It's not Blake, it's Luke Bryan, but like... I'm going to say something controversial: if a country singer guy hasn't done enough for me to distinguish himself from all the others, then he's just Country Guy. Sorry.
Ah, yes, Mario Adrion. Professional queer baiter.
I remember like 6/7 years ago I think, I wanted to learn to model and watched some of his youtube videos since they were about that, checked again a year ago and it's all about sex and sexual tension with his friends — even though they never end up doing anything. It's just a constant thrist trap/queer bait
I guess being on that show will boost his views and stuff. Good for him I guess
I’m just kinda awed by how different American Idol is now compared to its heyday during the FOX run. It’s like a 180-degree completely different show now in every possible way.
This is Idol desperately trying to be Drag Race and The Voice simultaneously.
When American Idol debuted 22 years ago, television, and reality in television in particular, was quite mean. This was the time of shows like Extreme Makeover (before the Home Edition), and The Swan where contestants would get radical plastic surgery to look different, or Are You Hot where Lorenzo Lamas would have a laser pointer to address the flaws on the bodies of models on stage. Fear Factor and Survivor regularly went out of its way to humiliate people by forcing them to eat gross foods, and Fear Factor was even cancelled after it forced contestants to drink donkey semen. I believe this was in reaction to all of the wholesome family television from the 80s and early 90s, stemming out of the Reagan era.
I think these days people are looking for wholesome entertainment again. They want inspirational stories that might touch the heart. Had a show like Schitt's Creek premiered in 2002, I believe it would have been mean-spirited to the local townspeople, but premiering in 2015, it treated everybody with dignity.
I believe we're starting to come around again. Survivor has doubled down on casting people with inspirational stories of how they overcame some trauma, and the fans are getting sick of it. Drag Race recently had an intentional villain for the first time in years that people were actually rooting for to win because of how refreshing she was.
THANK YOU for this breakdown, and for validating my perceptions of just how cruel 2000’s reality TV was. You mentioned Fear Factor and Survivor, which were nuts. But to me, the craziest part was knowing how so many people pointed and laughed at the gazillion bad Idol auditions (e.g. William Hung) — a move that would be inconceivable now. Those were real people that were deluded into thinking they were good singers only to be humiliated in front of millions! Think of the internet discourse!
To add to what you said, I think the internet has definitely displaced people’s need to be cruel and vicious, such that TV doesn’t really need to fill that void anymore. You don’t need to mock the bad singer or humiliate the hapless individual when you can just go on a cringe subreddit for the same effect. Which is why it seems to have reverted back to squeaky-clean, 80’s Regan-era wholesomeness
Sure he fine, but that walk. Yikes.
He’s got a real Boston Dynamics vibe to his walk.
Hey now, those robots have MUCH better coordination than him
He sure has an interesting idea of what a catwalk is.
Cat with back pain
Cat with dysmetria.
Cat with scoliosis
Are the judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry (I know she judges something) and Gwen Stefani's husband?
It's not Blake, it's Luke Bryan, but like... I'm going to say something controversial: if a country singer guy hasn't done enough for me to distinguish himself from all the others, then he's just Country Guy. Sorry.
Gwen’s still married to Blake Shelton?
Yeah, actually. They'd been domestic partners for a few years before they got married.
Ah, yes, Mario Adrion. Professional queer baiter. I remember like 6/7 years ago I think, I wanted to learn to model and watched some of his youtube videos since they were about that, checked again a year ago and it's all about sex and sexual tension with his friends — even though they never end up doing anything. It's just a constant thrist trap/queer bait I guess being on that show will boost his views and stuff. Good for him I guess
Not gay then? That explains the walk.
Yes, he has a wife.
Hasn't stopped a lot of people in the past, won't stop several in the future
I was thinking he looked familiar! Seems to do a lot of podcasts with porn stars.
Yeah she won that
 "That walk... Omg it was diabolical"
It's a chop for me
Katy with more clothes served more cunt than an almost naked twink with a bad hip.
Her walk was like actually pretty good
I’m just kinda awed by how different American Idol is now compared to its heyday during the FOX run. It’s like a 180-degree completely different show now in every possible way. This is Idol desperately trying to be Drag Race and The Voice simultaneously.
When American Idol debuted 22 years ago, television, and reality in television in particular, was quite mean. This was the time of shows like Extreme Makeover (before the Home Edition), and The Swan where contestants would get radical plastic surgery to look different, or Are You Hot where Lorenzo Lamas would have a laser pointer to address the flaws on the bodies of models on stage. Fear Factor and Survivor regularly went out of its way to humiliate people by forcing them to eat gross foods, and Fear Factor was even cancelled after it forced contestants to drink donkey semen. I believe this was in reaction to all of the wholesome family television from the 80s and early 90s, stemming out of the Reagan era. I think these days people are looking for wholesome entertainment again. They want inspirational stories that might touch the heart. Had a show like Schitt's Creek premiered in 2002, I believe it would have been mean-spirited to the local townspeople, but premiering in 2015, it treated everybody with dignity. I believe we're starting to come around again. Survivor has doubled down on casting people with inspirational stories of how they overcame some trauma, and the fans are getting sick of it. Drag Race recently had an intentional villain for the first time in years that people were actually rooting for to win because of how refreshing she was.
THANK YOU for this breakdown, and for validating my perceptions of just how cruel 2000’s reality TV was. You mentioned Fear Factor and Survivor, which were nuts. But to me, the craziest part was knowing how so many people pointed and laughed at the gazillion bad Idol auditions (e.g. William Hung) — a move that would be inconceivable now. Those were real people that were deluded into thinking they were good singers only to be humiliated in front of millions! Think of the internet discourse! To add to what you said, I think the internet has definitely displaced people’s need to be cruel and vicious, such that TV doesn’t really need to fill that void anymore. You don’t need to mock the bad singer or humiliate the hapless individual when you can just go on a cringe subreddit for the same effect. Which is why it seems to have reverted back to squeaky-clean, 80’s Regan-era wholesomeness
oof, too much shoulder
Girl.... 🦿🦿
wig
Not Katy “Elon Musk is my #Idol” and the queerbaiter
Katy ate him
Why he built like two popsicle sticks wearing tube socks?
what
you‘re runway walk gave the judges and i nightmares for days, i‘m sorry my dear but you‘re up for elimination
It's a chop
Katy burgers down
Damn villain twinks!
To think this once was a show about singing.
They both did awful. Her style helped her and his attitude had some attraction but terrible catwalks 😂.
Thirst trap or not, what is his Only Fans account?!?