful stepping on the goo.