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First, Oprah Winfrey props up country that isn't country (Rascal Flatts; see Mario's entry below) for the nation's shepherded and brainwashed housewives. Now she props up opera that isn't opera for them, too. Not that I have anything against Josh Groban; the guy's a phenomenal tenor. And I do respect his ability to own the niche that he's all but dug out for himself: keeping the tradition of opera alive by translating it into new-age adult contemporary pop. But thanks to his appearance on Oprah last week, his holiday album, Noel, sold another 405,000 copies and became the first holiday album to reach No. 1 since another Oprah fave -- Kenny G. -- grabbed the top spot with Miracles in 1994. More salient, though, is the fact that the highest debut album on Billboard's 200 album chart was American Idol winner Jordin Sparks' self-titled debut, which bowed at No. 10. That's embarrasingly low: the album only sold 119,000 copies, which didn't even outpace former AI champ Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride (141K sold), which is well beyond its sales peak. Is the AI franchise finally dying a slow death, or does America just not care since everyone's focused on the holidays already? |
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Posted by Baboon @ 7:24 PM Wed, Nov 28, 2007
Nice dosage of vitriol, Mike. Kudos on the unprovoked attack on Mom music. Just remember that no one likes to think for themselves. If Oprah says it's good, then dammit it is gooood!
"A person is smart,
People are dumb."
I think that was Hegel, or it could also be Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black.
So let's give it up for giving up!
Viva la Groban!
Posted by Mike Daniel @ 12:43 PM Thu, Nov 29, 2007
Baboon (your comeback album earlier this year? Good but too 'kind' sounding, sort of like Toadies tip-toeing through the Curtain Club); it wasn't unprovoked. Oprah's been out of touch with America's housewives since the mid-1990s. As for Mr. Groban: more power to him, I say. Better he be propped up by Oprah than Rascal Flatts, or Kenny G (OOOH he's starting to look old), or Tom Cruise, or Dr. Phil, or Colin Farrell, or any number of preachy, publishing house-sculpted authors ...
... my mom's a 'career housewife', and she loves her some Groban. But thank the heavens that she's not an Oprah fan.