One nasty aspect of humanity that comes to light because of shows like American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance is this uncanny need for attention. Most people are well-developed mentally enough that we get our attention from those around us. (Or online... errr... welll... hmmmm...) But these days people are clambering for attention in the most unlikely of places - the reality TV show audition process.

When competition shows air their auditions, the people auditioning have already been through one judging process, so the ones that made it were already chosen to go in front of the shows judges. (At least that's what's done on American Idol - I'm sure SYTYCD does the same thing.) So when you see great talent (Paris, Mandisa, David A.) and bad tallent (William Hung, anyone?) they were put there for a reason.

This brings me to Sex. He's a wanna-be dancer from New York that keeps showing up to the So You Think You Can Dance auditions. One problem - he can't dance. He can move, and there's music playing, but he can't dance. (Okay, he dances as well as the aforementioned William Hung can sing.) So when he appeared before the judges last week I was thrilled when Nigel, the British judge, took him down a few notches.

What Nigel basically said was that he was no longer going to refer to him by his stage name, Sex, but rather by his given name, David, and that he was not 'sexy' and he couldn't dance. I would have gone a bit farther.

I'd have said that anyone that said he could dance wasn't a friend, but rather someone who just wants to see him fail. And that his mother wasn't the best judge of dancing talent; she's his mom, she's supposed to say he's great!

(I should say that I have about the same amount of dance talent as David/sex does, but I don't go to dance auditions to make a complete ass of myself.)

The bottom line for me is that if I wanted to see crappy talent auditions, I'd watch American Idol or America's Got Talent. When I watch the So You Think You Can Dance auditions, I want to see brilliant performances. And thankfully there's more brilliance than crap on this show.

This article was written by david and published on
May 28, 2008 at 8:51pm.
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