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Tonight on American Idol, dreams are stamped out at twice the speed!
I’ll still take your credit card number, honey. Don’t cry. BUY.
We start off with the poor blind guy staring off into space while Tink touches a homely girl. The touch healed the girl. Not of her homeliness, Lord bless her, but of her fear of dorky dancing.
Sorry Scott, but Tink can only make you whiter. Maybe lasik?
Randy’s back to his too femme to be gay wardrobe tonight, and I suddenly remember why I like him again.
He can wear the fugliest clothes in the world, but dagnabbit he’s gonna find sunglasses to match that shit.
Now for a montage of this group’s path to Idol: You Ugly sobs with lipstick all over her face while she stares at a cracked mirror, Blind Guy hums his audition song and tries to play a game of Batlleship by himself, Lil affixes hula hoops to her ears while her three kids sob about her stealing their only toys, Reborn pokes holes in his face with knitting needles and screams at his Meemaw for not loving him enough to buy him tickets to a Duff concert, the Puerto Rican Sammy Davis Jr sells fruit and chile on La Brea, Pacitti is handed a Little Orphan Annie Wig and told that the Other Simon has changed his cell number so stop calling, and this little pasty kid stands in the mirror trying on cheesy hats and making sexy faces.
That’s some heartwarming stuff. And now for the group number! Today it will be Katy Perry’s “Hot and Cold”. Tink says “their friendships are tight, but how bout their choreography?” You really want an answer? I haven’t even watched it and I can already tell you that they can’t even snap and sway at the same time. The girls start on the balcony. You Ugly tries to make sexy face and of course fails miserably and Cute Girl doesn’t know any of the words. I find it hilarious that Cute Girl hates being called cute but then she wears a Shirley Temple ribbon taped to the side of her head.
Yeah, you’re mouth should be open right now.
The guys sit on the stage and sing up to the balcony. It’s like Romeo and Juliet!! How cute. My favorite part of that play is the double suicide. I hope they go there. And wow. The HAIR. Blind Guy is the only one with an excuse. A hot brother who doesn’t wanna be upstaged. Did you think I was gonna say blindness? Seriously though, hot brother, help your bro out! How does he get away with that? It’s handicap abuse! I have a feeling Reborn watched a lot of Tammy Faye when he was a youngin.
The Lord loves yeeaoooou! Send us money.
Samuel Davis Junior looks like he’s pooing while Ju’Not ignores it and Eyebags tries to wave off the stank.
Oh man. I just realized who Reborn looks like. Does anyone watch Big Love? Reborn is Margie’s nosy neighbor/friend, but with way worse hair.
Sure enough, the group all starts snapping and no one is on the same beat. Especially Eye Bags, who can’t remember the words or the beat or even why he’s here.
Sugar, take a nap.
I would swear from watching this that Blind Guy isn’t blind, cuz he keeps staring straight into the camera while shouting words after the phrase has been sung and randomly punching the air off rhythm as they all do some kind of weird couch dance. I’m not saying nothing’s wrong with him, but it has less to do with vision and more to do with general …awkwardness.
Timmay!
When they’re done they have a seat to wait for results and Tink asks how they are. Blind Guy laughs uproariously. LOL. Clips from last night. Painful enough the first time. FF.
Tink asks Reborn if he went home and made self pity holes in his thighs last night after he was made fun of by the judges and most likely all of America. Well, he like had fun and just wanted to have fun and they said he was fun so it was like totally fun! Would he have changed anything? NO IT WAS FUN GODDAMMIT! Tink points out that he’s headbandless and Reborn says that he couldn’t find the right baby blue to match his tight woman jeans and if he doesn’t make it tonight and is brought back for Wild Card he’ll show the judges that he has an awesome amazing voice “that you just haven’t heard yet!” I’ll give him that one.
