Brian's views on 'The Voice'

I have never watched these things, apart from mere snippets online, but isn't the only difference between american x idols factor and the voice that the 3 guys with the buzz have their backs turned to whoever is on stage?
Ultimately, the humilation is still the same :)

I find it weird that Brian slags off shows like these. Queen's third lead singer was lifted from a show like this, and he has no trouble appearing on them. How many times has been on one of these by now? 4-5 ?

I find it hypocritical to say the least

I wish more people in the business would speak up like Bruce Dickinson has done:
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At the blind audition stage The Voice is significantly different from the format of the other shows. No artist makes it to that stage without being well deserving and well equipped for a public chance at moving on, so there is NO predatory American Idol style humiliation of people who are not sufficiently talented. Because of the blind aspect, and because it's only in turning around that a judge has a chance to have the artist on his or her team, it is the only format I am aware of that puts pressure on the judges to use their ears and hearts and artistic instincts in a way that directly challenges their abilities and visions relative to each other. If more than one judge turns around it's the judges that have to sell themselves to the artists as the artist chooses whose team to join for mentoring. As such it is the only format I am aware that puts the artists on a level playing field with each other and puts artists who have really achieved in their blind auditions on a level playing field with the judges. In short, blind auditions are exactly the opposite of what Brian May claims they are. It has nothing to do with 'condescending' to turn around. He clearly either doesn't understand the purpose and actuality of the program or has deliberately elected to choose an interpretation that allows him to indulge his extremely selective and usually self serving moral outrage because Kerry got up and shouted a shitty version of a classic song and quite rightly didn't get through. It simply can't be missed that the only time he tempers his excoriating rampages is if Queen, Queen songs, Queen musicals, actors in Queen musicals or some other self interest is involved.

I don't doubt for a second that he genuinely hates the idea of regular people being humiliated and rejected by people in the industry who have made it. It is obviously very important to his self definition to be accessible and real and not above other creatures on the planet, both human and animal. He has walked the walk on this for years through his animal rights work, through being accessible to fans on the Soapbox and in my view even through choosing collaborations with people who are otherwise easy to dismiss for segments of the masses. However credit for intent can only go so far before reality should take over in informing perceptions. It is exceedingly typical for him to have a very, very narrow view of right and wrong and to be seemingly unable to find empathy or complexity for anybody or anything not directly up his own nose. It's a significant flaw in my eyes - only child syndrome hopelessly complicated by rock star syndrome - and using a public voice to be so incredibly rude and destructive to the motives and reputations of situations and people he can't be bothered to understand deserves nothing but rejection in my view. Ironically the first time he insulted 'The Voice' he wrote "Well, if you ever see ME sitting on a panel, acting like I think I'm God Almighty, and making demeaning remarks about fellow musicians, you have my permission to shoot me." In the most recent rant he effectively does just that: sits on a panel of one on the internet and makes a bunch of directly and indirectly demeaning remarks about fellow artists on a program he clearly can't or won't represent fairly. There is little to respect in people going out their way to find excuses for any of it, and as I've said before in the context of his badgerism the Stepfords do him no favours in supporting his frequently uninformed and rotten behaviour.

And btw he shouldn't have been worrying about 'the dignity' of INXS. They ended up with JD Fortune and an ace album and an ace tour with a front man that absolutely sizzled and fit like a glove. They ended up with Adam fracking Lambert. The former process was organic, even if the cameras were rolling, and the latter conceived and staged by some dim music executive no doubt.

He was awful!

Here's another man's oppinion on those tv shows:

“When I think about kids watching a TV show like American Idol or The Voice, then they think, ‘Oh, OK, that’s how you become a musician, you stand in line for eight fucking hours with 800 people at a convention center and… then you sing your heart out for someone and then they tell you it’s not fuckin’ good enough.’ Can you imagine?” he implores. “It’s destroying the next generation of musicians! Musicians should go to a yard sale and buy and old fucking drum set and get in their garage and just suck. And get their friends to come in and they’ll suck, too. And then they’ll fucking start playing and they’ll have the best time they’ve ever had in their lives and then all of a sudden they’ll become Nirvana. Because that’s exactly what happened with Nirvana. Just a bunch of guys that had some shitty old instruments and they got together and started playing some noisy-ass shit, and they became the biggest band in the world. That can happen again! You don’t need a fucking computer or the internet or The Voice or American Idol.” - Dave Grohl

And how many times has Dave Grohl appeared on American Idol/X-Factor/The Voice to promote his album/tribute band/musical?