# American Idol 1/17 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339 "2006-01-17T14:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/21 "2006-01-17T23:48:21Z")
I hope there’s someone I really like this year. I always get so hyped at the start of the season, and then I end up not caring about any of the contestants, and bored. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/22 "2006-01-18T00:48:32Z")
I’ve been thinking about AI for weeks! Now my fiance has asked me to dinner tonight. What to do, what to do? He said he’d tape it for me, so we’re going out. Try not to discuss it to death before I get a chance to watch it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/23 "2006-01-18T00:57:32Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Damn, that joke was in bad taste. Still gonna post it, though. Damn, I’ve missed you, girl. 😃 Count me in the Set of Squeeing Snarkers! I was ever so incredibly relieved when this semester started and my Wednesday class was over-filled and I got to switch to the brand-new Thursday class, whew. Tips for the newbies, be prepared to take notes. There will be so many different peeps that you’ll want to comment on and even if you’re simul-posting you’ll miss some and it gets really hard to follow “That one guy, with the hair, yeah him!” 😉 ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/24 "2006-01-18T01:02:02Z")
They need a real theme song. The one they have now sounds like a really long intro to a theme song. ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/25 "2006-01-18T01:16:03Z")
Dude can sing in three different pitiches…he just can’t sing in any KEYS. ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/26 "2006-01-18T01:20:13Z")
Why do they always tell the judges they’re making a mistake? How could it be a mistake for the judges? Under what scenario could they ever regret telling somebody no? ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/27 "2006-01-18T01:22:15Z")
It’s NIGEL! With sweat stains. Passionate sweat stains! Unless you are Macy Gray, a unique voice is not an asset. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/28 "2006-01-18T01:23:59Z")
> [@Good Egg](#): > > I read an interview with SImon where he claimed some female from Las vegas was the best this year. Please don’t frighten me. You say “Las Vegas” in an “American Idol” context and I immediately think of Mikayla Gordon, and that sort of torture violates the Geneva Convention, I think. Which reminds me … she won’t be _back_, will she? _Will she?_ > [@Biggirl](#): > > Unless you are Macy Gray, a unique voice is not an asset. Whether it even works for Macy Gray is debatable. ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/29 "2006-01-18T01:25:48Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > Whether it even works for Macy Gray is debatable. I love her but I can see how she’s an aquired taste. ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/30 "2006-01-18T01:26:11Z")
Hey, Fantasia won the whole thing by sounding like Macy Gray. ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/31 "2006-01-18T01:27:01Z")
Wilma Valderama? ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/32 "2006-01-18T01:29:43Z")
The twins have experience. The first is better than the second. Terrel and Derrel? ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/33 "2006-01-18T01:32:16Z")
Power of Love is one of the songs that needs to be permanently retired from this show. ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/34 "2006-01-18T01:33:35Z")
Are they gonna give away all the ones going by showing backstory like they did last year? ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/35 "2006-01-18T01:37:01Z")
It still amazes me how delusional people can be about their own abilities. Have the judges ever once been wrong about saying somebody can’t sing. Advice to AI wannabes: if they tell you suck, believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/36 "2006-01-18T01:41:59Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The twins have experience. The first is better than the second. Terrel and Derrel? I am so ready to crush on these two, ooh! ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/37 "2006-01-18T01:42:33Z")
Have there always been so many commercials? There are, like, 2½ minutes of commercials for every minute of auditions, aren’t there? ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/38 "2006-01-18T01:44:30Z")
Goddamn, Simon is a genious! Next year that guy is gonna show up without a beard and in a dress. ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/39 "2006-01-18T01:44:57Z")
Damn, Simon is even meaner than usual this year. ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-1-17/340339/40 "2006-01-18T01:48:53Z")
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