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Posted by: DaHouster on May 26, 2006 - 12:28 PM
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As I did at the end of last season, here's a short analysis of some of the key points of this season of American Idol. Forgive me if I miss anything.
By DaHouster
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To assist me in this, as I pull the great Ouija Board connecting me with - The Afterlife - as Prince would say, is the great doctor who first discovered how reverse psychology works. No, not Simon Cowell, but my good friend, Dr. Sigmund Freud.
With him is the REAL creator of "Idol", the greatest science fiction screenwriter of all time, Mister Rod Serling.
And newly added to the roundtable this season, someone who knows the business end of things and who recently entered the great beyond, the legendary host of PBS's "Wall Street Week", Mister Louis Rukeyser.
Welcome, Gentlemen.
Hi!
Can we get this out of the way? Did you all enjoy last night's Grand Finale?
The Group: We watched it in Rock and Roll Heaven with Bobby Hatfield and a lot of others, and even Frank Zappa and Jerry Garcia joined us. It was great fun, especially watching singers who we think are soon coming here, like Meatloaf and Dionne Warwick. Even Frank and Jerry liked some o it. But Jerry was disappointed that Taylor didn't sing "Touch Of Grey."
Lou: I think the show is trying to win an Emmy. That Clay Aiken extravaganza was very entertaining and good business.
Lets talk about manipulation. Sigmund, you are the expert on that.
Sigmund: Actually, this season was quite refreshing, because the public, all in all, didn't fall that much for the usual attempts by the show's producers at manipulation. For example, no matter how much they tried to push Kellie Pickler into that Kodak Theater, the public finally screamed enough! And booted her.
And no matter how much the show tried to make Chris Daughtry the American Idol, with smoke machines, talk of fanclubs, singing in the final slot, the public didn't buy it. Instead, they picked one of the more unlikely candidates. Shows that the public had its thinking caps on, at least part of the time.
Well Sigmund, how do you account for the run of Katharine McPhee?
Sigmund: Well, unfortunately, it looks like part of it was the theory of reverse psychology working to a tee for Kat Pee. Moe would trash her, especially when it was justified, sometimes Kat would cry, and people responded. Moe knows what he was doing. On Tuesday night, Moe was very, very careful to "soft pedal" the negative comments on Katharine, so as not to unleash the reverse psychology vote.
Lou: Well, Sigmund, you have to admit that Katharine is a very beautiful product. Nice packaging, too. No wonder her stock is stil pretty high.
What about Elliott Yamin?
Sigmund: Ah, my Lantzman! I am so happy that people used their brains and ears. Sometimes, psychology is not needed when talent is involved.
There were certain other psychological factors working during part of the season. I think the Brittenum Twins were a smokescreen to mkake sure the audience wasn't influenced too early by any single contestant. Also, in the earlier stages, there seemed to be some repressed class envy between those who voted for Ayla Brown and those who voted for Melissa McGhee. Sure, Ayla took a big risk with her last song, but some of it had to do with Ayla's parents being so prominent and wealthy, while Melissa was a blank slate.
But Sigmund, when I went on the internet, most people liked Melissa because of her boobs.
Sigmund: Forget everything I just said. You are right, its the McBoobs!
But the other combination, Chicken Little vs. Will Makar vs. Gedeon McKinney. Fascinating. Gedeon was clearly the superior singer, and yet he had an off-putting personality on camera and smiled a little inappropriately. Will was sweet, but bland. But High Schools across America are filled with Chicken Littles, and it looks like the disproportionate female audience was very taken with him.
Lou: Can I interject? I think Sigmund is on the right track, but in terms of business, who is likely to be the more popular "stock"? People tend to support the most familiar product, with the lowest potential for harm. Gedeon simply did not appeal to the majority of the audience, personality-wise. Too many Will Makars in America would make a better prom date than an "Idol", but the geeky-looking stock that everyone wants a piece of? Its no wonder that Chicken Little did best of those three at the initial Idol Public Offering.
Rod, how do you feel about this season? I know last year, you pulled off a huge coup with a complete robot installation in a blonde girl that you named Carrie Underwood.
Rod: Yeah, and we've added a lot more advanced software to her module over the past year.
Actually, I was able to take it a little easier this season. The show needed me to create only one full bot. I just used modules in the rest. We did this in Hollywood by having my guys, especially Greg Morris, "Barney" on "Mission: Impossible", sneak into the kids' hotel rooms while sleeping, knock them out with chloroform, and install the proper module.
For example, we put a "spring" module in Chicken Little's a**, because he couldn't move at all. This way, he was able to dance like a complete dork into the hearts of America.
But no other work was needed on Kevin. His great response to Moe when he made the final 12, "I wasn't expecting much from you anyway", is totally becaue Kevin is a New Yorker, and knows how to face down a sarcastic Brit.
