American Idol judge Nicki Minaj today says it’s “racist” of Steven Tyler to predict that she’d probably send Bob Dylan back to “the cornfield” if he appeared as a contestant on the Fox show. The current judge’s backlash on Twitter against the former Idol judge came after Tyler unfavorably compared the present panel to when he was on the show. “If it was Bob Dylan, Nicki Minaj would have had him sent to the cornfield! Whereas, if it was Bob Dylan with us, we would have brought the best of him out, as we did with Phillip Phillips. Just saying,” the Aerosmith lead singer told MTV News Monday. “I know that they’ve got something going on on the judges’ panel, [and] it shouldn’t be that, it should be
just the opposite. They should have something going on, which is called ‘camaraderie,’” Tyler said in reference to rumors of in-fighting on the judge’s panel between Minaj and Mariah Carrey. Minaj, who was officially announced as one of the replacements to the departing Tyler and Jennifer Lopez in September, responded with a flurry of tweets today. “You assume that I wouldn’t have liked Bob Dylan??? why? black? rapper? what? go fuck yourself and worry about yourself babe,” Minaj added on Twitter. “When Steven 1st went on Idol he was ridiculed by his peers & fans alike. Called a sell out. So what does he do? Ridicule the next judge,” she said later this afternoon. Tyler was a judge on American Idol from 2010 to 2012. Both he and Lopez left earlier this year. Minaj, along with country star Keith Urban, joined Carey and long-term judge Randy Jackson this season.





What you have to love about Nicki Minaj is that she is such a class act! LOL I can’t believe they put something as low rent as her on what is supposed to be a family show.
This supposed “entertainer” has fallen off the turnip truck onto her head.
I have found that when people can’t ACTUALLY discuss a topic intelligently , they use words like “racist” or “nazi” or any number of gutter phrases.
Steven Tyler has longevity and proven staying power. He and his band have created songs that are covered and have been covered by many other artists. They have true cultural value. These guys paid their dues.
Minaj is a LONG way from even being able to enter the arena of skills and great songs produced by Steven and his bandmates. In fact, I can’t remember ANYTHING she has written or produced that is anything but inconsequential noise.
Instead of spouting off with shallow feedback, she really needs to spend her time creating songs and music that has true musical and cultural value ….
Rock On brother. You nailed it in one word, “longevity” and Areosmith definitely has it. Rock and Roll
bingo, bingo and bingo.
AMEN….
I think your missing the point…the “cornfield” comment IS pretty racist…and ignorant. Your taking the dialogue into a completely different direction from whence it came. Nice try though.
OK, Mark, call me an idiot. What is racist about the “cornfield” comment? Are you from MSNBC?
You are an idiot
How is the “cornfield” comment racist? And to whom? Nicki Minaj? It is Bob Dylan who he’s claiming is from the cornfield. I don’t think you know what the word “racist” means.
“Corn field”, racist? What’s that more code? Come on now! “Cotton fiels” perhaps, but not every word used in reference to a black person is racist.
Please explain how sending “Bob Dylan” (a white guy) back to the “cornfield” (not cotton field) is racist. Not even close. Thanks for playing though.
By the way, it is “you’re” as in you are. Not “your” possessive. Do they not teach homonym errors in school anymore?
“Cornfield” is NOT a racist comment. It’s a reference to the Midwest. You are ignorant of geography.
It’s actually a reference to a short story by Jerome Bixby. You are ignorant of American literature.
Regardless of whether or not Tyler is racist (I’m assuming he isn’t), Minaj does have a point: he presumed that Minaj is uncultured musically and will make bad decisions. He doesn’t know Minaj, hasn’t seen Minaj judge, and most likely has no knowledge of Minaj’s personal musical taste. To assume that she’s going to be a worthless judge and speak about it publicly is equivalent to asking for condemnation.
Caleb
We have ALL seen Minaj judge. Tyler is right. Minaj is a train wreck. Aren’t her 15 minutes up?
Bob Dylan was born to Jewish immigrants and lived his childhood in the midwest, mostly Minnesota. Cornfields are associated with the midwest. How can that be racist when you are talking about an old, white man?
