# American Idol 3/23-3/24 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548 "2010-03-23T23:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [March 25, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/121 "2010-03-25T01:53:20Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > The “easy song” meme is getting kind of dumb. I mean, most songs have about an octave in 'em for the vocalist, and it’s not Opera Idol. Crystal’s performances have shown her to have a pleasant voice and she sings in tune, with good feeling for the melody and the lyrics. She’s also consistently picked good songs, even if they aren’t technical showcases. She seems to care deeply about music, not just her own performances of it as a gateway to love and adulation. That already puts her in an echelon of contestant. The “easy song” thing has to stop, especially with the level of hysterical misogyny some people bring to it. What misogyny? I’m also not going to give her a pass on being lazy and gutless. Real musicians who “care deeply about music,” push themselves. They don’t try to coast. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/122 "2010-03-25T01:54:20Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Joe Jonas has nothing interesting to say. I disagree! Why, he’s saying that if you throw a pebble in the water, you can make a wave! I myself am so inspired now. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/123 "2010-03-25T02:06:47Z")
Joe Jonas is brilliant! ---
**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:** [March 25, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/124 "2010-03-25T02:23:18Z")
So, getting home just in time to turn on the reveal was okay, I guess. Looking at the comments, it doesn’t appear that I missed much. I do wonder at a show that came out of nowhere and had crap guest stars at the beginning (Ashford and Simpson anyone?) to hugeness like Prince, Bono, Avril Lavigne, Michael Buble, J-Lo, Gloria Estefan, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Dolly Parton, and now we’re getting “People most folks old enough to drink don’t know”. Actually, Miley seemed to do fairly well with the coaching thing, but these guest performers this season, what the hell? ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/125 "2010-03-25T02:27:05Z")
I am not surprised, i have a feeling already whose leaving next week, especially considering Usher will be the mentor. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/126 "2010-03-25T02:44:32Z")
Well, VFTW got Tim to the tour. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/127 "2010-03-25T02:52:34Z")
For those of us who haven’t watched yet, who was voted off? Paige? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/128 "2010-03-25T02:59:37Z")
Blessedly, yes. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/129 "2010-03-25T03:00:28Z")
for the west coast viewers: Yes, it was Paige ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/130 "2010-03-25T03:07:33Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Joe Jonas has nothing interesting to say. Hmm, that’s so odd; he was so engaging during the auditions. HA! I slay me! So, no big surprise tonight, eh? Guess I don’t have to waste an hour of my life. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/131 "2010-03-25T05:24:25Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > You don’t recall having that rad Tiger Beat poster (bordered with those sweet pink and teal hearts and stars) of Janis Joplin clutching a Jim Beam bottle? You woke up my cat! _(via my loud cackle)_ I’m going to miss Paige’s pretty eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/132 "2010-03-25T13:57:24Z")
Paige totally deserved to go, IMO, but I took Andrew in my office pool just in case - had to cause a vote split for upcoming weeks. And, Joe Jonas was looking pretty hot last night - how old is he now? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/133 "2010-03-25T14:16:02Z")
I had Paige in my office pool, as well as Tim (for less points.) I’m still in first place! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/134 "2010-03-25T14:20:12Z")
> [@Batsinma\_Belfry](#): > > I’m going to miss Paige’s pretty eyes. Not me. I thought her eyes looked infected. But I did think, over all she was a very attractive young lady, and I was rooting for her. But that Genesis performance was just so bad. So very bad. ---
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/135 "2010-03-25T15:11:52Z")
I love Crystal and if what she is doing is a strategy, it’s a sound one. Now isn’t really the time to take big chances. Play it safe, stay this week, go out on tour. If you blow your load in week 6 or whatever, where do you go from there? But hey, dreadlocks are an automatic +20 for me. I liked that guy a season or 2 ago also. Jason something? Wait, she’s from Chicago? Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/136 "2010-03-25T15:19:59Z")
Does anyone else think that Andrew is the next to go? I think that he should have gone home last night although Paige was awful. I missed his version of Straight Up, but everything else he has done has been boring as hell. At least Paige’s performance was entertainingly bad. I see that Crystal has a good voice and is a good performer but her style just doesn’t do anything for me. I like Janis Joplin but there is something about Crystal that just turns me off. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/137 "2010-03-25T15:33:12Z")
> [@Caffeine.addict](#): > > I missed his version of Straight Up, It really was a terrific rendition ([starts here at 0:55](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5V0iKkfuuA)), but the judges have been right – he’s never come close to matching that moment. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/138 "2010-03-25T15:55:30Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > Man, Casey really _sounds_ like Huey Lewis. If I wasn’t watching I’d think he was on the show for a live performance (and sounding good for his age). That song is on the playlist at work and I hear it several times a week. If Casey’s version had come on instead I would not have known the difference. It was uncanny. Anyone else notice that he breaks eye contact when he looks down at his guitar? This must be a tic, because I am sure he is good enough not to have to look as he plays. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/139 "2010-03-25T16:00:47Z")
> [@LunarPlexus](#): > > But hey, dreadlocks are an automatic +20 for me. I liked that guy a season or 2 ago also. Jason something? > > . Castro. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548/140 "2010-03-25T16:24:14Z")
I was hoping Tim would leave, but Paige’s sing-out was so bad that I didn’t mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-23-3-24/533548.md?page=8)