[screw_ball]

I just don't understand why anyone would want to throw away any possibility of making it as a singer and not as someone who won a TV show. No matter how talented the winner of this show or American Idol or whetever, they will always be known as "that guy that won the TV show". I'd much rather not be a huge star but still make music that I want to make instead of being some machine whose only purpose is to churn out hit after hit. Just imagine if, I dunno, Gord D. won Canadian Idol and decided to form The Hip. I doubt any of us would like them, even if they put out all the same records. This would be a Sam Roberts board and we wouldn't even consider trying out The Hip because they would have absolutely no credibility to us. We wouldn't hear their music and we wouldn't know how awesome of a band they are. And, I mean, I guess American Idol works for a certain amount of time. You make one or two platinum records and everyone forgets about you. This show? Not once have I heard someone say, "Hey, check out this band. They got the winner from that Rock Star show". Not once. And I doubt I ever will, either.