Tyler said Minjab would have sent Dylan to the cornfield. He didn’t say he would send Minjab to the cottonfield.
It is not racist. He could be using it as an expression. Are you inside his head? So many people too quick to judge. Obviously Miss Minaj can not handle criticism.
Send Bob Dylan back to the”Cornfield” as Bob Dylan was born and raised in a rural town in Minnesota don’t see how this statement could possibly be racist unless of course you personally are ???..Your comment only added justification to walker’s point…Nice Try Though..Cause anyone of intelligence just doesn’t fall for the race card thing anymore…Guess that would make the people who so readily throw it out…well…Racist themselves…
How the F*CK is the “cornfield” comment racist? Bob Dylan was born and raised in RURAL MINNESOTA.
Wasn’t the “cornfield” comment about Bob Dylan and probably the fact that he was originally from Minnesota? I don’t think “cornfield” has any racial connotations at all for me, although I don’t know anymore – maybe just wondering is all I have to do to be called a racist.
I do not believe the comment was ignorant or racist. He was speaking to the fact that Bob Dylan came out of the mid-west (the corn field) and she would not have recognized his talent. No race involved.
On what basis is he qualified to make that assumption? I’m from Chicago, but recognize talented people from the east coast. Am I an anomaly? I’m surprised by the number of people trying to rationalize his comments. They were presumptuous and ignorant. I’m also surprised by the number of people trying to spin his comments as racist. He can be judgmental and oblivious without being racist.
Cornfield? Cornfield? What am I missing? The lower the IQ, the more frequent the racist comment. It’s a ready-made crack for anyone who lacks the ability to think for themselves.
Considering Dylan grew up in a farming state the comparison is very realistic. I find it sad that people Like nikki have to resort to racism everytime they are crticized for their actions. Grow up
Actually if he would have said “If it was BB King, Nicki Minaj would have had him sent to the cotton field!’ Maybe….but I think the issue is really that the show has NOTHING to do with talent. Never did do the Dylan comment is completely wasted here
LOL-keep using the race card in knee jerk fashion as it’s near worthless now.
“I think your missing the point…the “cornfield” comment IS pretty racist“…
Only if you’re an idiot Mark…
How is the cornfield – a reference to Bob Dylan being from the Midwest – racist?
I don’t know how any of the folks on this post can read the article and think “cornfield” has anything to do with it. Minaj never mentions “cornfield,” nor does she use the word “racist” (though she clearly raises the possibility). She’s wondering why he would assume she wouldn’t like Dylan, and it’s a legitimate question. She may not be a “class act,” but it’s a free country and she’s within her rights to rip Tyler. Tyler’s comment may not have been racist, but it was arrogant. The comments here are seemingly focused on “cornfield” being racist (or not) – but even Nicki Minaj doesn’t make THAT leap.
Is that you Chris Matthews??
Just guessing here, but it sounds to be me like Tyler was actually trying to reference the old Twilight Zone episode with the creepy all-powerful telekinetic kid who could “wish you into the cornfield”. The “cornfield” was nowhere; it was a way to disappear someone. A character from the TNT show Falling Skies used the line in this last season.
It’s kind of an old quote, but it’s not in the slightest bit racist.
Doesn’t “Cornfield ” refer to the Twilight Zone episode where the kid sends people he doesn’t like the the “Cornfield”? Not a racist term.
You are a liberal and a paranoid one at that. Don’t you low lifes ever tire of having to twist every single argument into being about race? Do you ever give any solemn thought to how idiotic you sound and how undignified your attitudes and comments when playing the race card inappropriately? Have you any self respect at all….or a mind of your own??? I think not.
Nice try, Mark. Keep drinking that MSNBC Kool-aid and don’t bother to think for yourself. Bob Dylan has a unique voice and writing technique. Someone who is fairly new to show business, and features lyrics like, “He got that super bass Boom, badoom,boom Boom, badoom, boom bass
Yeah that’s that super bass”….miiiiiiiiiiight not get Dylan’s brand of talent.
