I thought he was a pretty good entertainer and vocalist when he won Idol two years ago. I never hear him on the radio, but there are a lot of others replayed over and over and over . . .  who cannot sing.

guess its all a matter of preference. i thought the guy should have never won idol in the first place.........he was nowhere near the best. the three that finished behind him were all way better and thus the reason they all are selling records.

Who?

Because everyone who has been on that show talented or not is at the mercy of the producers of the show. While they make a mildly entertaining show they have little or no idea how to market or write music for any of the talent. With the exception being Carrie Underwood. A blonde good looking country singer with lots of exposure, kind of a no-brainer. Just write her a couple of good country tunes (the kind with pickup trucks, cheating men and Jesus) and you have yourself a star. The only other ones you hear about are Chris Daughtry and Kelly Clarkson and they both have written a lot of their own music.

 

 

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I just think the people who voted him in are not the same people who listen to mainstream radio... like my mom...

Really, I'm not trying to be funny. My sixty year old mother really enjoys the show and watches it with my sister. They're all into the

contest element, but I guess they think helping to vote him in is doing everyone else a favor. My mother, a HUGE John Lennon

fan ( I mean, really, I think she has always really loved him) is never going to go out and buy a Taylor Hicks album, or any American Idol's album...

At least Taylor Hicks has some talent, unlike last years joke named Sanjaya... ::GAG!!::

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Because everyone who has been on that show talented or not is at the mercy of the producers of the show. While they make a mildly entertaining show they have little or no idea how to market or write music for any of the talent. With the exception being Carrie Underwood. A blonde good looking country singer with lots of exposure, kind of a no-brainer. Just write her a couple of good country tunes (the kind with pickup trucks, cheating men and Jesus) and you have yourself a star. The only other ones you hear about are Chris Daughtry and Kelly Clarkson and they both have written a lot of their own music.

 

 

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To answer the OP: Uh, because he...sux? OK, that's not fair, because he doesn't. However, he is a a white boy wannabe blues singer who has little to no mainstream appeal. There is already a Michael McDonald (only one, thank God) who single-handedly ruined the Doobie Brothers back in the day, who seems to go back and forth with that other hack, Michael Bolton for the King of Blue-eyed Soul title. Hicks' win on AI is the TV equivalent of voting the gay guy in as Homecoming Queen for a HS prank. It almost happened again last year with Sanjayah or whatever his name is.

To answer you: Kelly Clarkson was on the verge of becoming a major star (in fact the only one among the AI alums besides Carrie U) until she bucked the system (and Clive Davis) and insisted on taking her "own direction". Result? Album bombed, tour canceled, and she had to go running to Reba McEntire and her manager/husband to take her into the country fold to keep her next tour from being shopping mall openings and the like.
My personal fave of the people who have placed highly on there is Bo Bice, but I'm a Southern Rocker from the '70s so he's my cup of tea (with a splash of Jack Daniels) so to speak. Unfortunately for him, he's about 30 years too late to be a major star with his style. When his debut album came out people accused Clive of being a pop-pusher who didn't know how to handle someone like Bo, but I would tell those people that Davis founded Arista Records in 1975 and the very first band he signed was The Outlaws, one of the great Southern Rock bands of the mid-'70s to early - '80s when the genre petered out. It's nostalgia music these days.
Another AI performer I like is the black kid from a couple of seasons ago (and I'm ticked off that I can't remember his name) who was only 16 or 17 who did the soul songs. I don't remember what his last song was but the next to last one he did was "When a Man Loves a Woman". If he did an album of soul classics I would buy it the day it was released, but to quote me late father, "I wouldn't walk around the corner to see Taylor Hicks pee on a hot sparkplug".

Rozz, the kid to whom you refer is Gideon McKinney or McKinnon or something similar, and yes, he was awesome. He didn't make the top 12, should have run rings around the Chicken Little guy and a few others who did.

 

Kelly Clarkson was so good in the beginning, it is sad to see her getting out of the picture. I really like Daughtry; and like Elliot Yamin. I surprisingly think Bucky Covington put out a pretty good Cd. To me, and hold the tomatoes and eggs, Carrie U. is overrated. I have seen her live, and don't care for her at all. Recorded, a few of her songs are OK, but anyone else who is a country star could be singing them for all I care.

 

Bo was good. I am sorry he hasn't done more to date.

 

Last year was a waste for me. My favorites never made the top 12, except for Melinda. I hear she is putting out a Cd, as well as Phil, who I was just starting to like when he was voted off.

his record company just dropped him