# American Idol 2/13--Hooray for Hollywood! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045 "2007-02-13T18:22:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [February 15, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/81 "2007-02-15T02:23:37Z")
[QUOTE=LilyoftheValley] I think Sanjaya really is that shy. How on earth is he going to survive the show? Is it just me, or did like one person clap for him? Poor kid. [/QUOTE] If I remember correctly, his family backed the sister as the bright star. Years of the people you love (and who really do love you) telling you you are second best makes for genuinely shy people. I hope he doesn’t turn into this year’s girl with the flower. I’m not good at names, but the second or third idol had a girl who wore a flower and was sooooo petrified. I think people kept voting for her to torture her. Does anyone remember who I’m talking 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:** [February 15, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/82 "2007-02-15T02:26:28Z")
Instead of “congratulations” Ryan screams “He takes a spot! He takes a spot!” Just awful. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/83 "2007-02-15T02:30:26Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] If I remember correctly, his family backed the sister as the bright star. Years of the people you love (and who really do love you) telling you you are second best makes for genuinely shy people. I hope he doesn’t turn into this year’s girl with the flower. I’m not good at names, but the second or third idol had a girl who wore a flower and was sooooo petrified. I think people kept voting for her to torture her. Does anyone remember who I’m talking about? [/QUOTE] Jasmine Trias. God, I’m embarrassed that I know that. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/84 "2007-02-15T02:40:32Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Jasmine Trias. God, I’m embarrassed that I know that. [/QUOTE] You got her name wrong: it was “Jasmine-Trias-from-Hawaaaaaaaaa_aaaaaaaai’i!_” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/85 "2007-02-15T02:55:44Z")
I just don’t get the Jersey girl thing. I also don’t get the whole my-life-is-over-because-I-got-cut-from-American-Idol thing. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/86 "2007-02-15T02:58:28Z")
I have picked Sundance as the contestant I will hate irrationally. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/87 "2007-02-15T03:00:32Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] I have picked Sundance as the contestant I will hate irrationally. [/QUOTE] I would pick Antonella, except I think my dislike may be rational. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/88 "2007-02-15T03:00:54Z")
As you might have guessed, my irrational hatred is for Antonella. Also Rudy. My favorites: Chris, Sanjaya, Melinda ---
**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:** [February 15, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/89 "2007-02-15T03:04:36Z")
As a few have mentioned, Antonella hatred is not irrational. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/90 "2007-02-15T03:05:22Z")
I don’t think Sanjaya is all that great a singer. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/91 "2007-02-15T03:06:06Z")
Top 12 girls: Antonella Barba Haley Scarnato Lakisha Jones Jordin Sparks Stephanie Edwards Melinda Doolittle Alaina Alexander Gina Glocksen Amy Krebs Leslie Hunt Sabrina Sloan Nicole Tranquillo Top 12 guys: Phil Stacey Jared Cotter Chris Richardson Nicholas Pedro Brandon Rogers Sundance Head Rudy Cardenas A.J. Tabaldo Paul Kim Chris Sligh Blake Lewis Sanjaya Malakar Stole the list from a very reliable source because, even though I wasn’t on a treadmill, I didn’t take notes. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/92 "2007-02-15T03:11:27Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] I have picked Sundance as the contestant I will hate irrationally. [/QUOTE] I haven’t picked one yet, because I’m all like, “_… Who?_” about half these people anyway. (Or, as my new inexplicable superstar hero Ian Benardo put it, “_… Carrie Underwhere?_”) Have we even seen these girls before? I remember Gina, Jordin, Melinda, and Antonella. Everyone else draws a blank. Oh, but about Sundance: I kind of feel bad for him. I _hate_ when they put two people in the room at the same time, and only one makes it through, like an American Idol Cage Deathmatch, or something. He did what is probably the _only_ thing you can do when all that is over, which is try to crack a joke. It didn’t work, but Tommy Daniels had _clearly_ lost his shit there at the end, when he started flipping off the ElevatorCam and giving Ryan the stinkeye. The fun begins next week! Hope my Cingular plan is updated, and I get free messaging now. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/93 "2007-02-15T03:15:38Z")
Why are we hating Antonella? She is the prettiest girl ever on American Idol! I have a total crush on her. I might even vote this year, just to keep her around. I don’t care if she just burps the national anthem of Persia every week. (I am not helping her case, am I?) At any rate, it sucks to be on the final two and not being able to celebrate getting in. ---
**Author:** ![turtle\_dove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@turtle\_dove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtle_dove)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/94 "2007-02-15T03:48:28Z")
Not bad. I expected Chris to make it through. Also the beat box guy(Drake, is it?) It was a bit disconcerting to have the woman crumple in the elevator as if to say “I was better than you! How can this be?” My fave: Melinda! ---
**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:** [February 15, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/95 "2007-02-15T04:03:02Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] Why are we hating Antonella? She is the prettiest girl ever on American Idol! I have a total crush on her. I might even vote this year, just to keep her around. I don’t care if she just burps the national anthem of Persia every week. (I am not helping her case, am I?) At any rate, it sucks to be on the final two and not being able to celebrate getting in. [/QUOTE] Because she’s a bitch, dear. I am so geeked my moppet Chris made it, although I thought Tommy would have been totally justified in smacking Sundance. I liked Sundance’s initial audition, but he royally tanked over and over during Hell Week, while Tommy’s performances were more like sweet creamy chocolate with a side of buttah. _sigh_ I was really liking LaKisha until our local news had a ghettorific interview with her tonight, apparently she’s got Michigan roots or some such. I’m so over her now, and missing lip-ring Tami even more. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/96 "2007-02-15T04:10:18Z")
My impressions, favorites and irrational dislikes always seem to shift throughout the season, but for right now, I like Chris Sligh (I agree with **Lib** that he’s got an Elton John quality plus he’s got an endearing, self-effacing sense of humor), Blake (the beat box guy), Sanjaya (seems like a sweet kid and he’s got nice voice), Sundance (not sure why, just a personality thing) and the back-up singer (whose name I don’t remember). There were quite a few who I haven’t seen enough to get a strong impression about. There’s no one I really hate yet. I’m sure that will change. I did think that Rudy guy kind of sucked and probably didn’t deserve to make it through ahead of the guy that went into the room with Sundance (Tom?). ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/97 "2007-02-15T04:12:46Z")
[QUOTE=LilyoftheValley] Oh, my Tami. _sigh_ [/QUOTE] Well, shit. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/98 "2007-02-15T04:46:59Z")
I remember Antonella’s friend Amanda being nasty, but I don’t recall that of Antonella. In the little clip of Antonella shown before her fate was revealed, it was said that she struggled with the words. She looked slightly distracted, but didn’t seem to stumble on the lyrics. What impressed me, though, was that she seemed to be singing effortlessly (and well), as if it were as natural as breathing. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/99 "2007-02-15T05:45:17Z")
I’m getting really, really sick of the fat black judge guy (sorry–first season watching American Idol, and I don’t have the names down yet) calling everyone “dawg”. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/100 "2007-02-15T05:57:46Z")
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