danny is exactly the same every time if you mean EXACTLY AWESOME.

no seriously, i understand the need to snark and everyone is fair game, but it seems like you pick on him a little too much...dancing aside, his singing is consistently on point, you can't say he's ever boned a note like most of the other goofs. so it just seems like you don't like him 'cause of the church thing, which is pretty sad.

I'm sad that you don't like Kris.... :-( Cut the twink some slack. This week wasn't a great performance, but I love how he sings with such abandon and joy.

I know, I know... I'm the sad queen lusting after the straight boy. Cliche, but oh so true...

And as much as I wanna root for our gay theater fairy, Adam's shrieking overshadows any actual talent he may be bringing to the stage. I can't imagine listening to a whole album of his eardrum shattering yelling.

"He looks like a very confused dandelion."

Hahahahahaaha! I fucking love you flipit!

OMG, THANK YOU so much for that video of Gokey's cool church in Wisconsin, now I am totally lusting over that big bearded daddybear pastor and I'm thinking I might have found Jesus. Or an erection.

I have to agree with you, though, Hokey's totally one-note to me, I don't find his performances interesting. He has a nice voice, but he likes to do a lot of Mariah head-weaving and gesturing with his free hand (it's only a matter of time before he starts doing Mariah's patented Dismissive Wave™ while he sings and then I'll be throwing Gummi Bears at the TV) and it's all just running together into one, giant, superlozzzzzzzzzzzz...

Why, oh why haven't the stylists gotten rid of Scott's mop?!? I'm so shocked that they haven't given him a FroHawk yet!

You've totally clocked it, Flipit (I almost wrote that as "You've totally cocked it", LOL) but I think unless you have a super-serious-grew-up-poor-while-drug-addicted-adoptive-parents-beat-the-shit-out-of-you-with-ball-peen-hammers-got-pregnant-at-age-8-and-your-entire-family-got-killed-in-a-tragic-inflatable-seahorse-accident-which-left-you-constant-tinnitus-and-chronic-foot-odor, then you're not gonna win this season.

Awesome job as always, I bow to the queen of all bitches. xoxox

love, J-Mo :)

P.S. OMG, also, I belly laughed so hard when I got to the Gramma Gums™ caption I split my favorite Hambert loincloth into shreds!!

P.P.S. Did you know that Danny Gokey's wife is dead?

LOL awesome recap.

I don't WANT to like Adam, but once he starts performing, I have to agree with the judges - he is on a level by himself. Of cours, he won't get much better, but some of the others will get a LOT better in the coming weeks.

I thought there were more good performances than in the past at this stage. Usually, about half of them suck (and not in a good way).

Adam does not deserve any of the praise he gets from the judges. Sure, he has "stage presence" but that's because he has somehow managed to perform in the past. Aside from that, his screaming and his annoying sideways once-overs to the camera are cheesy and tired.

Adam Lambert sounds like when Mario Cantone "sings" in his stand up act. I can't take the shrieking.

One problem I have with Gokey is he's really just another ringer -- the guys does this for a living people. Even if it's in a McChurch.

Another problem--he's goddawful ugly when he sings. Which would be okay if he were some sort of transcendental singer, but he isn't. He's just good (well, he hollers really well, I'm not sure there's real singing going on there). Not great. And certainly not at all original. So watching him sing is disturbing.

My personal favorite remains Megan, she's the only one who brings a little bit of difference to this crowd of wannabe R&Bpop crooners. She appears to have had less stage experience than all the others (with the except of OilRig bear, who sings like a toad), so it will be interesting to see if she's able to grow into her voice. Because the fundamentals of her voice are there, she just needs to learn to use it still.

Besides, she's fucking beautiful, and THAT'S what I want to see on my screen.

Not a hoser like that fake-goth Adam (another ringer! He's a professional singer people!). And if that's the best he can do after all of his time on stage, well....he's only going to go downhill from here.

It's a shame Allison isn't 10 years older--she'd be much better. As it is, she's just a kid. Still singer better than most of the other though.

Note: I take no responsiblity for the multiple typos in my posts...obviously the coffee hasn't kicked in properly this morning....

why oh why can't there be an editing function for these comments! (wah! wah! winge! whine!...ah, there's that coffee...ah....)

Cherie, I'm with you...that "confused dandelion" remark was hysterical! Hit the nail on the head too. Really, what is up with that head of hair? Can't someone explain to him that the Little Orphan Annie look is really distracting? (Now if he comes out with a faux hawk next week I'll feel responsible.)

I think Randy and Kara have the same problem....they're both trying WAAAAY to hard to be black. I swear, Randy has got to be a middle aged white man in black face because all of the terminology he uses is straight out of 1994. I mean, when do you ever hear Jay-Z or Kanye talking like that. Kara is just as pathetic with her arm gestures and head bobbing.

Ok, rant over. As for the singers, I think Corkey is just plain awful. Her dancing does nothing to complement that terrible voice either.

