April 28, 2011
"The Voice" is the new "American Idol"
Reality Show Television Is Changing!
For all fans of reality singing competitions, if you watched "American Idol" last night and "The Voice" a couple of days ago, which captivated your attention more?
As an avid fan of "American Idol" since the day that Kelly Clarkson blew us away with "A moment like This," the show "American Idol" has been on every season for the past decade.
The rise of the show primarily started with the humiliation of several hopefuls trying to hit the stage only to be cursed with hysterical laughter and cruel comments from the judges during the singing competition.
Of course anyone watching reality television may not wish to admit it but the main reason they watch it is the drama, and drama it's been for the most part on that show. However the days of "American Idol" and the last seasons that I've forced myself to watch including the Ellen DeGeneress days are hopefully coming to a screeching halt.
Music fans want to hear voices that are good, not terrible. It's no longer fun to watch the humiliation of several young individuals on television. Why is this? Sadly we've all become desensitized to this. When the show first had it's first debut, none of America had ever seen such things as this.
"American Idol" has now become just as mundane and pointless as the "Real World", the very first reality show ever created. Yet MTV seems to think there is a niche for young people to watch it. Sorry MTV but the viewers of this show are adults now and the same applies for "American Idol."
The show was targeted at young kids in their teens and very early twenties. Now that we are all grown up we don't really care who is "American Idol" anymore. The days of watching the same shows we all watched in high school and college are over. Let's face it, every generation has to grow up sometime.
The one-time viewers of shows such as "American Idol" and the "Real World" are grown-ups, having their own children, wives and husbands. Watching teeny boppers play out what was once reality has passed.
The once younger generation that watched these shows now have children. I wouldn't want my five-year-old watching the Real World anymore than the next person. Heavy boozing, fighting, and trying to become famous is all that show has become.
This season American Idol has lightened up, so to speak on the contestants. However Steven Tyler curses like a sailor and the girls on the show are dressed up like hookers. Family television? I think not.
Watching "The Voice" I've realized that this is how I want my child to view the world of contestants in a singing competition. Aspiring artists that are given praise and constructive people to work with. I'm not afraid that Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, or Cee Lo Green will drop the "F" bomb during the middle of nowhere.
The singers and songwriters that the generation of American Idol watchers grew up with and enjoy are the coaches of "American Idol." Some may remember the days of "What a Girl Wants," and seeing Christina Aguilera literally rise to fame. Many girls swooned over "Maroon Five's", Adam Levine, downloading our new "camera" featured phones with "This Love."
Demographics simply apply to all of what I see. The age of care-free, classless trash television was alright in college for most of us, but now with families of our own it's simply intolerable and boring, especially when it comes to a singing competition that airs on national television.
"The Voice" is truly a family show and intrigues the demographic that has grown up and watched "American Idol" and the "Real World," which is now old news. Out with the old trash television, and in with "The Voice," a reality television singing competition that is actually highly entertaining and makes us feel good about what we're all watching for once.
Please feel free to provide your comments below or at "The New & Better American Idol" page.
For all fans of reality singing competitions, if you watched "American Idol" last night and "The Voice" a couple of days ago, which captivated your attention more?
As an avid fan of "American Idol" since the day that Kelly Clarkson blew us away with "A moment like This," the show "American Idol" has been on every season for the past decade.
The rise of the show primarily started with the humiliation of several hopefuls trying to hit the stage only to be cursed with hysterical laughter and cruel comments from the judges during the singing competition.
Of course anyone watching reality television may not wish to admit it but the main reason they watch it is the drama, and drama it's been for the most part on that show. However the days of "American Idol" and the last seasons that I've forced myself to watch including the Ellen DeGeneress days are hopefully coming to a screeching halt.
Music fans want to hear voices that are good, not terrible. It's no longer fun to watch the humiliation of several young individuals on television. Why is this? Sadly we've all become desensitized to this. When the show first had it's first debut, none of America had ever seen such things as this.
"American Idol" has now become just as mundane and pointless as the "Real World", the very first reality show ever created. Yet MTV seems to think there is a niche for young people to watch it. Sorry MTV but the viewers of this show are adults now and the same applies for "American Idol."
The show was targeted at young kids in their teens and very early twenties. Now that we are all grown up we don't really care who is "American Idol" anymore. The days of watching the same shows we all watched in high school and college are over. Let's face it, every generation has to grow up sometime.
The one-time viewers of shows such as "American Idol" and the "Real World" are grown-ups, having their own children, wives and husbands. Watching teeny boppers play out what was once reality has passed.
The once younger generation that watched these shows now have children. I wouldn't want my five-year-old watching the Real World anymore than the next person. Heavy boozing, fighting, and trying to become famous is all that show has become.
This season American Idol has lightened up, so to speak on the contestants. However Steven Tyler curses like a sailor and the girls on the show are dressed up like hookers. Family television? I think not.
Watching "The Voice" I've realized that this is how I want my child to view the world of contestants in a singing competition. Aspiring artists that are given praise and constructive people to work with. I'm not afraid that Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, or Cee Lo Green will drop the "F" bomb during the middle of nowhere.
The singers and songwriters that the generation of American Idol watchers grew up with and enjoy are the coaches of "American Idol." Some may remember the days of "What a Girl Wants," and seeing Christina Aguilera literally rise to fame. Many girls swooned over "Maroon Five's", Adam Levine, downloading our new "camera" featured phones with "This Love."
Demographics simply apply to all of what I see. The age of care-free, classless trash television was alright in college for most of us, but now with families of our own it's simply intolerable and boring, especially when it comes to a singing competition that airs on national television.
"The Voice" is truly a family show and intrigues the demographic that has grown up and watched "American Idol" and the "Real World," which is now old news. Out with the old trash television, and in with "The Voice," a reality television singing competition that is actually highly entertaining and makes us feel good about what we're all watching for once.
Please feel free to provide your comments below or at "The New & Better American Idol" page.
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