Posted on 03/13/2007 5:46:36 AM PDT by silent_jonny
You all are trying to turn me into an alcoholic! LOL!
ROTFLMAO!! I can't stop laughing!
He looks like a serial killer to me. Bugs me to watch him too.
but 1950 was better!
Tay Tay just was here two weeks ago in concert. His tickets sold out in 50 minutes and the reviews have been outstanding....
OK..I came close..it could have been either one...but I agree..the 1950 model had had much nicer, and bigger tail fins..(g)
Don't forget "I'll Be Watching You" by Sting. Is that the name of it or just the creepiest line that sticks in my memory?
Is that the one that goes something like:
Every breath you take,
every move you make,
I'll be watching you. (?)
If so, that DOES sound like stalking, doesn't it?
She's very young and inexperienced, and she's untrained in using that beautiful voice of hers. So she's going to suffer in comparison to the more mature, polished Melinda and LaKisha. Yet in some ways, I think Jordin is the best of this year's bunch.
As a whole, this is a really bad bunch of contestants. Everything about the show this year seems forced and self-conscious, and I really resent them tossing that mini telethon at us in the middle of the season.
The gap in talent is between the top three and the rest is huge, and the top three are all too similar to one another.
I hear ya about the telethon. Simon is supposed to be such a good businessman then how come he didn't suggest Bono allow his songs be used, if he wanted air time? Fair trade I would think. I don't plan to watch and I hope millions of other Americans tune out, too. I just read an article yesterday about how their viewing numbers went down after the first audition. Gee, I can't imagine why! Show us slobs that are delusional by the dozens, but only a brief glimpse of talent.
Yeah...I miss the fighting between Paula and Simon. I miss the "drunk" Paula. We caught a glimpse of her when she was blubbering after Melinda sang, but then she disappeared again.
The ratings are down a bit from previous years, but it's still a juggernaut. Still, everything about the show this year is sloppy, starting with the really bad group the judges selected to progress past Hollywood week. And you're right. For some reason in the early rounds they didn't balance out the mix of slobs to more talented people to show us in the auditions. Either the talent pool is getting very, very limited, or the judges deliberately rejected better people.
Seven weeks into the sixth season of “American Idol,” one thing is very clear: The phenomenon is over. This is the beginning of the series’ end; the show has peaked. At least it was fun while it lasted. To be clear, “American Idol” is not going anywhere. FOX is not going to cancel it; viewers are not going to stop watching tomorrow; Paula Abdul is not going to return to her home planet. In fact, the show has already been renewed through a ninth season — and possibly two more after that — and it regularly destroys its direct competition in the ratings. The show may even remain at the top of the ratings chart for another season or two.
After 200 episodes, however, there are clear signs of age and fatigue in the series, ones that signal “American Idol”’s time at the top is waning.
America, it seems, has run out of both talent and creative attention-seekers. Viewers noticed: From the first night of the auditions to the final “best of the rest” show, almost 10 million viewers tuned out.
The top 24 didn’t give America much more to be excited about. In fact, about six million viewers who watched last Wednesday cared so little about which four people went home first that they didn’t bother to tune in Thursday, giving “Idol” its lowest ratings yet for the season. Again, to be fair, 24.2 million people watched and the show easily destroyed its competition. Those are great numbers, but for “American Idol,” they’re weak. Perhaps most tellingly, “Grey’s Anatomy” drew more viewers when it aired later that night.
Last season, Paula Abdul’s unpredictable behavior at the judges’ table gave the country something to tune in for. After she gave a series of televised interviews while slurring her words and swaying at the beginning of this season, she seemed on track to top herself.
“American Idol” is, of course, far from a failure. It produced an Oscar winner, several Grammys, some CMA awards, hundreds of hours of entertainment, and literally billions of dollars. The show and its cast have also offered enough material to flood radio waves, magazine pages, web sites, cable news shows, message boards, and books with news, gossip, and endless discussion year-round, even when the show is off the air.
