Simon Cowell & Will Smith Team With Sony TV For International Music Reality Series

COMMENTS (12)

• Now if Sony TV can just get that comedy competition show they have in development going they will have successfully stolen every format currently on air.
  Nice job folks!

  Comment by Lytton Strachey — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 8:49am PST  Reply to this post

• Can’t believe this! I have been waiting for a music reality show for AGES! Finally someone with an original idea!

  Comment by monique — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 9:13am PST  Reply to this post

• And they expect who to watch this?

  The DJ phenomenon? What DJ phenomenon? There are no segments of the TV audience looking for this to happen. It’s the single most ridiculous idea I’ve heard and it’ll fail.

  Go out on the street and ask 100 people who Diplo is. None of them will know. None.

  Comment by Joe B. — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 9:25am PST  Reply to this post

• STOP IT. Just stop it. No more music reality series. Just …. stop.

  Comment by America — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 9:49am PST  Reply to this post

• Sorry but I don’t get it. I’m not saying that anybody can be a good DJ but this sounds like an off-shoot of promoting the notion that someone who slaps together synthesized, computer generated rythyms and calls it a song can then call themselves “musicians”. If people like listening to stuff like this, that’s fine. I am just concerned that eventually true musicianship-where someone puts in the time to master a real instrument, will become a lost art.

  Comment by JMar — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 11:26am PST  Reply to this post

• DJS? Who cares. This might be a good idea for YouTube, tho…that site is already filled with mashups.

  Comment by scifi_fan — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 12:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• Unless you live under a rock, (no upon intended) The folk instrument of the 21st century is the lap top. Furthermore, dance music the ONLY genre of music where the energy comes from the people themselves, so the DJ is the facilitator of that energy. Unlike a rock band or a singer, the DJ provides the platform for the audience to experience a COLLECTIVE dance force. It is in our genes to be tribal, it has been our past, and we are back now. It is the future.
  Cyril Palacios

  Comment by Cyril Viktor — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 1:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• I think it’s a genius idea. First of all,D.j’s exist in almost all part’s of the world. The idea will be welcomed on a large scale,especially the youth who’s population is more than 70% in the world today.
  Secondly,every artist need’s a good D.j to get the a party started even before they get mic’! Were ever it’s happening be it the Clubs,house party,radio,Concert and even the white house presidential parties you need a “good d.j” to jump off a crowed of people. They fascinate us across the world with skill’s to mix already existing music using vines,c.d’s etc or creating a beat like from scratch like Dr. Drey,Timberland,Tiesto,David guetta and old school Run-D MC,Jazzy jeff n’ the Fresh prince just to mention a few.
  We’ve been break dancing since back in the eighties in Africa,USA,Asia and other parts of the world cos of D.j’s moving our feet.
  All am saying is,it’s bout time.

  Comment by Lloyd Kalipinde — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 1:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• how very Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of Will and Jada

  Comment by mbm2 — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 1:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• Start looking for music clearance person right away. Well, at least they are not singing.

  Comment by Who Asked You Anyway — Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 2:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• I am a DJ and this is a bunch of crap! I have been a nyc dj for over 20 years, played all over the states, and abroad What do Simon Cowell and The Smiths know about DJs? What do they know about ‘our’ scene? What was the last festival/rave/or real nightclub they’ve been to/do they know what real afterhours is? This shpuld be for CJs (computer jockeys) that are lame and pre program their sets before they even head out to play. BTW for those who don’t know, there had been a surge in DJing since mommy and daddy started buying every kid a laptop, and they illegally download the software that I could teach my grandmother to use and she’s been dead for over 20 years. Now of this is a show looking for scratch DJs (DJs that do tricks) then ok, but of as they say they’re looking for the next big international Dj, then this is crap as I said in the beginning. We can not showcase our talent in 3-5 mins playing the style of music that they think they know about. It’s an art form that just can not be properly demonstrated by playing a few mins. We take you on a journey, tell a story with the music, it’s a ride, and it takes years to master the art of reading the crowd and arranging the music. Listen I know I sound like a hater, lol – but it’s just corporate America trying to makeover money off of talentless people (ie: tom cruises son) – google it if you don’t know but his 16 y/o son is getting paid 10k-20k a night to Dj…not b/c he’s amazing and gifted but b/c he’s Tom effin cruises son. Another thing…real DJs who strive, dream, wok so hard, listen to thousands of songs to find the right ones for their set, and know what it’s like to work with vinyl records/CDs/computers or what ever they encounter when they walk into a Dj booth do NOT need Simon Cowell, the Smiths, or corporate america (Sony) to acknowledge ‘us’ and sat yes you are the best big thing. We do it ourselves and have the loyal fans around the world from the club world validate us as great DJs.

  Comment by Dj justin time — Thursday January 26, 2012 @ 4:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• Although he is no longer with us, DJAM was the one who changed what a DJ has become. He catapaulted DJing into a new artistic career.

  Comment by Andrea — Saturday January 28, 2012 @ 11:22pm PST  Reply to this post