American Idol 2008--Live Thread II

americanidol.com ^ | 3-25-08

[silent_jonny]

Everything Archuleta does is gooey.

Exactly! Everything he did tonight was the same old thing. But, according to Randy, that just means "he was in the zone." :-/

[silent_jonny]

I just don’t dig the new kids. It’s lacking the old House charm.

I like the new crop of House helpers. The old crop was getting stale. But they're still on the show. It's too crowded now.

[retrokitten]

We have to photoshop it to I love RetroKitten. ;-)

[silent_jonny]

Randy is an embarrassment. He’s so in the tank for monchichi it’s pathetic.

I agree.

[silent_jonny]

ROLFMAO!!!

[silent_jonny]

Wow, that looks real.

[silent_jonny]

I’m just going to guess, but with an all-star cast like that it has be to going straight to DVD.

LOL!!

[silent_jonny]

Night :)

[silent_jonny]

My being able to relate all this drivel means I have too much time on my hands. :)

LOL! ;)

[peggybac]

DialIdol so far. It will be interesting when the West Coast chimes in:

David Cook 43.22

David Archuleta 30.58

Syesha Mercado 22.23

[silent_jonny]

R’Chihuahua

LOL, that's good :)

[Captain Beyond]

For the songs Davd Cook had I think he knocked it out the park on all three. With the short amount of time he had with each song he brought it 100%.

As for little David he when he tried to hip it up it was like ok so you only had 5 Prozac today instead of the usual 10.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Thanks for the link Miss Didi!

[retrokitten]

I’m watching the Chicago Wolves hockey game (playoffs) and instead of doing the traditional hockey playoff beards, the team has decided to go only mustaches (no handlebars, thank God!). But every time I see them, I think of the Seinfeld episode where instead of going on vacation they all grew mustaches.

[Jrabbit]

lol....my youngest, a Dallas Stars fanatic, has grown a “playoffs beard”. After last nights pathetic performance by the Stars, I think his facial hair is history! Poor thing. Dallas pro teams torture him. Stars...Mavs...Cowboys....Rangers...losers!

[peggybac]

I don’t know the group but the lyrics are interesting. I thought David did a great job even though he had to cut it short:

SWITCHFOOT LYRICS

“Dare You To Move”

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone’s here
Everyone’s here
Everybody’s watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next

[Chorus]
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

[Chorus]

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before

[CounterCounterCulture]

Cute spoof on Brooke...
Brooke White Stops and Starts the Classics on Best Week Ever - VIDEO

LOL... she's soooo adorable. :-)

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

“Eartha Kitten
“ROFLMAO!”

Jonny, I should have known you’d get the reference! Little Eartha was such a diva from about Day 5 (I raised her and her bro, John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, on a bottle from Day 2) that she had to have the ultimate diva name!

RK, thanks for the compliment! I do think she’s adorable but then, I’m slightly prejudiced. ;)

[Captain Beyond]

They have a lot of good songs. Here is a short condensed bio of the group. Hope this helps. You have probably heard some of their songs on radio but didn't recognize them.

Biography by Jason Ankeny Originally called Chin Up, Switchfoot was formed in 1996 in San Diego, CA, by singer/guitarist Jonathan Foreman and his bassist brother Tim Foreman. With the addition of drummer Chad Butler, the band's name switched to Switchfoot (a surfing term) and they recorded their debut LP, 1997's The Legend of Chin, for Charlie Peacock's re:Think imprint. New Way to Be Human followed two years later; it was a huge hit, with the title track garnering a 1999 Dove Award for Song of the Year. Keyboardist Jerome Fontamillas joined up for 2000's Learning to Breathe, which found Switchfoot taking more steps toward mainstream modern rock. Breathe would prove to be a transition album for the group, and their first to sell over 500,000 copies. Its success, together with their significant presence on the hit soundtrack to the 2002 Mandy Moore vehicle A Walk to Remember, set Switchfoot up for a major-label run. The Beautiful Letdown, their Columbia/RED debut, dropped in spring 2003; it represented the quartet's full evolution toward a more accessible mainstream sound. The album eventually went double platinum on the strength of constant touring and the radio hits "Dare You to Move" and "Meant to Live." It hit number one on Billboard's Christian Albums chart and number 16 on the Top 200. In September 2005 Switchfoot returned with their fifth album, Nothing Is Sound, their first Top Ten hit on the Top 200 (debuting at number three); the album went gold. It sparked another radio hit in "Stars," and was the first Switchfoot recording to include the work of additional guitarist Andrew Shirley (formerly of the contemporary Christian group All Together Separate), who had been a touring member of Switchfoot since 2003. Wasting little time, the band was soon back in the studio with veteran U.K. producer Tim Palmer (U2, the Cure, etc.) to begin work on their sixth album, one that found the guys broadening their musical scope; Oh! Gravity. then appeared at the tail end of 2006.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

“Syesha is auditioning - she knows she won’t win AI.”

Yup. This girl has her eye on Broadway, and I think that’s exactly where she belongs. (That’s not a diss, btw — I love Broadway musicals! Wish they made more movies of them these days.)