Chris Sligh did his obligatory “voted-off interview” this morning and actually said “I never came into this wanting to win it.” Umm, hello – why waste everyone’s time then. Why do something half-assed? Why did he say this? “I come from an indie, alternative-rock kind of background. For me, I think winning American Idol would hurt what I was really going for” said Sligh. So what you’re saying is participating in the competition wouldn’t hurt your indie-rock style but winning it will? That just makes no sense. If the competition is good enough for you to participate in without hurting your reputation then it should be good enough for you to win it. Trust me – indie rockers across the United States have already discounted you for participating, it doesn’t matter whether you were the ultimate winner or not.
What this sounds like to me is a 10 year-old who isn’t picked for the little league team he wanted and says “Well I didn’t want it anyway.” I’d have loved to see Sligh’s facial expression while he gave the interview – was he pouting? At one point in his interview he says, in reference to his band Half-Past Forever, “I think a door should open up for us… that would be great.” That’s not a surprise; America knows why you did it especially given the success of Daughtry. I don’t see much in the way of record-sales coming from Sligh and his band; it will be interesting to look back in a year’s time to see how this has all panned out.
March 30th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I can say this: Half Past Forever sold more albums than they would have if Chris were not in the competition. Unfortunately, I think you may be more than a little right about why he said what he said. This year’s whole crop has sort of been a bland thing for me, and there hasn’t been the spark like there was with Chris Daughtry et al. Shoot, I’d settle for even a Kellie Pickler at this point.
March 30th, 2007 at 11:26 am
JD - I agree that they definitely sold more albums than they would have if Chris wasn’t in the competition. This year has been bland; after the auditions I thought for sure it would be an exciting year and I was oh so wrong.
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:53 pm
[…] Chris Sligh was a guest on the Fox News live desk this morning and sounded off on Sanjaya Malakaramong other things. He was first asked about his performance last week and he said “sometimes the judges have their opinion….sometimes I wonder if they were listening to the same thing that I was listening to” then he went on to explain how several professional drummers called him and told him that he was completely on beat contrary to watch the judges, and everyone else in America, heard. I feel like he’s still trying to defend his getting voted off instead of accepting it and moving on. […]