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Ben Folds is the new Simon Cowell
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 18 December 2009
If the TV producers of Britain want to make a telly talent show I’ll watch (and I read somewhere that’s the main aim of the TV industry next year) then they could do worse than following the lead of NBC and recruiting Ben Folds as a judge. Hey, how about that, a telly talent show judge who can actually provide proper musical feedback to contenders, rather than slurring “you’re loverly you are” or snapping “that was shit”.
Folds is judging on NBC’s four night Idol competitor ‘The Sing Off’. And the competitors on this show really can sing. I mean, it’s all a bit jazz hands, but I’m a sucker for some quality close harmony a cappella singing. This is how the first edition of the show kicked off.
