America's Got Stories and Producers Looking for Them

Recently I've been giving up my valuable homework time to watching America's Got Talent. What a joke. (Note: I'm much meaner in writing than person--keep this in mind while reading.)

I hate to be so critical, but the show has absolutely nothing to do with talent in my mind. It's an opportunity for producers to find people who actually have heart-wrenching stories and life journeys to be splashed on national television, tissue in hand of course, to be shared in front of Hasselhoff and the gang of crazy audience members to laugh and cheer or boo off stage.

And while the 5 second response of the audience is enough for television viewers to keep the Kleenix box a little closer, producers are gleeming at the viewership piling over because people's stories are just another marketing campaign to keep people watching every week.

This isn't new information, but I wish people would think before wasting their time voting for the next big star when in reality, most stories are winning--not talent. Stories replace talent as a reason to hand over a million dollars (wouldn't want to be that person since millionaires are Obama's newest targets, according to his last televised conference) to a person, who yes, is decent in whatever talent their displaying, but is too clueless and oblivious to realize it's their experience that's won over producers, therefore placing them on the show--than their actual talent.

Now some people might not care about that, but from someone who wants to be known for winning a talent competition because of talent, not name, must not have much pride. Or maybe that half a million dollars (after taxes) is too tempting.

Who's to say I would feel differently if I were in that position?

But then again, I'm not abnormal enough and I don't have a killer story or look to land me on the show. So until that big, bright day comes for me to unleash my killer abnormality on some producer-hand-picked-gimmic known as America's Got Talent (and yes, I will continue watching it, because I am no enemy of media's latest marketing schemes or darn good entertainment), I'll strive to eventually make it into that field, and hypocritically find marketing jewels all over the planet, milking them for every penny they're in debt for.

We'll see.