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I agree with James, Idol overhypes so many people as like the biggest superstar on like the planet. Reality is a lot of them are doing quite well for themselves and are very successful but people think they're nobodies b/c Simon and co made it sound like they'd be bigger than Elvis.

Jordin and David are perfectly examples. Jordin continues to put out successful singles and remain relatively popular and does her thing and David's tour just ended and did extremely well and he's starting work on his second album. Both of their debuts have gone platinum and they've carved out a comfortable place in their own niche markets. They're making a decent living doing what they love and have fulfilled their wildest dreams and more but they aren't the biggest superstars around and people who watched AI and perhaps don't keep up with their favourites after the show might still think they haven't done anything.

Idol gives certain contestants huge crosses to bear and its slightly unfair. I mean just because you win doesn't mean you have to sell a bajillion albums to be a success. I mean for me Kris' album is great and he's probably happy with it and it will do modestly well and he'll get to continue having some kind of career in the music industry but people are scoffing at him selling only 80k. Like really, 80 000 fucking people want to listen to his music, that's a lot in my books.

Certain contestants get really lucky and they're the anomalies. Carrie, Kelly and Daughtry are the exceptions not the rule. Its great for them but its also slightly unfair to hold every single winner or high placer to their standards.

There's nothing unfair about this.

You don't think its at all unfair to hype up someone like they're going to be the biggest superstar in the world and then ignore them when they don't live up to your impossible burden?

From a business point of view yes they do a brilliant job at hyping themselves up and getting the viewers, tour goers etc and rolling in the dough. Too bad they don't actually give a shit about the people who are on it but I suppose you get what you sign up for. By now I guess people should expect to be treated a bit like garbage if they sign up for AI but its sad that this is what capitalism does to the world.

Even the winners aren't treated well, SHC.

Oh I know.

Jordin's last c.d. has tanked miserably despite one hit single from it. Kris is talking soo bad, Allison is almost non-existent and Lambert will run out of steam soon.

These are the kind of comments I was talking about.

Kris' album has been out for a mere 3 weeks and sold 80 000 copies yet he's "tanking so badly."

Standards are too high for the Idol contestants. No other new artist would be considered to be "tanking so bad" if they sold 80 k of an album.