Raise a glass to 20 years of pitchiness and its discontents. Like America itself, AmericanIdol has survived long enough to have totally forgotten why it’s still around. robsheff writes:
contestants onstage, as invisible to her as she is to them. “Anymore! Anymore! Any-And then a forlorn shot of the audience, where a fan rises to his feet to give Pia a standing ovation. His name? Sanjaya, rocking a Mohawk for the occasion. This moment still plays in my brain when I’m trying to focus on cheerier topics, like the ever-widening maw of mortality. Quoth the Raven, “Anymore!”universe is shattered into fragments, showing up in the weirdest places.
Themodel — give the kids the latest version of what they liked last year — doesn’t mean shit to them. In 2002,came on like the blueprint for the new century, for both TV and music, yet it turned out to be the last gasp of 20th-century thinking for both., he devotes the most fascinating chapter to TV, and the strangely distant phenomenon of pre-, pre–Peak TV, when people watched because it was on. “The quality of the content was irrelevant,” Klosterman writes.
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