Samuel Davis Jr. is so happy to have the shance to be here, Felicia says she showed her heart on her sleeve, and Ju’Not had an asthma attack today. Alright, drama queen. Yesterday a cortizone shot, today an asthma attack. This is why we should all rally against socialized medicine. People like Ju’Not’ll cost this country a fortune. And now for some results.
Lil’s in! Tink asks how she feels to be in the Top 12 and she shouts that she feels like she’s in the Top 12. Alright so she’s not gonna be the best at interviews. She gets to sing again, but this time that shit’s way sped up. Way to rush a sista! I didn’t even have to FF, which is how I know that she didn’t nail the final note again. Tink stands half of the rest of em up and says that only one is through. Everyone standing looks really depressed cuz Blind Guy is standing too and America likes nothing more than to pat ourselves on the back for being good people. As long as it doesn’t cost us anything. And he’s in!! Hot brother is excited and homely sister is eye fucking the camera.
Back off, slut!
He sings that crap song again and it doesn’t sound sped up. No fair! His performance is as boring as last night.
Scariest crossover ever.
Your show’s really engaging and realistic and not a rip off of The Mentalist at all. There. Happy?
Reborn and You Ugly are outsies, which makes Paula and Simon horny.
EW! Make them stop!
Von, who has ditched the fauxhawk for the Big Boy Hamburger guy’s hair, is up next with the Annie understudy.
Well you’ve got the parakeet vote.
Tink reminds Von that Simon said he was like “his friend Gayken” and Simon LOL’s at that one. They haven’t spoken since they got caught on webcam together. They’re both out! Samuel Davis Jr. and Ju’Not are up next. Ju’Not prays and Samuel waves to the girls and half winks. Or keeps his face still. I can’t tell. Samuel’s in! This was a bad day for prayer’s reputation. Simon gives an shifty disappointed look right to the camera.
There you go Rosalita, I told you I wasn’t racist, are you happy? Now you can stop pretending you don’t know English and take out the damn trash before you leave for the day.
Samuel babbles in Spanish, but doesn’t get to sing again. Tink says that we’re moving straight on to Wild Card! Saweet. I’m confused. Tink says all the people who haven’t moved on are in the balcony, but I only count 20. There are nine passed through already, so where are the other seven? Someone please explain.
I hope you don’t mind, but it’s list time. Von, Jasmine, Ricky, and Megan (OH COME ON!!! The pretty girl who SUCKS. Why am I so surprised? Why am I so angry? Dunno but I just keep typing.) are in. Randy prefaces the next announcement with a warning that this season is about entertainment. They unanimously chose Tatianna! LOL. YAAAY!!! She balls and throws herself all over the place and jerks her head around and acts like a nutcase. At least she can sing. Matt’s next in a khaki chef’s jacket (?), and he’s followed by Bette Davis Forehead. The last spot goes to “one of the easiest decisions of the eight”, Anoop! He doesn’t look too happy, but it might be because he’s got a giant forehead in his face. Puerto Rican Sammy Davis Jr. sings us out and makes lazy eyed sexy face at the cameras.
Have a Certs, Jezebel.
AND NOW! ON TO WILD CARD!!!!
Tink says tonight is about redemption, which I assume means that there’s gonna be some sort of apology.
I’m waiting.
Paula is wearing a gay leopard tonight.
If PETA doesn’t go after her the same way they would if she was wearing a straight leopard, I’m gonna be really pissed.
Never mind! All is forgiven, PETA! Way to keep with the redemption theme.
Bette Davis Forehead is first.
“Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it’s because I’m not a bitch. Maybe that’s why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.”
She is singing “Tell Me Something Good”. I don’t know if it’s the arrangement or what, but she is in a different key than the band. Her voice gets shaky but it’s from fear and who can blame her? What a stupid song to sing as your last chance. She needed to wail and she pretty much just growled off key. Randy liked the song but she missed a lot of notes and it was just ok. Skara says it was wonky but “you have a swagger!” It’s called pelvic gyrations, not swaggering. Get your “horrible dancing” terms straight, Skara. Paula loved her, and Simon says that she was very last minute in the decision making process and he’s glad they went with her even though her performance was indulgent. He adds that she has a good voice. Not tonight, but as long as they keep telling us that maybe we’ll eventually believe it.
