The American Idols have been busy…  Today I heard for the first time (give me a break I’ve been on vacation and with no teens in the house I didn’t see the Teen Choice awards) David Archuleta’s Crush.  I’ve included the You Tube and the lyrics below for your enjoyment.   It seems to be true to his style of music… at least the style that I enjoyed from him the most when he was on the show.

I have also read that this song has made its debut on the Billboard Top 100.  Talk about whirlwind.  It hasn’t been that long since the show ended and the artists are already hitting the charts big! Remember Time of My Life – by David Cook is already at something close to 300,000+ sold.  I wish them all the best of luck… Take a walk over to the iTunes store and buy their songs! 

In each of our lives we experience “moments” that are pivotal to who we are or what we do.  Hopefully we are able to recognize these moments in our life and grab onto them and cherish them.   American Idol 2008 winner David Cook has a great song about the times in our life…

Taste every moment – Live it out loud – I know this is the time – This is the time to be more than a name – Or a face in the crowd – I know this is the time – This is the Time of MY Life.

]]> http://www.projectspossible.com/the-time-of-your-life/feed 1 http://www.projectspossible.com/american-idol-dialidol-2 http://www.projectspossible.com/american-idol-dialidol-2#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:46:23 +0000 Bill http://www.projectspossible.com/american-idol-dialidol-2 For the past couple of seasons of American Idol I have resorted to an automatic, “intelligent” dialing program to place my votes for me.  The interesting thing about DialIdol is that it “measures the busy signals” to figure out which of the idols are getting the votes.  If it makes a determination that your choice(s) are NOT going to be safe it will start dialing for them while not wasting time dialing those that are getting the busy signals since they are already getting votes.

The accuracy of DialIdol is tied to the number of people that are using it.   The more people, the more accurate the determination will be as to which of the idols are getting the busy signals.  The author has done a pretty good job and building an algorithm that not only factors into the equation the busy signals but overall weighted averages and time zones.  (Since voting begins on the east coast, and this is the first exposure these calls are weighted differently than those that are in the western time zones.)  For those of you that are statistically inclined there is a link on the web page that will explain it to you.

So what are your thoughts.   Do you think the use of tools like this are really changing the outcome of the show?  Do you think that your votes really matter?  I’ve heard the arguments that people vote to keep the worst talent on the show just so they can “stick it” to the judges.  Would a tool like this help in that mission?   Are there other dialing tools that you use to vote for your favorites? 

I encourage you to at least take a look… share your thoughts

When you look at the stadiums of people that show up to audition, you know very well that not all of them get an opportunity to go in front of the “judges”.  I would be curious for any of you that may have gone through the process or or are in the “know” how they “weed” the crowd down to the group that get to appear before Simon, Paula and Randy.   Certainly the criteria to see the judges is NOT singing talent.

Look at those that were “featured” and ask yourself: “Why they were chosen?”  Is is so we/they could make fun of them or worse yet their hardship or situation in life?  Did the producers deliberately want humiliate them in front of millions of viewers? The sad thing is I found it entertaining, and in that statement alone I think we get the why… Entertainment equals ratings. 

How can we forget:

The overweight girl with the overweight mother. – her dreams were crushed!

The young man with the extremely low “fog horn” voice. – he thought he could sing and is going to be back.

The woman that decided she was going to go into “actressing”.

Milo and his “No Sex Allowed” song.

The black cloaked guy in the funny costume that waxed his chest.  (Simon: “All because that fat lump wants to be on TV”)

Paul and that “creepy” Paula Abdul stalker song

Princes Leah

I’m sure there are many that audition that have no desire to be in the competition they just want to be on TV.  But when a contestant truly believes they have the talent and the judges make fun of and demean them has the show crossed the imaginary line between civility and entertainment?  I’ll be glued to my TV again tonight for round 2 of… who can we humiliate and make fun of tonight!