Dunkleman was fired. Or rather “not asked to return”. So it’s more like, it’s gotta be bad if you’re the only person on the whole team who was not brought back.
And I still want to see whether they have anybody at all who gets two “no” votes and one “yes”. I didn’t see a single one tonight. Just three "no"s or they got through.
My biggest disagreement with the judges sending someone to Hollywood was the poised, pretty and coached to within an inch of her life girl (Holly? long hair, one-shoulder bare shirt). She had a nondescript voice that baaaaaarely held onto the notes she was singing. Oh well, she’ll wash out early and all her mother’s time and money in turning her little princess into a star will have been for naught.
My favorite was the blonde that sang Superstitious. But, then again, I also didnt’ see the first half hour or so.
My feeling on the Enrique guy was that it was a joke. He KNEW he’d get on TV if he sucked and made a scene, so he did. I doubt he was planted, because it was SO obvious that he was faking it, but once Fox saw the performance, they had to put him on.
The “kung fu” line was so out of left field that me and my roommate didn’t stop laughing at how horribly tasteless it was for at least 3 minutes.
“Unchained Melody” was absolutely the funniest! As they were showing the changing of the seasons, the lyrics were just perfect:
“Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much.”
This was my first time to watch the show. How can it ever be as interesting as the auditions?
Sadly, if any of these people were starting out today, it’s a pretty sure bet that none of them would get a record contract, and if they did the public would blow them off.
It’s all about the video. Sigh…
I don’t know who my favorite is yet, but I did whoop when the big girl got picked. She WAS fearless. Good for her, I hope America remembers who the real Queen of Soul is when they are picking up the phone. Vocally, I’m pretty sick of everybody belting.
I loved the asian guy bumping his friend, and I was very sad for the pimp daddy guy. He broke my heart. Because he didn’t aggressively suck the way some of the others did, I can see why he might have dreamed he had something going on.
I think Simon Is the only one being honest about the thing. Idol is about being a crappy-pop singer. Like all the girl-groups and boy-bands. Anyone who is not a skinny skank with nice tits and shows them, or is not an effeminate pretty-boy is not going to make it in that crappy little world of fame. None of the hordes of stupid teenage testosterone demons, or week knee-ed schreech factories that make up the ‘pop’ puchasing market is going to ever vote for a fat or ugly person. The big girl, and the gap-toothed guy arn’t going to win, no matter how they sing, and is honesty so much worse than stringing people along when every body knows they arn’t going to win with the format set-up?
Those were my two favourites BECAUSE they weren’t the same.
Perhaps it’s just me but the “R&B vocal-stylings crap” is starting to sound more and more like some new urban yodeling.
Half the time it sounds like they can’t decide on what note to sing and they’re just wandering through their vocal range hoping to hit the note by accident.
That said, the big black woman kicked some major ass on the show.
How the hell could the judges have seen 9000 people in NY alone? If you give everyone one minute that would be 150 hours.
I Am gonna second the idea that most of the really bad singers were faking big time or else they were just planted in the group of contestants by Fox for something to show. The fuckups were the best part of the first season so they are gonna over do it this season.
The only ones who really caught my attention was the twins.
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Lola, he quit. Brian Dunkleman was his name.
Ummmm, I thought he was ASKED to quit! (Fired!)
Yeah, I did that math too. If they auditioned people for ten straight hours a day and kept everyone to just 60 seconds, with no breaks or pauses of any kind, that would take fifteen straight days. I do not think so.
They never said they actually AUDITIONED 9,000 people. They just said 9,000 people showed up. I suspect they’re prescreened by other staff who weed out everyone who either
A) Isn’t either reasonably good or hilariously bad, or
B) Is too old or too young.
There may also be a first-come-first-served thing going on there, too.
Well, don’t be so sure. Singing is like driving… everyone thinks they’re better than average. I know people who are absolutely, utterly convinced they can sing, but when they try they could knock a deaf dog over at 100 yards. Some people just don’t hear how bad they sound.
