Chris Daughtry fallout - Blame the judges
I'll be the first to say that I'm not really a fan of Chris Daughtry. I don't like the style of music he sings and I don't like that he gets around the themes by doing other people's covers of old songs. That's just my opinion though. Chris' fans like him exactly the way he is and that's fine.
Last week Chris did Live's version of the Johnny Cash song, Walk The Line for the 50's night theme. If you haven't heard about this you probably have no interest in American Idol and have already stopped reading this post.
Chris is being blamed for stealing the arrangement and calling it his own. This has been circulating the newswire for days, and has resulted in a lot of negative opinion about Chris. However I do not think Chris intentinally set out to fool the audience into believing he came up with that arrangement on his own.
It was Simon Cowell who said Chris took the song and made it his own. Live was not mentioned in the pre-song clips, where Chris was working with Barry Manilow, so many people in the audience jumped to the conclusion that Chris had come up with his own arrangement.
2 weeks in a row the judges have said Chris' songs were "radio ready." I guess they didn't realize those songs were already out there.
I think the show has decided that Chris should be in the top 2, if not win, and they got a little overzealous in promoting Chris as unique and original musician. Chris may very well be those things, but he has not shown it yet on American Idol and it is my opinion that he should not be praised for doing things he is not actually doing.
As far as Simon saying Chris is the only one who is "uncompromising", it think it is ridiculous for Simon to say that. Taylor Hicks has also not compromised his style, yet Simon goes around saying Taylor should color his hair. Musically Taylor is a different kind of musician than Chris, and no one should say he compromising just because he does do different styles of music. Taylor has always done a variety of different types of songs, so there is no compromising for him either.
Personally I don't think many of the other contestants have compromised themselves either. Some of them don't have definitive styles yet, so there is nothing to compromise.
It will be intresting to see tomorrow, how everything plays out. I'm hoping Chris demonstrates some personal integrity and is clears up what is basically a misunderstanding.
Last week Chris did Live's version of the Johnny Cash song, Walk The Line for the 50's night theme. If you haven't heard about this you probably have no interest in American Idol and have already stopped reading this post.
Chris is being blamed for stealing the arrangement and calling it his own. This has been circulating the newswire for days, and has resulted in a lot of negative opinion about Chris. However I do not think Chris intentinally set out to fool the audience into believing he came up with that arrangement on his own.
It was Simon Cowell who said Chris took the song and made it his own. Live was not mentioned in the pre-song clips, where Chris was working with Barry Manilow, so many people in the audience jumped to the conclusion that Chris had come up with his own arrangement.
2 weeks in a row the judges have said Chris' songs were "radio ready." I guess they didn't realize those songs were already out there.
I think the show has decided that Chris should be in the top 2, if not win, and they got a little overzealous in promoting Chris as unique and original musician. Chris may very well be those things, but he has not shown it yet on American Idol and it is my opinion that he should not be praised for doing things he is not actually doing.
As far as Simon saying Chris is the only one who is "uncompromising", it think it is ridiculous for Simon to say that. Taylor Hicks has also not compromised his style, yet Simon goes around saying Taylor should color his hair. Musically Taylor is a different kind of musician than Chris, and no one should say he compromising just because he does do different styles of music. Taylor has always done a variety of different types of songs, so there is no compromising for him either.
Personally I don't think many of the other contestants have compromised themselves either. Some of them don't have definitive styles yet, so there is nothing to compromise.
It will be intresting to see tomorrow, how everything plays out. I'm hoping Chris demonstrates some personal integrity and is clears up what is basically a misunderstanding.
posted by Sherry L at 9:57 AM
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