Reality TV shows like "American Idol" and "Britain's Got Talent" have produced plenty of stars – and many of them didn't become famous by winning the top prize. In this week's Soundcheck Smackdown, it's a battle of runner-up pop sensations: "Britain's" Susan Boyle vs. "Idol's" Adam Lambert. Also: the trio Whitetree brings its electroacoustic compositions to our studio.
Soundcheck Smackdown: Boyle vs. Lambert
He is a 27-year-old goth-vampire rocker who wears black nail polish and eyeliner. She is a dowdy 48-year-old Scot who says she has never been kissed. Adam Lambert and Susan Boyle overcame their unlikely personas to become the two most popular figures on television and YouTube – as products of ...
Whitetree Live
Put a prominent Italian classical pianist and composer together with a German electronica duo and the result is the trio known as Whitetree. The group brings their surprising blend of electroacoustic compositions to our studio.
Who ARE these (famous) people?
Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert might just be the two biggest names on television this year, the former in the UK, the latter here. Both are losers. In two apparently stunning upsets (the media in both countries had already anointed both the winners of their respective reality TV shows), Adam Lambert was NOT named our new American Idol, and Susan Boyle did not win in the final of Britain's Got Talent.
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