On the whole, this season is just so meh. I think I'll stick with Alexis and Danny till the end...which is sad.

Flipit - "now try and show some NOT suckage" brilliant - awesome recap

Allison - love her voice, but couldn't understand a word she was singing, maybe that's good though?

Megan - Caw Caw! Okay, I love her just for that, so friggin weird -

Kris - I laughed so hard when Simon made that (sad, but true) statement about his wife and they panned over to her super-pissed off face, LOL - that's what happens when you get married at 18 cause you don't believe in pre-marital nookie! Ya know, if his penis could talk it would say: "Damn, if he only stayed single I could get so much idol-va-jay-jay right now it's ridiculous!"

Alexis - gotta say, I really enjoyed the buildup in her performance, the increasing intensity was kind of cool - even though she looks like a child-bride from Russia..

I kinda forgot everyone else, well except for Hambert, who I used to like, but now thanks to UNWISE's totally accurate comment about Mario Cantone, I can't take him seriously as a performer.

Confession! I was totally worried that during either this show or last night's results that MJ was going to make a "surprise" appearance and not know where he was (again) and think he was getting the artist of the millenium award (again!) - (...now breathing a sigh of relief that it didn't happen..)

You know what's an excellent use of bandwidth? The "Hay guyz, sorre for the tippos, but I tatally drunk/been up for 52 hoers/hanvnt had coffee yet!!!!!" post.

Learn to spell, or sober up, then post. Thanks.

Hey, NotWithOutMyTV -
Hey! NotWith... please lay off. We don't trash each other here (just strangers on TV). There are plenty of other sites if you are into that sort of thing!

Hi! New to posting, but not new to my favorite website. Just one comment: I like Adam only with my eyes closed. Can't stand to watch all that drama...

Love you Flipit!

Yeth thir!

Thank you SO much, Flip... I could not for the life of me figure out where I knew Jasmine's mother from... 227!!!

When I came into work this morning there was a book on my desk and I think it applies to Danny. The book is called FORMULAS FOR NOW by Hans Ulrich Obrist. The formula on the cover is:

1 tablespoon of talent
+
5 drops of popularity
+
1 drop of luck
+
10 kilograms of discipline
+
6 glasses of self-sacrifice
+
3 grams of spirituality
= GENIUS

Okay, I don't know if the "6 glasses of self-sacrifice" apply but Danny does WEAR glasses. I don't hate Danny. I don't love Danny. (He's not as great as he thinks he is. I know that.) I don't think he sings any better than any of the other contestants but his mega-church connection does creep me out. I don't really care if he wins or not but my penis wants Michael to win.

On Tuesday night my penis was dialing Michael's 866 number nonstop. Unfortunately, my penis is so big it was depressing four buttons at a time (instead of one) so I think his efforts may have been in vain.

P.S. The stuff below regarding Jorge - that's funny stuff babydoll.

"Puerto Rican Sammy Davis Jr. is next. About a hundred people pile into a studio apartment and party. The family kinda broke apart after his grandpa died, but they're back together as long as he's on the show because there's only one TV among em. His brother assures us that the island of Puerto Rico is small, but it's heart is beeg."

I was expecting to hate Adam, but he caught me by surprise. He did great but the judges took the hype way over the top.

I also don't get the Danny Worship by all four judges. He is not as good as they make him out to be. His voice sounds a lot like Elliot Yamin but he is no Elliot. Every time he sings I think "He's OK, but not near as good as Elliot". Nor does he have Elliot’s charm.

I think Allison will be able to sing just about any kind of music. She has done the rock but in her video clip they showed her singing tejano music as a child and then at that store she was singing Natural Woman.

Great recap, Flip, but, let me guess, you hate Gokey, yes!? I'm just asking coz it wasn't too clear here--kidding! Girl, you can hate him all you want, when I'm hatin', like Tommy Girl Cruise, for instance, ain't no stoppin' me, and I don't give an F what anyone else thinks--tho I think we're all entitled to our opinions . . . that's what I love about it here . . .

One thing tho, f'in' grammer nazi's can stuff it!!! And people who have a problem with drunk posting . . . ahem . . . you're alone here, right!!!! Okay, I know that sounds harsh, but we must protect our own, right itchy!

Well, I still like Gokey, and as I feared, I'm finding him more doable, (help me, Jesus--I swear I'll stop sinning) but damn, if he doesn't cool down, his head is going to explode and we'll be covered in watermelon seeds. I don't think I've seen a cockier ass on here, and I hope he's not gonna blow it with that, coz his singing gives me chills (god I hate to admit that)

As for Ms Screamer . . . I think she's a talented lass, even a tad Elvis, if he wore a girly goth wig, but that was awful, just grating and hellish. LIke I said, undeniable talent, but no, a miss for me, by a mile . . .and I thought the song was so dated message-y.

I still like the lived hard 16 year old, I really, really like that Pink tone of voice and I hope she does well. I never heard the song, or dandelion's, but both were great choices for each. (the second coming of Bruce Hornsby, who knew)

Caw-caw sounded better than I've ever heard, and tho I think I get what she was trying to do with the song, nope. Her thang is getting there tho.

