Spider-Man confirms IDOL performance

Just when I thought this season of IDOL couldn't get any worse.

If it's just Bono, Edge, and Reeve I think they'll be performing "Boy Falls From the Sky"

I can't believe they're not going to perform Bullying by Numbers!!

Will you be there a well or are you stuck performing at The Foxwoods that night?

"Interesting. This is pretty big, isn't it? The only comparable thing I can think of in recent memory would be American Idiot on the Grammys with Green Day."

Yes, it's big. It's very big. The Grammys typically draw about 15 million viewers. The American Idol finale will likely draw over 40 million.

If Spidey 2.0 is as good as everyone is saying it is, this could bump it into self-powering orbit.

I'm betting they do Rise Above. It's easily the best song from the show and it's a song that requires a bit of familiarity in order to really fall in love with it. Doing that song would help the show the most.

It still sucks it's just comprehensible now. The music certainly didn't get any better.

Updated On: 5/24/11 at 04:56 PM

and I'm betting they'll be just fine standing on a stage singing.

Let me preface this next statement by saying I'm a huge U2 fan, own ALL their CDs, etc.

If there was ever a musical anthem that sounded terminally stick-in-the-mud to me, it's "Rise Above."

Standing ovations are the bastion of quality now? I've seen many bad shows getting standing ovations including Baby It's You, Wonderland, All Shook Up, Good Vibrations, In My Life, and performances of Rent where the whole cast broke character, flubbed lines, and just generally screwed around onstage. I've also seen heinous high school productions where you couldn't hear any of the singers get standing ovations, too.

If Spider-Man is now middle of the road entertainment, does that make it better than when it was so bizarre it went over a lot of people's heads? Is a blockbuster film automatically great because it sells tickets and people like the explosions? Better from 1.0 does not mean good by any stretch of the imagination. The score lost what, two songs? And only one of them was atrocious (Deeply Furious). And they moved a couple songs around, made that great Mary Jane song a duet, and sped up Rise Above a bit at the end? Did moving the guitars off the stage make that big a difference to the sound quality?

Seriously. It's supposed to be a Broadway show. No one should be required to like it because it improved. The "OMG everyone says it's better shut up meanie" people are sounding like Patti "every new musical deserves critical support because it's new" LuPone right now and it's even more laughable in this context. At least Women on the Verge managed to open on schedule and present something moderately watchable the first time around.