On American Idol

I know this has been talk about ad nausium but WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?? Do these people have no one in their life that cares enough to speak the truth? Have they never heard a song on the radio let alone live? Now, I like to sing. In fact I love to sing.  I sing quite a bit... much to the dismay of the people around me. I can remember a high school friend casually raising the radio volume in the car as we drove and I was singing. I remember a beautiful little 4 year old girl in a VBS class I was teaching look up at me with the most innocent of eyes and ask me, "Mrs F, Why does it sound so funny when you sing it?" Ah, out of the mouths of babes (I failed the kid.)  My brother kindly (?) recorded my voice to show me what I sounded like. Now I can see the kindness in it, otherwise I might have turned out to be like one of those fools standing before "the Triad," causing viewers to cringe and hurting people's ears all over the world. All of this said, I have to admit that the show is much more interesting with all these wackos standing up and singing. I Just end up feeling upset for them, how hard it must be to have a dream, a delusional dream but a dream nonetheless, and to have it blasted so soundly. At least for me it would be, I am amazed that I can still be surprised as people leave the audition room and talk about how the panel have no idea. I am not sure but I might want to live in their world, it might be nice to be so sure of myself and my talents that I can ignore the opinion of professionals and go on with my dream.... Maybe they are not so crazy after all. Let Simon, Paula and Randy have their crooners... I am a newfound fan of the croakers. Keep on watching, I just might show up on the show next year- as long as I can ignore their age limit along with my lack of talent.