Matt’s next in his Banana Republic Kitchen garb. As if to kiss the judges’ asses, he offers them all some gum.
Yikes. No. Put that away you’re on TV.
“Who’s Lovin’ You?” is his choice because he was told to be more bluesy. And bluesy he is. His song is one long riff broken up only by a straw fedora and a scarf. He can sing his ass off, and he does sing his ass off. That’s what they asked for and he delivered. Way too much on the riffy riff, but he nails every single one and every fals riff as well. Damn. Nice! I feel bad for his goofball friends, who you know get all the residual tang Gum passes up at the piano bar.
How are we supposed to get laid now? DON’T TAKE HIM FROM US!
Skara says it was a little over the top but he was great, Paula says to never change from this style, Simon says it was a billion times better than last week but his outfit is trying way too hard and he saw a bit too much Taylor Hicks showing through. And the audience boos! HAHAHAH. Poor Taylor Hicks. Randy says hot and yeeeah. Gums tells Tink that he’s been singing this song forever, and his cool act is working cuz Tink calls him “brah”. Head slap.
Megan, the pretty girl, sings that girl under a cherry tree song. She does that same fakey cartoon voice, and she still misses half her notes and grinds off key. And she’s still very pretty. She switches up into her belt for a bit but misses it completely and then screeches out a high note at the end. The best part was her floppy handed awkward hip jerky dancing. She’s lame. Paula likes her and thinks that she picked the right song. Simon thinks she’s terrific and “current”. WHAT? SHE SUCKS ASS. He finishes with “it’s not the best vocal we’ve ever heard”, but then he shrugs and the audience claps like that was a huge compliment. Randy agrees that the vocal was mediocre but she’ll make a lot of records. Skara says she’s unique. Two out of four of the judges said you weren’t the best vocal! You’re in! LAME.
Wow what a gorgeous….you’re in!
Von’s up next with “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word”, and he is careful to whisper the opening so he doesn’t get in trouble for yelling. It’s pretty off key and blah. He gets way better when he starts belting. His voice sounds great and we get to see the Jack in the Box head pop when he reaches for high notes.
He does a nice job, def better than the first time, but Gums blew him out of the water. Simon says that the song was ok but he’s boring. Randy liked the hat and vibe from the other night and he was too serious tonight and couldn’t find the pitch. Skara says it was way too dark and he has what it takes but he hasn’t hit his stride. Von looks like he wants to cry. Paula says that she’s been watching him closely and looks forward to getting a chance to sexually assault him in the men’s room if he makes it.
Ah well, maybe you can replace poor Jack.
Jasmine’s next with “Reflection” by Christina. Dang! Girl grew some balls! It’s a shaky start, but she jumps into her belt and starts to kick ass. She’s a tough one, because most of it’s good but when she misses notes with that nasal twang she’s got going on, it’s painful. I’m just impressed she can sing this well. You wouldn’t know it from the last time. She ends in the top of her voice and nails the soft and beautiful notes. Some of that was just hurtful, but when it was good it was great. I’m confused.
Randy is confused too. He says when it was good it was good but she missed some notes. He adds that the first time was terrible so this was a vast improvement. Skara says she’s confused because she didn’t know there was that big of a voice inside. Paula thinks it was pretty good, but she doesn’t sound too into it. Simon tells her she’s not giving Jasmine enough credit and Paula gets defensive because she called Jasmine lovely and said she did a wonderful job. Simon retorts that he’ll go one step further and comment on something besides her outfit. LOL. He says that her song was special and even though it was too big for her, she’s back in the running.
