I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.