American Idol 4

Just three months away!

Published on October 8, 2004 By Jamie Burnside In Entertainment

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Yesterday in the newspaper, I read that American Idol will start its fourth season in January. How exciting! I look forward to the Tuesday and Wednesday night "appointment television" that AI provides.

This year the age limit will be raised, thus leading to (hopefully) older and better performers. (And who isn't still burning about John Stevens' weekly successes? The poor kid just wasn't trained enough, yet he kept getting voted through.)

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In this morning's newspaper, I read that former contestant Jasmine Trias received a big welcome in the Phillipines (where she is featured in advertising.) Good for her! I think that her biggest talent lies in modelling.

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Has anyone listened to Julia DaMato's downloadable song? Julia was one of my favorites from season 2, but her internet song seems to lack a little substance. Hopefully she takes Simon's advice that she go into acting.

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I wonder what Carmen Rasmussen is up to? She was one of my season 2 favorites. Also, I wonder what season 3's Camile is doing these days. She was a nice girl too.

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Clay Aiken (my favorite from the whole series thusfar -slightly more interesting than Kelly Clarkson) seems to have made it big. I hope that he will continue to project that "nice young man" image (regardless of how he eventually decides to live his life.)

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Just a few American Idol musings. There will be more in January!

Comments

BlueDev

on Oct 08, 2004

I agree that raising the age limit is a good idea. Hopefully that will weed out some of the players who got on because they did have talent, but stayed on too long because they were "cute".

This reminded me, a good friend of ours called my wife a few months ago and asked her to go to Florida and audition for AI 4 with her. My wife was unable to go (and seeing as how her due date is in March, that wouldn't have worked well!), but it will be interesting to watch the auditions and see if our friend makes it on. I didn't enjoy it last season nearly as much as the second season, but I am sure that my wife and I will watch it again. If nothing else, it is an hour or two of television a week in which we know we won't be offended by uber-violence or blatant sexuality. I look forward to your articles on this one!

Iron Rob

on Oct 09, 2004

I heard a great interview with Simon Cowell (sp?) on NPR's Fresh Air. He's really what makes that show great.

But on the subject of the age of contestants: the interviewer asked him what he thought of the American Idol-style show for little kids, and he said he thought it was the worst idea of all time. When asked why, he said something like, "It's hard enough to tell a sixteen year old the truth, that they stink. How are you supposed to tell that to a ten year old?"

So apparently, even though he sees it as his duty to be brutally honest, he does feel a little guilty about it when the target is a young person. I wonder if raising the age barrier was his idea.

If you want to hear the interview, you can find it here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1599637

Just click on the the "Fresh air audio" link. You'll need the Real Player.

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