ROTFL… yeah, “cornfield” is racist, just like “chicago,” “apartment,” and anything else said that is in any way negative towards any person of color.
So, I guess now, regardless of how dumb, moronic, idiotic, or asinine someone is, if you are white and they are not, it is racist to criticize them.
WELCOME TO AMERITOPIA, where being lazy is rewarded, and hard work, which leads to wealth, is vilified.
sent to the cornfield is a twilight zone reference…. WOW. Really looking for anything these days aren’t we. American slaves are known to have picked cotton and sugar cane, not corn for your information.
I’d take a wild guess that since Steven Tyler is old enough to remember, that it is a reference to a famous Twilight Zone episode starring a young Billy Mumy. Also remade in the movie of the same name. The youngster wished anybody who disagreed with him to the Cornfield, after turning them into some odd object first!
Seems to me that Steven has a great sense of humor!
glad to see some people got the reference and tyler’s keen sense of humor.
that i got that reference right away makes me feel old. well… got to get off the computer and go yell at some kids to stay the hell outta my yard!
The cornfield comment is not racist. It is taken from a twilight zone episode where the boy would get rid of people by transporting them to a cornfield.
Really, if he had said “Cotton field” I could agree with you, but 80% of Americans and their immigrant ancestors worked in corn fields. My Italian ancestors grew hops and corn in Italy, should I be insulted. I’m sick of people pulling the race card at every turn. Its those people who divide this country.
I could not agree more with you. She is of the ilk that think they have a brain: Madonna to name just one.
I guess we can retire the word prejudice since it has been superseded by the word racism in all aspect of daily conversation. It’s amazing that a large amount of people have no clue what true racism is. Today it is an excuse for a minority’s bad behavior or for a politician to tell one of an opposing view to shut up.
It’s getting old… The boy who cried wolf comes to mind.
spot on… “racist” is bandied in knee jerk reactions when “prejudice” is probably more apropos or even when nothing is apropos. it’s just a fools crutch to attack someone as a “racist” or a “nazi” to defame someone you disagree with. it’s really getting old.
It is beyond old! we have had it shoved down our throat for what 5-6 years now?
EXACTLY! Maybe it’s just that he thinks Minaj is just stupid and shallow!
Thank goodness the rest of the country/world/universe is finally getting a dose of what the people in the South have been having to go through. Anything that a white person id automatically “racist.” Welcome to the real world.
The BOY who cried wolf? That is racist!
I think you mean sexist…
I think he means ageist and sexist.
He was talking about the judges being too busy fighting to see a talent like Bob Dylan. Why is that racist? Because Tyler is White? “I know that they’ve got something going on on the judges’ panel, [and] it shouldn’t be that, it should be just the opposite. They should have something going on, which is called ‘camaraderie,’” Tyler said.”
Hey, “if it was Bob Dylan” .. I’d have sent him back to the cornfield, too! Has anybody heard what Bob Dylan sounds like today? The times have been a changing a lot since the 60’s.
The racist charge is losing it’s sting. Is there still racism in the U.S? Yes and there will always be racism but that charge is not universal, it doesn’t apply to every action. The charge is being perpetuated by those who think it is still relevant, it is not. Calling someone a racist does not make it so, suggesting that one is racist does not make it so, accusing one of racism doe not make it so. The only true rcist in our siciety are those who continue to use the claim of racism as a weapon. Because there are a few stupid people in our society does not make the entire society stupid, stupid.
First of all, it’s ludicrous to have a “Hip Hop” or “Rap” performer judging a music competition – other than tempo, there is very little correlation between those genres and music!
I have been a huge fan of American Idol throughout its existence but have little interest in watching it this season. It was Simon Cowell who set the tone for judging the competition and his perspective was usually “spot on” and hugely influential. His counterparts were a good balance. JLo and Steven Tyler did an adequate job in filling the void when Simon left. As for this Season…. Randy Jackson’s “schtick” of sucking his teeth, providing commentary like “Ummmmmmm, I don’t know, Dawg. It just didn’t work for me, you know?”, and “It was kinda ‘pitchy’, you know?” has worn thin – I don’t anticipate that Mariah and Nikki will offset that and I am predicting that this will be the final season of American Idol.
