Taylor Comes Under Fire

The New York Post’s Dan Aquilante has slammed Taylor’s debut single. The “if you can’t do, critique” critic muses that:

“As for Hicks, the man whose inner Joe Cocker helped him win the competition, his “Do I Make You Proud?” is a ball and chain that drags itself into death throes as his gritty tenor attempts to overcome the mush. “

And…

We’re the ones who’ll have to listen to Taylor Hicks crooning “Do I Make You Proud?” and Katharine McPhee warbling “My Destiny,” the terrible pre-fab pop ballads concocted as their debut radio singles.

Thankfully, Aquilante gives us some background on why these awful, awful, awful tunes were chosen. How?

Since Season 5 bowed back in January, the executives at 19 Management have been searching for these final original songs. According to reports, there were more then 200 tunes in contention and a 19 executive named Iain Pirie picked those two duds.

Yeah, an executive picked the best song for the artists out of ones that had been written by someone else, and ones that weren’t even written for them.

Ugh. I mean the song really was awful. It deserves to be lambasted and, really, it doesn’t paint Taylor very well for his new musical career. I can see using it for the finale, after all it probably works on TV. But on radio? Ugh. Poor Taylor.