March 4, 2008

American Idol Prepares to Jump the Shark

For the past few years the same question has been asked ad nauseum: "When is Idol going to have a Beatles night?" Thankfully, we were spared by litigation and disagreements that kept the Lennon/McCarthy songbook tied up for quite a while.

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It's no longer in limbo, and this is the year. This will be a disaster of epic proportions. The fact is that Lennon and McCarthy were not great singers. They were great songwriters who wrote hundreds of memorable melodies. The vocals and the instrumentation were quite simple. What do you think is going to happen when you throw extremely simple songs at however many contestants whose natural tendency is to look for notes to belt and exploit? Disaster.

bThe follow-up to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is Diva in the Washroom with Indigestion

The good news is that tonight might remind people just how great the songs actually are; that they were such huge hits based on such simple melodies. The bad news is that someone may go home before their time because they offend our sense of what a Beatles song should sound like.

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