Singing is a lot harder than people realize until they REALLY try it. A lot of people who can carry a tune singing along to the radio suddenly find that when they have to sing it loud, they can’t hold the same tune; power and projection is a big part of singing, and not everyone has it, but I think a lot of people don’t realize that.
I only caught the last few weeks of the first American Idol, and I was looking forward to catching the second one in its entirety, with guilty pleasure.
And hooooooboy! It did not disappoint.
I am making no predictions as to who will carry on, or who I want to carry on, because I don’t care just yet. The process is what I am finding entertaining.
Comments and thoughts:
That was my reasoning as well.
I totally agree with that. I also don’t like when female singers do that growling sort of singing. None of the auditions they showed did it though, I’m just making a general comment. I prefer people that hold a note without any variation, no yodeling or vibrato stuff.
I liked the guy that did the beat box stuff. I’m glad he made it to the next stage, but I doubt he’ll win, as his voice wasn’t that great.
I felt really bad for him. I didn’t think they really needed to show the last bit with a tear clearly running down his face. Poor guy.
I missed the first half of the show, but at least I got to see the Enrique guy and “Unchained Melody” girl. Even if Enrique guy was purposely bad, it was still fun to watch. I loved Simon’s comment that the girl could have made an entire album out of that one song. Ha!
Stoid, that yellow suit guy broke my heart too. He wasn’t horrible, but probably not good enough, and you could just see him being crushed.
Other than that…I wonder if the Enrique guy was actually, yanno, deluded. He sure seemed it to me – not faking, just really, really confused as to why they didn’t love him. Maybe I’m a sucker.
The twins kinda grossed me out. They could sing well, but the rest of the package (behavior, looks) didn’t sit right with me. Ick.
The girl who sang “Superstitious” (NOT “Superstition”, like she said) had a strong voice but it annoyed me that she sang it so fast. She was probably nervous.
I don’t think the Fever girl will be able to sing any other style credibly.
TOTAL HIJACK:
Here’s something that’s bugged the crap out of me for a while about R&B music of late (not that I’m a big fan of the genre in its current form). I noticed that one of the auditioners did this at the end of an elaborate and pathetic attempt at dance. You know when a singer/rapper/whatever snottily says, “what?” in the middle of a break, or a couple of times at the beginning of the song, or whatever? I know it’s in a break towards the end of Alicia Keys’ “Fallin’” and at the end of Christina Aguilera’s “Dirty” – it ruins the former for me and just makes the latter worse. Is there some deep meaning I’m missing?
I laughed so much last night, I didn’t expect people to be so funny (bad), and the look on the judges faces was so damn funny!
My husband asked me when the Asian guy came out “did he just ask him if he knew Kung-fu?!” and I replied I think he said, after they bumped into each other, “is that kung-fu?!”. I found it funny and like the fact that you can make some jokes without offend somebody right away. This Asian guy was cool.
I myslef like the blong girl who sang Superstitions, I like those deep voices. and you know, no urban yodeling there!
The big girl was very good too but unfortunalty, the “look” they are looking for is gonna hurt her, I fear.
I love Simon, love him, love him. The very very bad people deserve a mean comment for auditioning in the first place.
I’m agreeing with most of the impressions that people have already posted, namely that the kung-fu question was hilariously inappropriate, the heavyset woman was awesome, and the kid in the yellowsuit was really sad. Normally I don’t feel bad for the ones who get insulted, since I feel they are asking to be judged.
Especially this season, when they already knew how people the judges didn’t like were treated last year. Something about the yellow suit guy was really heartbreaking though, maybe because he wasn’t all that bad compared to some of the others, but the criticism was just as harsh.
It seemed to me that very few of the singers were really projecting well. It was like they might have had good voices but didn’t know how to show them off to good effect.
I got the impression that Randy was doing a Simon impression most of the night. He seemed much harsher than he did last season, and I was thinking maybe he wanted some of the attention that Simon garners for being so brutal. If that’s his plan I don’t think it will work, just because it looked really forced.
Either the Ford and Coke slogans and product placements were a lot more subtle than last year or I’m just getting used to them. They are still pretty bad, but didn’t seem to be as distracting.