Welcome to ‘This Decade Sucked,’ and welcome to the first post. First, we’re going to introduce ourselves. We’re both editors of our college newspaper, The Suffolk Journal, which is the paper for Suffolk University. Our university is a medium sized school located in the middle of Boston’s historic “Beacon Hill,” a neighborhood overrun by rich families, and the drunk college students who annoy them nightly. Our school was recently called the “Boston equivilent to NYU,” which is, umm. Okay.
Anyways, above is the first fad we would like to talk about — William Hung. American Idol, one of the other annoying fads of this decade, held auditions during its third season, and who better to show on network TV to the entire nation but — an Asian man with a bad accent and speech impediment. We know he can’t sing, so why humiliate the guy on national TV? I don’t get why he would even agree to it. We feel bad because his friends must have told him to try out as a joke, and he probably thought he was a pretty good singer.
The day after his performance, the world was laughing at him. Soon enough, he received a deal with a record label, and ‘Inspiration’ was made. I feel like he let himself be humiliated for the amount of money the album got.
This album sucks. Like the audition, listeners will be able to hear such ‘great musical covers’ of songs such as Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs”.
The album was a hit. This was his peak.
What’s he doing today? Who knows. Who cares.
Redemption point? Appearing on Arrested Development for “Mock Trial with J. Reinhold!”
