Posted on 01/18/2011 5:53:18 AM PST by silent_jonny
OK..you wanna go for it??..spend the next 15 minuts..pinging back and forth to each other..and I’ll be a gentleman,,you can have the 10,000 post honors
Did you check out any of the songs I linked above?
You are old enough to remember the earlier days of EJ. Do you have any favorites.
I remember waiting for Madman Across the Water to be released.
Interesting quotes from Elton John. Can his thoughts on AI be very different?
Everyone makes all the money off “The X Factor” (2004) and sells the records but it’s the cart before the horse. What’s the psychological damage going to be when you’ve humped and dumped them, and the next one comes along? They’re a bit like products, to be honest with you. They’re products, and the record comes out at Christmas, and it’s always No.1, and then what happens next year? Why aren’t they touring? Who’s managing these people?
“The X Factor” (2004) is a cruise ship show. I’ve got nothing against the people who go on - good luck to them. But I hate how they’re treated. They’re given an awful sense of stardom and pressure straight away but they’re only successful until the next series. The record companies sell a lot of records and those people are gone. It’s cruel. Will Young is the best thing that’s ever come out of those shows. He has proved himself. But it’s no way to find talent. I want to hear new songwriters, people who are creating their own stuff, not just singing my songs every week.
I Might Take an Overdose of Pills If Anyone Sings These:
Can you feel the love tonight
Candle in the wind
Circle of life
Add these
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, already been done by Justin Guarini, Clay Aiken, Bo Bice, David Archuleta, Jorge Nunez and Jasmine Trias.
Levon done by Taylor Hicks
Something About the Way You Look Tonight done by Fantasia
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Camille Velasco did it and got eliminated.
Now that I think about it most of the songs were horrid. Jennifer Hudson did Circle of Life and did a good job, but the others were meh. Someone did a bad version of Crocodile Rock, was it John Stevens or Jon Peter Lewis?
They are better off picking good songs that weren’t smash hits so that they will not be compared to Elton John. jmo
Will you stop at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela?
They might not get a chance to do his whole songbook — they might only get a chance to sing the more well-known ones. I don’t know how that works with the band.
Also, audience-wise, I think it’s better that they sing something at least slightly familiar.
But those big ones, including the ones you mention, JUST DON’T. (I fear they will, though.)
Whoa, Elton! Tell us how you really feel about singing contest shows! He does have a point, though. Many of them win the popularity contest but don’t make it big.
Still, on AI there have been a few that made it. I think if Adam Lambert could have been more impressed by his smarts and talent and less by his homosexuality, he could have gone quite big. Maybe he still will. But when he was done with Idol he dumped his teenybopper girl and grandma fans in one fell swoop with that groping TV appearance.
Some other people’s song choices for the Idols.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2011/03/29/american-idol-top-11-elton-john-night-the-experts-song-list/
They picked Blue Eyes for Scotty, like I did. They also picked some no no’s.
I’m just concerned we are going to hear the same ol songs.
I thought about Burn Down the Mission for Jacob too, but wasn’t sure if they would like lyrics like that! lol There is a song called Slavery that he could do, but it would come off better if he weren’t so effeminate. Though of Take Me To The Pilot, too, but knew some did that. George Huff.
When they get their numbers down to like 4 or 5 it would be neat if they all had to do their version of the same song.
I saw that! I don’t remember Blue Eyes but I bet it’s good. I still think he could lower the key in “Guess that’s why they call it the Blues” and make it country. I really enjoy little Scotty getting comfortable with the stage and growing on the show. But remaining true to country. And I’m not even a country fan.
I hate that I have to wait til the thread is over — and actually a lot longer than that — to watch the show. We don’t get home until 9 PST and start watching around 10, and of course we have to skip all the commercials so that we have time to vote! There have been times when we don’t finish until midnight and voting is over.
Yes, Jacob is biologically unable to tone down his effeminate behaviors (he probably went through heck in his Compton school days, trust me). But at least we now know he can tone down his over the top intensity.
Didn’t they make Cookie and Archuleta sing the same song at the final show? The cheesy “finale” song?
Having a pair of pre-teen, and then teenage daughters in that decade, I really had no choice. Remember that whenever we'd do things as a family, which usually meant going to and fro somewheres by car, the battle for control of the car radio was apocalyptic. I was THRILLED when the SONY Walkman came out...
They tend to obsess on one song endlessly, ad nauseum ( OK..I did the same thing when I was their age)
I recall the Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian" blaring from every room in the house for several months. Then there was Whitney Houston.."The Greatest...love of all"...BLEECH
But what really did it for me, or perhaps "to me" is more apt, was the advent of rap. I can't stand it..but the girls loved it..Here were all these plain vanilla, lilly white, and pretty much uncool and unhip suburban teenyboppers grooving on this "music????" pretty much all the time.
One happy moment I must share with you..
It's a Friday night..family nite out..usually casual meal out..pizza, bowling, or a movie ..but of course we have to drive 30 miles to the next town.., because gawd forbid their friends would friends would see them out with their parents. Tres uncool. Funny..I kept explaining to them that the only way they'd be seen by their friends was if their friends were also out with THEIR parents. My logic was impeccable, but never could get them to see my point
Anyways..we go one night to the movies.."Adventures in Baby Sitting" ...don't know if you remember the movie..but it opens to the Ronettes' great, driving, pulsing hit.."Be My Baby"..I was their age when it first came out...and I wore out several 45's... so I'm sitting there in my seat with the wife..we're both sort of tapping our feet, snapping our fingers, and smiling..remembering...all good stuff, and it was totally unexpected..childhood flashback..we're grinning..and when we're in the car driving home later, the oldest, then 15..says, "hey that's a great song..I never heard it on the radio before, is it a hit..can we buy the cassette?"
Life was GOOD that night..
Everything I said still applies, in spades... ain't no EJ fan
And though it was the late 90's when Princess Di died..I still get hives whenever I hear "Candle In The Wind."
You should check out the link I left for Blue Eyes. He could nail it, though I know he needs to be a bit more up beat. I was surprised by how many of EJ's songs really have a country nature behind them. I recall seeing a comment on one of the youtube links where someone asked if EJ wanted to be a country singer at some point.
Maybe if they get a freebie night again Scotty could do Bobby Goldsboro's song 'Watching Scotty Grow'. jk
LOL The 80’s would be my decade. While I was familiar with the pop music of the 80’s I mostly followed a 50’, 60’s, 70’s and country band. Heavy on the 50’s and 60’s.
I hope tomorrow is a good night, but based on the past when they've tried EJ's songs, I won't hold my breath.
‘Idol’ Finalists: The Haunted Mansion Wasn’t Haunted!
You think he had word for the X Factor check put what he said about Madonna.
[About Madonna]: Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot. That’s me off her Christmas card list. But do I give a toss? No.
Yeah, we never really outgrow that :)
Bumping the thread
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