In case you were tuning in to Saturday Night Live this weekend for the music and not the...ahem...comedy, there's been a change in the schedule. Janet Jackson is evidently ill and has canceled her appearance. She spent some time at Cedars Sinai hospital earlier this week due to a particularly nasty case of the flu. Mariah Carey will take her place.

This makes me wonder whether people tune in to SNL for the musical acts. I have to admit that I usually fast-forward through the musical performances. Maybe there is something about the sound on that stage, but performers rarely sound good. Or maybe it's just the performers themselves who only sound good on an album. I think I've tuned in to SNL to see Barenaked Ladies perform and that's about it. Oh, and Beck is always pretty rad when he's on.

Does anybody watch SNL just for the music?