Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Danyl Johnson - X-Factor
What a voice this guy has! I literally had goosebumps listening to Danyl Johnson sing for this X-factor audition, which for all intensive purposes, was really a huge concert performance. I see that reality TV has become even more of a spectacle when they start shoving in huge audiences in expensive venues for the first round of auditions. I think this means we're spending too much time watching X-factor if they can afford to do that. Nevertheless, if X-factor could find Danyl Johnson in the see of fame-obsessed Americans, then perhaps I should give it, and other performance based shows like it, another chance. Don't get me wrong, I've always enjoyed the idea that a little old housewife or school teacher from England could be discovered as the next big thing (this is a very American fantasy that seems to have infected much of the western world), but usually the winners from these competition shows have one hit single, if that, and then fade away again feeding into the 15-minutes of fame phenomena.
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That is a good question actually. These shows claim to be searching for talent and promise fame and fortune but for their winners, what do they really provide besides a day on the "front page" of AOL or Yahoo...if they even get that anymore? Like the internet that overwhelms you with information, the continuous stream of shows like Idol, the X-factor and all the others that parade countless people in front of you for a couple of minutes are starting to overwhelm us so that we care increasingly less about the individual for increasingly less amounts of time.
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