Braddy’s next, and he’s singing “Superstitious”. Again his voice is gorgeous, but it’s hard to hear it because I’m laughing so hard at his sorry white boy moves.
Stevie can dance better than that, man!
His vocal is impressive and flawless, but damn no matter how hard he tries he’s just so damn boring. He’s also wearing a fauxhawk. This show is killing me with that haircut. This guy just sang in at least three octaves and nailed every noetzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Skara says he sings great and loosened up, Paula says he nailed it and had fun, Simon says he did sound good but the performance was clumsy. That was a very nice way of putting it. Randy thinks the song was self indulgent, which is tonight’s “relevant”. And now for a shot of Chola Bangs. YAAAY!
After Reborn lost she pushed his pansy ass down and stole his pants. Atta girl, Chola!
Tati’s next, and her pre interview is brilliant. Here is a reenactment of it. AI hates when we post video of the show, so I will be playing the part of Tatiana. My accent’s a bit too thick, so to compensate, imagine me in that swimsuit top she’s wearing.
Tati is singing Whitney’s “Saving All of My Love For You”. AGAIN. Why, girl ? Why? If at first you don’t succeed, CHANGE YOUR CRAZY ASS. She starts soft and flat, and her outfit is deliriously misguided. Glitter and glitter don’t go together, Sybil! Unless it’s one color. OH GOD WHY AM I STILL TYPING?!?! She does way better once she gets going and wails it out. She slams all the high notes and riffs. Hate her all you want. Bitch can sing. The best part is of course after she nails the final note and then fake breaks down.
Tie her to a train track already.
Tati starts screaming that she loves the judges and they make fun of her for suddenly having an accent. She says she’s like Jorge and thinks in Spanish when she’s nervous. Nice try but that charm has already been used up. Steal from someone else. She starts babbling and going nuts. Simon gives her crap for singing the same song for the third time. She says she couldn’t learn another song in one day and he calls bs. She doesn’t shut up. I love it. She says if it ain’t broke why fix it and he says if it wasn’t broken in the fist place she would have moved on. LOL. Skara says it’s like “The Adventures of Tatiana” and she has a different personality every time they see her. HAHAHAHAH. She’s out, I’m sure, but man she’s funny.
She drops into a beg squat at the judges and I have a feeling there’s no undies there. Tink tells her she doesn’t have to get up so she squats again and grosses everyone out.
Even her jayjay repeats the same old routines.
Anoop is last, which means he’s in because that’s the ass kiss spot. He says he’s here to stay! And then he sings the Britney version of “My Perogative” again. HUH??? Way to prove your singing chops with a song by someone who doesn’t even try to pretend she knows how to sing. AGAIN. He tries to be all cool and it’s so funny. Dude stop struggling so hard to dance like a white guy. I don’t even know how his vocal is because his dancing is so stupid. When I’ve stopped coughing after my hearty laugh, he’s boning a riff and beating his chest. The audience is going crazy. I don’t get it. Simon says it’s been a strange night and Anoop is an enthusiastic dog. He’s not the best singer, but people like him. He warns us that he’s not just going to put decent singers in, he’s also gonna put in personalities. Skara wanted to dance, and Paula says that everyone loved him. And, of course, he’s RELEVANT. Cuz it wouldn’t be a full night without that word.
Anoop says that he loves Chapel Hill and his thoughts are with them and Eve, which I guess is a dead chick cuz he pointed to the sky. Save it, Anoop! We’re not voting! Save dead Eve for next week! OK I’m guessing Gums, Anoop and the pretty girl who can’t sing for shite. The contestants are brought up one by one for the news directly from the judges. Jasmine’s in! I should have guessed cuz she’s like ten years old and the judges love to feast on baby flesh. Braddy’s back to a life of Chicken Fingers, which ought to make his family happy.
I prayed all day that Chicken Fingers would win!
