Why don’t they have any singing footage? Pictures and interviews and blah, blah, blah but no samples of the voices behind the faces? That sucks.
The Girls
I will not be able to tell Alaine Alexander and Amy Krebs apart by looks. I hope one or both have distinctive voices.
Gina Glocken is the closest a contestant comes to having a diva attitude and, from what I remember, does NOT have the voice to back it up.
Melinda Dolittle and Lakisha Jones will have to fight it out for the big-black-girl-with-voice-to-match place in my heart. Lakisha kinda does look like me if I was younger, darker, with bigger boobies and a flatter stomach.
Is Stephanie Edwards the giantess? After reading her interview I got a real churchy vibe. It is evident that Jesus is her homeboy.
The other girls? A blank slate.
The Boys
Sundance Head was the worst Hollywood Week contestant I’ve ever seen get through. He took the spot of one of many other guys who sounded 50 times better than he did. Thus my irrational hate.
Sanjay, Paul Kim and Chris have all made positive impressions on me. Brandon Rogers made a negative one. I do not like his nasily, back-of-the-throat voice.
All the other guys— sing to me and make me love you!
It wasn’t Jasmine Trias with the flower. It was Camile Velasco from season 3.
Her performances were painful to watch. She was tortured by the viewers much like the red-headed crooning kid from season 4(?). Every week that he wasn’t voted off, he looked guilty and had an “Oh shit, I have to do this again next week??” look on his face.
I don’t remember Jasmine being the one that seemed very nervous on stage at all. But I remember Camile having a deer-in-the-headlights look in her eyes.
Neither of them were very good. That I DO remember.
Jasmine was kept on for weeks longer than her talent merited by (presumably) dedicated Hawaiians who wanted someone from their state to be there. This was much to the dismay of Simon (and others, including me) who felt it was unfair to some better singers who got voted off. When the pool of contestants got small enough, there weren’t enough people in Hawaii to override the more sensible voters.
Ah, you’re right. I was mixing the two up. Thanks **Dio ** and Gary T.
Anyway, I was blown away by Chris Sligh’s group. I’ve never actually enjoyed the group performances…ever. But that was fantastic. I’m really pulling for Chris to get at least final 2. His “meeting” comment was great. Everyone else goes into the room like they’re walking the plank and he goes in seemingly relaxed and in good spirits.
I wonder why we saw nothing of Sexy McJailbait the last two nights. I had almost forgotten about him until about 3 quarters of the way through last night’s show. He and the other person from my area didn’t make it through. Oh well.
My other problem with this is that when there are three guys left, for example, and one of them gets called up, they immediately know they’re through – otherwise you can’t have the Final Two Deathmatch. Here’s my solution: Call the last three together. You can either have two slots left, or just one. That way the fourth guy left still won’t know his fate, and you can still have the suspense with the last three.
He sang a bit in his audition. There’s also a bunch of clips on YouTube of him, singing. He’s not bad, but I don’t think he has a good enough voice to go far.
I think the best thing AI did over the last two years was extend the top of the age range to 28. It leads to much more mature and polished singers, which I definitely like.
On edit: Looking through the interviews, it’s clear that the guys from the beatboxing group are all pretty good friends; they named each other as their American Idols. Cool
It’s as bad for the winner as it is for the loser. All the other winners get to celebrate loudly, but the last one is beholden by civility to mitigate his joy. I think it would be fine if they brought them up together to that floor together, but informed them separately. They could use parallel editing to do their TV reveal, keeping suspense until the last moment. Then, they could let the loser go down first. Everybody gives him sympathy. He leaves the building. Winner goes down. Everybody celebrates. Roll credits.
That shorter NJ bitch —ARG, there are no words. For her to act like she can sing,…and then “We don’t need to flirt, we can get all the guys we want back home.” Well, that’s where you’re going, bitch-ass; enjoy.
You’re absolutely right. I remember feeling bad for the last winners picked for exactly that reason. I mean, every other winner got to whoop it up with relief, while these two were pretty much obliged to help the last loser pick up the pieces. And in both cases last night, when the losers went <checks forum> bat-crazy, that couldn’t have been a good feeling. Heck, what if either of the losers forgot they weren’t on Jerry Springer and decided to slug the winner in the elevator? I mean, at least the judges got security presence in the audition rooms.
