American Bandstand And The Consequences Of American Idol

Since I did not live in the United States my whole life, I am not very aware to American culture, and I did not know too much about American Bandstand before this course. However, with the development of YouTube, I knew and watched clips of American Idol before. Not only in United States, but also in South Korea, there is a program like American Idol, so I think that is why I can relate American Idol to the television programs in South Korea.

It was interesting to read the perspective of how Americans think about American Bandstand. Clearly from what I read from Katelyn’s essay, American Bandstand was more for teenagers, but American Idol is for everyone. I thought it was interesting depending on generations and when to air the program, different consequences can

I realised how when American Bandstand was on air, it was mostly teenagers who was influenced and it was only famous among teenagers. However, American Idol influenced variety of generations. A lot of people were influenced, even people who were in 60s knew and listened to the American Idol. This simply amazed me.

As I mentioned on the essay, there is a South Korean television program called Kpop Star. It is pretty much American Idol, too. The effect was similar to the American Idol, a lot of participants made up their new songs or changed the original songs, so a lot of people were affected by it. The Korean music industry was not in a good state, the songs had too much electronic sounds with meaningless lyrics. People were just getting too tired and sick of it. However, after Kpop Idol came out, people opened their eyes to the new world of