According to the Drudge Report, American Idol host Simon Cowell’s spot on 60 Minutes is highlighted by a Q and A where Cowell says he’s worth five times more to his record label Sony BMG than its biggest recording artist, Bruce Springsteen. Per Drudge:“I sell more records than Bruce Springsteen,” Cowell says of the rock star who signed a contract with Sony BMG reported to be in the neighborhood of $100 million. “In the last five years, I’ve probably sold over 100 million records. If [Springsteen] got 100 [million dollars], I should have got 500,” he tells Cooper.
Springsteen is Sony BMG’s biggest recording artist? Eesh. Well, then Simon probably could have come out and just said “fish live in water” and been done with it. Where’s the controversy? I mean, I guess when Marlon Brando was doing The Island of Doctor Moreau and other obscenely terrible movies near the end he was his studio’s biggest star(in more ways than one), but teenagers weren’t going ga-ga for his next film.
Personally, I don’t think this is going to affect Idol ratings too much, particularly because all the Jersey jean skiiers tuned out when Antonella Barba got a plane ticket back to the shoreside tanning salon where Jersey girls spawn, but mostly, mostly, because the majority of fans who still await with bated breath the next Springsteen album are wearing Levi’s high tops, bar-shirts, and Jack Daniels hats and contemplating high school football “Glory Days.” Most of these people lack the functioning IQ to realize that Bruce Springsteen has been recycling songs that once were good and are now schlock since “Born in the USA.”
Hello my name is Simon, and I like to draw drawrings
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