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Watching The Sing-Off because I'm having an unapolgetically low key, brain-rotting TV day while I recuperate from a busy weekend, and because I liked the one episode I watched at my parents's house.
Introducing the judges, we have virtuoso singer-songwriter Ben Folds, beautiful pop diva Nicole Scherzinger, and legendary R&B vocalist Shawn Stockman.
And yes, Scherzinger is bloody useless. She's the Paula Abdul of Sing-Off: sweet and congratulatory and rarely a shred of criticism in sight. And I don't care. Perhaps they brought her on the show to, I don't know, contribute something fucking useful—in which case, that should be how they introduce her: by her credentials as someone with meaningful musical experience and skill. (And then I would appreciate it if she did indeed contribute something useful.) Elsewise they brought her on the show to fill that middle seat with someone attractive and female, in which case they're certainly introducing her with complete honesty—but shame on them, I mean, really.
No one would ever dream of announcing a male figure of power as "pretty." Men are "powerful." They're skilled and respected, and are worth more than their appearance alone. And I knew that already, and ranting here ain't gonna do much to change it, but it's fucking disgusting—and seeing it in something which is otherwise not that bad really does make me mad.
Introducing the judges, we have virtuoso singer-songwriter Ben Folds, beautiful pop diva Nicole Scherzinger, and legendary R&B vocalist Shawn Stockman.
And yes, Scherzinger is bloody useless. She's the Paula Abdul of Sing-Off: sweet and congratulatory and rarely a shred of criticism in sight. And I don't care. Perhaps they brought her on the show to, I don't know, contribute something fucking useful—in which case, that should be how they introduce her: by her credentials as someone with meaningful musical experience and skill. (And then I would appreciate it if she did indeed contribute something useful.) Elsewise they brought her on the show to fill that middle seat with someone attractive and female, in which case they're certainly introducing her with complete honesty—but shame on them, I mean, really.
No one would ever dream of announcing a male figure of power as "pretty." Men are "powerful." They're skilled and respected, and are worth more than their appearance alone. And I knew that already, and ranting here ain't gonna do much to change it, but it's fucking disgusting—and seeing it in something which is otherwise not that bad really does make me mad.