We added a little sliding clothespin to Lisa Tucker's eyebrows.
We tried to fix Mandisa, but she had no expansion slots left in her module.
In Bucky, we placed a toggle switch. Country crooner, and nassaly rocker.
What happened to Bucky last night, Rod?
Rod:The toggle switch malfunctioned, so he had to be just Bucky when he sang "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head."
The only adjustment we had to make to Ace Young was after he developed that flesh-eating bacteria. The shop has no meathead modules. And the shop would win a Nobel Prize for engineering if we had developed Kellie Picker software. We don't have an "I'm With Stupid" model.
We did have to put a few modules in Paris Bennett. Anyone could tell that.
Here's my biggest secret of the year: Chris Daughtry was a bot.
Sigmund and Lou: NO!
Rod: Its true. He's from the great beyond, The Twilight Zone. And it was so easy to make him. All I did was design a loop tape with the scientific formula for "90's alternative rock." Voila!
Oh, and Katharine McPhee -- we had her at Universal Studios. She was a Mannequin in that Department Store that was played in that movie by Kim Cattrall. She was even easier than Chris to make. We had a "generic standards and ballads singer" loop tape put into her.
What about Elliott Yamin?
Rod: He's a real human being. It would take me a decade to create a bot like that! By the way, I really wished they had a disco night, so someone could sing that song "The Twilight Zone."
How about you, Lou? What are your thoughts?
Well, the earlier rounds were not a surprise. Melissa McGhee, drop-dead gorgeous, was not given any kind of ad campaign at all, so the product failed.
I think we call it "lack of pimping", Lou.
Lou: Okay. Chicken Little just couldn't score with the voters who vote exclusively on talent. Or maybe they just couldn't stand the sight of him! And Mandisa was easy. Young women are just not going to vote for a large woman who looks like their school crossing guard. And the fact that young women disproportionately watch this show explains Ace Young's placement.
The turning point of the season had to be the ouster of Chris Daughtry. To what do you attribute it, Lou?
Lou: Its all a matter of appealing to your customer. First of all, Paris Bennett got booted the week before, and it was a tough sell for Chris to pick up the support of her fans. If you bought Chris's stock in March, you might buy more shares in May, but if you didn't buy his stock at first, chances are you wouldn't have liked it later. But more to the point, I doubt that a lot of customers who vote on this show like straight up pop-rock or 90's style alternative. Chris made the major mistake of not knowing his market. And on top of that, he got a lot of swing voters mad at him when he sang that Live alternative cover to the Johnny Cash song, then later on sang that loud Creed song. So Big H, you may have loved Chris, but there was no way he was going to win and have his stock split.
And to top it all off, Chris sang a lot of obscure rock songs that the target market never heard, like that Shinedown song. He had a similar problem as Elliott Yamin, obscure songs.
Its actually a testament to their talent that Chris and Elliott finished as high as they did.
How do you explain Taylor Hicks?
Rod: I wish I created him, but he's a natural. I could never create a character like that. We didn't even make a "Soul Patrol" Loop Tape.
Sigmund: Taylor is a master strategist. He went from a dorky, dumpy, harmonica-playing roots/blues singer, to a soulful pop/rock/blues singer in a matter of a few months. He made adjustments just at the right times. And in the Finale on Tuesday, he sang songs he had sung many weeks ago, unlike Katharine. People like hearing something relatively fresh.
Lou: Taylor is a master strategist. He adapted his product, singing/songwriting, to the target audience, showing some versatility and a lot of growth. And he added tons of cheesy personality that he had to know would be a hit with the target audience.
I think as we hear more from him and more of his music, Taylor's stock will show steady growth with lots of dividends in the short-term. No wonder Taylor's stock is at an all-time high tonight on the American Idol Stock Exchange. He's on my "Buy" list.
Whose on your sell list?
Lou: Ruben Studdard, Bo Bice (sellout!). By the way, Kelly Clarkson's stock is in my IRA's and 401K's -- she's a great stock for long-term investment and growth potential.
And I have to give credit to the show, for getting a Top 5 who are just plain great products. Big H, buy some stock in News Corporation. But sell it next year if the show doesn't improve the lousy themes of this year, which seemed more to be promotional vehicles for artists with new albums out, it could lose its lustre. Go back to the 60's, 70's and 80's type theme nights. And make sure there's lots of talent in the Top 24, and maybe a little less "distinctive" personality.
*Thanks everyone who read these and everyone who commented. Sometimes I was inaccurate, sometimes wrong, and sometimes angry, but I tried to be funny and very over-the-top.
Whether I do this again next year depends on my work and family situation. I have until at least January to think about it.
On June 9th, a lot of my attention will be focused on the World Cup (soccer) Tournament being played in Germany. But I will return on July 5th, G-d Willing, to recap "Rockstar: Supernova."
Thanks again.
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