Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1650307-20150905184947

In the first six seasons of America's Got Talent, the $1,000,000 prize went to a singer (Terry Fator was a ventriloquist, but he heavily used singing in his act, so I am counting him as a singer too). This of course lead a lot of people to get really tired of singers from winning and it seems that the general AGT voting public does to since not a single singer has won since Landau took the crown. It got so bad that someone even said that male country singers should be banned from the show. But I don't understand why everyone seems to hate them.

Trust me when I say I get it. Six consecutive seasons of singing acts out of nine compared to BGT where only three of the nine seasons the prize went to singing acts. That is a bit of overkill. But people still seem to forget. Singing is, and always will be, a talent. It takes just as much work to prepare for being a singer than it does for a dancing act, magic act, comedy act, or equivalent. Singing is however, by far, the most common thing people on AGT do, and in order to be in contention in any year, you must stand out, and even with this, there still can be diamonds in the rough.

I will always and forever defend Neal E. Boyd and Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., because even though they are singers they were still I think the best singing act in the competition in that year. I even encourage you all to listen back on them, they were better than you think, but for every year, there's still the fodder singing act that seems to keep going through for some unfathomable reason, most embarrassingly of which was Jimmy Rose in Season 8.

But I think that singing acts don't deserve this much "hatred" and I use that term loosely. Sure there probably doesn't need to be anymore singers that win, but I always think that at least one should be in heavy contention every year. 