I am allowed to support Fame Academy because I respect innovation, self-sufficiency, artistic independence and originality in all genres of music.
The programme does NOT set out to find the new John Lennon, the highly experienced teachers adapt to the performance parameters of the students, respecting the direction/music genre the student wants to take their career in, introduce new ways of honing, altering and improving their performance/desired direction to enhance those skills that already exist in the student.
Alex Parks isn't average - if you had better music appreciation abilities and less cynicism you'd know why she won that contest. She was in a different league to the rest of them from the word go. To blithely call her a dyke is stupid at best, utterly brainless at worst and in all times unnecessary and disrespectful to her integrity as a human being. Why settle for second best 'decent' entertainers when more effort (probably a concept unknown to you) produces a better product? And if BBC public service means giving Britain Alex Parks, then let the BBC give us more public service!!!
Oh, and love the facetious comment at the end. Would you like it more if Fame Academy was on ITV? Your argument about that goes both ways.
The programme does NOT set out to find the new John Lennon
Yes it does! That's exactly what they said when the programme first started.
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Alex Parks isn't average - if you had better music appreciation abilities and less cynicism you'd know why she won that contest. She was in a different league to the rest of them from the word go. To blithely call her a dyke is stupid at best, utterly brainless at worst and in all times unnecessary and disrespectful to her integrity as a human being.
The "dyke" comment was referring more to her image than her sexuality. She has not got the image that would have mass appeal and so therefore I do not see her as a worthy winner. She will not last.
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Why settle for second best 'decent' entertainers when more effort (probably a concept unknown to you) produces a better product? And if BBC public service means giving Britain Alex Parks, then let the BBC give us more public service!!!
How lame of you. Why are entertaining artists second best? It takes more than being able to sing to be a singer, something which FA don't seem to realise. The winner of Pop Idol will have a lot more appeal than Alex as they will undoubtedly be a better rounded entertainer - just as David Sneddon has all but disappeared into obscurity whilst the likes of Gareth and Will (who I'm told is taking a break and will be back soon) are still as popular as ever.
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Oh, and love the facetious comment at the end. Would you like it more if Fame Academy was on ITV? Your argument about that goes both ways.
It does? Well, umm, maybe if I had some sort of allegience to ITV then yes, but I haven't. I'm not anti-BBC or pro-ITV, I am quite capable of judging individual programmes regardless of what channel they're on, unlike some people Katherine. I would quite happily watch Pop Idol if it was on BBC1, but we all know that the BBC coming up with an original idea is extremely unlikely.
. . . a teenage dyke who I would class as distinctly average . . .
IMO, everyone's entitled to express their own opinions, such as the preference of one TV show over
another, but expressing opinions using nasty bigoted comments like that are totally unnacceptable.
It matters not (to me at least) that Alex is gay. What's matters is that she's got a lot of talent, which
she has proved many times, particularly last Saturday night, with excellent perforamance of her
own original song, and her fantastically moving, and haunting rendition of "Imagine".
Now, if you don't like Fame Academy, and prefer Pop Idol, kindly refrain from posting anymore
of your pathetic, and small minded garbage in this thread, and stick to the Pop Idol thread.
It seems that everyone is forgetting that how good a programme is and how many viewers it gets aren't necessarily connected.
I really don't think you can use that quite lame excuse for a Saturday night entertainment show. Of course it is about ratings, the better show will get better ratings, simple as, ESPECIALLY as the shows are so similar.
IMO, everyone's entitled to express their own opinions, such as the preference of one TV show over another, but expressing opinions using nasty bigoted comments like that are totally unnacceptable.
Oh don't be so soft, we're all big enough and ugly enough to know that my "dyke" comment was tongue in cheek and that I was referring to her image and not her sexuality, as I have already said.
. . . my "dyke" comment was tongue in cheek and that I was referring to her image and not her sexuality . . .
That's bulls**t. That is not what you meant at all The way you put it, you clearly made a homophobic
and offensive comment attacking Alex's sexuality. Comments such as that, are just reprehensible.
you posted:
. . . the programme sets out to find the next John Lennon, and ends up with a teenage dyke . . .
If you'd intended to make an inoffensive comment about her image, then . . .
you should have posted:
. . . the programme sets out to find the next John Lennon, and ends up with a teenage tomboy . . .
So what if Alex is a lesbian? As long as she's good at what she does, which is singing and songwriting,
and she's damn good at both of those, then her sexuality, gay or straight, doesn't really matter one iota.
Children, children...please contemplate this. The audience figures have shown that a large proportion of the viewers for each show watch both. So if you slag off FA viewers you're slagging off Pop Idol- many people watch both.
Personally however, I don't watch Pop Idol because I just don't like poorly performed pop-music that appeals to 12 year old girls (and yes, they are poor performances- they even showcase the real crap ones in the name of entertainment).
Also worth remembering that the Pop [insert name] ITV "phenomenon" is coming to an end. The current series of Pop Idol was delayed because ITV recognised viewer fatigue of both reality TV and poor pop acts. I don't believe that FA has this problem simply because it isn't about pop music only, and most of the program is about nurturing idividual talent.
Also someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believed that Pop Idol was actually a pretty cheap imitation of the original FA, which began (I think) in Spain (where the show is enormous).
Oh and as for Will Young being on a "break", I wouldn't hold your breath on his return- I think it's pretty safe to say is career is all but over, given the next Pop Idol robot is about to roll of the production line.
So what if Alex is a lesbian? As long as she's good at what she does, which is singing and songwriting,
and she's damn good at both of those, then her sexuality, gay or straight, doesn't really matter one iota.
*yawn* how boring and quite patronising of you. The whole basis of your argument is that I'm homophobic because I called her a dyke. How on earth can someone who's gay, like myself, be homophobic? Now then, I understand that your under-developed brain might not understand this, but I'll say it again - the comment was tongue in cheek. I know a lot of gay women and none of them mind being referred to as a dyke. Obviously you're not a lesbian yourself, so why are you even thinking that you're qualified to comment? Stop trying to be controversial just because I don't share your misguided belief that Alex is wonderful.
I really don't think you can use that quite lame excuse for a Saturday night entertainment show.
What? It was a perfectly good show, if you like that sort of thing.
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Of course it is about ratings, the better show will get better ratings, simple as, ESPECIALLY as the shows are so similar.
That isn't how things work especially as there are a number of people who watch both. There is no correlation between quality and ratings...... BBC2 and Channel 4 prove that virtually every night of the year
