I’m sorry, but this William Hung-love has gone a little too far. (Yes, he has his own website too.) It was funny on the audition shows. It was funny and tragic on the American Idol hourlong-special where the worst of the rejects were given an extra 15 seconds of fame by singing onstage in front of a live audience simply to be mocked and ridiculed.
But this is absurd: ‘Idol’ Reject Hung Has Recording Deal (AP via NYT). I’m sure William Hung is a perfectly nice albeit completely delusional college student, but the boy can’t sing. Hopefully, this album will be one of the miserable failures to help prove that you can’t just throw any old reality show personality/contestant out there and have success. Hell if Justin Guarini could only sell 100,000-odd while actually being able to sustain some sort of tune and enunciate the language properly, the surely William should have trouble breaking the 6-figure sales barrier, no? And remember, people, you can’t see him while listening to the CD, so his jerky little movements to “She Bangs” won’t enhance your enjoyment of the performance, nor will you see the four-or-five scantily-dressed dancers shaking their asses in his direction as he carefully avoids touching any of them.
I love their bus-stop and billboard ads, but Fuse is apparently behind this. They lose major points.
Out of Focus 