Finally, I am so, so-o-o-o tired of “the race card” being constantly brought out whenever someone makes a comment about anything that is oppositional in thought.
I’ve watched Idol from the beginning. This year I won’t even turn it on. Even though the sets and staging are overkill, The Voice is all about finding talent and teaching people. It’s a quality show with judges who care. I am so over the train wreck mentality of TV programming. Betting that this season of AI has the lowest audience rating ever. It’s a sad commentary on what America has become if this is the quality of today’s “stars”.
Idol just lost an avid viewer. Minaj is not someone who would be a good example for our young kids.. She has NO class.
BOYCOTT American Idol!!!
The pillars of the liberal assault: freely call whites; racist, bigoted, homophobic, anti-semitic, or sexist. Substance doesn’t matter, liberals just want to slander all whites who disagree with them. And they wonder why we hold them in such disrespect.
Contempt is a better word for them.
I’m a rational, middle-aged white guy who actually still buys CDs, and I have found myself entertained by Ms Minaj heretofore, however after her nonsensical, uneducated neck-snapping rant against someone with credibility, I will never download or listen to her music again. Sucks for her, because once she’s 35, looks like shit, and can’t sing the life of a partygirl anymore, her fly-by-night, disposable MP3-addicted core fan base will leave her high and dry as well, so that she can live life as a laughingstock on the latest washed-up star reality-TV show, sort of like Bobby Brown or MC Hammer
i won,t watch this year. i don,t like her vulgarity
A 3 year old can come up with those lyrics. And people call this music? Talent?
lol… pathetic at best!
The reality is that Steven Tyler is more black musically than Nikki Minaj. I bet she has no clue who Lightning Hopkins is. Steven Tyler does.
U just confirmed what I already knew – this chick has nothing going on and will be a footnote in the music scene before 2015 – she is ignorant, vulgar can’t hold a note and is the most overrated rapper (I wouldn’t call her a musician) that the industry has joined forces with – how desperate!
I’m pretty sure the “Cornfield” is a reference to the Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” where people were “wished away” to a mystical cornfield that you don’t come back from. Hence Bob Dylan wouldn’t be heard from again had he been judged by Nicki Minaj.
Yes, I think you are correct.
“Nappy headed hoes”????? Gee, Imus got in trouble for less than that….he didn’t call them hoes. As far as I’m conceerned THAT is racist no matter the color of the speaker. Perhaps Ms. Minaj should do some looking in the mirror before spouting off the kind of drivel she does. Her comments demean the seriousness of real racism.
It was clear to me that Tyler’s comment referred to Dylan and his rural upbringing, NOT Minaj and her Trinidadian origins. Minaj….just another wisp in the wind who couldn’t appear on the same stage as Tyler.
Reference to anonymous: If you really have to put all that bitches and hoes and “f” this and that and you call that a wonderful song (not much of a lady to me). She must have been talking to people like you in general no matter what race you are. So you can relate tho, right? Just “sayin” since you can’t sign your name to the comment.
Rick: I think anonymous was being sarcastic… or is it ironic? Where’s Alanyis Morrissette?!!
Some consider aerosmith to be the first rap band (black or white). consider Walk This Way.
Who cares! Stopped watching three years ago. Same old, same old.
I don’t think she understands what banishing someone to the Cornfield means. It’s a reference (sort of obscure, but common enough) to an old twilight episode where a child like character played by Billy Mummi banishes anyone who is a free-thinker to the “Cornfield.”
Ironically, Obsessed as she is with race, Ms. Minaj has proven herself to be anything but a free thinker. Point: Tyler.
Time for a black man to step in and say: NIKI MINAJ: SIT THE F*&K DOWN.
I have MUCH RESPECT for Steve. HE IS THE MAN!!!!!!!!
Right. I will not be watching this year.
I see everyone here is worried about really important issues.
When we can finally stop paying attention to crap like this, we will live in a better world.
Don’t hold your breath, though.
Lima-1, out.
