Some Very Unhappy America’s Got Talent Viewers
Every season there’s always a number of viewers of America’s Got Talent that are angry that their favorite contestant was sent home in Las Vegas. This is normal. When you become a fan of someone and then you don’t get to see them anymore it’s a sad thing. However, this season it seems that America’s Got Talent may have gone too far. The comments I’m getting are streaming in with people that are more than just sad fans, but with viewers that are extremely upset over the choices.
Here’s a sample of the comments people have sent me (plus check out the ones I posted previously):
From Britton…
I have no contact or relations with anyone involved in this show. I am offended about the people tha. Went through to LA and the people that were left out! 2 come to mind that went through: the wailing banshee on the piano and the hand whistler???? Come on Vegas acts?!?! You sent the indoor kite flying kid home before theses “acts”? I will never watch this show again! You have ruined this show and it no longer will be on my tv. Good job guys! I liked this show too! Farewell!
From Hunter…
This season is the worst by far! The judges pick groups based on “talent” when the reality is, there is none! When they send a group of no good air band players and the woman with the red hair who cannot sing or play the piano there is something wrong! They send through the people who have NO talent and send home the ones that DO! You have lost a viewer America’s Got Talent. Its disappointing that such a great show has such terrible judges.
From Emy…
We are very disappointed with the selections this year & may give up on watching. You are passing up real talent for…..I don’t know what. Old ladies that are NOT entertaining. The last straw was the magicians. The ones you sent home should have stayed. The ones going to HW are…..not entertaining. Then tonight you broke our hearts by sending the homeless veterans home. OH…I the little guy with the huge voice but you kept the guy in all the robes. I think someone besides the judges is making the decisions believing they will help the ratings. They are wrong…you are losing us. Losing us even though there is nothing else to watch. Guess we’ll go for a walk. Tell the guys in charge to leave the judges alone. and quit putting the acts in categories’. If there’s 12 great dance acts then fine. That’s better than watching 3 great acts & 5 ridiculous ones. I know you’ve done that every year, but it seems to be worse this year. Believe it or not, I’m a very positive person…..but you’re giving me a headache.
Plenty more where this came from I’m sure. Just so it’s clear. I’m just a fan of the show like you. I’m as disappointed as most of you. It’s utterly shameful that they put “the wailing banshee on the piano” through to LA. I’m blaming Howie. Maybe we do want the Hoff back (j/k).
This said, I’m not boycotting the show, because there are still some incredible acts that are on the show. I’ll be watching those acts and no doubt America will have its revenge when we vote her off. If we don’t, then I’ll have lost all faith in America. Thankfully I’m not too concerned with this. Plus, we can all band together and turn off our TV sets when “the wailing banshee on the piano” hits the stage. I’d say hit mute, but…well you get the point.
Let’s hope the producers are listening. Can America vote someone out of Hollywood before she even performs?
Hi, don’t know if anyone else caught it, but there were a lot of acts that they showed in the group A shots in Vegas part 1 that they edited into group B in Vegas part 2. That rockabilly band was one of them. They plainly show them sitting with group A when the judges told them they were their favorites, and even flashed them on the the TV while they we’re riding in the plane and reviewing all of group A, yet edited them into the 2nd night of standby acts! INJUSTICE!
this is not enough information for me! my dad is taking me to audition but we dont know where the texas auditions are! we are still figuring out if they’re in houston at the hobby centre/ the toyota centre> or in dallas at a centre (that i dont know the name of). i need to know these things so that i can follow my dreams! and so far it isnt working out!
margaret,
The auditions aren’t happening right now. You’ll have to wait until next year. Just watch the official site for all the info: http://americasgottalentauditions.com/new/
Ok, so we have screaming banshee woman with the smeared lipstick going on for over 10 minutes and then Piers threatens the guy singer for going past the 90 seconds telling him he could be disqualified.
Then we have the hand whistler woman AND the idiot magician AND the idiot impersonator men and later on we see Sharon crying “sometimes I hate this job” because there were so many talented people and not enough spots……Uh…..I have just named FOUR spots which should never EVER have been filled by these losers. WTF???????
Piers….how in the world did you allow the other 2 judges to put these nut jobs through????
How about this….America’s got talent, but the judges clearly don’t!!!!
