Usher looked like he was enjoying himself on American Idol last month, but judging from an interview given right before his appearance, he’s not much of a fan. “The true art form of music is being lost, because it seems so easy that everyone can do it, and that it can happen overnight,” he told The Guardian. “Television is a lie. It can’t happen overnight. The artist who thinks that it can just comes and goes. The reason why great singers cannot exist in this time is maybe because they’re not properly managed, and maybe they don’t understand the full gamut of what being an entertainer is…the record companies [are] mass-producing these versions of these people; versions of this broken art. While it works, because it sells records, it damages the business.”
While he didn’t actually say “talent shows are killing music,” as some misleading headlines suggest, it’s still a little ironic for him to bitch about a system that cripples “great singers” (like himself, presumably) before running off to grin at Tim Urban and fistbump Ryan Seacrest. And should anyone performing an empty-headed autotune jam like “OMG”—as he did on Idol—be throwing stones about mass-producing versions of a “broken art”? “What’s Going On” it ain’t. Here’s hoping this leads to a feud as fun as the one Simon Cowell had with Sting.
[Photo: American Idol]
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