Their duel wasn't girl vs. guy, power vs. sex appeal, or pop vs. rock.
Its new album, "Take It to the Limit" (Universal), seesaws between rockers about being a hot-to-trot bad boy and good-guy power ballads about being grown-up and heartbroken.
He's every newsroom's resident incorrigible, the star of outrageous anecdotes calculated to elicit sighs of "What a guy!" Power women of grit and intelligence drift in and out of the proceedings, but Cowell's perspective is unapologetically testosterone-driven.
As comic-book fans know, the Selina Kyle character is the secret identity of Batman's sometime paramour (and sometime foe) Catwoman, and Bane is a muscular bad guy powered by an addictive drug called Venom.
But the "someone" is always deemed to be the bad guys in power, isn't it?
"I think we have a great variety of types of players here: guys with power, guys with speed, guys that have a lot of versatility".
If the TV hosts think they can pry something surprising out of these guys, more power to them.
Women bodybuilding, male bodybuilding, the freaks, the good-looking guys, the power lifters, the weight lifters — everyone had to come together to make it grow.
You think back to the old days of I.C.M. and C.A.A. and all those guys in power suits bursting into immense volcanic eruptions of foul language".
They've still got to throw it over the plate, and if they make a mistake and your guys have power, you've still got that chance of changing the game".
