Monday, January 21, 2019

Music Monday ~ Champions

For the next few weeks an America's Got Talent spin-off (or sequel) of the original show - with the words "The Champions" added to the title, will be airing. Each week, past winners or runners-up of AGT proper, along with winners from "......Got Talent" in other countries (for example, Spain, Russia) will compete to discover who is "Champion of Champions". Voting isn't being done by viewers this time, but by panels of "super-fans" in each of the USA's 50 states - a similar system, I guess, to the voting system of the dreaded, and occasionally hilarious, annual Eurovison Song Contest.

I've always been a fan of talent shows, mainly singing shows, but we've also watched AGT fairly regularly through the years. A few singers or musicians are always included in these shows. My husband has tagged along, watched beside me stuff he never would've watched before we met. I have to say, though, my fandom has been wearing very thin in relation to The Voice recently - so much so that this year we didn't even watch the finale. It remains to be seen whether American Idol will meet with the same fate when it returns later this year.

Anyway - back to AGT the Champions.

Last week a singer new to America, Cristina Ramos, appeared; she was winner of Spain's Got Talent. She sang a great version of "Bohemian Rhapsody", and was one of two contestants voted through to the final.





In the previous week's show we saw, again, Susan Boyle. It has been some 9 years since Susan Boyle first came to the notice of people on this side of the Atlantic - and of most on t'other side too. America's Got Talent, in 2009, was her vehicle, her vocal talent was the power driving her. In The Champions episode she was awarded a "Golden Buzzer" by Mel B, one of the judges, for her rendition of "Wild Horses", so will automatically proceed to the final.

Here it is. If you'd prefer to miss the intros, skip to around the 2 minute spot.



I'd recommend also listening to her album version of the song, linked at the first link below, from 2009.

https://twilightstarsong.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunday-supplement-horses-wild-others-no.html

My first ever post about Susan is at:
https://twilightstarsong.blogspot.com/2009/04/susan-boyle-phenomenon.html

A later one is here:
https://twilightstarsong.blogspot.com/2009/11/susan-boyle-realising-her-dreams.html
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2 comments:

  1. WisewebwomanJanuary 21, 2019 9:02 AM

    Well carry on then, I am not a fan of these kinds of shows as I get too heartbroken for the so called "losers" and oh yeah, I don't have a teevee :D

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  2. TwilightJanuary 21, 2019 1:44 PM

    Wisewebwoman~ I know! LOL! During all the years I've blogged, whenever I've mentioned such shows, comments (back when I actually had 'em) have either been missing or negative in tone.

    Once upon a time, I liked talent shows because they gave ordinary people with talent a way to shine on national TV. Those days are gone. Now around 90% of contestants are already professional or semi-professional. The whole original point of the shows has been lost. Focus is more and more on "celebrity" judges/coaches. I've grown cynical of results being 100% genuine too.

    Anyway, we persist, mainly to get some use out of our TV subscription, which we keep mainly to have good, detailed local weather information in tornado seasons. The talent shows, serious detailed weather forecasts, and the odd episode of Law and Order SVU, or an old movie on Turner Music Channel is the extent of our TV-proper viewing these days. All else comes via Netflix, ROKU or Amazon Prime -or DVDs.

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