Puddin, you are going to have all the VFTW fans jamming your email box now. They just about all told me they like Taylor and that is why they are voting for him. To stick it to Fox and Simon! I guess I'm on board with that. SOUL PATROL!
Then how come thefunnystone posted " We Win !" , Jeff ! Yeah they do win , they changes the odds , Taylor should have been gone weeks ago , end of story .
We're back for American Idol 5!
We're back! Votefortheworst.com was started in 2004 to support voting for the entertainingly bad contestants on American Idol. Why do we do it? During the initial auditions, the producers of Idol only let certain people through. Many good people are turned away and many bad singers are kept around to see Simon, Paula, and Randy so that America will be entertained.
Why do the producers do this? It's simple: American Idol is not about singing at all, it's about making good reality TV and enjoying the cheesy, guilty pleasure of watching bad singing. We agree that the bad singers are entertaining, and we want to acknowledge this fact by encouraging people to make an even funnier show by helping the amusing antagonists stick around.
The show starts out every year encouraging us to point and laugh at all of the bad singers who audition. We want this hilariously bad entertainment to continue into the finals, so we choose the contestant that we feel provides the most entertaining train wreck performances and we start voting for them. We don't necessarily vote for the worst technical singer; we take into account many factors like if they have crazy personalities, how well they dance and move around the stage,
if they have an attitude, if they annoy the general public, if they're fun to poke fun at, etc. The bottom line is that they have to be entertaining. So we don't just vote for the worst singer, we vote for the most entertaining contestant using our own criteria.American Idol lets many contestants into the top 24 who have no chance to win. These people are placed in the competition for ratings, and when they start to perform poorly, the viewing audience laughs and generally votes them out. But VFTW sees keeping these contestants around as a golden opportunity to make a more amusing show. American Idol producers don't like this though, because they already know who they want to win. They pimp certain contestants from the get-go, and it's usually incredibly obvious who stands a chance of winning and who doesn't. This year's elimination of Chris Daughtry was quite the shocker, though, so it's less obvious who that winner is this year. The only thing we do know for sure is that Simon does not want Taylor to win. We find it boring that the producers have turned this into a 12 week "promote the pre-selected winner" contest, so we want to turn the show on its side to promote someone different.
Fox doesn't like that we're voting for the worst, so they've called our website "hateful" and "mean spirited". Doesn't it seem a tad hypocritical to say that when the show has weeks devoted to making fun of bad auditions? The producers also profited from a "Worst of American Idol" DVD set last year. How can the producers let Simon mock some of the contestants but then let us be called "vicious" when a campaign exists to help those very people?
Vote for the Worst encourages you to have fun with American Idol and embrace its suckiness by voting for the less talented contestants.
We rally behind one choice so that we can help make a difference and pool all of our votes toward one common goal. Join us and vote for the VFTW contestant as many times as you can each week. Our aim isn't to win every single week, but to get a bad contestant as far as possible. If our VFTW pick is ousted from the competition, we'll move onto someone new. If we can help someone undeserving inch a spot closer to winning, that's a great success! We care less about succeeding every single week than we do just enjoying the bad performances as they happen. Kevin Covais's "Part Time Lover" this season is what VFTW is all about- it was entertaining, it was funny, it was awkward, and we loved it!
People may tell you "VFTW makes no difference, their votes don't count". Obviously this makes no sense, because every vote counts. We're a fanbase just like the fangirls who somehow thought Anthony Fedorov was a good singer. It wouldn't make much sense to say that our voting bloc makes no difference and then turn around and vote, because your votes would make even less of a difference.
We had our first Vote for the Worst victories during American Idol 3 with John Stevens and Jasmine Trias. Then we struck gold during American Idol 4 with contestants like Janay Castine and Scott Savol. Season 5 has been great fun with amazing people like Brenna Gethers, Kevin Covais, and Kellie "What's a Ballsy" Pickler.
We're now throwing our support behind Taylor Hicks because he would be a marketing nightmare for the powers that be, he's wildly entertaining, and it's obvious that Simon doesn't want him to win. So, go on, embrace the cheesiness of American Idol and help us Vote For the Worst!