Good grief! This person expects to be respected? I wouldn’t let my children listen to this stuff. Talk about LOW CLASS! Thanks for posting the words to her song (???) This is just disgusting no matter who wrote it or sings it.
Please – Mariah Carey & Steven Tyler have earned their credits. Nicki Minaj is not even closely talented to their levels. Minaj has a lot of dues to pay to her fans.
Easy come & Easy Go!
On a football board I frequent, if someone gets banned that’s called “sending them to the cornfield”. I’m guessing Tyler meant Minaj would vote no on Dylan.
What Stephen Tyler said in the context of makeup of the panel was racist. But who cares if Tyler is racist those are his demons. As ugly as he is none of his fans should try to talk about Nikki’s looks. At least she can take off her makeup and still be fine. They need to go on and put a dress on Tyler, he (is he a he?) might look better as a woman. No body but the poor Black idols care if he is a racist. We as Blacks need to stop going on these inferior talent award shows because besides the talent being second class’ Blacks are not going to win because of the FEARS which equates to racism. Prejudice against a Black is another word for I’m afraid of you. I think Nikki is comfortable in her own skin which is beautiful and has few worries about the lack of talent she will see. She must however remember to play the game and give the little boys what they won’t despite their average talents or she won’t survive. If Sam Cooke was on that show he wouldn’t win because of the scared little boy complexes of these people who really do play the race card all the time. This is why they are so disturbed. Was Donald Trump playing the Race Card?
TRUUE
Stay classy Nicki!
You wouldn’t know class if it fell on you…….
Good luck with that!
Too late to be classy. She is just another raw, profane celebrity with some talent–usually in being outrageous and controversial. And I am tired of this “racist” label being thrown about these days. Just because someone criticizes you and you happen to be black does NOT mean the critic is a racist.
As A Female & Person Of Color, Ms. Minaj’s Observations Are Not To Be Taken Lightly.
“Ms. Minaj’s Observations Are Not To Be Taken Lightly”
Why? If she holds any weight in your social circle, your social circle is stupid.
She is a no talent joke and the race card is about all she has.
I won’t take them lightly. I’ll just call them what they are: nonsense.
The race card: Not one you want to have in your hand – the low card that is never trump, backhands and always makes the holder look like an idiot.
Don’t worry. Her racist comments do not condemn all women of color. I would apologize for her embarrassing black females but she would never agree to it. Just comdemn her racism and the 99% of us who care nothing about race will continue to thrive. Steven Tyler is entitled to an opinion without being slandered and hopefully he condemns her publicly so another racist is revealed for her attempts to brand others as she is.
Well said!
,,,As A Female & Person Of Color, Ms. Minaj’s Observations Are Not To Be Taken Lightly……….and what is your point? It’s a fading fast TV show and yet I see people are still pulling the race card. LOSER!
Man, that sounds like a threat! It’s AI–just relax-it is just for fun.
A good laugh is never to be taken lightly.
Lightly NO, Stupid “YES”
You mean she has an IQ over 80? Are you sure?
I see what you did there.
No they are not to be taken lightly they are to be taken as stupid.
I will always consider the person using the word racism as a stupid, uneducated, uninformed individual, whatever color they are.
“Taken lightly” that sounds like a racist code slogan to me. How do you like having the tables turned.
Racism is too serious to trivialize as a rebuttal for criticism associated with AI judges. When it applies it should be accurate and stigmatize the offender. In this country we are all equal. You are just as wrong as a accuser when you utilize and mislabel something as serious as the accusation of racism. There are enough of us who get it, from all backgrounds, to finally correct those who make inappropriate associations with subject matter as severe as racism.
FTA:
“You assume that I wouldn’t have liked Bob Dylan??? why? black? rapper? what? go fuck yourself and worry about yourself babe,”
Typical. Why do people automatically throw up the race card then get all classless? I’m half Black and half Hispanic. I didn’t see anything racist about Tyler’s comment or criticism. Maybe a bit ageist but that’s it. And I would tend to agree with him based on my own experience with kids her age and music. She strikes me as one of those hypersensitive people who are easily offended and assume the worst.
