Josiah Leming - “Idol Is Glorified Karaoke” - American Idol 7

Josiah Leming just inked a record deal with Warner Bros. and now he’s on the offensive. For starters he’s saying his experience on Idol got his foot in the door; it’s just that he’s taken that foot and shoved it up Idol’s you know what. Here he’s basically calling the show a sham. Bet Simon will be pleased with that.

MTV Says:
"It's like glorified karaoke," he said. "And yeah, I did it and it was great. I love those people there. They were great to me, and it gave me a great kick-start to my career. But the fact is, it's glorified karaoke — they pick people with pretty faces and the pretty voices, and they don't let them write their own songs. They pick these good-looking people with voices, and they have them sing these songs that other people have written. And therefore, it lacks passion, it lacks emotion and it lacks the things that set an artist off from being good to being great. So that's my feeling on it."