To be honest I’m quite happy some of these acts got sent particurly the Kite Flyer and Homeless vets. These acts seem to survive only on their sob stories than any real talent. I noticed how Emy said they “broke our heart’s” my sending the vets home, please, these sob stories are just tools the acts use to garner sympathy votes and I for one am glad they are gone. That is not to say that these act definitely didn’t deserve go through
*some of these acts definitely didn’t deserve to go through
Oh, Brian577, I definitely agree with you about Kite Boy. While it was a heart wrenching story, it was not really a talent I’d vote for or pay to see in Las Vegas. I was very proud of him for accomplishing something as he did, but it wasn’t a million dollar act.
But, then again, screaming lipstick banshee woman and the Indian impersonator were so gross they didn’t deserve to go through either. Ugh.
I can’t believe that Carlos Aponte did not make it! The young has an incredible, natural talent that blew many, but many people away. The fact that his English was limited and he could say what he felt, he was able to communicate with his beautiful voice. He may have not made to the finals, but Carlos Aponte in my eyes and in the eyes of Puerto Rico and true music lovers, is and will always be a WINNER!!! QUE VIVA CARLOS APONTE, EL ORGULLO PUERTORRIQUENO!
AGT = America’s Getting Tired.
We’ve watched for the last two years, but lost interest after the first show this year. If I wanted to see a freak show I’d go to the circus.
My son didn’t make it past the first round, and I’m fairly confident he has more talent than the screaming lipstick banshee woman, the Indian impersonator, or the Kevin Skinner wannabe.
I’ll let you be the judge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYsHgxLUFg
Definitely more talent than the screaming lipstick banshee woman. However, that’s not really saying much.
I actually liked the Ukulele playing. However, when he started singing I felt like it didn’t really mesh well. The voice wasn’t all that great or maybe the song just didn’t match the Ukulele very well. Either way, I’d rather see him go for it than lipstick woman and he’s right up there with Kevin Skinner. I never was a fan of his either.
Yes, MTL, your son is better than banshee lipstick woman, “I’ll be back” idiot impersonator man, the idiot hand whistler (ok, so she was nice, but her act was idiotic) and the air guitarists.
Hey!! What ever happened to old man tap dancer? Was he in the “A” group that went straight to Hollywood? Makes one wonder who else went straight there?
Sorry to be like the millions of other people who I see over time have posted similar questions, but does anyone know what the song is that begins at 2:09 in this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9AAqgNS-0
It’s an instrumental, and I’m not even sure if it’s anything more than just background music composed for the show, but it’s really driving me up the wall!
White,
Wow, that’s a hard one. I could barely even hear it. We’ll see if anyone else might know.
I just had my comment banned from the AGT blog site – I didn’t say anything the rest having been saying – its the Producers picking who goes on.. not the judges… it saddens me to have such GREAT talent not moved on while the wierdos are put thru just for excitement.. well I guess it works… ’cause we are all talking about it – but the Producers have one more chance to keep my group of friends.. and that is NEXT SEASON.. they need to have a TALENT show based on TALENT…!!!! I can’t believe that red-headed lady got put thru and she even went over the time and they didn’t remove her!!! and that stupid fake magician and fake impersonator/actor… there were so many great talents that wer denied this opportunity just they could put thru wierd ones!! COME ON PRODUCERS.. LISTEN TO THTE AUDIENCE!!! LISTEN TO US!!
I agree with you, Sue. This was a TOTAL OUTRAGE.
Hahahahaha, I know! It’s definitely a hard one… I’m pretty sure that they also played it during one of the last audition episodes, but that’s about it. Who knows, maybe a miracle will happen.
Off that though, if nothing else, trying to find that song has apparently led me to a pretty interesting site! I really love AGT, it’s always been a great show to watch with my family over the summer and I just love the diversity and uniqueness of so many of the acts.
I have to agree, some very strange picks for the first 37 (I haven’t watched the 2nd LV episode yet because we just got back in town from a trip and were catching up), but overall I felt like most of the picks were good… the major exception being the talentless lady on the keyboard. On a side note, I really, really, really like the way that they did the call backs this year. I think it’s smart having three groups like that and allowing everyone to perform again opposed to just automatically sending people back.
Would you believe that I figured out what the song in the background was?! Hahahahaha, I honestly can’t believe it. Anyways, in case anyone’s interested, it’s a song called “Face On” from a Japanese anime series called Wolf’s Rain. Here’s a link to the song in case anyone is interested. The part AGT uses in the background (and they used it again in the second LV night I noticed as well) starts at 1:11, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liYO3LPwlFk
I finally got around to seeing the most recent episode, and for the most part I’m pleased. Obviously I wanted the CF sisters to make it (and they deserved it), along with Luigi, but I was also glad to see the air guitar fellows make it as they are quite amusing to watch! The “actor/impersonator” though… not so much.
