It takes a certain talent to be really bad at something. It's easy to be mediocre or dull. But to be truly awful, that takes skill.
Maybe that's why William Hung became so very popular in his own way. He was so bad on American Idol, he was more memorable than most of the good singers who made it to the next round.
As Kathryn and Ross Petras put it, in the introduction to their anthology Very Bad Poetry, it takes a certain "enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence."
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I bet that you can't wait for his album to come out, since you're probably a HUGE American Idol fan.
-Nobody Important
Actually I'm not a fan of American Idol, since I'm not an American. I don't watch the show at all.
Canadian Idol on the other hand is another story. I watched the first three seasons. And I am a Jacob Hoggard fan.
I stopped watching the fourth season as all the interesting mid-20-something contestants got voted out for completely obnoxious teeny boppers.
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