Hello fans, I think Pop-stars and Idol have become legends, so what does it mean they have origins dating back further than expected?
1. The first Middle Eastern tv talent shows: the Middle East tv talent show sub-genre made Arab and Middle East history in the mid to late seventies, because it's probably an Algerian invention! I think according to an old edition (possibly a second edition, from 2000) of Rough Guide's Middle East/Europe music book, many talented stars from the seventies onwards have probably started their careers in some pioneering tv talent contests spoken in Arabic, that's interesting!
2. Many tv-made pop groups (regardless of nationality or language) have ironically short lives: why are many of the current pop-groups (you mean, pop groups created in a tv talent show) so crap and soulless? Is it because they use autotune and generate just as much controversy as their more natural elders, the Beatles and Monkees formula bands?
3. The first Indo-European tv talent shows, apart from English: oh dear, according to the DK/Kindersley's Spain book (my Tia Georgette owns this), it's ironic, the talent show genre currently dominates many Spanish-speaking pop music industries! I think the first non-Anglophone Western tv talent shows of the current generations (apart from Eurovision, which is surprisingly the oldest surviving such tv contest, although not a true one) may have been made in the seventies/eighties to nineties, regardless of continents and languages. I think Romania remains ahead of time when it comes to true television contests in as early as 1970, as is a large part of Germany in as early as the 1960s.
4. Many tv-made solo pop stars have surprisingly long careers: in their beginnings - like pop-groups made by tv, they entered a tv contest and sang song covers that are actually quite okay - even when you make a close up at their pretty wide-ranging qualities of singing and other talents, regardless of their profiles!
5. The first Asian/advanced tv talent shows: the Asian tv talent show genre unquestionably made history in the mid to late 80s, because I think it's probably a Japanese invention with a big twist. Being quite ahead for its original time, it can be split into a possible group of language-bound sub-genres (even though they need slightly more description) but only has three generations, because it gets bastardised fast!
6. Contestants dead or alive: even though the bounds between countries are kind of unworthy, the winning contestant (dead or alive) is in the top of a talent pyramid. Some notable contestants in some controversial talent shows could have been dead.
