AI gets a bad rap for being "whats wrong with America", primarily from those who have never actually seen it. IMO, in many ways, AI is all that's left of "Old America", where you could actually sit down
with the whole family and watch a full evening of live performances of all kinds on network TV.
Most of the contestants are karaoke wannabes- sure, but every year there has been at least one legitimate star, and some of them have turned out to be legitimate super stars. I suspect that Lambert is probably going to be the biggest of them all.
<---- goes to listen to dottore's music link now. (LOL, smart ass.
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