Agreed, it was just a comment on music, and maybe Minaj’s generation not necesarily growing up with Dylan as an influence. For her to flip out like that is classless.
Especially because Aerosmith were one of the firsthigh profile groups to team up with a black rap group on a release, when they did “Walk This Way” with RUN-DMC. That set off a huge wave of rap and rock fusion which has impacted music for the last couple decades. Minaj has no idea what she is talking about. Tyler did more to integrate music than she knows.
That team up with Run DMC is what breathed new life into Tyler and Aerosmith’s careers. They weren’t doing too well before that. Their popularity took off again right after.
Yeah. There not to be taken at all……
What she means is:
“As a Person Of Color, Only I Have The Authority To Talk About Any Issue Pertaining to Race, And You Shut Up, Or I’ll Call You A Racist Too.”
Another moron that forgot everything MLK talked about.
Calling people “racist” doesn’t work anymore.
LOL How true. All some can due is yell racism. She just revealed how lame she is and maybe should work on building some good character traits.
oh yes it does!
It most CERTAINLY does.
No, it does not. The word “racist” has become so overused and misused and abused that it has absolutely no power anymore. It carries as much stigma as being told “your mother wears army boots.” When someone has absolutely no defense for their stupidity, they simply pull out the race card and actually believe it will work. At one time it did, but if you cry wolf enough times (as someone else here observed), people eventually ignore it. It has become so trite, it’s laughable.
Steven Tyler has more talent in his little finger than Nicki Minaj will ever hope to have in her entire questionable career. She has just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she has even less class than anyone in the entertainment business today. And, that’s no mean feat. The competition in the classless celebrity category today is stiff!
How so? It only works with the mindless. I’ve had idiots try accusing me of being racist. I easily tore down that foolish claim and then proceeded to demonstrate how their attempt to falsely accuse me of being racist and not addressing what I actually said shows how mentally handicapped they are. I LOVED when one fool actually accused me of being racist against blacks because the look of embarrassment on his face when I pointed out I am half Black was priceless.
How true. When someone screams the word “racist”, it’s now as relevant and meaningful as when, as kids, we called someone on the playground a “poo-poo-head”. Thanks to it’s overuse, it has absolutely NO meaning at all, just roll your eyes, ignore and move along.
Yep, “Racist” The most overused word in the English language. Means nothing anymore. Maybe one day people will take their discourse beyound a stupid one word empty response.Racist, truely the word of the ignorant.Joe
Why Not? Why did it work before? Have the descendants of the racists stood upon the Capitol steps and declared racism is no more? Does that mean people aren’t racist anymore? Are we in a post-racial era? A black man becomes president and gun sales go off the charts. Is that racism unconsciously being played out? This country was built on racism. Not only that, it is addicted to racism. American Racism is a global industry now in Indonesia, India, Africa, China, and anywhere else America feels the need to exploit people of color to maintain it’s title of “World’s Strongest Nation”. So, to say calling people racist doesn’t work anymore is to have a very shallow view of what racism really is. Those who would WANT to believe racism is over only wants to believe out of sheer selfishness and greed. Why? Because you know you live in a country that has committed the biggest crimes against humanity in history. And where there is crime, justice must be served. And what most people who want to say racism is over fears is the Justice that America is due to be served.
What a load of crap. Your pitiful education shows you have bought into the leftist agenda hook, line, and sinker. READ what the Founders of this country actually said. Stop having someone else tell you what they said.
American racism is to blame for everyone else’s racism? Wow. That’s a new twist on the race card. I just thought I was responsible for every white slave owner that lived 150 years ago, not every single racist person in the history of the world. I feel so enlightened. Thank you for dumbing down the conversation and culture in this country with your general mental malaise. Maybe YOU should go back to a cornfield for a while and spend some time with some real people that aren’t spewing stupid 24 hours a day.
What astounds me is when people like you constantly want to spout off on racism as if that’s going to do a damn thing to reduce any racism that very well might be in this country. The more you keep spouting off on racism, the more you look like a race-obsessed idiot.
