Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Ryan Seacrest wins another American Idol...

The American Idol finals are tonight…neither Scotty nor Lauren win. Vocal and performance coach Jimmy Iovine takes home one third of the title. Like the Roman’s that once packed the stone covered seats at the coliseum, people were instantly drawn to the once fierce lion Simon who’s crude, rude and daring approach to reality fed a chapter of American history that no longer wanted to be politically correct.

Jimmy upped the seriousness of the music game by bringing four decades of on the road and in the studio know-how to their inexperience. John Lennon, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, he engineered Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run and straight into the soul of 90’s style Hip Hop.

Patrick Goldstein from Warner Brother’s claims Jimmy can do anything without making someone feel unhappy.”

Honestly…outside of Haley taking a big chance on the unknown Lady Gaga song where in the season did he go wrong? He didn’t! He totally parked the baseball over the centerfield wall when he invited Lauren to sing her final tune about mothers.

Take ten minutes and Google his comments to the budding stars; spewed from his lungs were lessons that can used in the total rebuilding circumference of everyday business. Showmanship is the key to higher levels of success and how you present it makes you the star to invest in or the real reason why the client won’t return calls.

Music is business and business is good when you allow your path to be laced with dynamics that make you a leader and that begins with vocally connecting with rather than just playing a game played out by close friends that convinced you to give it a shot…

You need energy to win not pats on the back.

Winner number two is Rock n Roll Hall of Famer Steven Tyler from Aerosmith who walked onto a stage that shoulda, coulda been a massive atomic bomb dropped on a world of metal music that doesn’t like sell outs.

I never stopped believing in Steven because I’ve been backstage, falling witness to how he handles fans. He’s a marketing genius in the department of handshakes and eye to eye contact. His massive appeal is based on putting those who buy music first and this season anyone who thought they stood a chance still walked away believing in fifth and sixth chances because the harmony maker from the East Coast knows music comes from the soul and with the right amount of love and honey…even the evil Queen Bee will wait in long lines to become your best friend.

Champion number three; Ryan Seacrest…every generation has a Dick Clark and this radio morning show host is quickly becoming that guy whose picture will be plastered all over the pages of thick books of music history.

The moment Simon scowled and took his fame to another place to play anybody else would’ve walked beside the king of mean. This became Ryan’s year to hold together what little was left and shall end the season knowing we still want more.

James Brown was once coined the hardest working man in show business…being from Georgia there had to be a moment when Seacrest and James met and in that passing breeze fate planted a seed in Ryan’s palm and one day he’ll be recognized for being the radio jock that reignited American Pop Music.

Scotty and Lauren will do fine in the days after American Idol. After tonight like all things linked to fads and fashions their names and song titles will be nothing more than backyard picnic table talk based on, “Who came after Carrie Underwood?”

arroecollins@clearchannel.com

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