Posted on 03/15/2005 5:53:32 AM PST by silent_jonny
1. "Inside Your Heaven" (new AI single that both Carrie and Bo will sing)
2. "Angels Brought Me Here" (#1 hit for the Australian Pop Idol). Bo's doing some song called "Long Long Road"
3. "Independence Day" for Carrie, "Vehicle" for Bo.
I've been loyal to Carrie all season (as many of you know :), but now that it's between her and Bo, I'm hoping Bo will win.
Carrie has the better voice, but Bo is clearly the better performer. Like I said to Doodlelady yesterday, Bo is comfortable on stage and that allows the audience to be comfortable. Carrie, OTOH, is often so stiff and nervous that it's distracting. She can overcome that in time and will have a great career (and if she goes on tour with Fedorov, they'll be unstoppable!). But the question to ask is: Who's ready to be Idol right now? The answer (to me at least) is Bo.
Thanks, Jonny.
You and A CA Guy nailed it, IMO.
Bo's ready now.
Tonight should be fun...wish we could watch it
simul-like-type-taniously
instead of 3 hrs. L8R
People Magazine is saying the song for Carrie is "An Angel Brought Me Here Today." So, it might not be Guy Sebastian's song, but AI does like to reuse songs across all their Pop Idol shows.
AI can actually produce hit records with Bo and the other lady can at best hope for a weak Country Western hit ONE TIME.
I predict BO will actuall have a career that might surpass Kelly.
Reuben and Fantasia were the worst AI winners and it has been proved out by the fact they have pretty much no career.
For many, it was a big part of it:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/312377p-267235c.htmlSo, how gutsy was that performance if he'd done it before, probably many times before in previous gigs?Bo Bice
...
WHY HE'LL WIN: His style ranges from Lynyrd Skynyrd to the O'Jays. Has guts — he sang his last song, "In a Dream," without music.
You just can't let it go, can you?
Who cares how many times he's sung it?!
A capella in front of millions takes guts every time.
Have you tried it?
Hope so.
I've never wanted to buy AI music or see AI concerts til now.
Saw Kelly perform life under a couple of weeks ago, she was kind of heavy, but had a fine voice.
Unless you are into popular music, I doubt you are going to like where AI would produce these people.
IMO, they throw them at the target audience where the money is.
I see Bo doing Rob Thomas or Creed type songs.
Step-mother, or does his mother just not use the last name of Bice for some reason?
It will be fun to see who outsells who.
One would think so. He's been entertaining professionally for years. (as in getting paid) The other lady? There is only one female left, unless you know something about Bo that the rest of us don't.
AI is about and for AMATEURS!!! What is an amateur? It's a person that lacks professional skill or expertise. In sports it is a person that hasn't been paid for their performance.
I forget her name now and then, she isn't that memerable.
So you think all the Idol contestants have never
sung for money? Was that the contest criteria or
just your excuse to exclude Bo?
I agree with you. It's like he is in a rut. He ought to sing Clapton's 'Cocaine' and Anka's 'You're Having My Baby'. There's an idol for ya!
Tonight's the Night!
Article from NY Daily News:
No 'Idol' before us
Tonight, either Bo or Carrie will triumph
and become the worst 'AI' yet
So it comes down to this: a cut-rate country singer vs. a man who does the least credible impersonation of a rock star since Pat Boone.
Tonight at 8, millions will witness the season's final smackdown of "American Idol" on Fox.
It pits Carrie Underwood against Bo Bice.
She's a Nashville striver so plastic she makes Shania Twain seem like she was born in a holler. He's a should-be lounge singer who somehow mistook himself for a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Wouldn't it be great if both could lose?
Alas, no such tender mercy can save us.
Following tonight's showdown, tomorrow will bring a commercial-crammed two-hour episode, during which one indisputable winner will be declared. Then America's pop charts will have to deal with the consequences for a year — or more.
So who will it be?
It's hard not to give a major shoulder shrug, considering the still-puzzling upset of Clay Aiken vs. Ruben Studdard two years ago. The skinny Clay seemed to have more of the crowd smitten, only to lose at the last minute to his portly rival. The fact that Clay went on to outsell Ruben proves how odd — and off — these results can be.
I'm leaning toward Bo, if only because he has the higher profile, not to mention the ability to inspire more jokes on "Saturday Night Live" — a sure sign of cultural resonance.
Yet some things about tonight's show can be stated for sure.
First, whoever wins will be the worst victor in "AI's" four-season reign of terror.
You don't have to be Simon to know that 2005's contestants have sunk to new lows. They've suffered from less sure pitch and a less nuanced understanding of the lyrics than ever before, and that's a near Herculean feat.
The other twist for 2005's edition is that the two finalists come from genres outside the one that has dominated the contest so far: R&B-pop. While that gives "AI" some badly needed variety, it brings the singers into trickier commercial turf than previous contestants.
Earlier winners and first runners-up enjoyed the generous context of R&B, which in the past has welcomed singers as iffy as J.Lo, Ciara and Ashanti. That's because R&B is often a producer's medium, where sonic tricks make the hit.
Should Bo win, he has to face something far riskier: the credibility factor of rock. And at the moment he has less of it than Donny Osmond.
Carrie has to deal with the fact that country music favors Nashville insiders, which could well hurt her potential fan base.
Then again, at this point the vast "AI" fan vortex and hype machine represents a genre unto itself. It's a universe of cheesiness every bit as popular, and undying, as Velveeta.
Tonight, be ready to choke down the heftiest slice yet.
An American Idol purest? It is not like Bo has ever had a real record deal. Bo met the criteria and deserves to win. After two failures, AI finally will get a winner. Although I think Carrie might do well also.
Fantasia will be a tough act to beat in that category.
Tell that to Mic Jaggar.
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