Rant: American Idol Has Society By The Balls

Thanks for the thoughts, Tara. It’s always nice to hear from readers with such strong, well-articulated opinions. Unfortunately, in your frenzied efforts to knock Jessica down a peg, YOU seem to have forgotten the definitions of several of the new vocabulary words YOU just learned in seventh grade English. Luckily for YOU, I’m an educator at heart, and I’ve decided to walk YOU through all your mistakes.

Let’s start with generic, a term meaning bland, unoriginal, run-of-the-mill. This was clearly not the adjective YOU were searching for. For one to be generic, he or she would have to go along with popular opinions or sentiments. Considering American Idol is the most popular show on television, and the vast majority of OP-EDS and news articles rave about the show, a diatribe which bashes the standard viewpoint cannot, by definition, be generic. Nice try, though.

YOU also use the term uninformed to describe this piece. As YOU should have learned in third grade, uninformed means without facts or coming from a baseless viewpoint. I’ve frantically searched your response for, you know, hard facts, evidence, or data supporting your accusation, but YOU don’t even specify which points of her article are supposedly uninformed. YOU were probably just searching for a third word to complete your trio of menacing adjectives.

YOU also claim Jessica asserts “Idols are completely deprived of creativity shows.� I think YOU meant to write “Idols are completely deprived of creativity�, but this oversight is understandable considering YOU likely didn’t have time to proofread before your mother barged in and forced YOU to turn off Instant Messenger and shut down the computer. I was fourteen once too and know how mothers can get. Therefore, I won’t chastise YOU for this blatant word choice error.

Oh, and for the record, I, her editor, chose the picture. I figured adolescent mouth breathers like yourself needed a pretty image to look at while reading. I’m very sorry it offended YOU.

Thanks again for your comment,

Mack Rawden

What a wonderfully generic, uninformed, cynical view of American Idol. Bravo! Your accusation that Idols are completely deprived of creativity shows is laughable, your "meaty" news is about a month late, and generally, your column comes across like a rant from a cast aside contestant.

Oh, and how classy of you to use that picture. It's so funny that you write paragraph after paragraph about the public buying into and perpetuating the worst of pop culture, and then you prove with your picture that, in fact, the people doing just that are ones exactly like YOU. You, my dear, are the bad example.