# American Idol 2/8: Welcome to Hollywood!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-8-welcome-to-hollywood/343627 "2006-02-09T00:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **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 9, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-8-welcome-to-hollywood/343627/81 "2006-02-09T20:54:57Z")
Hey, what happened you Young Zack? Does anybody remember seeing him last night? He was yummy. ---
**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 9, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-8-welcome-to-hollywood/343627/82 "2006-02-09T20:55:42Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The only names I know for sure are The Pickler and Paris. Gah! Where’s **Queen Tonya** with her very good notes on who is who when you need her? I’m right there on the clueless couch with you, babe. :smack: I promise to do better next week! ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-8-welcome-to-hollywood/343627/83 "2006-02-09T21:05:19Z")
So, turns out Idol scored bigger [ratings](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060209/ap_on_en_tv/grammys_tv_ratings) than the Grammys last night. Maybe Kelly shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the show after all? ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-8-welcome-to-hollywood/343627/84 "2006-02-09T21:10:52Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Nice how they will recommend the other twins to their producer friends; they’ve got juice but somehow still need AI?? Those were my thoughts exactly. ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-8-welcome-to-hollywood/343627/85 "2006-02-09T22:30:46Z")
I hate it when people say things like “I don’t understand. I never did anything to Simon.” Bullethead said something to that effect. Do they really think it’s personal? It drives me batty, and I hear people say it all the time!!! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-8-welcome-to-hollywood/343627/86 "2006-02-09T22:48:19Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Chris is the Christian rocker guy, right? I like his voice but I wonder if he’s a little too edgy for Simon’s comfort. I think his voice is harder-edged than Bo was- closer to true metal than southern rock. Simon didn’t like him, even in his audition. His was the only “no” vote. (And he said it after a long, pensive glare.) ---
**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 9, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-8-welcome-to-hollywood/343627/87 "2006-02-09T22:57:04Z")
> [@RachelChristine](#): > > I hate it when people say things like “I don’t understand. I never did anything to Simon.” Bullethead said something to that effect. Do they really think it’s personal? It drives me batty, and I hear people say it all the time!!! Simon had done a little bit of fake out when he cut them (“Congratulations…on getting this far. Now you’re going home”) and Sgt. Smarm was complaining that he had been “dissed.” ("…and I’ve never done anything to diss Simon like that’). Like a lot of them, he’s under a fundamental misperception that any of that stuff is personal or really has anything to do with him. He doesn’t get that doing the fake-out bit with the cuts is just part of the show and has zero to do with him personally or with anyone else who gets cut. Like a lot of them, he has an exaggerated sense of his own importance and therefore assume the judges have ever spent more than 20 seconds giving him any thought at all. He thinks that Simon actually made a conscious decision to cut Bullethead out of the show and to do the fake-out bit, _just to fuck with him, Bullethead, the center of the universe, specifically_. I wonder if he even noticed that he wasn’t the only one who got cut and I wonder if 30 minutes later Simon even remembered who was in that group or what he had said to them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-8-welcome-to-hollywood/343627.md?page=4)