3.18.11 Adam News & Info
Mar 18, 2011 10:13:27 GMT -5
Post by cassie on Mar 18, 2011 10:13:27 GMT -5
gelly: You said, "he was never a "wanna be" artist. He was already a one of a kind artist who wanted the right opportunity to show what he was capable of."
You are sooooo right. For some reason it got me thinking of Nigel's other project, SYTYCD. The format is a "rip off" of Idol, but it works so much better for me for this exact reason. In the auditions they may show some pathetically bad "dancers" but by the time they have their top 10 or top 20 or whatever, the vast majority of them have years and years of professional quality training and conditioning. True, they put thru a couple of B-boys or breakers with just street experience, but those eventually fail when they have to execute complicated choreography that one just cannot perform without the proper technique and body conditioning.
For some reason, the audience can recognize the craft that goes into the body creating art thru dance in a way they cannot with vocals. They understand that you cannot create an overnight sensation accomplished dancer by dressing them up and putting them with a dance coach. Production can only serve to highlight talent and training, to bring out the inner passion expressed in the physicality of movement. The same is true of singers, but many in the viewing audience, and even the judges and producers sometimes seem blind to that fact.
I think Nigel tried to "fix" that by putting thru contestants that had more natural singing ability, and by finding some with a quirky originality. But the emphasis is still on finding the diamond in the rough, the POTENTIAL in the kid, and turning it from straw to gold. (Sorry for all the idiomatic references, gelly.) The other emphasis is on finding the youngest kid to showcase as some kind of prodigy. Those kids just don't have the maturity, the training, the life experience to be a fully formed artist. (Thank god Adam knew enough to wait until he had "ripened" to go on Idol.)
Just some random thoughts bouncing around my head in response to your insightful comment.
You are sooooo right. For some reason it got me thinking of Nigel's other project, SYTYCD. The format is a "rip off" of Idol, but it works so much better for me for this exact reason. In the auditions they may show some pathetically bad "dancers" but by the time they have their top 10 or top 20 or whatever, the vast majority of them have years and years of professional quality training and conditioning. True, they put thru a couple of B-boys or breakers with just street experience, but those eventually fail when they have to execute complicated choreography that one just cannot perform without the proper technique and body conditioning.
For some reason, the audience can recognize the craft that goes into the body creating art thru dance in a way they cannot with vocals. They understand that you cannot create an overnight sensation accomplished dancer by dressing them up and putting them with a dance coach. Production can only serve to highlight talent and training, to bring out the inner passion expressed in the physicality of movement. The same is true of singers, but many in the viewing audience, and even the judges and producers sometimes seem blind to that fact.
I think Nigel tried to "fix" that by putting thru contestants that had more natural singing ability, and by finding some with a quirky originality. But the emphasis is still on finding the diamond in the rough, the POTENTIAL in the kid, and turning it from straw to gold. (Sorry for all the idiomatic references, gelly.) The other emphasis is on finding the youngest kid to showcase as some kind of prodigy. Those kids just don't have the maturity, the training, the life experience to be a fully formed artist. (Thank god Adam knew enough to wait until he had "ripened" to go on Idol.)
Just some random thoughts bouncing around my head in response to your insightful comment.
;D
:D Okay, gotta run to see Uh Huh Her (yes, bragging). Go Horns.