Platinum Hit - Kara Dioguardi's new flop of a show and the disdane I have for those like it

So this morning I read an article on Yahoo news about the Bravo Network moving the TV show called Platinum Hit to Friday nights from Monday.  Well, I hadn't even heard of the show before I read that  article.  Admittedly I don't watch a lot of tv but at the same time, I don't live under a rock.  That said, I did watch the two clips in the article and I can tell you why the show is being moved to Friday, it sucks.  To sit and listen to the 2 and a half minute clip was painful.  If I had to listen to that for an hour I would slit my wrists.  Then the song that the writers of this article were gushing about, REALLY?  That song sucked.  I could only stand to listen to about a minute of it.  The song writing was worthless and the singing was annoying.  For anyone to wonder why the show is doing poorly just watch the clips.  I for one am so sick and tired of "reality" shows that I have gone from being an avid tv watcher to watching at most 1 tv show a week.  I guess I owe crappy television a thanks because I have found other things to do with my evenings.  I think that the music shows in general have cheapened the music industry.

I will admit to watching American Idol because every year they have 1 or 2 that I think have actual honest to goodness talent and just need to be discovered.  Usually they don't make it very far into the season because contrary to what the judges say about it being a talent contest, it is at the end of the day a popularity contest.  American Idol gives 15 minutes of fame to anyone who can (or can't carry a tune) regardless if they may or may not have any actual singing talent.  The show Platinum Hit tries to show how important the whole evolution of a song is.  I don't care how it is made, just write a song and sing it.  Too much drama and crap behind the scenes that I don't need to know about or care about.  Carol King, Burt Bacharach, Karen and John Carpenter never seemed to have all this drama and wrote some pretty amazing songs that have stood the test of time.  Most of the songs that I hear on the radio today will be forgotten within a year.

The music industry laments poor CD sales.  Well for crying out loud, most of the songs on the radio are from people that have a look but no talent.  How about we get back to the old days of music that was expertly crafted or at least well written and not for a stupid tv show.  As much as I love music, music executives should be locked in a room and forced to listen nonstop to the junk that they are responsible for signing to record deals.  They should be forced to watch the moronic tv shows that they churn out all in hopes of finding that next big thing.  Record labels have gotten lazy and arrogant.  Started in the 70s and has gotten worse every year.  You think things are bad now, wait another 10 more years.  Music won't be music any more.  Cancel this show and everyone like it.  For that matter, start cancelling all reality shows.  They are about as close to reality as Lady Gaga is to human.  Or, maybe this crap is the new reality.  Oh, and don't even get me started on the Disney teen pop star phenomenon but that will be a post all its own. 

Here is my playlist of well crafted songs (in no particular order) and the artists that sang them (not necessarily wrote them) that new songwriters can look at as templates.

John Lennon - Imagine
Simon and Garfunkle - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Josh Groban - You Rasied Me Up
Kathy Mattea - 18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses
Don McLean - American Pie
Aretha Franklin - Respect
The Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun
Carol King - I Feel the Earth Move
BJ Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
The Beatles - Hey Jude
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Procol Harum - a Whiter Shade Of Pale
Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Sara Smile
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Aerosmith - Dream On
Luther Vandross - A House Is Not A Home