The pretty girl and Tati are up together. Paula babbles on about them continuing their dreams and crap. And they’re going with the pretty sucky girl! GODDAMMIT! How is that right?!? Tati breaks down, and Paula tells her that they love her and she’s brilliant while Tati begs at the judges’ table. Paula tells her it’s not the end for her and she’ll also be an actress. LOL and BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLSHIT.
I’m sorry I sold the ring but I was hungry!
ARGH the show went over and my dvr didn’t get it, so I have no idea who won the last spot. Hold on let me search the net. What is this, the Oscars? They can just go over? I blame Paula. Anoop made it, and so did Gums! Wow so there are thirteen? Alright I just did two recaps so you guys recap the last part in the comments for me so I can have something to read in the morning. LOVE
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great recap flipit! It’s my first post here but after the debacle the past two nights I had to comment.
Really? Megan? I would take Johnny Lang’s sister over her.
And I am furious over the blind guy who “cannot” sing getting in.
Okay I would write more, but I want to be sucessful so I am going to go gouge out my eyeballs!
I’m totally cool with the Top 13. I am SO not a fan of Danny or Lil and most of the others are just meh, but my favorites – Matt, Alexis, Adam, Anoop, Scott, Jorge and Allison – got in, so I’m happy.
There are some who I think really deserved a WC spot that didn’t get one though – namely Ju’Not and Mishavonna. I think Mishavonna should have had Megan’s spot, honestly. I really thought that her vocal was one of the best of the girls in all of the groups. Ah well.
Great as always, especially the captions!! Ok, they brought Anoop and Gums up together, and destroyed all of Anoop’s dreams by putting Gums through. Then, Simon says, “Oh yeah, by the way, we just decided to change everything, and have a Top 13.” Which means, Anoop is IN! Well, he will be once they use the defibrillator and bring him back from his heart attack, poor thing!
Poor Tati, that’s all I can say about her.
I thought Scott was the best chair sitter and finger pointer of the bunch!!!
Okay, Flipit, one thing you missed that I hoped you’d catch was that when they picked Megan and outted Tati, everyone was so concerned over Tati’s impending suicide attempt that they just kind of shoved Megan over to the stools to fawn over Tati. Poor Megan just kinda stood there bewildered. Like it was some kind of tragedy.
Then the show was over really fast once they announced Anoop and Gums.
This show might actually be interesting. Especially when Lil gets knocked out before Megan due to “relevance”!!
Hahaha.
Love.
Anoop actually sang the Bobby version of “My Prerogative”. The original one.
My husband is totally convinced this is ‘the best group of singers on AI ever’ But he’s totally tone deaf so I guess he gets a pass.
Did anyone notice when the group came down to hug Anoop, how they all left Scott the blind guy just sitting there? No one helped him, and his hot handler had to come and guide him down to the group. We found that pretty hysterical.
I’m still annoyed Ju’Not didn’t make it into the wild card, I thought he was pretty awesome. Alot of those wildcards were just awful.
Ick. Worst season ever.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking “Bob’s Big Boy hair!” toward Von, I was calling him Bob all night. LOL.
Hate that Jasmine and Megan got in. They are terrible. Oy
YAY Flip, I just love your recaps. The wild card show was total BS and I loved how the judges “deliberated” for the length of a commercial break. Yeah right, like they didn’t already know who they wanted.
And we here in Raleigh, NC LOVE Anoop. UNC is just down the road from here. Anoop gave a shout out to Eve Carson, UNC’s student body president, because yesterady was the year anniversary of her death. Kind of a big deal around here. Just letting you know. Thanks for the recaps!!
Things that drive me insane:
1. Kara’s fake “s” sound, where she deliberately contorts her mouth to where the “s” sounds like “sh”. At times she’ll pronounce the “s” normally. I know other people who do that, too and I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with them either.
2. The contrived way Matt is being styled to look like Justin Timberlake. The guy has a good voice; why dress him up like someone he sort of resembles only so he can continually fail to be the real thing while his own personality takes a back seat?
