Talent Show Critique

Usually Fort Dorchester High School talent shows are anything but entertaining. Most students use the opportunity to skip the last two periods of the day. This year’s production of the talent show proved to be both amusing and entertaining. The acts included a extensive range of talent instead of the usual dancing and singing. The African American Studies Club did a magnificent job with the preparation and organizing of the show. Unfortunately, a few aspects of the show were not appealing. The chief element was the behavior of the audience.

Everyone knows that not every performer in talent shows has talent. However, it is most thoughtless and discourteous to boo and hiss at performers who have enough courage to perform in front of 1500 of his/her peers. As observed, the majority of the audience was reluctant to listen to and appreciate something that was different and unique. However, as soon as someone got on stage and began to shake their rear end, the audiences went crazy, began to hoop, holler, and applaud. Ultimately, the audience displayed the lack of diversity among FDHS students.

The music selection, of course, was another concern among the audience. In a sense, the music was biased because it was composed of predominately rap. Not everyone in the audience appreciated listening to merely one genre of music. One of the rap songs that proved to be bothersome was 2 Pistols and T-Pain’s “She got it.” It appeared as though every other routine contained that song. The final performance of the talent show was a guest star appearance of the group Primetime. The music of the group was relatively irritating. It contained the identical beats of other popular rap songs, and the lyrics were most complicated to comprehend, although quite frequently it sounded as if they were make a reference to a gun—incredible message to sent to high school students.

Overall, the superlative portion of the talent show was the organizational and creativity skills of the African American Studies Club. It was particularly enjoyable to see a group of dedicated and organized students. However, listening to the grumbles and insolence of the audience was undeniably not worth five dollars. Hopefully, by next year’s talent show, someone will be able to get the audience to appreciate the courage and dedication of its performers.