no-idol

In “cruel tease of a brush with utopia” news, black t-shirt aficionado Simon Cowell stated that “American Idol” almost never made it to the airwaves.  My God, what a world that would have been!

American Idol creator Simon Fuller knew he had something with the hit British show Pop Idol, but when he and Simon Cowell tried to sell the idea to American television stations the network responses were not what they expected. The show we call American Idol almost never made it to air!

“I was thrown out in one pitch meeting. After 30 seconds, the guy told me to get out,” Simon Cowell recalled to MSNBC, as he supported entertainment big wig Simon Fuller while making their rounds to networks. “The main thing we were being told was music doesn’t work on TV in prime-time. We tried to explain that there’s [a] lot more than music on the show.”

Oh yes, there’s so much more than music!  There’s pathetic, deluded, attention-starved idiots, Paula Abdul’s nonsensical ramblings, well-groomed cocker spaniel Ryan Seacrest, non-stop cola and cell phone product placement ads, and a Pavlovian audience that boos any time it hears something resembling criticism of an annoying teen trying to put a new spin on a played-out pop song that entered the American consciousness via someone much more talented.  Really, it’s everything I can ask for as a viewer.