Is it OK to watch /American Idol/?

[LoZoccolo]

Poll question: Is it OK to watch /American Idol/?

[CubsFan1982]

1. No. And it's not OK to have an opinion about it, either!

:P

[LostinVA]

2. It especially is if Bo is singing "Vehicle" or "Whipping Post" n/t

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Who cares? Not a single Oasis song has been covered on AI

[LoZoccolo]

4. That's right; I didn't catch that.

I'm pretty sure someone's done a Beatles song though, right? I haven't watched it much.

So what that means is, the Beatles' music is a part of the TV shows which anesthetize the masses away from important issues, but Oasis isn't.

By the way, the new album came out two days ago! I haven't picked it up yet though; I've been so busy, plus I'm pretty broke.

[Susang]

5. Bad Oasis fan!

Naughty, naughty! Oasis needs your support and yet you withhold it. Can't you hear Liam weeping? :cry:

[LoZoccolo]

8. I thought of the possibility of shoplifting it.

Oasis is one of those bands worth getting arrested for stealing for, but then I realized I'd also be stealing from them.

[Susang]

10. Lifting the new Oasis album?

Somehow that seems perfectly appropriate in the cosmic scheme of things.

[redqueen]

6. NO it is not OK! It and other things like it are responsible for ...

all sorts of bad things... trust me!

Anyone who doesn't watch it is automatically entitled to consider themselves to be better than anyone who does.

[progmom]

7. hey

:yourock:

[redqueen]

14. No, YOU rock.

:hi:

[asthmaticeog]

9. I hate that show.

Hate hate hate. It glorifies many things I dislike about current music. But of *course* it's OK to watch. I'm sure I watch all kinds of crap that bugs other people.

I'm curious, why do you ask, LoZoc? Have I been missing something? :shrug:

[DistressedAmerican]

15. Not Missing Much. It Is Just A Slap At My Earlier Post.

For the record I have apologized.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3375559

I had no idea folks were so sensitive about the show.

[LoZoccolo]

17. For some reason it's constantly used as an example...

...of something that distracts the masses, by lots of people at DU.

[asthmaticeog]

18. Huh, I guess I *have* been missing something.

Maybe it's people I have on ignore? :shrug: It sounds like whatever I'm missing is silly anyway.

[DistressedAmerican]

19. As Noted, I'm Sorry! I'm Sorry! I'm Sorry!

I will refrain from venting my frustration wuith popular culture here in future.

[Magrittes Pipe]

11. If you watch something I find aesthetically unappealing...

...you are a moral deviant.

[Zuni]

13. not only that, you are letting the BFEE win!

:cry:

[Zuni]

12. I regularly start flamewars because I am intolerant of viewing habits

If there had only been an internet during the glory days of "Charles in Charge"

[sandnsea]

16. No, never

Much better to sneer at people who have dreams.

[Dukkha]

20. as a REAL musician, I find it morally offensive

I can say with out exaggeration I am FAR more talented that anyone on that show. As are a great many who will never get the recognition they deserve because people would rather stoop to the lowest common denominator of simplified corporate mindless crap.

It's OK to watch, just don't expect me to show any respect to you for it.

[mark414]

21. "morally offensive"

:rofl:

well said