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THAT'S inspirational. THAT'S real.
American Idol 's " Inspirational Music Night " was manufactured hokum — trumping up your emotions so you'll be all primed and ready to give to American Idol Gives Back, their big charity oozfest.
Now don't get me wrong. It's all for a good charity and it's commendable that they're doing it. But there's an element of inflated importance and grandstanding that just gives me the vibe that American Idol is doing this more for themselves and their image than for the charity itself.
I will not be watching the show this evening. I watched it last year. It was like freebasing the Jerry Lewis telethon .
Nor will I watch the results show. Last year they didn't eliminate anybody. How could they? What is American going to say — "Your song was the least inspirational. You've got to go"? Of course not. So now the show that is 90% filler normally will be 100% filler. There will be the zippy Ford commercial, the Up With People production number with the kids (probably singing "Climb Every Mountain" while Paula cries uncontrollably), probing questions from the viewers (" David Archuleta , I'm getting my braces off in a year. Will you wait for me?"), and finally the recaps — endless recaps (Tuesday's show, Wednesday's show, last year's show, the first half of this show).
But I did watch the Tuesday performance show. I'm not an overly sentimental slug as you know but I must admit I was moved to boredom.
I know I'm being snarky but does it seem to you that the performances are just not that good this year? There are always things to goof on but in the past those were mixed with some fantastic performances. Now the judges are fawning over Jason Castro. We've lowered the bar to the point where only a limbo champion could go under it.

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