Post by radioclash on Dec 12, 2005 21:22:58 GMT -5
Found this dated December 7th:
"Rock-show reality should be about the singing
Rock Star gives American Idol something to shoot for"
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/movies/video/3506677.html
Here's some noteworthy selections:
Unlike Idol's new three-disc set, the recently released The Best and Worst of American Idol, it doesn't give five minutes to bad singers, much less an entire disc. Nor is it about questionable calls by bad judges who make themselves too much of the show. (INXS chose its own singer, booting off one per week from a bottom three determined by Internet votes.) Instead, it's about a steady diet of superb rock 'n' roll.
Also unlike Idol, whose contestants tend to be teens with scant experience, Rock Star recruited seasoned pros, many beyond Idol's cutoff age of 28. They didn't perform creaky standards, Broadway songs or tame Motown hits but drew from a wealth of edgy rock classics, which they rehearsed and sang with a house band that packed a wallop.
Well, sometimes they were thrown a wrench, as when eventual runner-up Marty Casey got one tough task: He was told to sing popster Britney Spears' ... Baby One More Time. But Casey made the best of it, and when you see his unplugged fervor on this DVD, you'll see the essence of reinvention.
Indeed, Fortune is far from the star of the DVD's 17-song season recap. Its best numbers include Ty Taylor's note-perfect, mesmerizing No Woman, No Cry; Casey's raging yet controlled Creep; Jordis Unga's emotional and beautifully sung The Man Who Sold the World; and Suzie McNeil's gutsy and galvanizing Bohemian Rhapsody.
"Rock-show reality should be about the singing
Rock Star gives American Idol something to shoot for"
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/movies/video/3506677.html
Here's some noteworthy selections:
Unlike Idol's new three-disc set, the recently released The Best and Worst of American Idol, it doesn't give five minutes to bad singers, much less an entire disc. Nor is it about questionable calls by bad judges who make themselves too much of the show. (INXS chose its own singer, booting off one per week from a bottom three determined by Internet votes.) Instead, it's about a steady diet of superb rock 'n' roll.
Also unlike Idol, whose contestants tend to be teens with scant experience, Rock Star recruited seasoned pros, many beyond Idol's cutoff age of 28. They didn't perform creaky standards, Broadway songs or tame Motown hits but drew from a wealth of edgy rock classics, which they rehearsed and sang with a house band that packed a wallop.
Well, sometimes they were thrown a wrench, as when eventual runner-up Marty Casey got one tough task: He was told to sing popster Britney Spears' ... Baby One More Time. But Casey made the best of it, and when you see his unplugged fervor on this DVD, you'll see the essence of reinvention.
Indeed, Fortune is far from the star of the DVD's 17-song season recap. Its best numbers include Ty Taylor's note-perfect, mesmerizing No Woman, No Cry; Casey's raging yet controlled Creep; Jordis Unga's emotional and beautifully sung The Man Who Sold the World; and Suzie McNeil's gutsy and galvanizing Bohemian Rhapsody.
