# American Idol - 21, 22, 23 Feb **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532 "2006-02-21T21:48:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/41 "2006-02-22T01:43:31Z")
Paris! I want Paris! ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/42 "2006-02-22T01:43:54Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > And seriously, I do not care about why they choose their songs, unless they’re singing a cool song, like “Brick House.” But that is a song that doesn’t need any explanation, so – I do not care about why these people choose their songs. Please stop telling me. See, this is a song that does not need to be explained. Wow, Paris really looks like Gladys Knight. Lord a’mighty, I hate gaucho pants. She’s so cute, but she doesn’t sound as good as her first audition. She should sing slower, younger songs. I fear she lacks the necessary depth of experience that should accompany this song. My Lord, I am a bitter old woman. But Paris sure is cute! ---
**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 22, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/43 "2006-02-22T01:44:23Z")
Yay, Paris. I loved her dancing. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/44 "2006-02-22T01:44:31Z")
That was _not_ a 17 year old! ---
**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 22, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/45 "2006-02-22T01:44:50Z")
Still not feeling any Paris love. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/46 "2006-02-22T01:45:46Z")
Paris: great singing, godawful performance (I mean that she’s all Gladys Knighted up). ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/47 "2006-02-22T01:45:55Z")
Paris’ vocal performance was incredible but I wish she wouldn’t try so hard with the expressions and the dancing. Also, I hate how they dressed her so old-looking and sucked all the cuteness out of her. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/48 "2006-02-22T01:47:09Z")
So far Paris has a lock on second place, next to Mandisa. She sounded a little winded in places - if she hadn’t been jumping around so much I’m guessing it would have been even stronger. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/49 "2006-02-22T01:50:01Z")
Am I totally off-base here? I never ever thought that Midnight Train to Georgia was a celebratory, huge grin, jump-around-the-stage song. P.S. Who shrunk Ayla’s outfit in the dryer? ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/50 "2006-02-22T01:53:49Z")
I’m turning Stevie off to watch the end of the UConn/Notre Dame game (which just went to OT), because she sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/51 "2006-02-22T01:53:56Z")
Stevie is all kinds of awful. Don’t they teach how to sing on key in opera school? ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/52 "2006-02-22T01:54:47Z")
Stevie has a beautiful voice, but she has absolutely _zero_ personality. She makes Carrie Underwood look like … I don’t know, Fantasia or something. And she is making a frightful mess of this song. Entirely too much air in her voice. Or something. Randy: Girls don’t have falsetto. It’s called “soprano.” ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/53 "2006-02-22T01:55:49Z")
“You were very intimate. We heard you go in and out.” Paula Abdul, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/54 "2006-02-22T01:57:28Z")
Paula is on crack. Completely agree with Simon - “I can bring it” “Not tonight. It was left at home, Stevie” Haw. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/55 "2006-02-22T01:58:06Z")
Now I hate Stevie, because she’s a boring, pouty little girl who has obviously had everything handed to her on a silver platter by pouting and tilting her head to the right. GAHHHHHH. ---
**Author:** ![marymargaret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/56 "2006-02-22T01:58:53Z")
Stevie sounded so meek. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/57 "2006-02-22T01:59:58Z")
I didn’t like the last one… not that I wasn’t paying much attention cuz I was studying… Did I miss something? ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/58 "2006-02-22T02:03:02Z")
Aaaahhhh!!! Shut her up!!! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/59 "2006-02-22T02:03:41Z")
Before she went to sing, she reminded me of the Constantine… ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532/60 "2006-02-22T02:03:50Z")
Oh, Brenna. Barf. Go away. And shut up. Quickly. Am I a bad person because I want her to fall through the stage and take her stupid gaucho pants with her? _Eww_ … did she just call her moms “baby”? Gross. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-21-22-23-feb/345532.md?page=4)