“a country that has committed the biggest crimes against humanity in history”
Is everyone really just going to gloss over how grossly inaccurate that little gem is? Facts are white people didn’t invent slavery. Ancient Egyptians had slaves and many slaves sold to America were sold by their own people! Slavery is terrible, and is definitely a very black mark on history- on the history of MANY cultures- but I think you have forgotten about the attempts by some nations at total ethnic cleaning… I would call genocide one of the biggest crimes against humanity, but what do I know.
The fact of the matter is there are many things, all terrible, that I would dub them crimes against humanity propagated by almost all civilizations throughout history. America hasn’t been around long enough to have claim to being responsible for all racism in the world.
On another point ‘a black man’ being elected president isn’t why people are buying up guns. A president trying to circumvent the constitution by making a UN treaty to ban guns or failing that who wants to ban the sale of certain types of fire arms is the cause. That is a matter of policy not race for what I would venture is the majority of people.
Sadly justice is not always served. The truth is we cannot go back in time and change history. All we can do it try to be better in the future.
Is racism dead and gone? I don’t think anyone here is naive enough to believe that, but all white people are not racist, and every negative comment about a person of color from a white person is not founded in the color of their skin. Sometimes it really is just a comment on the perceived content of their character and nothing more.
It takes a racist to know a racist. The problem is She is so dumb she don’t know the difference from “come here” and “sic ’em.”
Sincerely,
One very Redneck Texan
Who the hell is Mange?
she cant even claim to be a “has-been..”, shes a “never-was” Why the hell is she a judge anyhow?
WTF America..
She will not even be remembered in 3 or 4 years. She can judge BS
She shouldn’t be judging music she doesn’t know the definition of the word music.
Everything is now officially racist…. her calling Tyler racist is in itself racist.
Yup!
Whoa. Context matters. Folks, click the link in the article to see all of what Steven Tyler said.
I read all his comments and still saw nothing racist.
You sir must be white….therefore you have NO standing to judge what is or isn’t racist. In America only a minority can make that judgment accurately and if you disagree with that then YOU ARE THE RACIST!
The interesting point here is less than 50 years from now, whites will actually be the minority in America….THEN they can officially use the racist word and be somewhat justified, but even then it will come with a slew of conditions.
That might be the most ridiculously assinine comment I’ve ever seen. A person is exempt from being a racist simply because he/she is the minority? So you’re saying that as a white male, I am immune to the effects of unwarranted hatred (bigotry, not racism, mind you)? Your comment underlines an intense disdain for whites. Again, this is a prejudice, not racism. However, assuming that you are not a white person, and you are commenting about special favors afforded to your own race, then you are, in fact, the racist here. Please contain your ignorance.
Not only can I judge what is racist, but I for one will take umbrage at such slander. Being called a racist by a racist will be considered a provocation by me. Words have consequences, and you would be best served by remembering that.
As Niki Minaj said to Tyler..go blank yourself! Who are YOU to say that anyone who disagrees with what you typed is a racist? I grew up defending blacks from my own father’s racist comments and I happen to disagree vehemently with what you wrote..but I am still a racist in your eyes, eh????
What? You have some kind of point to make?
Should read, ‘through the mud…’
Bob Dylan wouldn’t stand a chance in front of any panel of any judges on any show on any channel. The times they have a changed. For the worse I might add. Look at where we are. It’s 1984 and people, zombies, are walking towards the next big thing. Human nature is our only obstacle from something besides this.
Your right, just look at any of the “music” awards shows lately. The big winner last week was Justin Bieber! I’m sorry but the stuff he puts out and 99% of the rest of it ( including Miss Minaj) is all manufactured music. All Stevenwas trying to say was that she wouldn’t recognize talent if it came up and knocked that fake blonde wig off her head.
Bob Dylan didn’t have a killer voice. He was a fantastic songwriter and musician, so of course he wouldn’t make it on a show dedicated to vocal performance.
Sounds like this season’s Idol will be all about the two female judges, so not worth watching. These shows work when they are about the contestants.
Yep, racism in America has officially “jumped the shark”. Thank God.
