Ashamed

Everyone is talkin' about it. The proof? The video of the misdeed is jumpin' on YT from Sunday and both foreign websites and papers are writin' about. I'm doin' too, first of all because I love music, then because I hate unprofessionalism and fakes know-it-all.
Let's get to the point: how can a band punks so easily, so well a national TV show? Well, when it comes to Italy everything is actually possible.
Last Sunday, Muse were supposed to "play" on mime their new song "Uprising" in the Italian show "Quelli che il calcio"; they've obviously disagreed w/the idea that it's not possible for a band to perform live, so what did they thought? Let's mock who doesn't recognize the value of a live performance and how it's still so offensive for someone be obliged to mime. That's when Matt-the-singer becomes the drummer, Dominic-the-drummer becomes the singer...a mess; a funny mess for their fans, an embarrassing one for Simona Ventura and her staff. To see Matt's face and movements at the moment has been really priceless, to see Ventura interviewing Dominc believing to be talking to Matt has been even better.
The best thing about this show into the show is that music finally wins above those who pretend to be music fans or, even worst, well prepared about the topic.
If you're not Italian you probably don't have the pleasure to know Simona Ventura; unfortunately, we have this lucky break. The most worrying thing is that she's been one of the judges in the Italian edition of the English format "X Factor" for two long years; so, for two long years, she's been responsible for the future of lots of young guys that probably love and respect music much more than her. She's been, for two long years, on every screen and paper telling us how good she is in music and she's been, for even more time, on every screen and paper telling us how good she is at all, at doing everything.
Yep, but then you host someone on your show and you don't even know his face. Speaking about Sunday, not only their faces: she doesn't know Muse at all. She calls them "THE" Muse, she doesn't almost know their names (while, according to the questions she has done, she's pretty cool on gossip) and, possibly the worst thing of all, she's got an entourage exactly like her: none told her she was interviewing the wrong person, none told her about what was going on from the very beginning. Yeah, absurd but real.
She's just come out for what she really is: unprofessional. Let's even say she doesn't know for real one of the best known rock band of the planet, but how is it possible to invite someone at your place and don't even do a research about when you know that you're not prepared to that? By the way, it's quite clear how she's reading the Autocue while introducing them...
But, after all, this is just the Italian way; it's the Italian way for everything, the mirror of our professionals.
Someone's got Letterman, others's got Ventura. That's just the way it goes, life is a bitch, uh?
Anyway, today someone swears to have listen her exclaiming "John who?!" after someone told her about a certain Lennon...
Yeah, life is a bitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTt8Noi5Rk