Skip to navigation | Skip to content

Share your knowledge. Make a difference.

American Idol ... Is This Really How We Want To Create Our Music Stars?

1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic (by 10 people)   Your rating: 1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic

Ranked #5672 in Music, #133469 overall

Rated G. (Control what you see)

Is American Idol helpful to aspiring artists or harmful to the music business?

 

I must admit I have mixed feelings about American Idol, while I admire the moxie and talent of the aspiring singers ... I wonder about the process and results.

When I see the latest American Idol winner soar to the top of the charts upon releasing their first album and then disappear into obscurity when the hype machine is no longer providing eyes and ears ... I wonder about the whole idea.

American Idol News Updates 

Loading Fetching RSS feed... please stand by

American Idol Recordings 

American Idol - The Best & Worst of American Idol ( Limited Edition )

American Idol - The Best & Worst of American Idol ( Limited Edition )

Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2008) Buy Now

American Idol Season 5 Encores

American Idol Season 5 Encores

Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2008) Buy Now

American Idol Greatest Moments

American Idol Greatest Moments

Amazon Price: $13.98 (as of 12/02/2008) Buy Now

American Idol - The Best of Seasons 1 - 4

American Idol - The Best of Seasons 1 - 4

Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2008) Buy Now

American Idol Season 2: All Time Classic American Love Songs

American Idol Season 2: All Time Classic American Love Songs

Amazon Price: $13.98 (as of 12/02/2008) Buy Now

American Idol Links Plexo 

#1

Vote Up
Vote Down

American Idol

Don't miss all-new episodes of American Idol Tuesd more...1 point

#2

Vote Up
Vote Down

Television Without Pity » American Idol

Meanwhile, the visits home reveal that every day i more...1 point

#3

Vote Up
Vote Down

American Idol: Season 6 Top 12 Contestants

Don't miss all-new episodes of American Idol Tuesd more...0 points

#4

Vote Up
Vote Down

American Idol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kelly Clarkson, winner of season one of American I more...0 points

#5

Vote Up
Vote Down

American Idol

American Idol. Daily News and Commentary on Americ more...0 points

#6

Vote Up
Vote Down

American Idol: The Search for a Superstar on IMDb: more...0 points

#7

Vote Up
Vote Down

TV Squad

American Idol's brutally-honest Simon Cowell seems more...0 points

#8

Vote Up
Vote Down

IdolMe.com - American Idol Chat

IdolMe.com is your number one source for American more...0 points

#9

Vote Up
Vote Down

American Idol Links

This site has links to news and information about more...0 points

#10

Vote Up
Vote Down

American Idol TV Show - American Idol Television Show - TV.com

American Idol TV Show, TV.com is your reference gu more...0 points

#11

Vote Up
Vote Down

The Official Homepage of American Idol Music

The OFFICIAL homepage of American Idol music featu more...0 points

#12

Vote Up
Vote Down

Codemasters : American Idol : Homepage

Official site. Includes information, screenshots, more...0 points

#13

Vote Up
Vote Down

TMZ.com

"American Idol" screecher Antonella Barb more...0 points

#14

Vote Up
Vote Down

American Idol on Fox: News, Poll, Results, Music, Video Clips ...

Get 'American Idol' related news, poll, video clip more...0 points

American Idol on Amazon Plexo 

#4

Vote Up
Vote Down
Daughtry

Daughtry

0 points

#6

Vote Up
Vote Down
Fantasia

Fantasia

0 points

#8

Vote Up
Vote Down
Thankful

Thankful

0 points

#17

Vote Up
Vote Down
Soulful

Soulful

0 points

#22

Vote Up
Vote Down

"I Lost You" / "Dangerous" by Katharine McPhee

Limited Edition 2 track single includes 9"x14 more...0 points

Popular American Idol Links 

American Idol Site
The official American Idol site
American idol on Wikipedia
Full details on American Idol
American Idol Links
Lots of links

American Idol Items on eBay 

Loading Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
eBay

Reader Feedback 

Lensmaster

JimH wrote...

I watched last night and liked many of the performances ... too early to pick yet as some performers improve and mature as the weeks progress. I have to say that Randy and Paula are getting worse with every show.

ReplyPosted March 06, 2008

Lensmaster

fefe wrote...

Who do you think will win this year's American Idol?

ReplyPosted March 04, 2008

Lensmaster

TheDreamGirlsAdventure.Com wrote

GO TO OUR WEB SITE HERE: http://www.thedreamgirlsadventure.com

Join "The Dream Girls" On Their Real Life Adventure! This Is A Real Life Adventure For Everyone In The World! This Is the FUTURE of a NEW ERA OF REALITY TV! We Are Creating WebCyberCam Reality TV INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT!

Reply Posted April 07, 2007

Lensmaster

JuliesVintageTreasures wrote...

I Love your lens. My kids

ReplyPosted March 22, 2007

Related topics: American Idol ... Is This Really How We Want To Create Stars,  american idol,  american idol stars,  Music,  more

X
JimH

About JimH

Hi Jim Hutton here, I'm a financial planner by day and internet entrepreneur (yes, I use that term loosely) by night. I started out several years ago blogging and dabbling in affiliate marketing.


If you own a website or many websites or need to add articles to your Squidoo lenses, or if you are a blogger or involved in article marketing you know how important it is to produce fresh new content on a regular basis.


It's crucial to your online success because a steady supply of new, well researched articles will insure the search engines will find your keywords.


You need to continually post unique, high quality content to your web sites to keep the attention of your visitors and the search engines!
The saying has been repeated time and again that "content is King." Really it's your visitor who is the king, but it's true that the only way to get more visitors is to have the kind of content that they are looking for: high quality, keyword-rich content that they can find using the major search engines.  


But writing top quality content in high paying subject areas that you know little about is a difficult task. You have to decide which topic you want to write about, then research subtopics that should be covered in your article, then go out and research information on each topic and subtopic you want to cover in the article--and that's all BEFORE you actually write anything! 


Does all of that sound like a lot of work? 


IT USED TO BE! It USED to take HOURS AND HOURS to create top-quality niche articles. Not anymore, though


imagine a software package that makes it INCREDIBLY EASY to create high quality articles on virtually any subject in just minutes!


 Find Out More and Watch the Descriptive Video Tutorial of: Instant Article Wizard 2.0 in Action


-----------------------------

JimH's Pages

See all of JimH's pages

X

Gold Star

This is a certified gold star lens, which means it's the best of its kind on Squidoo (or shows some serious potential for getting there!)

Read more about gold stars »

X

JimH is a Giant Squid!

Giants are distinguished by their exceptional skill for making top-notch lenses, and lots of them. Whenever you land on a Giant Squid's lens, you know the person behind it is passionate about the topic and is hard at work making the lens worthy of your time and attention.

Learn more about what it takes to be a Giant »

X

Happy holidays!

The red bow is special. Whenever you see a red bow on a Squidoo page, it means the page is raising money for charity.

Buy something from the page, and we'll automatically make a donation to charity, thanks to you.