IDLE MUSINGS: This actual season of American Idol, at the moment, isn't nearly as interesting for me as
the discussion/mock draft Bill Simmons hosted on the B.S. Report this week: if you had an unlimited budget, and the people you ask would say yes, what's your dream American Idol judging panel? Timberlake-Madonna-Prince, anyone? Harry Connick Jr-Stevie Wonder-Cyndi Lauper?
[Yes, Isaac, you can pick
NPR NPH and Anne Hathaway.]
The re-animated corpse of Frank Sinatra, or the reanimated corpse of Phil Hartman AS Frank Sinatra.
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And, okay, fine, Madonna then.
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Wait. NPR? Is that like when I type Dailykos, instead of Dailymail?
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Audra MacDonald
bullpen: Har Mar Superstar, John Wesley Harding, Rickie Lee Jones
If Carl Kassell were on the Idol panel? I'd watch. And Daily Kos features many fewer gratutious lingerie/bikini pictures than does Daily Mail.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking the ideal panel would have diversity (both in terms of musicality and in terms of background), a sense of humor, and probably at least one person with experience on the industry/production side and at least one person who can speak somewhat to vocal technique. And someone snarky. And someone who is capable of bringing the cray-cray but not all the time. Maybe Elvis Costello, Jay-Z, and Carrie Brownstein? Loretta Lynn, Michael Slezak, Kanye West?
ReplyDeleteLove the Costello / Jay-Z / Brownstein panel.
ReplyDeleteTrying to come up with a groups that includes Bob Stinson (as long as we're reanimating corpses).
I feel like there's room for Abed. Maybe Troy and Abed in one seat, like the Smothers Brothers in one square on Hollywood Squares.
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