3. Freakin’ Creakin’ Megan. WTF, she sucked.
Thing that I love:
1. How Kara’s over-indulgent, pseudo-observational and desperately specific commentary is making Paula try harder this season. I actually look forward to hearing Paula’s comments now.
Thank you for the Bare Skin not Bearskin. Give me some more of that.
I did listen to your Tatiana re-enactment. You said that we were supposed to envision you in the same swimsuit top Tatiana was wearing but my question is, “Do they make swimsuit tops big enough to fit you?”
P.S. Don’t give up your writing gig for acting. That would be a mistake.
As a gay man I don’t know what a “jay jay” or a “tang” is so maybe you can give that to me on the downlow.
Finally, when I read this following sentence, “Samuel Davis Jr. is so happy to have the shance to be here” I thought, “He is such a bitch!” But let me tell you something, sweetpea, I was laughing while I was calling you a bitch. That was some funny stuff. I have a feeling Jorge is going to get the Flipit treatment and I’m kinda looking forward to it.
This season is terrible. I can’t believe Pretty Tattoo girl got in. She was awful! Simon called Gums try-hard but what about Pretty and her stupid dancing and fakey cartoon singing? Lame! I feel bad for Mishavonna. Her little piggie nostrils ruined her chances. I’m sorry to see Tati the Bull go. The way she annoyed Simon was wonderful and her voice was pretty amazing.
Megan? Really? That girl makes me want to poke my eardrums out with an ice pick! And her stupid little dance should be outlawed. If I don’t look at Anoop I can get behind his singing, but when I look at him all I see is a little Ray Romano. But I like him. LOL at Timmay!
Love you flipit!
One word: Timay!
I will be laughing about that caption all day. Yes I’m going to hell but so what- I’ll have Flipit to keep me company. I was really bummed Ju-not didn’t get a WC. I don’t like that they have the same # of girls to guys when there are way better guy singers that should have some of the girl spots. And I guess the rumor of BGBF Jamar coming back was just that a rumor……bummer.
A couple-a things here:
Flip: awesome as always, and DVR has a feature where you can automatically record 10 minutes over. After I my DVR kicked off last finale right after Tink said “the winner is… David…” I figured it out.
Megan-hippie-hippie-shake-Joy Corkerey: never doubted for a second she would make it in. Because she’s great? Hell no! Because the judges have had a collective chubby for her and Jasmine ever since ever, and either one of them could have sung “I’m a little teapot” and it wouldn’t have affected their “Relevance”. Saw that coming from a mile away. Don’t forget, the judges can’t stop America from voting their butts off the show.
Gums is awesome, and I was wondering how they were going to deal with the whole Anoop/Gums dilemma, but I guess they figured it out. I guess if things don’t work out for Anoop, he could always go back to H&R Block.
I’m not as optimistic this season as I was last. (Must be the economy.) My big hope (other than an occasional costume malfunction) is that someone will improve dramatically and surprise and delight us all (my other hope is that I’ll win the lottery without having bought a ticket).
Only made it through the first page, but I have a question. Do I automatically go to hell since my first thought after that group performance was to dump Scotty so we don’t have to suffer through weeks of couch dancing?
Tadow, I’ll see you there!!! I”m afraid couch dancing is waaaay tooo lame!!!! Surely he could just stand in the center while the other’s swirl around him . . . I’ll give him props, as he’s never had sight, so to mime out all the moves based on training is great for him. Should he be here–NO–is he a sweet guy and an inspiration–perhaps–does it matter–Guess not!!! I could not bear to hear him sing that song again, and I FFed my way to a one way hell ticket . . .
