# American Idol 3/30-3/31 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399 "2010-03-30T23:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/1 "2010-03-30T23:30:36Z")
Got the top 10 in place. I’m guessing that Mike, Casey, Siobhan, and Crystal will be the top 4. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/2 "2010-03-30T23:48:58Z")
My DVR guide (DISH) gives this description: > [@](#): > > PG-13 Music/Art. (2010) American idol starring Ellen DeGeneres and some other people. (CC) (Stereo) I guess “some other people” = Simon, Randy, Kia, and Ryan. LMAO ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/3 "2010-03-30T23:49:55Z")
Signing up now! ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/4 "2010-03-31T00:11:54Z")
Siobhan, dawg, pitchy, yo. Great boots, though. ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/5 "2010-03-31T00:12:22Z")
Siobahn is first. I don’t know this song, but she’s singing it ok…or was…she was a little pitchy in the bridge there. Good cover with the yelling, a nice attempt to change up the the shrieking, but her pitch was off. Not perfect. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/6 "2010-03-31T00:15:25Z")
Spoilers if you want them: [American Idol 9 Top 10 Song Spoilers](http://mjsbigblog.com/american-idol-9-top-10-song-spoilers.htm) ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/7 "2010-03-31T00:18:20Z")
I’m late, did the Shiv really suck as much as the judges thought? ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/8 "2010-03-31T00:18:27Z")
Once you get off pitch in a song sometimes (or “off the trail” as Ellen puts it), it can be a little difficult to find it again on the fly, especially in a song with a lot of melodic movement like that. You don’t really get a moment to sound your way back to it because you have to keep climbing the ladder. I think she probably _could_ nail that song with a little more rehearsal. ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/9 "2010-03-31T00:21:58Z")
Backstage shots? That’s new. ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/10 "2010-03-31T00:25:12Z")
Aww, that shot backstage made me feel all bad for Siobhan. I am cheesy enough that I love the red shirt with the red guitar on Casey. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/11 "2010-03-31T00:25:46Z")
So now we’re judging contestants on the alternative performance they might have given if they hadn’t started sucking and continued sucking? ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/12 "2010-03-31T00:28:02Z")
… ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/13 "2010-03-31T00:30:37Z")
Casey was pleasant, and safe. Every week he he plays an electric guitar, Kara grinds her teeth about it. As a guitar player, it drives me nuts that they hate the guitar so much. Guitar based rock is exactly what this show needs most, but they all hate music and all they can really see is “product.” ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/14 "2010-03-31T00:30:48Z")
Curses, foiled again! A perfectly good witticism ruined by **Drain Bead** ’s editing, sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/15 "2010-03-31T00:31:37Z")
Arrrrgh! I started late and our local Fox channel is out so TiVO is blank… I can watch the rest in HD, but what did I miss so far? ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/16 "2010-03-31T00:35:25Z")
You missed an off-key trainwreck by Siobhan, and another solid, workmanlike performance by Casey. ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/17 "2010-03-31T00:35:26Z")
When I saw this on the spoiler list, I thought it was going to be the Bad Company song. That would have been a lot better than this. This is soporific. ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/18 "2010-03-31T00:36:24Z")
I always picture Big Mike as being the most sought after wedding soloist in his town. ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/19 "2010-03-31T00:39:25Z")
That song bored the shit out of me, but I’m not surprised the judges liked it. It was safe as milk. No sharp corners or edges on that. ---
**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 31, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399/20 "2010-03-31T00:46:36Z")
Didi is wearing one hell of a prom dress. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-30-3-31/534399.md?page=2)