BOPRAGANDA (flashback)

This was my BOPRAGANDA,
on why bo bice should be the next american idol, I posted this a long time ago n on the ai boards. Now I’m very happy that he did not end up winning the whole shabang, coz I think it’s the best thing that could’ve happen to his career.
I think it would’ve hurt his street credibility had he won,
there are a lot of rock & roll elitist out there, phew!
Note: I was never really into AI except two evil teddy bears who shall remain nameless
Forced me to watch it, & also prompted me to write this piece. But dang!! bo rocks, his acapella rendition of within a dream by badlands, is what music is all about. Music is essential, it’s an expression of the human soul, it doesn’t even need to have words, take classical music for example. It just needs to come from the right place, it needs to come from the SOURCE, which I also try to tap into w/ my poetry.
this is pretty hilarious, reading it now. which is why it so fitting to put it here,
along with my fugly poems.




A Ballad of Bo an epic essay



Oh why, oh why, did I ever tune into this musical soap opera, the sound of music meets my granny made this nice tight leather pants, oh look , oh look?
But it's too late to turn back now. Now I'm hook, line and sinking. Go Bo...GO....
Me thinks this guy doesn't belong in American Idol Factory. *scratches left foot* He's just too authentic for this sort of set up. Don't get me wrong, I love watching him, and would love to see him slugging it out until the very end, but is it just me, or is something out of synch here?
Do you get that little jolly tingling down your a-spine, every time you see Bo Bice perform on the stage? he doesn't exactly perform, it's more like he rips the stage,
like a stallion leaving a trail of dust on the old patchy terrain.
I guess what’s happening here is, we are watching history in the making,
*tingles again*
Every now and then an individual, who's crawled out of the woodworks, would arrive at a particular scene and completely change the present as you know it. Throw the insipid norm into the backwaters of yesterday’s news. Put a new spin on the clockworks, and while they’re at it, they would maybe bury a couple of thousands of britney spears record in the dust or mayhap, stop some burgeoning, pubescent, records cold on their tracks, without really trying.
This is how humanity progresses, this is how hope is reborn, this is how
we're going to bring back good, rocking, authentic, inspiring music back into our airwaves & consciousness.
Nevermind that The People have suffered long enough, Nevermind that WE have endured. Nevermind that WE have survived.
Year, after year, after year, of blatant money making, teenage spewing, earsplitting,
bubblegum shrieking, pimple inducing, manufactured music.
Because now after long years of yearning, wishing, & dreaming
OUR prayers have finally been answered.

I believe in justice, equality, and the spirit of fairness. I believe when a man has earned his keep, then he should be rewarded for his efforts. As is the case with BO DA MAN, at his worst, he is still the best amongst all of them...
&
What’s more, he manages to give us something extra. something special. something real.
Something all the money in the world can't buy.
HE HAS MANAGED TO BRING THE MUSIC BACK TO THE PEOPLE.

He has managed to invoke the spirit of rock & roll and deliver it straight into your homes. He has captured the beauty, the freedom, the sadness, the humility
and everything else that gets lost in between the moment of thinking and speaking.
It's amazing how words often fail me, how many times I’ve tried and failed to say in words, in poems, exactly what I mean. After hours and hours of laboring, at the end of the day, I realize, that it is not what I meant to say… that’s not what I meant at all.
& Usually this is where I reach the point where I just give up, hit my head on the wall,
and just throw in the towel.
But in music..in music….
Just to hear a humming accompanied by a melody, or a simple phrase
uttered incoherently in a song, would be enough to take me there.
Because it's not just the words that I'm after in music, it's the essence....
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ESSENCE.
Which I think the judges in American Idol fail to realize or just plainly refuse to acknowledge, because it would not be expedient for them or their chosen piggy bank to do so... I can name, names, but I don't want this to get ugly.

IT’S ALL VERY SIMPLE REALLY.
There's a reason why musicians are demigods & Us the non-singing,
non-instrument playing, non-rhythmic, folks aren't.
We are just simply mortal human beings.
It's because we are not in possession of this magic.
Like Prometheus, who would defy heaven and hell,
just to bring us the fire, so we could feel the warmth, and see in the dark.
So would real, authentic, musician... So would BO BICE....
Because he has done this time and time again in the past,
and continues to do so.


So I think I know now why this rocker dude has landed in American Idol.
Not so much for his benefit. But for us, the millions and millions of music loving folks that somewhere along the line has gotten confused, & lost a little bit of faith in music.
He is here, to remind us how glorious music can be, how you can find what
you’re looking for in music.
How music can save your life, if not at lease your eardrums’ sanity.
It’s amazing how after each and every performance by Bo, I’ve felt compelled
to know more about the song he’s sung and the person who wrote that song.
After Bo Bice sang Time in a Bottle, it pretty much time warped me back to my childhood, I swear after the first few notes I was stupefied into submission.

And now he does this song called VEHICLE which I have never heard before,
But Great God In Heaven You know I love it and will love it forever!
I know 70’s dance music in not really BO’s genre… but dammit he worked that song!!!!!!!! just to give you a glimpse of that man’s scope.

And guess who I have to thank for this newfound insanity, cough, cough, I meant serenity……. None other than….. BO BICE, thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your music with us & slugging it out in American Idol. Know that all of your effort is not in vain,
Cause WE HEAR AND FEEL YR MUSIC…