Yesterday I watched Miss America. Yes, you heard me right. I stayed at home on a Saturday night and watched Miss America. I haven't watched it in a few years and wanted to see how it has evolved.
Miss America has been around for 89 years. A popularity contest for the young women of America. There was the evening gown competition, swim suit competition, talent competition, and interview competition. The evening gown competition had the contestants walk the stage in the gown of their choice. The swim suit competition had the contestants walk the stage in a bikini. It is the same style for all the contestants. For the talent competition, most of the contestants chose to sing. Some others chose to dance and play piano. For the interview competitions, they answered questions from visitors in Las Vegas. They are judged on their poise, confidence and talent.
In my personal opinion the interview competition should be more emphasized then the other competitions. I think the swim suit competition is useless. The only thing it showed for me was how fit the ladies are. They are all young women and are all fit. I think if they are going to wear an evening gown, it should represent their state. Does a Miss America really need to know how to sing or dance? Will they have to do any kind of performances around the country? The interview competition is important because it will show their poise, confidence, personality and uniqueness. When they tour the country, many reporters will ask them questions. They have to quickly think on their feet. Their writers will not be with them every step of the way. They also have to be up to date on all the current events. I like biographies. It would be great if there was a portion on the contestants' background or how they started in pageantry or interview questions they have completed with the judges (if there was one).
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Totally have to agree with you. I think pageants are a waste of time. It's the same thing that's wrong with fashion magazines. It sends the message that you have to be good looking and have a "hot" body in order to look good and be popular. That's crap! I'd like to see them give the contestants an IQ test before they compete. Or see what they look like without makeup or their hair done. That's it!
ReplyDeleteAn "Au Natural" beauty contest. They could interview them without seeing what they look like and then judge their poise and confidence as they walk out on stage with their face under a brown paper bag and then they could take it off in the end to see what they truly look like WITHOUT MAKEUP and THEN put all the judges comments altogether to see who REALLY has true beauty! Inside and out! HA!
But somehow, since sex is such a seller, I don't think that my show would get any ratings and it would end before it began. Too bad....it sounded like a great idea to me.