The Next Great American Band
Look, let's face it: This was 50 minutes of filler eating up time until we could get to the real point of the show -- telling us who had won. Some of it was enjoyable, some of it was pointless, and some of it was awful.
The formula's a bit different tonight on The Next Great American Band.
We finally get back to the original song component on the Next Great American Band, and it makes all the difference in the world.
A couple of the bands got flack from the judges for cutting things out of their songs on The Next Great American Band.
I don't tend to expect much great music from reality shows like The Next Great American Band or American Idol or all the rest. On a good night, I figure, there will be some decent -- or at least not painful -- music.
OK, what the hell happened here, America? Because the band you voted off from The Next Great American Band rocked, and the bands that are still going... well, some of them aren't really floating my boat.
Two bands got cut from The Next Great American Band this week, and I was shocked at who they were. They seemed like two of the most potentially popular bands on the show, playing the sort of music you'd hear on the radio today -- and forget about three seconds after the song was replaced by a commercial. Who knew the American public liked idiosyncratic, personal music? Certainly not most record companies ...
Covering someone else's song can be a tricky thing. Sometimes it works brilliantly -- think Talking Heads doing "Take Me To The River," or Johnny Cash doing "Hurt" -- and sometimes it's painful (see: any cover by William Shatner) On The Next Great American Band, our competitors have to interpret another artist's work (this week: Bob Dylan) as well as performing something of their own. Let's see how they did.
The last thing I thought we needed was yet another performance-based reality series where America votes to find the next big whatever. Between American Idol and Dancing with the Stars and America's Got Talent and heck, two competing can-you-remember-the-words-to-the-song shows, I figured the genre was kind of tapped out. But I just watched The Next Great American Band, and you know what? It doesn't suck.
