Goodbye American Idol. Your reign of mediocrity shall not be mourned. You were what’s wrong with the music business. I say good day. It was about creating brands – all attached, umbilically, to the Idol brand. We now have a generation of karaoke singers who believe all that it takes to make it is get up on stage and emote. You know that ongoing echo chamber of complaints from music lovers who say “How come new music sucks?” It started right here with Simon Cowell’s vacuous talent extrusion procedural.
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JAIMIE VERNON – AMERICAN IDLE
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags American Idol, beauty pageant, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Carrie Underwood, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jaimie Vernon, Jamie Dart, music business, napster, Reality TV, record label, Ryan Seacrest, The Voice, William Hung on April 16, 2016 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags American Idol, Andy Dore, Bob Segarini, Brill Building, Canadian music Shane McNulty, Conway Twitty, Country & Western, DBAWIS, Dennis Cameron, Don't Believe a Word I Say, GAP, George Jones, Good Ol' Boys, Hank Williams, hurtin' songs, Jaimie Vernon, Jeff Nystrom, John Steele, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Lexus, Nashville, New Country, Platinum VISA, Stetson, SUV, Tin Pan Alley, Waylon Jennings, Wayne Killius, Willie Nelson on October 24, 2015 by segarini
Full disclosure. I don’t do Country music. I’ve never been a fan of those Good Ol’ Boys singing – through their noses, I might add – about dogs and bar fights and pick-up trucks and hurtin’ songs about how a good woman gone done them wrong or some endless road trip of wide open spaces carrying a rack full of guns because: FREEDOM!
JAIMIE VERNON – THE WAGONS ARE CIRCLING…THE DRAIN
Posted in Opinion with tags 19 Entertainment, 1972, Adam Lambert, American Idol, ASCAP, BMI, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Carrie Underwood, class action lawsuit, DBAWIS, desert island, Don Henley, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fantasia, Flo & Eddie, Happy Together, I Won't Back Down, independent artist, Irving Azoff, Jaimie Vernon, Jeff Lynne, Kelly Clarkson, lawyers, Musicians, performing rights, Phillip Phillips, Sam Smith, Simon Cowell, Sirius XM, SOCAN, songwriters, Stay With Me, The Eagles, The Turtles, Tom Petty on January 31, 2015 by segarini WARNING: This blog features the oral history of wallpaper drying and pertains to music that’s less than a decade old. Reading it might very well put you in a coma and cause your family to call emergency services.
It’s been a very interesting week in the music business as the wintery cobwebs get dusted away and we start seeing the industry awaken from its post-2014 slumber. There’s something amiss in Muzoid Land and it appears to be the long tail of sins of the past coming back to eat itself.