Unlike the wide world of sports, in the music business, everyone hates a winner. Whether it's the highest level of American Idol-manufactured cheese or a cheesy battle-of-the-bands in some bar on Whyte Avenue, the price of victory is often nothing more than scorn.
Ask Kenton Thomas. When he's not singing with his band Portal, he works at HMV and sees this sort of thing all the time: Popstars, Starsearch, American Idol, remember Sugar Jones?
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