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Sanjaya’s family tells off the media

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March 29th, 2007 by Sherry

Tagged as: American Idol


According to TMZ, Sanjaya’s family wants the media to “bring it”. Although they were worried the negative media attention would hurt his chances on the show, they now say “you can write all you want, Sanjaya is here to stay!”

Also, they’d like votefortheworst.com to know that he doesn’t need their votes.

No, he probably doesn’t as long as his crying 11-year-old fans are allowed to stay up late each Tuesday night to vote.

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  1. On March 30th 2007, Rob Ward wrote:

    UNDERDOG: [uhn-der-dawg, -dog]
    –noun
    1. A person who is expected to lose in a contest or conflict.
    2. A victim of social or political injustice.
    [Origin: 1875–80, Americanism]

    The history of all life has been built on the underdog overcoming tremendous obstacles to persevere in the face of adversity and tyranny. Evolution itself is a series of underdog achievements. The odds were against the Neanderthal and the Cro-Magnon, but he found a way to survive, and mankind was better for it. JESUS CHRIST, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN were all, by definition, underdogs.

    Great stories often involve the underdog ignoring his perceived limitations to set new, loftier limitations. ROCKY BALBOA was over-the-hill, out of shape, and used as a cruel joke, but he overcame the obstacles and, although he didn’t win the fight, he won the dignity that had eluded him his entire life. That’s a great underdog story. That’s the stuff that we all should embrace, because there is an underdog hiding inside most of us.

    If you want to be a famous actor, but your face looks like an ass, you need to call on your inner underdog. If you want to be a millionaire, but you work at DEL TACO, you need to call on your inner underdog. If your goals seem overly ambitious to everyone else but you, you need to call on your inner underdog. The underdog is what keeps you from quitting every thing you do that requires faith, hope, and enormous effort to even have a sliver of a chance to succeed. So, why the hell is everyone so upset with SANJAYA MALAKAR about shooting for the stars?

    A few months ago, a shy teenage boy who likes to sing, went with his older sister to audition for AMERICAN IDOL, his favorite TV show. He didn’t expect to get much attention, and was happy just to be there. But then, he accidentally unleashed a pop-culture phenomenon and became the most undeserving villain of all time. The judges were impressed enough with Sanjaya that they carried him back to Hollywood with them. Perhaps they were impressed with him back then, or perhaps they were using him as a prop, sort of a new WILLIAM HUNG. If the intention was to make him the butt of a joke, it backfired on them and now they must live with the results.

    As it has become so brilliantly obvious, all of America isn’t ready to drink the pop-music punch that AI is serving. If you offer us a chance to vote for our favorites, and then threaten us with elimination of our favorites if we don’t vote, you must be willing to accept the consequences when we use that same system against you. Popular music has survived for a long time without needing a contest to decide what we like. AI isn’t offering us anything we can’t live without, despite their hyperbole.

    Maybe there are people that truly like Sanjaya’s performances and his bizarre style, but that’s probably not the reason for his success. He has inspired a huge community of contrarian supporters that have rallied the troops to vote for Sanjaya. The popular website VOTE FOR THE WORST has used the last two years to support the “worst” contestants on AI. They claim hypocrisy from AI producers who accuse VFTW of trying to ruin the integrity of their wholesome program. But AI uses almost the entire first month to make fun of untalented people they pull from huge crowds, ignoring genuinely gifted singers along the way. Last year AI producers released a DVD called THE WORST OF AMERICAN IDOL. They are the pot calling the kettle black and people like VFTW and radio personality HOWARD STERN have exposed their dirty little secret; that they love bad singers when they profit from them, but they don’t want to be married to their own greedy choices.

    Meanwhile, the battle over AI’s voting system is heating up and Sanjaya is the one caught in the middle, which is unfortunate because he’s innocent in all this. There are hundreds of websites and blogs devoted to anti-Sanjaya sentiments (many using racial slurs directed at him) as though he is an evil mastermind bent on ruining lives. He’s not. He’s just a kid taking his shot at 15 minutes of fame, like any other kid would do. It’s not malicious to sing poorly, it’s just unpopular, and if AI doesn’t like it, they shouldn’t allow us to vote.

    What a sad world it is when the public finds the outcome of a karaoke contest to be this important. A woman on MYSPACE, the website that attracts all of the top pedophiles in the United States, claims that she is starving herself until Sanjaya is eliminated. I wonder how important this show is to her friends and family if she actually dies. Cantankerous judge SIMON COWELL has threatened to quit the show if Sanjaya wins. Of course, he won’t actually quit. It’s too hard to find another job that offers that much fame and money for your services as a huge dick. If people had this much passion for politics in this country we might actually be able to accomplish great things, but I digress.

    AI Producer NIGEL LYTHGOE, the Wizard to AI’s Oz, understands how fortunate he is to have all this controversy fall into his lap. So far, the ironic support for Sanjaya has had no consequence to the show except to bring much more attention and urgency to vote than Lythgoe could have mustered by himself. None of the favorites have been eliminated thus far. Sanjaya has simply outlasted the bottom feeders and Lythgoe will drain every last drop of this free publicity before he steps in and manipulates the results, as he has been rumored to do. But if he was truly brave he would allow Sanjaya to advance all the way to the finals, assuring that episode gets the highest ratings in television history. It would also be a great story, about a young underdog that inspired America to vote for the little guy, the victim of social injustice, the person who is expected to lose in a contest, the hero.

    http://robwardblog.blogspot.com/

  2. On April 22nd 2007, Douglas wrote:

    SANJAYA, where ever you are.
    Dude, you were pretty good. I really think you have a lot more inside of you. You can do it, you can, you can. hehe
    You are a Awesome performer.
    Don’t bash Sanjaya, the guy is learning. YOU have to give him credit. He tryin.

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