Originally Posted By leobloom ^^Because it's all about image and selling a product! besides, you know there have never been any good singers over the age of 28. Not Sinatra, not Johnny Cash, not BB King, not Ella Fitzgerald. Nope, not anyone!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 many of the rock star singers now in their 60's -- I guess they want them young so they can try and get a piece of a long career
Originally Posted By danyoung >I never could understand why they had an age restriction on the show.< Because they don't want an old fart like me to come in, blow everyone out of the water, and then try to market a 52 year old chubby balding guy as a pop singer. Pop music is about youth, and it's hard to promote people past a certain age. Now, is 27 too young a limit? Yeah, I think it should be in the mid-30's or so.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt Meat Loaf is an old fat guy & Paul Stanley looks like he's wearin' a rug! I still love KISS so who cares!
Originally Posted By dshyates I think Reuben blew their plan out of the water, but they aren't budging on it.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "many of the rock star singers now in their 60's" And the Rolling Stones' performance at the Super Bowl halftime a couple years back reinforces that American Idol shouldn't allow old people. As I recall, it was pretty awful. Not to say that there aren't any talented older people, but they just don't have as much time left that they can be big pop stars. When was the last time you saw pictures of Paul Simon driving around town doing generic errands? What about Paris Hilton?
Originally Posted By danyoung But when you talk about KISS or Meat Loaf or the Stones, their stardom was established when they were pretty young. You don't see ANYONE coming in as a brand new 60 year old rocker. Maybe it's about time . . .
