Last night on American Idol, contestant Luke Menard (the one that looks like a homeless Dawson Leary) showed America how he is involved in an acappella group.

Let’s be honest for a moment.  No good has ever come from admitting that you were/are currently in an acappella group.  (Unless you were in the early 90’s fad group, Rockapella, which even then is a stretch because as much as Zombie Jamboree was a decent song, they sold out to provide the musical baselines for the TV show Carmen Sandiego and thus ruined their careers).

Luke then compounded an already bad situation by declaring that the group’s name is called CHAPTER 6.  Is it some kind of madrigal code that if you sing without instruments that your group’s name needs to be so ridiculously awful as to let potential music buyers know to stay away at all costs?  Kind of like advertising that Billy Baldwin is in your movie for movie goers?

The Coup De Gras was when they showed the video of Chapter Six.  If you didn’t see it, imagine 6 guys, who make Backstreet Boys look tough, coming out of a J Crew during their annual sweater vest sale.  I wish they had put up a parental warning because I really hope that no young children saw what these men (and I use that term loosely) were doing and said “Hey Mom, I want to try that!”  If you asked Webster to come up with one word to describe these boys it would be….TOOLS.

Hopefully, Luke gets sent home this week and the stench of nerdy accapellaness will stop emitting from my television.  Or maybe Luke can be that guy, who finally makes listening to accapella cool and socially acceptable.  It’s up to you America!