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angelordevil said:GO $
This whole thing is a travesty....it's like U2 trying to replace Bono...it just won't go.
Smart marketing, and they've found a way to make a living from an eight-year open audition...but really, it's damn sad.
david said:This will be a complete failure.
STING2 said:I can sort of understand why this thread was moved here because rockstarinxs was a tv show on tv. But I don't know how anyone can claim this does not involve music.
STING2 said:I think this was a brilliant move by INXS. INXS when Michael Hutchence died in 1997 had fallen totally out of the spotlight. Their album that year only sold 140,000 copies in the United States and the band was unable to fill the smallest theaters in the country.
melon said:
I agree with you here, with the caveat that this show was a double-edged sword. On one end, INXS would not exist at all with this show, so for the existing members who still want to cash in on the name, it was an economic success.
On the other hand, if they had any expectations of being taken seriously ever again, that went completely out the window. The music performed on the show was as lackluster as any song performed on "American Idol," despite advertising claims to the contrary; and, frankly, I have no idea what kind of audience that INXS is hoping to appeal to here. CBS can fill an audience either with real people or extras, but from now on, they're on their own. The old fans of INXS, I imagine, will probably abandon this new formation en masse, solely due to the inelegant reality show they used to pick their lead singer. And will the teeny bopper audience (who usually gravitate towards reality TV) embrace an otherwise aging band?
It's a gamble, really.
Melon
define truly dedicated. if a truly dedicated fan is supposed to just blindly shake their head at every move a band makes, then no, i guess i'm not one. if a truly dedicated fan is one who actually owns every inxs album (not just kick, and not even just the shit only released in the u.s. but also their first two - excellent i might add - australia-only albums), then i am one. but hell no, i won't be seeing inxs with jd fortune as the lead singer. i'd consider it if they'd chosen mig, but jd is just a poor man's michael hutchence. the band did exactly what they said they weren't going to do. they chose a wannabe hutch.STING2 said:I actually think most of the truely dedicated INXS fans will be excited and will continue to follow the band just as they have for the past 8 years when INXS would occasionly go on tour with a fill in singer here and there.
KhanadaRhodes said:
but hell no, i won't be seeing inxs with jd fortune as the lead singer. i'd consider it if they'd chosen mig, but jd is just a poor man's michael hutchence. the band did exactly what they said they weren't going to do. they chose a wannabe hutch.
KhanadaRhodes said:
define truly dedicated. if a truly dedicated fan is supposed to just blindly shake their head at every move a band makes, then no, i guess i'm not one. if a truly dedicated fan is one who actually owns every inxs album (not just kick, and not even just the shit only released in the u.s. but also their first two - excellent i might add - australia-only albums), then i am one. but hell no, i won't be seeing inxs with jd fortune as the lead singer. i'd consider it if they'd chosen mig, but jd is just a poor man's michael hutchence. the band did exactly what they said they weren't going to do. they chose a wannabe hutch.
timothius said:Anyway, I picked him from week 1 (as did a lot of people) - shall be interesting to see how this album turns out... by Christmas I'm sure.
corianderstem said:I'm really curious to see if this is going to equal a comeback of sorts for them, or if they're just going to be just another band on the state fair and casino circuit with a replacement lead singer (Queen, Journey, Styx, etc.).
Don't get me wrong - people love those shows, and love to hear all their old favorites. But I don't think that's the type of success INXS has in mind, and I will be very surprised if they succeed beyond that.
That being said, I think JD was the right choice out of the three of them.