Tati F’ed that one–Grrrrrl, I was pulling for your dramatic ass, but when you sang that song yet again, sad horns for you. I also thought the beginning was awful and squinty. The accent wasn’t going to help you with the judges . . . aduh . . . but good luck on the William Hung route to fame! Wasn’t she the one that did song after song on her first try out . . . I’m just sayin’
and yeah, Megan, Saw that one comin’ for miles, I knew the first time, but I’m sorry, I think she may be the worst performer of all, those stupid booty shakes, I think AI wants a winehouse/duffy all their own–Good luck with that, Adele can wipe the floor with her . . .right!? I actually think, if they wanted a cute blonde, country Kendall was far better, looking, sounding and moving . . . not that that means she was great or anything . . .
Anoop, glad he’s got fans, meh to me, but he does make it one extra boy.
so, gums is one of my favorites, but I ain’t never gonna go for those f’in fedora’s–HATE_HATE_HATE– I never knew I’d grow to see Darren Stevens be a fashion trend setter . . . and Justin Timbah–Oh lord–NOT!!! Do I even have to mention the scarf–this is why I have no taste and will never be with the in-crowd. Back to singing tho–Boy’s got the music in him, and me likey, I think I would like Scott hella better if he was feelin’ the music like this guy, coz it doesn’t take peepers to feel, yes–hope he takes him out in the competition, and that is all.
Overall, I like Danny (go ‘head, throw stones) Gums, and Allison–I’ll be good with hearing Lil, Kris, Jorge and Adam sing, the rest meh. I do hope Megan can deliver a Winehouse sound, but voice wise, there were better choices for the raspy chick . . .
So, Flipit, thanks ever so much as always for your speedy recaps, and how ’bout that “unofficial” pool . . . thoughts? I can help ya keep score if you like, or we can take turns . . . lemme know!
And thanks to all of you, guess this is my yearly obsession, and I can’t help but go on . . .
And Scara (or thumper hunch back) a “package” artist should not be in a singing competition, there’s not time to auto-tune here–#*)($#*%)*$#(*$)
I also like Danny. But I fear that there are too many haters out there. Just remember Idol fans — he’s not the one promoting his dead wife — it’s the shows producers.
I couldn’t believe some of the choices they made last night — or should I say the other night since you know there’s no way that they decided in a commercial break.
Jasmine-No; Megan-Double No. The guys I could live with.
I read somewhere (maybe on this site) that Felicia had a bad attitude the other night when she didn’t make it through. I don’t remember that and I already deleted from the DVR.
Oh, well — let’s see what happens next week.
Uh, as I’ve said before Danny is a WILLING PARTICIPANT in exploiting his wife’s death. He searched out American Idol, he auditioned for American Idol and he told American Idol about his dead wife.
Danny has exploited his wife’s death to win sympathy and to win votes.
He obviously has no shame.
The instant Matt G started to sing, I thought: “Damn, he just kicked Hokey Gokey’s ass.” Although MG kind of spoiled things by going way over the top. I don’t understand what he hopes to get out of this show though. I mean, he should be growing a little jazz ‘stache and doing the Tom Waits thing. This is a pop show. How’s he going to compete?
But I gotta say: you people are all wrong about Megan. She’s the best of the singers in this bunch. Not technically, sure. But the best singers aren’t always technically perfect anyway. I’m saying artistically she’s the best. I’m willing to be that given the chance to grow over the next few weeks, she’ll be a real contender in this competition. (And it’s not because she’s so damn pretty –and yeah, I’m a sucker for her wiggle dance–because that tat-arm of hers totally cancels out any good looks she might have for me. Wish I could cut the damn thing off).
I kind of wish they’d put in Bette Davis forehead. Sure, she’s a smarmy asskisser, but did you see those legs?
Can’t really remember the rest. Noop dog is only there for entertainment, he’s a joke otherwise. Decent singer but looks like a dork.
Etc. etc.
I’m glad the judges got their “package” artists into the top 13. I can’t wait for America to vote their asses OUT. Ya know, like we already did.