@Sue (#15) “I just had my comment banned from the AGT blog site I didn’t say anything the rest having been saying – its the Producers picking who goes on.. not the judges…”
Which site? Are you talking about NBC board? I was there and for some reason none of the comments I tried to make within past half an hour or so appeared. Maybe there is some kind of a bug there.
I do agree with you about the producers. I think the producers wanted to shock people, wanted to reduce the chance of having multiple singers in the finals, or whatever…
I also think that that was the wrong song choice for Carlos. He should’ve tried a real classical song – maybe an aria or if he didn’t feel he was ready (though by googling him I noticed that there used to be a video of him on YouTube doing “E la solita storia” from Cilea’s L’Arlesiane which disappeared), or maybe an Italian or a Spanish art song or something from Zarzuela (Spanish operetta), there are so many beautiful songs to choose from. I wonder if producers gave him this very limited choice of songs to choose from. Remember Donald Braswell only singing Broadway on the show?
While as I mentioned, I don’t think Carlos is anywhere ready for an opera stage, this was AGT, and he was clearly by far the best of “classical” singers and should’ve been the only one to go through.
But it’s “been here done that” with AGT – we see these ridiculous things happen year after year.
@Norma Hernandez commented on July 8th, 2010: “I can’t believe that Carlos Aponte did not make it! The young has an incredible, natural talent that blew many, but many people away.”
He does have natural talent, but he isn’t completely untrained. He went to a conservatory in Puerto Rico and he studied with a famous Puerto Rican baritone, Justino Diaz.
It’s a bit of topic, but if you want to listen to a truly amazing Puerto Rican opera singer, check out Ana Maria Martinez on YouTube. She is one of the top opera sopranos today, excellent voice and a great artist.
It was the official NBC website under community.. I received email stating my comments were removed.. I also didn’t say anything the others weren’t saying.. here is what I received:
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I don’t like the opera singers, I’m glad none of them went through. They are never really as talented in opera as everyone thinks they are and then they advance like crazy through the ranks. I’m not an opera fan, so I’m glad there won’t be any this year.
Sorry, just a personal choice. Don’t go by what I say as anything other than fan opinion. Let’s not forget that I was a Kevin Skinner fan, so you can’t give me any creedence. LOL hahahahahaha There was just something about him, that’s all.
Ok, John, come and get me now…I can take it!! LOL
kitty and sue,
Thanks for telling me about this. Someone else had emailed me something similar as well. I just created a post that will appear tomorrow about it. What a lame TOS.
StevieCat,
I’m not going to come and get you. My wife would get upset;-)
Actually, you’re more than welcome to be a fan of Kevin Skinner. If you like him, more power to you. I guess a lot of people like a guy who can’t sing very well and is average on the guitar. I’m just not one of them.
Although, as a person, Kevin does seem like a real stand up guy. I’d love to sit on a porch and chill with him. Just as long as he didn’t sing.
John, listen, I can sit on anybody’s porch while they sing as long as it’s not OPERA!!! hahahahahaha
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@StevieCat “They are never really as talented in opera as everyone thinks they are and then they advance like crazy through the ranks. I’m not an opera fan, so I’m glad there won’t be any this year.”
But they did let Poppycock and Hannyball through. No, they aren’t really opera singers, but some people think they are.
It’s really funny how (p)opera singers advance on this show. Some of them have voices more suitable for musical theater (like Poppycock), but people seem to believe it’s “opera”. It’s like nobody has ever heard either musical theater or opera today. When I watch some old movies it seems that in the past many pop singers had classically trained voices yet people somehow knew the difference back then.
I am OK with them having variety in the finals, but they let some pretty talentless people through. Like the old lady playing piano and singing (kind off).
This year has been the worst and pierce should not be on this panel. he is callous and insensitive to the feelings of people whom are seriously trying to fulfill their dreams. also you don’t have to be a brain surgeon to see you don’t pass along a couple of people with absolutely no talent and shatter the dreams of some genuine talent.
You have lost this viewer,
Someone please tell me why wasn’t kevin skinner asked to return to the finale of Aerica’s got talent? I thought surely he’d be there for the finale.
james,
I’m just guessing, but I have a feeling that Kevin hasn’t done anything with his “talent” after the show. If they brought him on, he’d have no story to tell about how well he’s done since the show. That’s not a story they want to tell people. Instead they brought back Recycled Percussion which now has a Las Vegas show.
Kevin is a very nice guy, but honestly I couldn’t imagine him selling out a show.