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Carly in the Top 5 of Canadian Idol |
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Wednesday, 15 August 2007 |
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Our beloved jazz singer come pop star is now in the top 5 of Canadian Idol. Tara Oram was booted off the show this week and I for one will not miss her country twang. Do we really need another Shania Twain wanna-be?
At the end of the show Tara shouted "Country music is still alive!" Oh but if only country music didn't sound as it does today! Most of the country hits I've heard over the last several years are no different than Britney Spears, but with an accent. They're over-produced, over-compressed, banal and sappy. Maybe country music today needs its own Pavement or Nirvana: a band that will shake the genre up just like grunge and "alternative" did for rock & roll. If anyone knows of such a band, please inform me. I'd love to hear it.
But Tara must be right, country music must still be alive because Tara made it to the top 6 and Jaydee Bixby is still very much a contender on the show. But could Jaydee Bixby really be a pop music star? Or even a country music star? All I can see for him is playing the carnival and country fair tour across Canada. I guarantee you we'll see him performing at the PNE in Vancouver, whether he wins this thing or not. I wish Canadian Idol would hire a dance instructor to teach Jaydee how to move his body. He does the same dance throughout every song. It's a dance that could only be called the "riding my horse knee wiggle."
Farley Flex said on the show that he thinks the only reason Carly is in the bottom 3 of the show is because her music isn't as "broadly appreciated in Canada." I think that's true. Carly has style, class, and musical experience the other contenders don't have, including performing and recording with a certain Vancouver swing band called the Blue Morris 6. Most of the viewers of Canadian Idol clearly don't have style and class. But then I'm guessing that the majority of viewers are in their early teens. It is, after all, a competition to find the next pop star, not a competition to find the best musician or singer in the country.
Good luck Carly!
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Here's some of my favorite alt-country artists that you may want to listen to:
Whiskeytown
Ryan Adams
16 Horsepower
Wilco
Cheers,