At the end of the
last video I said 3 phrases as a joke that
everyone says when they're a loser. I hate those
sayings because you're hiding your feelings. If it
hurts, say it hurts. If you're disappointed, show it,
feel it, process it... saying things like "It's their
loss" comes off as sour grapes to me. That being said,
"America's Got Talent" booking me for the show and
then changing their mind was absolutely, undoubtedly,
without hesitation, 'nere a hint of grapes:
their loss. What on earth did I just witness
tonight? Seriously, what the fuck was
that?
Before I get
into it, I have to show you this still of me &
Cassi during the show. It is the funniest thing I've
seen in a looooooong time. This was after the horn guy
which was the very first act we saw at the taping
(although the 2nd on the show). It's apparent at this
point they are actually contemplating passing
him onto the next round (they did) and I am staring
off into space in disbelief at how this could possibly
be happening. Look at this:
"What, The,
Fuck."
The ENTIRE crowd
in that shot is smiling. LMAO. Every single person is
looking at him onstage and I'm staring at the ground
in a daze. Hahahaha. I look so completely out of
place there. Everytime I look at it it looks
photoshopped to me. They really caught a moment in my
life where I was just so shocked at what I was going
through I was nearly comatose. HAHAHA. God that's
funny to me. I should have a "Caption
Contest" for that one. Alright, to the
show:
Understand this,
my hope going into the show was that it would be
incredible. I wanted it to succeed so
I could be part of Season 2. I wanted you
all to watch it to feel how "perfect" I was
for the show. I was expecting to be bummed afterwards
because I wasn't part of this phenomenon, but at least
know I'd be right there for Season 2. And if
I felt any of that, you know damn well I would
have gotten on here and said that. In
reality...
I have truly never
seen a more confusing show in my entire life. The flow
was so wonky and unbalanced (the one thing they were
looking for right? LOL), that it never felt right. I
didn't understand why they stopped people before they
even started, I didn't understand why people made it
to the 2nd round, I didn't understand what they
were looking for, I didn't understand why the X's
were so meaningless, I didn't understand why the
hell the judges kept hitting the other judges buttons,
I didn't understand why there was sooooooooooo
many bad (and not even funny) acts, I literally sat
there confused. Had it not been for my involvement in
the show I would never have sat through 2
hours of that. And 3 more shows like that? How are
they gonna keep an audience, when the audience doesn't
understand what the hell they're judging?!!? Nothing
is defined! I had no idea why they passed half of
the acts through. And when that guy told the rappin'
granny: "You are what this show is all about"
and all 3 of them cheered as she went to the 2nd
round, my head literally fell to my knees in
disbelief. The show was in every sense a train wreck
to me as a viewer and I have absolutely no desire to
watch it again. Doesn't that suck?
But really, you
know why Idol works? Because you understand it. You
know what they're judging on and the bad acts
obviously don't get through. The process is extremely
simple and you relate to it on both levels; the judges
and the talent. Tonight you were hard pressed
to relate to anything. As I've said,
I don't understand what the judges were judging
on and none of the acts really blew me away. The ones
that were good I just thought: "So what do they
do in Round 2?" I mean with singers you can have them
do different genres, have little challenges...but some
of these acts they passed - you've already seen the
whole thing right there. Seriously what the hell is
horn guy gonna do? Another horn song?
And then the final
absolute ball kicker of the entire night the last 30
seconds? If you missed it, at the very end they
go: "There was so much talent in LA we didn't
have time to show you all of it! Here's all the
acts moving to the 2nd round" And I swear
to shizzle they fuckin showed 2 second clips of 20
more acts. !?!? So what the fuck did we just sit here
and watch? I have never seen a show do that -
EVER. How unorganized are you when you have to show 2
second clips of 20 acts that were the
BEST OF LA, yet you wasted 2 hours on bad
act after bad act.... Unbelieveable.
I just don't know
what else to say man. I am completely disappointed for
all those involved. I am saddened for all the
people who spent money to travel to these auditions
because of what they "sold" this show to be. We
all thought this was a genuine talent search and it
comes off as this completely scripted piece of trash
TV. There are so many genuinely talented people who
need a break so much and this was touted as that
chance, yet it's nothing more than the Gong
Show...without a gong. Oh and GOD that's so stupid.
The X's idea is only good if it MEANS SOMETHING.
How hard is it to tell the talent to prepare say, 90
seconds, then if you get to the end: you're on to the
2nd round, and if all 3 judges X you out, it's over.
Instead the acts have no time limit and they use the
X's just to stop the act so they can talk to them. The
whole button set-up is completely worthless.
Ughhhh.
All of that being
said - can you imagine how much I would have
shined on that stage in comparison? I would have blown
people away with the true talent of my act. Seriously
one guy onstage doing 5 parts live and interracting
with each other. Wow. Then again, not to sound totally
arrogant here, it really feels like 4tvs is just too
genuine for that show. It's in a different class. It's
funny I wanted to put out a press release on the
whole anti-american thing but I'm actually now
embarrassed to say that I ever wanted to be on
the show. I know that sounds outrageous but after
seeing it, I think most really talented people
would steer clear now that it's aired. I mean
christ, go to the America's
Got Talent
Boards
right now - they're SLAMMING the FUCK out of it.
I think they're probably going to take down most
of these posts so I thought I'd save some of the
quotes that made me laugh the most:
"I'm a
bigger idiot than those retarded judges for wasting
2 hours of my life on that show."
"I will
never watch this show again, and I suspect most
other will not as well."
"What a
train wreck...and that's just
Brandi"
"(Regis)
should fake his own death and get out of the
contract to save his self respect."
"worst show
on television....... "
"Simon
Cowell, America has spoken: I've never seen a more
unanimous message board! I feel like a part of
television history right now. America unites in its
hatred of America's Got Talent!"
"I thought
this show might be one of my guilty pleasures of
the summer but what a horrible waste of
time."
"It should
be called America's Got Toilet, because they really
need to flush this piece of crap."
"THE SHOW IS
A HORRIBLE JOKE THAT WILL BE
CANCELED"
"I was VERY
disappointed in how the show was produced. I
personally found it to be embarrassing to all U.S.
citizens."
"Keep it up,
NBC, and pretty soon you'll be Number
3!"
Whew. Pages and
pages of that. That's with all the NBC plants mind
you. LOL. Every few posts you'd see someone say:
"I thought it was great! Yayyyyyy America!!!" LOL -
meanwhile every other post describes the torture they
were in sitting through it. Amazing.
So that's it
folks! It's a 10 part story that I will absolutely
look back on and laugh. This was without a doubt, not
the right show for me. I will be aSTOUNDed if this is
on the air next year. I honestly think there's a
chance it may not make it through a full season, but
with so little competition on Wednesday nights this
summer it would have to score extreeeeeeeeeeemely bad
to get pulled. It'll have good numbers for tonight,
but next week it'll be interesting to see how many
viewers they can retain. I don't know how anyone tunes
in again after that show. And goddamnit it's so sad to
me. Such a wasted opportunity to put on a really good
show. My heart goes out to all the people who not only
thought this was their shot, but it legitimately was
because they don't live in a big city or their talents
are really so varied they can't parlay them into
anything else. I am indeed lucky in that sense
and cannot believe how disrespectful this show
was to those people. If any of you are reading,
contact me.
Good
night,
Adam
PS - I
made this
video
4 years ago when insiders were saying the
line-up for Aspen the year I didn't make
it was really bad and Charlotte and
I felt sorta relieved. It's prophetic
as hell at this moment.