Clay was a wild card that America voted IN, because Kimberly Locke and Ruben Studdard were in his semifinal group. Interesting that they were the final 3 during their season. Stop taking credit for Clay’s success because he was a wild card.
And Jennifer Hudson finished 7th in her season. Not all that impressive a result for a wild card. Despite her talent, she had an attitude that America didn’t like. Furthermore, there were two other R&B divas her season.
They got rid of the wild card for a reason, and after last night, I know why. Cause it doesn’t work. Viewers are going to vote for talent and backstory over “package artists.”
Sorry for the rant. I’m just annoyed. The producers obviously think we’re stupid. I may be a mindless lemming (for watching and loving this show), but I’m not stupid.
Flipit – your humor brings a whole new level of enjoyment to this show! THANK YOU for being so hilariously snarky.
To me, the ‘wild card’ ideal underscores the producers’ ambivalence to this whole process.
On the one hand, they let ‘the people’ vote in candidates–but, let’s face it, America’s filled with idiots (George Bush’s second term, anyone?) and besides, people who vote for these types of shows are not exactly the most musically educated (i.e., I suspect there’s a heavy white 10-year-old girl contingent). So they end up voting for the obvious–and their vote is easily manipulated in order to achieve the results the producers want (i.e., Gokey, the Blind Guy, the fat oil rig guy, Lil Rounds, etc.)
On the other hand, the show’s ‘integrity’ (not to mention future royalties) depends on revealing, recognizing and developing actual talent and– especially–people with some degree of actual star quality.
Not just someone who can sing like everyone else (i.e., Gokey, Lil Rounds, pretty Blonde Mama, and, frankly, nearly all of the others) in a pleasant enough sort of way that would be excellent on a cruise ship or at your cousin’s wedding.
So the ‘wild cards’ give them a chance to add back in people who presumably will reveal true talent over the course of the new couple of months. Or at least a bit of star persona.
But mostly, I think they needed the wild cards to redress the big problem with the final 9 — too many white people, too many white guys (even if they’re ALL trying to sing like Aretha Franklin…). Which is the only real reason to include Anoop and Jasmine (not that she’s awful, just bland–and she’s only 16, so it’s not like they can sex her up).
Secretly, I believe Megan is a ringer. Just a feeling I get, that she was scouted for the show.
Of course, I am under no illusions when watching this show that I’m seeing any kind of true artistic talent — this is a pop show, just another variety show, might as well be the Donny and Marie show for all the ‘music’ we’ll get from this.
My problem is I’m hooked to the recaps, and the recaps are more fun to read if you’ve actually seen the show. Thankfully, there’s the FF button!
I think the artistic originality came and went with David Cook last season. After season 7, I was so looking forward to a “new” Idol – the one that takes a rocker winning and runs with it to try and encourage actual MUSICIANS, people who rearrange songs, strip them down, reinvent them, constantly bring something new to the table.
I was so wrong.
Personally, I’ve seen Anoop live a few times (I grew up a Chapel Hill brat and saw the Clef Hangers a few times) and he’s much better than he’s presented on the show.
As for the Eve thing.. March 5 was the anniversary of the murder of UNC’s student body president, Eve Carson. It’s still a huge deal around North Carolina and UNC in particular, where Anoop is from.
Wow – I had the same DVR problem at the end, and I too was all, “whatevs, I’m going to bed, don’t even care to check it out online.” Which tells me how bad this season is for me so far – if this had happened in past seasons (can’t believe I’m admitting this) but I guarantee I would’ve called everyone I know that watches idol to find out what I missed.
Oh: Tadow – LOL!!!!!!!! And I totally agree, I think hell will be way more fun anyway
My 2 major disappointments were Jesse and Felicia, I really liked them both and think they would’ve made for a much more interesting singing battle up there.
Now it seems like a competition of a few good singers and mostly mediocre hot people…
I would officially like to announce my prediction for the Winner of AI Season 8: Alexis Pink Hair; Runner Up: Adam Lambert