From the NY Post:

IN a snub that will have Bob Dylan fans blowin’ in the wind with rage, Simon Cowell has come out bashing the beloved folk legend as a dull singer who’s not as talented as perky pop princess Kelly Clarkson. “Do I prefer Kelly Clarkson’s music to Bob Dylan’s? Yes. I’ve never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears,” Cowell tells February’s Playboy. The acerbic “American Idol” judge adds: “I’ve got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of ‘American Idol,’ we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don’t believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make ‘American Idol’ a better show.“

Well, what crushing news for the “Bob Dylans of this world.” And how many are there, exactly?

I don’t think there’s any real significance to this — it just demonstrates that if anyone suspected that Cowell was a man of true taste and discernment when it came to popular music, they needn’t suspect it anymore. And of-course, when he says “… if I had 10 Dylans in the final of ‘American Idol,’ we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week,” he’s absolutely right. “American Idol” is about the lowest common denominator — a standard of entertainment that is comprehensible to the greatest possible number of viewers, including those who, truth be told, don’t particularly like music. It can be enjoyable on that basis, as a kind of horse-race-with-a-soundtrack, but it clearly isn’t about finding true and lasting talent.

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