Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m not saying I hope heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll fail; but given what weà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve seen from him so far (generally oblivious to how much work it takes to succeed), I predict that he will not do well.
I think to say Danny is oblivious to how much work it takes to succeed, is a great assumption to make. I don’t think anybody can assume he has no awareness of how to use his gift or no effort nor interest.
He certainly never indicated or displayed that on any level. I seriously doubt he thinks he just has to show up somewhere and make a record to have success.
Danny himself said in an interview that he thinks its funny how people want to judge him in a bad light and don’t care for the truth.
Let the naysayers say what they choose.
But I think it is way too early to forecast any of the idols to be a failure, since we have 0 personal knowledge of any of them. Its all what we perceive whether true or false.

How well do you know Danny? I wouldn’t judge a person and call him/her all sorts of names just based on what I saw from a TV realty show and read from a blog (no offense to MJ). The things you have said about Danny represent a very extreme & negative view on a person whom you barely know. I don’t agree with anything you said, I think they are baseless & hateful, and I don’t see there is any credibility there.

No one will ever convince me that Danny was on idol because of anything but his back-story.

I agree. The very few people I know IRL who were rooting for Gokey did so only because they felt sorry for the widower. Now that the show’s over, there’s almost no buzz about Gokey outside of online idol fans. No one in the media or industry seems to care. But then, hardly anyone was interested in buying his itune songs either. Gokey is an easy sell as a reality show contestant, but apparently not convincing at all as a musical artist.

Personally, watching Gokey get knocked off the show was pretty entertaining for me. I admit, I laughed aloud. I see him as an immature arrogant bigot who is blessed with a good voice but not enough intelligence or motivation to do anything exceptional with it. I would rather see almost any of the other top 13 signed before Gokey, even though I don’t find most of them entertaining either. However, I think most of them deserve the opportunity more than Gokey, and would make more of it.

I don’t understand why you think that Danny doesn’t think he will have to work hard. From everything I have heard and read about Danny, he worked doubly hard on the show, because he was unfamiliar with lyrics and song arrangement. He was described as being intense, as far as working on his songs during the competition. Ryan mentioned after one of his performances on the show that he had been “working on that into the night.” I never heard him say that about anyone else…ever.

There is nothing in Danny’s history, as far as what I have found out, that suggests he is lazy or does not understand that he will have to work hard in order to succeed. If you know of something, please let me know. As far as I can tell, it seems people make lots of assumptions about Danny that have no basis in reality.

I’m finding the discussions of different genres and their fans’ expectations very interesting. Music is a difficult business, whatever genre you’re in. It is not entirely a crapshoot, however. Talent counts; awareness of self and of the field counts; and hard work counts. The “crapshoot” aspect includes timing–what are other people doing, what’s ‘hot’ right now, how much will 19E promote the album–some of which can be seen and worked around by the astute musician, and some of which are completely out of their control.

When I consider Danny, I see: a very good voice; little awareness of how best to use that gift, and little apparent effort or interest in learning how to use it better; almost no awareness of the field as a whole; no awareness of the business aspects of a music career; and an apparent belief that all he has to do is show up at a studio and voila, he’ll have a hit record. That last bit is speculation but we’ve had ample evidence of the other items on the list.

I’m not saying I hope he’ll fail; but given what we’ve seen from him so far (generally oblivious to how much work it takes to succeed), I predict that he will not do well.

The end doesnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t justify the means. Just because acid rock died 25 years ago and world pop/funk is so big now is no reason to sell your musical soul to the hightest bidder! A man who will compromise his musical integrity probably didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t have any to begin with.

And can you imagine David Cook consenting to sing a world pop/funk album simply becuz Gaga, Katy and Fergie did it up big in recent years? Heyall to that Naw! Of course not! David Cook was a mainstream rocker on the show. And he’s a mainstream rocker now! Indeed, he knew what kind of music he wanted to do on the show and after the show, and so when he delivered on what was expected of him–on what he led folks to believe via his Idol performances–on his solo debut, he proved himself to be an honest broker! How refreshing!

Unfortunately, Adam seems like a guy who will easily sell out if he can make some money at it. He is desperate to be famous–even moreso than he is at present, lol! And, omg, all that talk about his à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“coming outà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  doesn’t impress me. Not at all.

Adam = sellout in my opinion. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s true that some world pop/funk fans might like him because heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s liberal/gay, but I will be surprised if he makes anything out of this. Even if he does, it will always be fake in my eyes.

Everyone needs to remember that ONLY THE WINNER is guaranteed a recording contract. ANYONE else who is signed is getting a contract because someone thinks they are capable of doing the job, they earned it they didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t win it!

I took this quote from Tess on the headlines thread. I put it here because I think she makes a great point that fits this thread. Thanks Tess, because you realy hit the nail on the head here.(Although it used to be that the top two automatically got a contract, I think)

The same applies to Danny. Whether he actually takes the offer has yet to be seen. But it sounds as if someone thinks he is capable of doing this job and he has earned it.

As an aside, if Danny doesn’t take the offered contract, I can already see people backing off of the whole “sell out” label and calling him an idiot for not having any kind of business sense and a douche for not listening to TPTB who know a lot more about music and were trying to steer him in the path that would suit him best. Poor guy.

To put Danny being bored in the right context, maybe he is bored when he is waiting around doing nothing.
Someone who is used to always doing something and working, can be easily bored.

I think this is so funny. In the last couple of days I have read both Allison and Anoop talk about being bored. Anoop said he was “bored out of his mind.” Yet I have seen noone rushing to call these two “boring people,” “lazy people,” or “people who lack crativity.” I really think this is proof that people just love to bash Danny for the most mundane of reasons. For God’s sake, everyone gets bored. Geesh.

As far as going off on him if he takes this deal. I don’t think that his heart necessarily isn’t in this music. I think Danny’s heart can be in the SONG that he sings, and the SONG can fit in this genre better than any other, most likely. I would not call Danny taking the the only deal they will offer him, selling out. It would be a horrible decision not to take what he is offered at this point. Some of the songs Danny sang the best and with the most conviction are the heartfelt “country” songs that he sang.

I don’t know if Danny will be “successful”, it’s a long shot for any of them really. It’s a tough business. I don’t understand wishing failure on any of them. I really don’t.

Being about the music means not selling out and singing country when he obviously has a different direction he wants to take.

No selling out means singing something that is not you or who you are.
So he is not going a different direction than he wants to take.
He said in an interview that he would not and has not sold out since being on the show. That he is simply a Christian who wants to sing mainstream music with a message of hope.
His main desire is to sing meaningful songs that connect with people. THAT is his goal. That fits country quite well.