# American Idol, 1/13/09 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109 "2009-01-13T16:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/21 "2009-01-14T01:20:54Z")
Oh yeah, I like spike-faced girl who’s killing her band. Nice choice of song and great pipes. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/22 "2009-01-14T01:22:23Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I don’t like the skank with the piercings and the tats. She can sing ok, but nothing special. > ETA she’s also a bitch for ditching her band. > [@Biggirl](#): > > Oh yeah, I like spike-faced girl who’s killing her band. Nice choice of song and great pipes. Dun dun duuuuuuuuuuun! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/23 "2009-01-14T01:22:40Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I don’t like the skank with the piercings and the tats. She can sing ok, but nothing special. > ETA she’s also a bitch for ditching her band. No Doubt ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/24 "2009-01-14T01:25:30Z")
> [@](#): > > How will they decide who goes to Hollywood if the judges split two and two? Simon gets an extra vote? From what I’ve heard, yes. Simon’s the tie breaker. They should’ve shown an example where that happens early on in the show. I think that’s what everyone is wondering about. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/25 "2009-01-14T01:28:09Z")
I’m sure liking Band Killer better than that poseur. Oh, I don’t think he’s gonna make it. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/26 "2009-01-14T01:29:16Z")
I can’t believe this guy is crying. ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/27 "2009-01-14T01:36:17Z")
Are the producers insane? Don’t they know there’s a frighteningly large amount of people that watch audition week _solely_ for the bad auditions? I know there’s few things more personally satisfying than watching someone who is completely deluded (and often downright cocky) with their terrible singing voice to get put in their place and have a reality check. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/28 "2009-01-14T01:45:49Z")
I wish they wouldn’t telegraph who’s going to make itand who’s not quite so obviously. If they act normal, you know they’re going to get through. Wow this 16 year old can sing. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/29 "2009-01-14T01:56:35Z")
Ah, my show. The guy with the low voice reminded me of “let my pipol go” guy. We need more entertaining bad, like Reynaldo! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/30 "2009-01-14T01:58:58Z")
Nobody who cites Hillary Duff as an influence is ever going to be any good. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/31 "2009-01-14T02:05:25Z")
Disclaimer: I’m only online for a moment while my wife is on the phone. We’re watching on DVR, and we’re just up to this point in the show, so I don’t know if this had been addressed downthread or not. > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I don’t like the skank with the piercings and the tats. She can sing ok, but nothing special. And she puts on the makeup with a trowel. > ETA she’s also a bitch for ditching her band. As soon as she started singing, my first thought was “Oh no…a very talented tattooed chick. Looks like another season of hearing about ‘that filth on her arm’”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/32 "2009-01-14T02:06:54Z")
I’m watching timeshifted. The afraid guy in the striped shirt sounded like someone was playing Aaron Neville backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/33 "2009-01-14T02:07:15Z")
The tats don’t bother me but that spike in her face is damned distracting. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/34 "2009-01-14T02:16:12Z")
Hate bikini girl. Hope she makes it all the way to the competition. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/35 "2009-01-14T02:21:29Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Disclaimer: I’m only online for a moment while my wife is on the phone. We’re watching on DVR, and we’re just up to this point in the show, so I don’t know if this had been addressed downthread or not.As soon as she started singing, my first thought was “Oh no…a very talented tattooed chick. Looks like another season of hearing about ‘that filth on her arm’”. 😃 Ok, it’s a personal thing. I don’t like tattoos and piercings. call me a fuddy duddy. It’s not American Crackhead. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/36 "2009-01-14T02:23:05Z")
That entire bikini girl sequence made my skin crawl in at least seven different ways. That girl is nowhere near as cute as she thinks she is, and Cara DiWhatever stooping to compete with her, and the awkward interchanges with Secreast, and just yeargh. Bleuagh. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/37 "2009-01-14T02:23:19Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > No Doubt Hee- I see what you did there. Not crazy about anyone yet, but did kinda like that 16yo pixie that made it through. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/38 "2009-01-14T02:24:10Z")
Bikini girl was hot and could sing. What was Paula and new judge’s problem? Is it just because she was hotter than them? Her singing isn’t spectacular, but she was as good as most of the others who make it through. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/39 "2009-01-14T02:29:42Z")
I though cute girl was cute. I hope she pulls herself together and we see more of her. I know no one’s name. The one with the super curly hair and over-plucked eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109/40 "2009-01-14T02:30:44Z")
And now we know for certain Simon is the tie-breaker. I liked her too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-13-09/481109.md?page=3)