Great Comment, Jim S!
You know, that is the best description ever.
Unfortunately, I believe you are incorrect. It’s just getting a second wind, and it is all pointed at a reversal. Now the pendulum swings the other way. The course of human events is traversing a well told path, that few care to listen to. So the pretty pink-haired upstart thinks the old white guy is racist; it’s not like we haven’t heard that story, but that’s the one that’s working these days. Who cares about this vapid show anyway? I watched the first 5 or 6 seasons . . when it was still about music, somewhat. Randy is the only smart one out of anybody . . including Simon Cowel. He just sits back unassuming and rakes in the dollars, all the way to the bank. lol
That’s a great comment! Unfortunately anyone who is not old enough to know where this saying comes from is usually part of the problem of people not being able to think for themselves and are used to being told what they are supposed to like. Hence daft shows like this.
It is really getting sad that anytime some people are critiqued in a way they do not agree with, when all else fails cry racism. Enough is enough already.
no not because of race but because you have NO TALENT and couldnt spot talent if it was right in front of you
That is absurd! She is just proving her intelligence and ignorance. What he said has nothing to do with her being black, it has to do with what her ‘talents’ are. She is a product and not an artist… that’s what he was pointing out.
Unfortunately, using the race card these days is completely out of ignorance and not knowing how to respond to anything intelligent…
This show is getting awfully desperate.
It seems to me that the only way this show can keep it’s ratings is to attract new viewers. That’s why you have Nicki Minaj on the panel. She appeals to younger viewers. I am sure this show sheds viewers every year. I pretty much quit watching after season 7, myself. Nicki Minaj is an idiot for making this a race thing. Can’t have a discussion in this nation without that idiocy anymore.
Why why why is EVERYTHING racial to some people
Because that is the only way they can win an argument. The race card is really getting old and doesn’t work anymore.
Because they profit from it – it is an all-purpose excuse for any and all of their own behavior.
More manufactured controversy to drum up interest in a declining show. Sad.
Didn’t work for X Factor, won’t work for Idol.
Good grief! Just because someone disagrees with how unprofessionally conduct yourself, that doesn’t make him a racist! Until we can have dialogues upon the merits of our ideals instead of reverting to hurtful racial innuendo as our only defense, we are lost. And, no doubt, we break Dr. King’s heart again and again! Stop trying to play the race card when someone calls you out to behave like a grownup! I can’t believe we have come to the day when I have to defend the maturity and wisdom of Steven Tyler, but on this of occasion, he has earned it!
I won’t be watching IDOL anymore.
Dude, I said that in 2007. It’s been in a death spiral for years. Minaj is the death rattle.
Evidently, no one can make a comment about ANYTHING if a black person is involved. No matter what is said you are labeled a racist. Tyler was pointing out Minaj is an unlikely devotee of single, guitar playing song writers, which last season’s winner
Is there anything that isn’t racist? What part of what Tyler posted was supposed to be racist? Talking about a corn field? I can think of a half dozen other and more likely explanations. Maybe if he’d posted something about cotton fields but even then, seriously, what the heck?
Actually, the comment about sending someone “to the cornfield” was from the Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” in which a young Billy Mumy controlled the town and could send those he didn’t like “to the cornfield” from which they would never return.
Tyler is right. Dylan would have had a shot on Idol the last two seasons. He knows this to be the case because he was one of the judges.
Like your temper, talent & range, your assertion is pretty weak, Nicki. Maybe when you’ve been in the business 35 years, you can accuse someone who actually has been in the business 35 years of something. But since you’re still burning your 15 minutes like a candle @ both ends, be a good girl, put your head down & pray you still have a career when you finish your ignorant cup of STFU.
Wow, nicely done.
Aww you said it just like Nicki would.
Often those who are too lazy or unsophisticated to render an intelligent opinion resort to name calling often calling someone a racist. That usually stops any discussion dead in its tracks.
When that does happen ( and it has ) I just laugh MAO and that really confuses the one making the racist accusation. Then when they ask what’s so funny, I can give them an intelligent remark to their stupid accusation