FAKE IDOLS, WANNABE CELEBRITIES, FAKE STARS, FAKE TANS AND REAL LEGENDS.

The day we heard that the marriage of Heidi Klum and that big Seal was on the rocks, we also read about some new “American Idol” contestant named Amy Brumsfeld. Signed to Confidentiality Clauses, it appears that anyone who might start following her when the series is shown on television, better realize that she never made it to the ‘live’ shows and has gone home. Amy Brumsfeld has become a mini-celebrity for doing nothing. This is the “bad energy” of the web.

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It’s now 2012 and one has to wonder about all these television talent and singing shows and whether we have all had enough of them, the overnight “stars”, most of the mawkish material they usually sing and where it all leads. Lee Dewyze, for example, who won the worst season of “Idol” has already been dropped by his music label. Crystal Bowersox from that same Season has barely caused a ripple other than getting her teeth fixed. And all that fawning over Casey James when even his Momma got swept up in what even I thought to be the Second Coming Of Elvis, has had a quiet career launch and where he has been opening for Sugarland. But he’s smart and is probably more than happy taking this route and living down “Idolatry.” I still have time for this guy though will pass on the 12-bar blues stuff which has been done many times before by far better musicians.

Sure, at the time, the show opened up a whole new world and brought these contestants in front of a completely new legion of fans. But after the show ended, the lights dimmed on them and few cared. It was off to whatever else new that was happening. Last Season, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler stole the show from the competitors and gave us all some Okay television moments. But, those days of “moments” are lost and people want substance. Fast food entertainment is no longer just chewed and spat out, it’s ignored as being irrelevant and phony and does not lead anywhere for even the winners. It’s all about stretching those 15 minutes of fame into a few months and getting as much from it as possible. The talent- like content- are only there as eye candy. The real money goes to all the other parties involved in the show and the series. It’s like all that content you give Facebook every day and for which you don’t get paid a cent but which Mark Zuckerberg makes millions off.

Casey Abrams from last season has signed a recording deal with Concord. Do you care? I don’t as I don’t see it leading anywhere despite some hype like a tenuous link with this pretty much unknown guy and Paul McCartney. Please, we weren’t born yesterday.

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Again from last Season, Pia Toscano was signed to Interscope, she writhed on sand in a very self-conscious music video to a really crappy song, showed some thigh and leg and what looked like a new nose and that was that. She is today what Katherine McPhee was some seasons ago: A sexy looking woman with a very average voice, who despite this will be seen at Red Carpet events.

The winners? Hell, who WERE the winners on “Idol” last season, anyway? Was it the kid with the Tennessee Ernie Ford voice? Wasn’t he just a gimmick and nothing to do with music and which leads us to celebrities versus stars.and how there are way too many celebrities and not enough stars and never blur the line between the two.

“Glamberts” will be up in arms about this, but Adam Lambert has been “a star waiting to happen” for around a decade and before he turned up as an “unknown” on “Idol.” Forget all these so-called “awards” he has won. Awards can be bought and sold like a whore. Adam Lambert is a celebrity who should and could have been a real star by now, but, for some reason, it has not happened. His first record was a mess made up of 14 bibs and bobs despite all the A List Producers and Songwriters brought in. Perhaps it was over-hyped to death. His upcoming record is named as “One of The Most Eagerly Anticipated Records Of The Year” along with the new Madonna release.

Too much hype? Of course it is. Let his fucking music speak for itself. Plus the new single off it is as ordinary as a donut without the trimmings and could have been recorded by anyone. And, Ellen, he is NOT an “Internationally-known Superstar.” It’s hype like this that gets in the way of a guy with a FABULOUS voice recording mediocre material and not making it. All that personal shit reduces the impact of the music he releases.

Seriously, who CARES if he’s in love? Good for him. What stays in Vegas or Finland should stay in Finland. And Rolling Stone, once the bible of Rock music, talking about his new ‘look’ and not his music? Again, who CARES if he is now more “GQ than Glam”? The guy should be focusing on making GREAT records and his Management should put a stop to the superfluous fluff.

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CELEBS GATHER

Adam Lambert has had more chances to really make it than nearly anyone we know, but he always seems to find a bridge too far to become a bona fide star and has stumbled at that last hurdle. Poor management? Perhaps. Lack of a proper and effective marketing plan? Definitely. Adam Lambert- a very nice guy with an incredible voice and a great ‘live’ performer- is, sadly, becoming the Perez and Paris Hilton, Snooki and Kim Kardashian of music- a celebrity but not a star. Madonna is a Star, Gaga is a celebrity. Lennon, Dylan, the Stones, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Freddie, Elvis, Kurt Cobain etc are legends.

Television talent shows are 15 minutes of fame along all with those who “sail” in them- and which includes all those judges who pop in from nowhere and make scripted “off the cuff” quips. They, too, are celebrities. They are not stars. They are like the fillings in your teeth or fillings in a sandwich. You don’t really need them, but they’re there and it’s up to you whether to bear with them or switch them off and go out and see some real talent without the hype and so-called “star making machines.” Machines don’t and can never create music or make stars of ordinary people. Only real talent can.