Posted on 05/08/2006 4:22:13 AM PDT by silent_jonny
And he is all about himself, too.
ROFL, your posts are really making me laugh!!
Yep, and thanks for posting this, very much.
We knew we were right. :-)
LOL! Bold! I like your style! I can see how your wife might be uncomfortable in that vehicle. It just invites psycho liberals to run you off the road!
That was her worry. The flipping off was more humorous than bothersome.
If I was driving a car like that and someone flipped me off, I'd laugh my head off! That would probably make them all the madder!
I'm sorry. When ever someone post that Taylor is going to drop the Gbomb, all I can do is picture the way he squats, like he's passing gas, when he's into a song. Somebody posted that comparison right before I read Gbomb, and now the two are forever linked in my mind.
Another tidbit is Nigel thinks they will raise the maximum age to 30.
I think they should raise it to 35 so I can audition.....Just kidding, when I sing it sounds like a frog croaking. Just ask my kids.
Chris made it to the top 50 with INXS, but they felt he wasn't right for them, and I agree. They wanted someone like JD Fortune, whom I can't stand. Having said that, the top fifty isn't bad at all.
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Top 10 reasons why Taylor should win AI:
1. Song choices approved by reps for George Harrison and Bruce Springsteen. How cool is that?
2. Compare their dance moves. No contest.
3. Because he’d never, ever smile nonstop while singing “Ain’t Got Nothin’ But the Blues.”
4. If Elvis had a little brother, he’d look like Taylor.
5. “Saturday Night Live” doesn’t spoof just anyone.
6. A soul man trumps an ice princess every time.
7. Gray is the new blond.
8. Taylor didn’t wear Paula’s tacky new jewelry line on camera.
9. With Soul Patrol, we’re talkin’ ’bout a revolution. McPheever sounds like a sickness.
10. So Katharine’s dad will really have a reason to cry.
Funny stuff.....:-)
Not surprisingly, the music experts offered tougher assessments.
"Taylor is not the quintessential American Idol, but he has a uniqueness that makes him stand out," says Nancy Rainford, former agent and manager and author of How to Agent Your Agent. "He's an odd choice. He'll never be a Mick Jagger, but he could have longevity along the lines of Joe Cocker if he makes the right choices and gets the right producers. If someone tries to make him go Hollywood, the audience is going to hate him. He needs to keep it real and down-home and funky. He can be a little goofy, but that will subside."
Rainford envisions Katharine in touring productions of Beauty and the Beast or Peter Pan.
"If they were still stunt-casting Grease on Broadway, she'd be perfect. She's pure musical theater," she says. "I don't think she has any grasp on what her talent is. She keeps singing these bluesy, sexy songs, and they don't ring true. She wants to be Mariah Carey, and she's never going to be."
Katharine, on the other hand, doesn't exhibit the drive to win, "but seems to think she deserves it," says O'Donnell, predicting a failed music career and possible future in commercials. "She's cold and artificial. When she sings, she's looking for the camera and seems to be assuming a character. She attempts the vocal gymnastics of Celine Dion. When people hear Celine, they know it's real. Katharine seems manufactured. I think she'll fade."
"He's not a matinee idol, and he's overweight. For someone constantly waving his fist and yelling 'Soul patrol,' he can't dance to save his life. But his fans love his quirky charm. Marketing him is a tightrope walk. I'd be careful not to straitjacket him as a retro-soul artist. He can't follow Michael McDonald and do a Motown tribute. He needs to establish himself first rather than risk pigeonholing himself with a covers album."
Hey did you see that the dipsy hicks are at it again?
Katharine or Taylor? Hicks should be soul survivor
By Lauren Beckham Falcone
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
OK, all you hot and bothered fans who are suffering from the McPheever.
Take a Tylenol.
Taylor Hicks should be the next “American Idol.”
Sure, Katharine McPhee can belt out the tunes and look longingly into the camera, but she’s Linda Eder-lite, another pretty girl from Sherman Oaks who thinks it’s a California birthright to become a star. She quit studying at Boston Conservatory to pursue “pilot season” in La-La land and is all too comfortable talking about “emotional eating.”
She’s been on the scene for four months and she’s already trite.
