Category: Let's talk
Over the past few weeks I have been watching the x factor, and during this time it has struck me just how many people have been on there to audition, that have no talent what so ever. And by no talent I don’t mean that they’re just not good enough to meet the standards, I mean no talent at all, some of them could bearly string two notes together. And yet when they are told by the judges that they have no talent, they are devastated by this news, because they have been being told by their families and close friends that they have great talent, and that they should be auditioning to become the next great number 1 selling artist, only to have their dreams shattered when the judges tell them they are totally talentless, and then to be humiliated on national television. So the question is this. Is it possible to be too encouraging? If you had a friend or family member who always harboured the dream of doing something great that you knew they were actually no good at at all, would you still tell them that they could go out and make their dreams come true even if you knew that would never happen? Or would you spare them the humiliation of going out there and making fools of themselves and tell them straight up that actually they didn’t have the talent and they shouldn’t go ahead and try and be something they can never achieve.
Claire, I think you know me well enough by now to realise that I am rather too honest and blunt for that. I tell people exactly how it is. Yes if it were my child I'd be encouraging, but I'd also be realistic.
I'd tell them to keep it as a hobby, but deffinitly would tell them they were going to make an ass of them selves on tv. And the question if this show is anything like American Idel is do they know they don't have tallent and are pretending, or did they really think they were good?
well this is the thing. some of them are so bad, I find it hard to believe that they don't know they have no talent. But there was one girl in particular who was attending stage school, she was 16, and her mother had told her she would go all the way and be the best. it was quite obviously her dream, and she was absolutely dreadful. to put it in louis walsh's words, she sounded like a kitten being strangled. and she was quite visibly distraught when she was told she had no talent.
Well, at least those people make for a good laugh on tv. I still wonder if they put those folks in purposefully to make sure that the show keeps up its ratings. After all it's a lot more fun watching someone who is totally dreadful than someone who is merely midiocre singing, seeing good singers is always fun but it's just dreadfully rare to see someone good come out of these try outs.
I think the "always encourage" attitude that is displayed by many is a bit ridiculous. It's like the "blind people can do whatever they want" cliche, and, yes, I still have not found a blind barber and do not intend to use his/her services if I discover one, same with pilot and bus driver in fact. I think having seslf confdience is as much about knowing your limitations as it is about recognizing and nurishing your strengths and advatages. There are things you can become good at with practice but there are also things you're simply no good at and I think finding those things and living with that fact is totally ok, because we all have talents, and they all lie in different areas and the question is to recognize them and for that we need help and encouragement from others who see that possibility in us and believe in us, but you need someone to honestly believe in you and be a good enough character or have good enough judgement so that you can really trust them and believe what they're saying.
b, that is indeed what they do. I remember when I went and auditioned for X factor we were given a coloured band to ware after our initial audition in front of the producers of the show. the ones who stood an honest chance had pink, the no hopers who just looked freaky and who you knew would be terrible, had blue, and the medioker ones who maybe had the attitude, or what ever had yellow. so it is deffinetly selected on purpus.
Well, yeah, that's exactly the point about those type of shows. It's fun to actually sit there and honestaly say that you could've done better than this contestent, it makes you feel good about yourself in a way and that's just one of the appeals of the "reality" television. I am by no means a good singer but I know pitch when I hear it and I can sign if it falls confortable within my range ;) and I can honestly say I'm better than at least 20 to 30% of the people on there, as for having enough talent to front a band or even do solo gigs, i'd say no, I'm not good enough and I don't really care for singing that much, unless I"m drunk of course, in which case it is fun (or in the shower) but it's still just fun to see someone on tv who is worse than you. *smiles*
cheers
-B
I remember watching some of the American Idol auditions last year and hearing this guy who was convinced he sounded like a star (if I'm remembering this right, he thought he sounded just like Brian McKnight). He started to sing, and it was the most horrible sound I had ever heard. And this guy's family had convinced him he was good. How could he not hear that he was just awful!! Anyway, to get to the point, I'd be honest with someone. It may hurt their feelings, but at least they would have been told the truth.
I wouldn't tell them but I would book them for the Cathouse and let the music savvy Goths and Moshers rip their act to pieces.While capturing the whole sorry episode on video.
i love watching X factor. if i was a judge i would try and just tell them gently and exsplain that they wern't the best but the show wouldn't be there with out them
I'll tell someone exactly what I think of their tallent whether it's good or bad! I think that some of this fame-seakers though are the type that fish for complements, that crave admiration, that want to be the centre of attention a bit like the majority of performing arts students really and I like it when they don't get what they want, because they start crying like babies and at least when they do that there's even more justification for them not being in the limelight than there would have been otherwise. I think too many parents want to think the best of there kids and want there kids to know it when really the truth is a lot different. All this has been demonstrated on X Factor.