I've said it once and I'll say it again, Kelly didn't need Idol. She already had TWO record deals offered to her before the show, if she really wanted them, she would've been signed. Idol NEEDED a superstar like Kelly. Or are you telling me that you'd think the show would have been as successful if someone like Taylor Hicks had won the first season?
That's why The Voice totally bombed after the first season, right?
Ask anyone to name a winner of the show and the first name that will come up is Kelly Clarkson. Unless you're big on Country...
I've said it once and I'll say it again, Kelly didn't need Idol. She already had TWO record deals offered to her before the show, if she really wanted them, she would've been signed. Idol NEEDED a superstar like Kelly. Or are you telling me that you'd think the show would have been as successful if someone like Taylor Hicks had won the first season?
We're not saying Kelly influenced Carrie as an artist, I don't know why people think we are. We're saying she paved the way for other artists, including Carrie, to find super-stardom. If you don't like it, then sit.
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Amaru contributing nothing to the topic at hand again.
To a great degree, Kelly did contribute to AI's success and the subsequent winners/runner ups that followed. Boom.
I enjoy Kelly sometimes. And used American Idol at one point. No one in here has a reason to be delusional, pressed or a hater. Kelly isn't anybody to get mad over.
The only thing Kelly gave the show was credibility behind their claim of making stars. That doesn't make the show successful that just means they created a star.
People making a fool of themselves in auditions and Simon Cowell are what got the show ratings and ratings is what built it into a juggernaut, that had zero to do with Kelly. And American Idol made Kelly into a star because regardless of labels offering her contracts on her voice, she has limited marketability. Her not taking two recording contracts before Idol PROVES she needed a platform like Idol to be a star.
What makes you say that?
And your last point doesn't make sense. She didn't take the contracts because they wanted her to do something that would have been really bad for her health.
That's why The Voice totally bombed after the first season, right?
Everyone knows that show is about the JUDGES. Lol, why do you think they hired celebrities? Because they are the best people to coach the contestants, cause it seems to me like the producers of the show carry more of that weight.
Idol only had Paula as a celebrity judge and everything else about the show was so cheap, lol. Sure, people liked the Simon/Paula dynamic but that wouldn't have been enough to keep the show going beyond two seasons.
Just because you don't agree with it, doesn't mean it's pointless. #clapback
Don't use the Queen's hashtag if you can't use it properly. And I was merely pointing out the fact that you didn't contribute nothing regarding to the OP. Take a seat and get it through your head that Kelly is one of the greatest reasons why the show lasted as long as it has.
Everyone knows that show is about the JUDGES. Lol, why do you think they hired celebrities? Because they are the best people to coach the contestants, cause it seems to me like the producers of the show carry more of that weight.
Idol only had Paula as a celebrity judge and everything else about the show was so cheap, lol. Sure, people liked the Simon/Paula dynamic but that wouldn't have been enough to keep the show going beyond two seasons.
Point is, people likes these reality shows. Yes, Kelly's success was part of the reason it attracted more attention eventually, but the main reason and saying that the other winners' careers wouldn't exist if it wasn't for her?