Folks,
We have reached that point in time when we have to ask ...
DO YOU REALLY WANT CHRIS or TAYLOR TO WIN AMERICAN IDOL ?
This statement by MJ in her blog says it all...with my own comments added to it...
I was thrilled that tonight's show was only a half hour. I love the quick eliminations. And no crappy musical guests either. Which meant the Top 5 performed a group sing. YAY! Except that song--holy crap, what was that song? It was called "We Are One" and was written for something called the British Commonwealth Games. Ewww.
This was yer typical puppies-flowerz-there's-a-pot-of-gold-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow-if-you-only-dare-reach-for-the-starz-and-OMG-we-r-one cliched cornball crud-fest.
Actually, this song is exactly the kind of tune the winner will have to sing at the finale. So, get practicing kids!
MY COMMENT ADDED :
If you fans of Soul and Alt-Rock don't want soiling the likes of Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry with this kind of bland ( read : A MOMENT LIKE THIS ) music, I suggest you don't vote for them to win and please, just please, let Katharine Mcphee have the crown. Kat is the PROTOTYPICAL American Idol template and it would be better for the show and for Taylor and Chris' sake to just let her win ( Note, I am discounting Elliott because I believe that the Elvis theme won't do him any good and he is probably
the next to go REGARDLESS of what he does. If after you sing a song that moved Paula to tears and cause her to remark with hyperbole "YOU ARE THE AMERICAN IDOL", you still end up bottom 3, that does not speak well about the strength and number of your fan base ).
I believe that Chris and Taylor WILL HAVE recording contracts regardless but I DREAD, JUST DREAD having to endure hearing them sing shcmaltz music like this. BAD ! JUST BAD FOR THEIR CAREERS !!
Speaking about fan bases, as a side remark --- Taylor was Number 1 again in the DIAL IDOL and AT & T land lines stats last night.
I just want Taylor to get outa there at number 3 and do his own soul thang at that point. I DREAD having to hear him sing another Diane Warren song.
Unfortunately, this song was merely bad-bad, not so-bad-it's-good-bad. Am I making sense? I don't mean the singing was terrible, either. The singing was good. Except when that choir joined them on stage. Like Bandzilla? (The AI House band is LOUD) How about Choirzilla? (Ditto) At that point, the entire number turned into a big, goopy bowl of schlock. The song was just really, really banal. And no pointy pose either. Not even a giggle. That was not fun.
That is what guys like Taylor and Chris get when they sell their souls to Mephistopheles ( AKA American "POP" Idol ).
SO FOLKS, AS MUCH AS I AM A TAYLOR FAN... I PERSONALLY, FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IS FOR HIS SAKE, GOING TO *NOT* VOTE FOR HIM BY THE TIME THE TOP 3 ( WHICH i AM SURE HE WILL BE IN ) IS ANNOUNCED.
UNLESS OF COURSE, TPTB allow him to sing his own compositions ( e.g. SOUL THING, HEART AND SOUL, HELL OF A DAY ) in the finals ( which I very much doubt they will ).