Hicks is the real deal. The 28-year-old, gray-haired honky-tonker is sincere - right down to his spastic stage antics. And what’s wrong with his dancing, anyway? It’s not manufactured, and neither is Hicks. The “soul patrol” shtick is a little tired, but it seems you need a tagline to a name to make a career this days.
Hicks is fun. He makes you smile. He makes you cringe. He makes you feel. McPhee makes you want hair extensions, fake eyelashes and a boob job.
'I think Taylor is really free on stage,” McPhee said last week. “If I get nervous, I clench up and I’m not as free and spontaneous, but I think that’s something that Taylor’s really good about doing. But we’re both so different, it’s going to depend on what America wants.‘
America: Want Hicks. Reward talent, not technique. Embrace soul, not style.
Good stuff, spot on, too!
Tuesday's final presents a stark choice. McPhee would seem to be a record executive's dream candidate: a classy, pretty girl from Los Angeles who can really sing. But there's only a few record executives out there, and many millions of Idol voters, and I suspect that they, with guidance from Simon, Randy, and Paula, will choose Hicks, the prematurely gray-haired doofus who has spent the past several weeks jerking across the Idol stage like a spaz while belting out classic R&B covers. There's something vaguely unsettling about his shtick: Although he's not black, he calls his fans "The Soul Patrol," and although he's neither black nor blind, he insists on lurching backward when he sings like his idol Ray Charles.
Still, I'll be rooting hard for Hicks. I wager he'll win in a walk, as well he should: He's just a more interesting singer. A Hicks victory would be the ultimate answer to critics who've slammed Idol for its plastic pop-music values. (Bar Band Singer Bests Pop Princess!)
But it would be a shame if he won.
All things considered, the fifth "Idol" crown, which will be handed out Wednesday, fits better on the head of Katharine McPhee.
Hear me out, Taylor fans. Don't send an avalanche of Soul Patrol hate mail until you've actually heard what I have to say.
Taylor and Katharine are both talented singers, of that there can be no doubt. But Katharine would fit nicely into the "Idol" pop-music machinery. Taylor wouldn't. In fact, the "Idol" machine would probably ruin what's fun about Taylor.
Katharine has not only a good voice but an impressive range, a sweet attitude and, of course, she's easy on the eyes. More important, she can belt out the kind of material that a post-"Idol" career will no doubt require: plenty of generic power ballads in the Diane Warren mold, filled with trills and melismas and more vibrato than any human should be allowed to wield.
Can you really picture Taylor singing "Inside Your Heaven"? That was Carrie Underwood's first post-"Idol" single, and it fit her to a T: It was inspirational, inoffensive and eminently hummable. Bo Bice's version of it just didn't work, because Bo had his own rascally Southern thing going on, and that song didn't match his strengths or his personality. There's no reason to think the next batch of "Idol" pop songs will fit Taylor any better.
Taylor's a guy who should be in a roadhouse somewhere, working up a sweat while singing "Mustang Sally" or getting the beery crowd misty with a set-closing version of "Up Where We Belong." Perhaps a successful recording career is in his future, whether or not he wins "Idol," but in the end, I'd bet Taylor winds up at county fairs, in smoky clubs and at summer festivals, belting out the kind of rock and soul numbers that may be considered oldies -- but who cares when they're sung with energy and passion?
Taylor, you see, is a performer, not just a singer. Some are turned off by his onstage antics and his unique style of dancing (if that's what it is), but for those of us who find it winning, it'd sure be a shame to see his individual style and delivery squished by the soul-killing mainstream recording industry, of which "Idol" is an unashamed outpost.
The truth is, "Idol" is not really about finding the best singer -- it's about finding the singer who will offend the smallest number of people.
Think about the most successful previous "Idol" winners -- Kelly Clarkson, and, so far, Carrie Underwood. Katharine fits perfectly into that Clarkson-Underwood category of "Idol" winners -- she's another well-scrubbed, unthreatening, talented vocal prodigy. Kelly developed an edge (thank goodness), but that was only after she got clear of the management that had a lock on her after she won the Fox singing contest.
If Taylor won, he'd probably end up as the next Ruben Studdard; attaining a respectable modicum of success would be seen as a failure. But Taylor has a pack of rabid fans and stage presence to spare. He'll do fine without the "Idol" crown. In fact, he's better off without it.
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