Praying For Deafness

I spend a lot of time on YouTube.  I watch all kinds of stuff on the platform, usually during my workday as background noise, while I write my reports.  Sometimes I’ll listen to music.  Sometimes I’ll watch videos about celebrity death.  Sometimes I’ll watch stuff that I don’t think I have any business watching.  One of these such videos would be a nearly 62-minute video of American Idol’s worst auditions, as featured above.

First and foremost, allow me to say that I have never cared for American Idol as a form of entertainment.  I’ve never cared about the concept of competitive singing either.  So, why is it that I decided to waste just over an hour of my life watching this video?

I have always liked to watch failure televised.

Remember when Cops was on TV?  I used to love that show, again because it featured a multitude of failure from across the country.

To me, American Idol has always been terrible.  But what I find entertaining is watching bad auditions from people who had the audacity to think that their bad singing was going to fool the judges and get them to Hollywood or wherever the hell it is they were hoping to go with their blatant lack of musical talent.

In general, I can do without the televised competitive singing, the competitive dancing, and anything else that people want to think is competitive or needs to be competitive.

Now failure televised, I can do all day.  I don’t want to encourage anyone to sit through this entire video like I did, but if you do, I have to think that you’ll enjoy a laugh or two.  You might even feel some anger with how bad some of these people are.  There’s a lot of bad singing here, truth be told.

People want to down Simon Cowell, but I love his candor.  Call him an asshole if you like, but this man is real and I love him for it.  As I have always believed, if you’re bad at something, you ought to know and someone should tell you so that there’s no confusion.  I wouldn’t want to do you the disservice of having you think that you’re good when you are downright awful.

The majority of those 62 minutes are just bad.  Don’t just take my word for it.  Give it a watch and tell me I’m wrong.