06th May 2003
Reality TV Breeds Reality Reality
I watch plenty of TV, including my fair share of realty TV, but I have so far managed to never see American Idol for more than a few minutes. I have to say therefore I was pleasantly surprised by Kelly Clarkson’s appearance on Letterman tonight, winner of last year’s American Idol, whose new debut CD Thankful is presently topping the Billboard charts. That’s because it doesn’t suck, or at least not the single she performed, Miss Independent (MP3 file). Granted, it’s not going to make me stop listening to Beethoven, as my father said (when I hopelessly tried to introduce him, at 76, to Eminem), but I’d dance to it at the Bulgarian Disco. Nicely produced, and she’s anyway half funky for a little white girl.
How odd is it, however, that she’s got a hit album out at all, so completely manufactured a pop star such that she is. Then again, the Monkeys put out some pretty decent music, and even the Archies had a number-one hit with Sugar, Sugar, and they were cartoons.
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