Y’know Blake, the kid with the Statue of Liberty costume who sang two words before getting cut off?
From my town. Youngest of 3 brothers. I went to high school with the eldest. All of them are vocally talented and equally stupid. It’s a shame he went with the gimmick because to my knowledge he’s got a pretty good voice and he went and blew his audition.
Fun Fact: my junior year, the mother of these boys skidded on black ice and crashed into the school, Blake was in the back seat.
My mom was upset about that. She liked the bit that she got to hear.
Does anybody else find it disturbing that so many people seem so bizzarly out of touch with reality. What scares me is these people are out there walking around and they are complete psychos. I know that some of them just want to get on TV but many of the really bad singers really believe they can sing well. I do not get it. And it scares me a little to be confronted with the fact that so many people are so out of touch with reality. Somebody please tell me it is all a put up job. Or that they find some of these people in looney bins. I don’t want to believe they are out there. I mean if they are so mistaken about something as simple as their ability to sing what does it say about everything else they think or believe? Christ we let these people vote?
Another thing, I understand that under pressure people can forget the words or even the songs they are going to sing, but it seems as if some of these people haven’t even thought about what they will sing untill the minute they walk through the door.
Finally, I can’t imagine that that guy was really a deputy sherrif. Or if he was that he still has a job. Not that a sherrif could not or would not enter AI but that it must have violated any departments policy that he appeared on the show in uniform. If he is a cop, its another thing that is disturbing.
Notwithstanding all my whineing (SP?) I enjoy the show. But I find the auditions painfull. I like it much better later in the season when I can see talented people sing and compete.
If any of them has what it takes to make it, it’s Kelly Clarkson. I think she’s very talented and has held her own pretty well so far. She also seems to be a decent songwriter … or at least I like her music. I think she just might still be around in five years.
Eh, I’m not really surprised anymore to find out how many crazies are out there. I work with a buttload of them. Well, “work,” since I don’t know what most them do when they’re here - it isn’t work, I’ll tell you that much. But that is a different rant, I suppose. Sorry for the hijack.
I thought the panel was going to discuss what makes some of these people think they could sing (or even think that they are sane) when they invited Tanorexia’s mother in the room. It should have been her and the other two women who said that their boy “sang like an angel” and “made them cry”.
The panel should have invited them in the audition room and told them all to stop fucking with their children’s minds.
I think Simon has gone 'round the bend this year; he’s gone past snarky, and into pointlessly cruel & sadistic. “You remind me of a rat”? “Shave your beard and dress like a woman”? C’mon. If you don’t like your job, Simon, go back to working for a living.
Be that as it may…the Lady Marmelade montage was classic.
First Clueless Guy of the Year – Chicago, with the pit stains…for someone who claims to be a singer, he didn’t actually know any, y’know, songs. “Shout”, a fragment of some obscure rap, and that song from Animal House? wtf?
And Statue of Liberty Guy and Assyrian Guy deserved better. Just 'cuz they dressed stupid doesn’t mean that can’t sing.
Oh, come on! “Constance on the Bathroom Wall” is already a classic!
Regarding singles, airplay is huge.
Regarding Billboards “No. 1” titles, remember crossovers are counted. Clarkson is so high (32) because a monster crossover hit like “Since U Been Gone” places on six different charts. Still, she has had quite a career so far: 6 Top 10 singles (Including 5x platinum selling “Since U Been Gone” - Who says no one buys singles anymore?), 2 multi-platinum albums (including 4x platinum “Breakaway”), successful tours, TV exposure. That’s quite a musical career she’s got going. I don’t think she’ll disappear from the landscapre anytime soon.
Same thing for Carrie Underwood. 2x platinum (and still going) debut album, two huge singles. She is going to have a long, successful country music career.
Is the song a classic, or Pit Stain’s performance of it? 
I loved Sing Like an Angel’s grandma, telling Simon to his face that he was shorter & older than she thought. Hee.
the Lost ep. at 8pm is a rerun of last week’s ep. The new Lost is on at 9, so you can indeed see A.I.
What was that “Constance on the Wall” song, exactly? I don’t remember it in Animal House (haven’t seen that movie in 20 years, probably), and it doesn’t get many hits on Google. What’s the real name of the song?
Interesting choice for the Assyrian Guy b/c Paula’s father is of Syrian Jewish descent. I wonder if he was playing up his heritage to connect w/Paula? Well if so, it didn’t work.
It’s a bit from Trading Places, not Animal House. It’s the scene right before Dan Akroyd comes back to the country club after being busted, wearing pimp clothes, asking for money from his “friends.” The frat boys are singing to the sorority girls some silly song they made up about the girls.
I thought it was funny - but definitely not AI material! (And the real lyrics are “Constance in the bathroom stall” - not “on the wall.”)
I knew it was a John Landis movie, he muttered, trying to salvage his dignity.
I think a good number of the AI contestants are yanking our chain.
Paula: “I liked her. She was kind of like Frenchie.”
Simon: “Frenchie? She was more like France.”
Cruel, but I’m sorry, it was quick and funny.
It wasn’t an imaginary earphone. Putting a finger in your ear (or cupping your hand over your ear) is a great way to hear yourself better. Try it.
Yep, and not in the good way.
Did I not hear one guy in the Lady Marmalade montage mangle the french into something resembling “itchy itchy cootchie mama”?
Tell me I did, cause that is some funny shit.
Thanks for the info. I honestly believed that the “Singer” had made up the lyrics after reading bathroom walls!