American Idol is a television show that claims to find talent and a unique singer out of a pool of contestants. In reality, the show is designed to find someone who can sing at least decently and then throws them to the record labels where their creative control is sapped away. Most of the time, winners are not successful in their careers. The show is generally aimed at young people who have the opportunity to vote for the singer they think has the most talent. Oftentimes, these people will vote for the contestant who they think is the "hottest" as opposed to someone with actual talent, thereby throwing the whole concept out the window. Over the course of the last few seasons, the show has become more about ratings than singing as indicated by showing more of the "bad" singers for the sake of audience entertainment. Contestants are also led to believe they have talent when they actually have no talent at all, making their elimination all the more devastating to them, much to the audience's delight. The show has slipped into pointless redundancy as each subsequent winner after the first season has not achieved any commercial success. Also questionable is the choice of judges. Randy Jackson has only released one album and Paula Abdul's albums have been rated by critics as mediocre at best. Simon Cowell's only appearant role is to garner some sort of response from the contestant through the use of overly harsh critisism, yet again for audience response. Rarely does he give any constructive critisism and most of the time, downrights insults the contestant ("You look the like The Incredible Hulk's wife"). All in all, a successful attempt to exploit the teenage generation by providing the "entertainment" of the contest leading up to the winner, and the promise of a new and "talented" pop singer.
An excellent example is Kelly Clarkson, the first winner of American Idol. She was carved from a talented singer on the show to a whorish, teenybopper favorite with a synthesized voice. All subsequent winners after Clarkson have not achieved any commerical success.
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Get the All American rejects mug.Alright people. I am getting sick and tired of this whole 'england vs america' thing.
The English need to stop insulting Americans.
And Americans need to stop insulting the English.
1) England is not full of gay, posh, snobby, tea-drinking people with awful teeth. Many of us, are perfectly normal.
2) Not all Americans are fat, mcdonalds guzzling, greedy, lazy slobs.
3) If you try, you CAN get along. I'm English, my boyfriend is American, and I love him a lot.
4) Don't have a go at eachother because of Wars, sports, fighting or anything like that. America beat England, England beat America. You're supposed to be allies?
5) Blair, and Bush, have nothing to do with the English and American people. I know, for a fact, a majority of us hate both of these leaders.
6) I may sound like i'm bashing America here. But i'm not.
Please, please, please. Don't correct me when I spell color 'colour', don't tell me "It's mom, not mum" Don't tell me that it's "Soccer, not football." And don't, don't, don't tell me "You have a weird accent." Because you are speaking ENGLISH folks, and i'm afraid you have a much stranger accent to me. Although many English accents are strange, most of ours are normal enough.
7) Stop calling me "British, European or Eastern" And i'll stop calling you a "Yank." England, is not britain. Britain consists of Northern Ireland (not the republic), Wales, Scotland and England. I am British, but I am not technically from Britain, I am from England.
8) Make another film/tv show in which America makes fun of England, and I will come and stab you to death with a stereotypical English mary-fucking-poppins Umbrella.
9)English and American bands are no opposed. That's ridiculous. Green Day, an American band, declared England as their official home. Most English bands strive to make it big in England.
10) America did not technically 'save our asses', you came in near the end of the war to get credit.
11) Without England, there would be no America. You are all descended from some other country, as the only true Americans were native Americans (hence the name) and you/we pretty much wiped them out. Lots Americans are Irish or English anyway.
12) Don't make fun of the way I speak. I could EASILLY make fun of you, but I choose not to.
ON A FINAL NOTE:
England and America need to get along.
Many say England only has a special relationship with America because we couldn't be arsed to learn French (Yes, I say arse. Ass = Type of mule/donkey. And by the way. Fanny = Vagina. Thanks.). If you look at it, America and England are similar in ways. There is nothing more wrong with either of those countries, any more than there is anything wrong with any other countries.
The English need to stop insulting Americans.
And Americans need to stop insulting the English.
1) England is not full of gay, posh, snobby, tea-drinking people with awful teeth. Many of us, are perfectly normal.
2) Not all Americans are fat, mcdonalds guzzling, greedy, lazy slobs.
3) If you try, you CAN get along. I'm English, my boyfriend is American, and I love him a lot.
4) Don't have a go at eachother because of Wars, sports, fighting or anything like that. America beat England, England beat America. You're supposed to be allies?
5) Blair, and Bush, have nothing to do with the English and American people. I know, for a fact, a majority of us hate both of these leaders.
6) I may sound like i'm bashing America here. But i'm not.
Please, please, please. Don't correct me when I spell color 'colour', don't tell me "It's mom, not mum" Don't tell me that it's "Soccer, not football." And don't, don't, don't tell me "You have a weird accent." Because you are speaking ENGLISH folks, and i'm afraid you have a much stranger accent to me. Although many English accents are strange, most of ours are normal enough.
