This morning I awoke to the news that a woman had committed suicide in front of Paula Abdul's house... turns out she was a "fan" as well as a ex-American Idol contestant...
LOS ANGELES — A fan of Paula Abdul whose failed audition for "American Idol" aired in season five was found dead in a car near the home of the pop star and judge she admired, authorities said Wednesday.
Police indicated that Paula Goodspeed, whose rendition of "Proud Mary" was roundly criticized by Simon Cowell and rejected by Abdul and Randy Jackson, had possibly committed suicide, said Ed Winter, assistant chief of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner. An official cause of death had not been determined.
Authorities found Goodspeed's body Tuesday evening in a car that photos show bearing the vanity license plate "ABL LV" in a Los Angeles Lakers frame. Her parents had reported her missing hours earlier and expressed concern that she might hurt herself.
"I am deeply shocked and saddened at what transpired yesterday," Abdul said in a statement released by her publicist, Jeff Ballard. "My heart and prayers go out to her family."
Goodspeed's audition was aired during the season that began in January 2006. She told the show's host, Ryan Seacrest, how she was a huge fan of Abdul and created life-size paintings of the singer and former Laker Girl; she also called Abdul "beautiful" after Cowell said he noticed a resemblance between Goodspeed and Abdul. But Cowell also made light of Goodspeed's braces and bloggers trashed her appearance, which she noted in a MySpace posting months after the show aired.
So Abdul is "shocked"???
Really?
I must say that I'm not surprised... I'd love to see a "where are they now" type investigation on some of these former American Idol contestants... especially the ones who were ridiculed and humiliated...
I can say with pride that I have never actually watched an entire episode of American Idol, and yet, if you watch television or surf the web there is little you can do to escape it's fetid existence... I can actually name the winners and runners-up... It pains me to know that the few valuable intact brain cells I have left are being occupied with this garbage... but I digress...
What pains me even more is that I live in a culture that has deemed it appropriate to laugh and humiliate others on prime time nationwide television... And spare me the "they asked for it" speech... some of the contestants are obviously untalented, deluded, or just plain mentally challenged... and I know for a fact that contestants go through multiple auditions before they even reach Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, and Paula Abdul... So just why do some of the obviously untalented contestants make it in front of the big three?
Ratings...
Because the American public enjoys snickering at those less fortunate... those who do not exactly fit the accepted standards of beauty, or decorum... we like to make fun of the socially awkward, the homosexual, the obese, the unattractive, the "losers"... And once they bomb on the show, the internet takes over, bloggers peel away what little dignity the failed contestant had left... it becomes a feeding frenzy of hate and ridicule...
This is how low we've sunk as a society... this poor woman, sitting dead in her car is a direct result of this culture of crassness... and trust me, there will be more like her...
So I have an idea... a big ratings booster...
Mr. Cowell, why not cut to the chase and just put cameras inside a mental hospital and do American Idol there?
It certainly would be a lot safer for the contestants...
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It really says something pretty awful about our society, that we love to watch people fail, and we love to mock them as they do so. Simon Cowell's made a career out of being mean, and people love him for it. It's a trend I've noticed particularly in online communities: people say whatever the hell they want, no matter how intentionally cruel, all under the guise of being "plain spoken" and "telling it like it is" and not being fake, and it's supposed to be admirable not to feign any sort of human decency when really it's just shitty behaviour.
As for Idol... the brother of a coworker of mine made it to the final two on Canadian Idol this time around. I followed his progression and made the mistake of looking him up online one time... jesus, the vitriol directed at this poor guy... just astounding. I can't figure people out.
Oh, and another thought: even death won't stop the mocking... guaranteed that even now, this poor girl is being ripped apart in posts across the internet for how her sad story ended.
Ket: I concur with all of the above...
are you saying i shouldn't chase MY dreams!
-pitt
I'm merely suggest you alter them... for the sake of your own mental health...
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