Mr. D, I wish my willy could dial the phone, but I shudder to think who he would call.

Okay, I'm off to see the hot preacher, J-mo, thanks for encouraging me . . .

Well, I guess I should "look no further"

Anyhoo, J-mo, he's all yours!

Alright. I'll save my vitriol for the Real World kids.

I sometimes forget how aggressively people defend their right to communicate poorly.

If anybody's been watching Idol from the beginning, can you tell me: has Randy ever been worth a damn? Was he at any point able to give a clear criticism in normal, non-Jive English, but during season three or whatever, he left his brain on the backseat of a cab?

Paula's clearly on drugs, so she's easy to just tune out, but Randy, jeez, put him out of MY misery...

NWMTV, sadly, I did not partake of the first season, so I'm unaware if Randy had any sense then. I do think Skara's got them reaching a bit deeper to criticize, but Randy could be replaced by a bobble head with 6 phrases, "Check it out, check it out" "What" "I wasn't feelin' it dude" "That wasn't the song for you" "You can blow" "Dawg" I guess it might be hard for the bobble to say, "You know, I worked with Mariah (or fill in the blank) on that song!" for such a successful producer, he sure seems to feel the need to name drop and be relevant. And as flip it keeps saying, is Axel Rose still relevant . . .

NWMTV, Randy Jackson season 1 was everything that juddfan said but make sure to add "It was a little pitchy", and he liked to use the word "dope" a lot.
So yes, to whoever said Randy likes to use slang that's 1-2 decades old. Maybe he'll get more modern soon and say "fo shizzel".

"I sometimes forget how aggressively people defend their right to communicate poorly."

And yet, everyone enjoys a troll...

I don't recall ever being aggressive toward you. Or being aggressive at all. In fact, the only aggressive person here has been you.

So how about you pull the stick out of your ass and play nice?

We're discussing stupid reality television shows. Not typos.

Oh boy, I just cannot for the life of me keep a straight face whenever Scott is on the screen. I really do feel bad...but...couldn't someone work him to find a focus point?? He looks like he's in a trance. Like...like...Stains the Dog??? Anyone see it?? Or know what I'm talkin' about?

Agreed that it's surprising that his hair has not been lopped off. I'm guessing that Scott's much better looking brother keeps telling him, "No, no, your hair looks perfect!"

My favorite American Idol EVER is Elliot Yamin. Don't see the comparison with Danny Uckey.

Flipit,
I have mad respect for you. I am watching a dvr recording of East of Eden I taped during TMC's Oscar movie special--I need tissues. James Dean is about the best and coolest actor--we were robbed!!!! What does this have to do with AI--nothing and maybe everyth't 'y head. Was everything better in the 40's and 50's? Well i guess the music was so there is my conncetion, Anyway love you to pieces, your recaps are gold and part of the only reason I watch these shows! Really, I used to read (books) really~ Sometimes I even bought books! Oh well, what's gone is gone--just like my vision!
OK here is my problem. After about 15 years of raising my kids, I am no finding that my husband has used up their college fund for Marlboro Lights! Oh the horror. No I won't leave him--its his disease not the man right Dr. Phil?
Anyway, now I have to work. OMG what can I do? I used to live outside of DC in Arlington, Va and spent a great stint as a Research Associate at the Urban Institute. I love research and public policy and writing. ouy--does anyone have any suggestions for me. When my kids were small, I worked as a preschool teacher which I abssolutely loved. Oh--forgot to mention one fact, After our first son was born and was 7 months old, my first husband died from a congenital brain anyeresm, That shot me for a loop, I was messed up for about 3 years, Luckily,I met a nice man and we managed to give my son a brother and a sister before he got his ball wacked off due to prostrate cancer,

Here is my problem. My oldest stepson (he is hot and only 10 years older than I) is coming to visit for the weekend and bringing my adorable grandaughter with him (I refuse to use the word step). I just want some suggestions on what toys, vidioes, movies, games would be appropriate for her. I realize that this is not the right place for this question--but gosh darn it--you'll seem to give such good advice.
I this type of stuff bothers you, please direct me to a place where this is acceptable and everyone is as smart as you guys,

Feeling Beakers Love,

XOXO

PS I am from the DC area so that must be where it is coming from!

Love you guys--bye the way--how many of you are on anti anxiety and depression meds-- I vote from me. You guys keep me smiling without the xanax!!
XOXO

Cookie, with a backstory like that, you could be next year's American Idol.

Just (gently) kidding--have a look in the forum area, it's a friendly place for this sort of thing.

Well itchy if I could carry a tune (let alone a note) and I was about 100 years younger, than yeah!!!
All my mourning, suicide attempts, addictions would have lead to a fabulous career!
Oh why is my timing, not to mention singing always off key? THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT

The Glam Squad needs to work on poor Scott, if only to shave down the Q-tip look before he gets shafted.