I don’t mean there is code in your sleeping dreams that will unlock the secret to the success of this show. Although I did once dream a lizard told me the losing lottery numbers and what do you know, the same thing happened in life. Without the lizard bit. I just lost.

American Idol is popular because it is about dreams. Even more so it seems to embody the American dream. It is about my dreams and your dreams and their dreams. It is about wanting something so bad you’ll humiliate yourself on television for it. It is about the journey to achieving a dream; the rags to riches tale. We get to go with the contestants on their dream journey. In all its stagey, outlandish and glamorous ways American Idol is the American dream.

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