Hung for the Holidays, William Hung (Koch)

I mostly punted on "American Idol" related stuff this year (the same goes for the Jessica Simpson holiday collection) under the theory that George Huff and Clay Aiken need little help from me to promote their network-friendly fare. Also, it wasn't as if anybody wrote in to thank me for backhanding 2003's American Idol holiday collection into the cheap seats anyway. Now as for William Hung, well, this was the guy everybody loved to hate on "American Idol" a while back, and now he not only has a regular album, he has this nine-cut holiday CD to his name in 2004, although three cuts are just him emoting holiday platitudes over a musical bed. I'm at a loss as to why anybody would give this guy good money to record -- in terms of singing ability, he's about equal to the runner-up on karaoke night in any small town in America. Nor is this album as absolutely terrible as some of the outraged denizens of the Amazon message boards would have you believe. You could put this on during a Christmas party and no one would pay any attention to it. So it's neither good in the conventional sense, nor does it have that so-bad-it's good thing going on that might win it a slot on a future John Waters holiday collection.