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Denninmi

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3. My mother watches that crap.

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 11:13 AM

Oct 2013

American Idol, etc. She's 88, almost 89, I don't begrudge her. But, gotta say, anytime I'm in the room and hear them, most of these people CANNOT sing. But, par for the course, many successful, artificially created pop stars can't sing either, it's all done with Autotune.

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