7) Stop calling me "British, European or Eastern" And i'll stop calling you a "Yank." England, is not britain. Britain consists of Northern Ireland (not the republic), Wales, Scotland and England. I am British, but I am not technically from Britain, I am from England.
8) Make another film/tv show in which America makes fun of England, and I will come and stab you to death with a stereotypical English mary-fucking-poppins Umbrella.
9)English and American bands are no opposed. That's ridiculous. Green Day, an American band, declared England as their official home. Most English bands strive to make it big in England.
10) America did not technically 'save our asses', you came in near the end of the war to get credit.
11) Without England, there would be no America. You are all descended from some other country, as the only true Americans were native Americans (hence the name) and you/we pretty much wiped them out. Lots Americans are Irish or English anyway.
12) Don't make fun of the way I speak. I could EASILLY make fun of you, but I choose not to.
ON A FINAL NOTE:
England and America need to get along.
Many say England only has a special relationship with America because we couldn't be arsed to learn French (Yes, I say arse. Ass = Type of mule/donkey. And by the way. Fanny = Vagina. Thanks.). If you look at it, America and England are similar in ways. There is nothing more wrong with either of those countries, any more than there is anything wrong with any other countries.
Not all Americans are gun-waving loonies, as it's now been said London is more dangerous than New-York.
Not all Englishmen are ugly, crooked toothed tea-drinkers. I hate tea.
Stop with the england vs america fight idiots.
Not all Englishmen are ugly, crooked toothed tea-drinkers. I hate tea.
Stop with the england vs america fight idiots.
by Amelia Jade May February 10, 2007
Get the england vs america mug.A dialect of English whose pronunciation is frozen along with that of Canadian English. While British English had some drastic sound shifts, American and Canadian English pronunciation had only undergone a few minor vowel changes, as well as the changing of some Ts and Ds to alveolar flaps (butter sounds somewhat like "budder").
Most of the different spellings of American English (which, for all of you elitest Britons out there, are listed in the OED) developed in the U.S.'s early years, some of them created by dictionary maker Noah Webster. The differences are comparable to the ones between Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese Portuguese.
Another interesting fact about American and Canadian English is that both dialects still use the -ize spelling for words (organize, organization, etc.), while countries outside North America have almost completely dumped it for the newer -ise spelling. However, the OED and Fowler's Modern English Usage (both of which are decent books of British origin) prefer the -ize spelling. Folks from North America also use the older aluminum spelling instead of the newer aluminium spelling. (Though neither spelling is the original; the original is alumium.)
Americans also refer to the letter Z using the 17th century name "zee" instead of the name "zed" used elsewhere (including in Canada). Rest assured, the name "izzard" is pretty much obsolete.
Sources: Wikipedia and the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
Most of the different spellings of American English (which, for all of you elitest Britons out there, are listed in the OED) developed in the U.S.'s early years, some of them created by dictionary maker Noah Webster. The differences are comparable to the ones between Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese Portuguese.
Another interesting fact about American and Canadian English is that both dialects still use the -ize spelling for words (organize, organization, etc.), while countries outside North America have almost completely dumped it for the newer -ise spelling. However, the OED and Fowler's Modern English Usage (both of which are decent books of British origin) prefer the -ize spelling. Folks from North America also use the older aluminum spelling instead of the newer aluminium spelling. (Though neither spelling is the original; the original is alumium.)
Americans also refer to the letter Z using the 17th century name "zee" instead of the name "zed" used elsewhere (including in Canada). Rest assured, the name "izzard" is pretty much obsolete.
Sources: Wikipedia and the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
Give American English a break. There's nothing wrong with having a little bit of diversity in the Anglosphere. You don't see us complaining about your dialect every second, do you?
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Here's a few random things people should know:
1. DON'T compare our suffering to other peoples' (like the Africans and Jewish people). What, is there a contest to see who's suffered the most?
2. It's safe to say that we LOVE to dance and sing. And have sexual relations. Some more obvious than others.
3. Not all of us are fucking alcoholics. And only a SMALL percentage of reservations own casinos, which they pay hard worked CA$H for.
4. There are lots of DIFFERENT tribes.
5. Not all of us are bitter for what happened. After all, many of us are blended with other nationalities (like latinos/metizos, metis and griffes...)
6. No matter how much the opression towards us, we will stay strong.
Here's a few random things people should know:
1. DON'T compare our suffering to other peoples' (like the Africans and Jewish people). What, is there a contest to see who's suffered the most?
2. It's safe to say that we LOVE to dance and sing. And have sexual relations. Some more obvious than others.
3. Not all of us are fucking alcoholics. And only a SMALL percentage of reservations own casinos, which they pay hard worked CA$H for.
4. There are lots of DIFFERENT tribes.
5. Not all of us are bitter for what happened. After all, many of us are blended with other nationalities (like latinos/metizos, metis and griffes...)
6. No matter how much the opression towards us, we will stay strong.
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