Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1609742-20180815235411/@comment-26471969-20180820062347

sorry to see TheFoxyRiolu leaving but at same time I understand the frustation

too many people go too much into the "NOT A SINGER" syndrome where they do not judge the talent... PERIOD>>>>>>>>>>>>>  and always go with the charade of "why don't they go instead to the voice, x-factor or idol"

all those are completely different than he GT shows

let's go first what is different about GT shows, the acts can go into the genre and style they WANT ( not 100% that, the producers many times ask them to go into a "different direction than what they want" as they did with Celine Tam in the semis ) thus they can do Opera, just Jazz, theather musical style, and so on plus of the shows in the USA, is only show that takes groups  ( no X-factor in the USA ) plus youngsters can enter here while other shows have an age minimum

the voice is basically ( not completely but the coaches influence a lot ) where only in audition the singer has a choice of what to do in each of their songs and only open to solo or duets

American Idol is kind of like voice but judges have less "individual influence" and more "collective influence" and I think only solo acts?

X-Factor is close to voice in "individual coach's influence" and is open to groups ( and sometimes they make solo entrants into a new group ) and each week is theme music so is not "100% genre choice of the songs" ( but have a bigger say than idol or voice as shown by Rak-Su in UK X-factor )

so you can see why so many choose AGT, and I always choose "what is best", and not go "it can only be "X number" of singing acts"