faldor wrote:

Communist China wrote:

Difference is the stars from AI have a discernable talent. When someone from the Real World wins an Oscar or sells over 10 million records worldwide, then you'll have a point.

Let's see someone from American Idol win a tag team championship belt in the WWE. 

Seriously though, record sales don't automatically equal talent.  Carrie Underwood is cute and a big country star.  The country fans embrace anything, wasn't Jessica Simpson accepted after her failed pop career?  Kelly Clarkson was successful until she tried to do things "her way", then she went back to Clive Davis when that failed.  Jennifer Hudson I'll give you, but she didn't even win her season probably because she wasn't hot enough.  Didn't have the "look" of an idol.  Had to be, she obviously had the talent.  The show is one big popularity contest and for the most part is a joke.

That's how I feel, and I'm sticking to it.

Carrie Underwood, as far as music goes, is really the only success story to come out of AI. Clarkson had a fleeting moment of success, but like you mentioned she faded off when she started trying to do it her way. Hudson's only claim to fame is an Oscar, which really means absolutely nothing. I hear people point that out all the time, and just think of this fact... how many Oscar winners, win, and you never ever hear from them ever again? That is Jen Hudson. The rest never were ever significant.

Country fans embrace anything however, that statement, is MASSIVELY untrue. If ANY genre in the business, is more assholeish, exclusive, and full of themselves thinking they are gods of music... it's country... and it's usually the shittiest too. Jessica Simpson's country jaunt was a MASSIVE flop, and even Sony Nashville as told Sony HQ they don't want her back on their label, her album was a bomb that bad in the country world.

So her country days, and most likely career, is done.

Idol is a 'one season wonder' show, with only one success story. I'm actually shocked people even still cover and follow Kelly Clarkson, but even with that, it's not to the extent of a Carrie Underwood.