Every season, FOX network executives — and executives at other networks — wait to see if the viewership will continue to increase. “American Idol” has defied the odds so far, growing from year to year.
Plenty of other shows, reality and otherwise, start on top and then slide to a comfortable position; they’re watched by a solid group of viewers and are occasionally talked about on a national level. But they are no longer phenomenons. That is now “American Idol”’s destiny.
Some good stuff
SANJAYA MALAKAR
Perfecting his My Power is in My Hair strategy, Sanjaya comes out coiffed like Ross -- totally topping the week he came out tressed like "Idol" judge Paula Abdul. But he is overwhelmed by his song -- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" -- and by the band, which is bigger and louder than ever. For any other contestant to score fewer points for performance this week will require going into negative numbers. And yet, he will probably stick around because he so adorably androgynous.
CHRIS SLIGH Blinded by vanity, literally, Chris takes off his glasses to sing "Endless Love." This give us the Simon Cowell Insult of the Evening, when the unerringly catty judge suggests Chris put them back on. Sligh also appeals for "Idol" Special Victim's Unit Case status, saying he was stabbed in the back by the show's song arranger.
MELINDA DOOLITTLE
Sticks with the A Star is Born wide-eyed newcomer strategy that has somehow served her very well so far even though the judges seem to understand she is in fact a professional backup singer by day and is also one of the oldest contestant, pushing 30. Shockingly, even when she lays it on too thick -- even by "American Idol" standards, which is really saying something -- and claims she's weeping after singing "Home" from "The Wiz" because she's never experienced anything like applause on stage, the judges buy it. Melinda wins this week's My Backstory Beats Your Backstory Award.
GINA GLOCKSON
Now deeply committed to her bad-girl rocker niche, Gina combs the Ross library for a naughty song and, ironically settles on the I May be Illegitimate but I'm Not That Kind of Girl ballad, "Love Child."
HALEY SCARNATO
Career Save of the Evening goes to Haley, who comes out with a conventional If You Can't Sing Distract 'Em With Cleavage strategy, but nimbly switches to Self Flagellation -- calling her performance of "Missing You" "the worst" and herself "a schmuck" -- when her original game plan does not click with judges Randy Jackson and Paula (though it works like gangbusters on Simon who says "I'm very impressed with your presence on the stage tonight.")
Everything about the show is unbalanced this year. We have three black divas and everybody else. There's no mystery at all to who's going to win it this year. Anyone not named Melinda or LaKisha can pack it in now. But the thing is, since it's no longer important to win the contest, there's no incentive for the also-rans to stretch themselves and try harder.
We even used to enjoy watching the transformations as the makeover team got to work, but this year there's not much to make over.
Then what do we have to look forward to when this season ends. If she wins, LaKisha will disappear into the maw of urban music (read the segregated black music industry). If she wins, Melinda's preferred style is truly old-fashioned. Don't get me wrong. I love the standards, but I can't see where Melinda fits in today's popular musical genres.
Jordin is not likely to win, but she is probably the most marketable to pop.
After those three, who cares about the rest of them.
Excellent! and I happen to agree.
Speaking of stalker songs, even though I love Clay Aiken, this one was just creepy:
If I was invisible
Then I could just watch you in your room
If I was invincible
I'd make you mine tonight
If hearts were unbreakable
Then I could just tell you where I stand
I would be the smartest man
If I was invisible
(Wait..I already am)
I've been wondering too when this will come up...well thank goodness for whoever was doing the news on FOX this morning. SHE mentioned that when 93 judges were fired during the Clinton administration it was in the media as 'routine'.
Don't know why it took so long to say it, but finally, someone said it!
I'm hoping that Dial Idol gets it wrong again but they have Stephanie and Chris Sligh as their "bottom 2."
Granted that they put their "whimp-out" disclaimer where actually 9 of the 12 are "in danger of being voted off."
Again...that's like saying "We got it right because we said one of the top 12 would get voted off this week.
Tradesports concurs and has Stephanie to go with Chris and Brandon tied for 2nd last place. Ouch!
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