Simon Cowell has claimed that Bob Dylan would fail an audition for considered one of his TV expertise exhibits.
Simon Cowell is not eager on Bob Dylan’s music
The 66-year-old music mogul has confessed that he’s “not a fan” of the Blowin’ within the Wind artist and doubts that he would have accepted of him on a present resembling American Idol due to his “unconventional” voice.
Talking on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Simon mentioned of Dylan: “After I heard Bob Dylan’s model of that Adele track, Make You Really feel My Love, I did not know he wrote the track.
“I feel if he’d walked in and sang that model, I am not gonna lie, I’d’ve gone, ‘Overlook it.’ Significantly. As a result of I did not even know he wrote the track, once I heard his model, I used to be like, ‘Whoa’. I simply do not suppose that may have been an awesome audition.”
Cowell added: “Look, I am not a fan of Bob Dylan, but when individuals like him, then they like him, and when you do not, that is what I learnt from my profession. All people has completely different tastes, whether or not it is meals, leisure or no matter.”
It is not the primary time that the expertise present supremo has criticised Dylan, as he claimed again in 2007 that the artist’s music “bored him to tears” and urged that having performers like him on TV expertise exhibits could be horrible for viewing figures.
Simon mentioned: “I’ve obtained to let you know, if I had 10 Dylans within the closing of American Idol, we might not be getting 30 million viewers per week. I do not imagine the Bob Dylans of this world would make American Idol a greater present.”
The music mogul was accountable for launching the profession of One Path on the British model of The X Think about 2010 and recalled how he knew that band member Harry Types – who has now established himself as a solo artist – had the “potential” to be a mega star regardless of a nervous audition.
Cowell defined: “You are on the lookout for potential. There is no such factor as the proper audition. Most individuals are nervous. They select the fallacious track, or they have not had the expertise.
“, he was very younger when he got here on the present. He did have large charisma. He got here out, he was humorous. The viewers immediately favored him.
“I did not suppose he was able to compete as a solo artist that 12 months. So we thought, in a short time, together with another boys who have been in the same scenario, would not or not it’s higher for them to start out off in a band?
“What would’ve occurred to Harry if he hadn’t come on the present or hadn’t been in One Path? Nobody might predict that. He would say the identical factor, I feel.
“Harry’s good. I at all times knew that about him. He understood his viewers. And he is gotten higher over time. That is the good factor.”
