I know you weren’t asking me, but I had never thought anything set him apart from the others except that he has a worse voice than most of them, and he’s unbearably nasally. I find nothing even remotely appealing about him. He hides the fact that he can’t hit the notes by hitting 5 or 6 notes near it and warbling around. I think he’s worse than Sanjaya because he doesn’t appear to have any personality at all… he is just a generic, vanilla, bland drone.
I disagree. I think his personality is rather phlegmatic. As far as Sanjaya, I don’t call psychosis a personality. 
(Plus, Sanjaya doesn’t do the head twist.)
I’m not getting the appeal of “the head twist”.
For me, it comes across as a kind of punctuation of the song’s rhythm. Bucky Covington did the same thing last year.
copying someone else’s move is just further proof to me that he has no personality…
He’s not copying someone else’s move. Are you copying the other people who said they don’t like him? I like him; you don’t. There is no “proof” one way or the other about his personality.
I thought that was just an unfortunate muscle spasm.
There seems to be a lot of animosity toward the country genre expressed. Let me swim against the tide a bit: I love country music. I like Martina McBride, too. I have most of her albums; I think she’s got a great, big voice, and I like most of her song choices.
That being said, I don’t listen to country radio. Most of what I hear on country radio is just forgettable pap these days. But there are some awesome musicians out there making great music. Don’t dismiss it all by what’s popular. What’s popular isn’t necessarily what’s the best of the style.
Agreed.
I just happen to find McBride perhaps the pappiest. Holy shit. She’s the force behind the worst song ever performed. . .Independence Day.
I would have liked to have seen Beat Box bust out some Yoakum, but not gonna happen.
Unfortunately, what’s popular is what gets chosen on American Idol. I’m only hating the “pop music with a fiddle” that is current radio country. I’d be in heaven if they were playing some Allison Krauss or Cowboy Junkies, or even something like Nickel Creek. Just what’s on country radio, and what was sung last night, it has no soul.
I once saw an episode of The Muppet Show, with Garth Brooks as the guest. Everyone kept bugging him to sing a country song, and he kept singing pop songs. When they got him to promise a country song, he sang If I Were A Rich Man. When asked what happened to the country song he promised, he said “Russia is a country.”
I so wanted someone to do that last night.
Don’t forget, though, it’s probably the show’s fault and not necessarily the contestants re: song choice. They get a list titled “Only the one’s we have rights to” to choose from basically, so maybe a lot of those artists we were wishing to hear just weren’t available.
Lib I think you’re missing the boat with Chris. His biggest appeal is his look, all Tiger Beat Timberlakey goodness, his vocal talents have never been at the same level as most of the other ones. When he gets one right, meaning totally in his comfort zone and he manages to sing from his diaphragm, he can sound very nice and he is pretty good about looking comfortable onstage and he seems to have a decent helping of professionalism, but vocally? Head twist? Nah.
I’m sure that part of it, too, is that I’m desperate to dump Sanjaya, and so I’ll build up almost anyone else. It has gotten to the point where I have this almost aversion to Sanjaya. Can’t even stand to see him. It’s like when I see George Bush. Or James Carville. I just puke in my heart.
Speaking of James Carville, that’s what would probably result if Phil Stacey and Chris Richardson were taken to the island of Dr. Moreau, and combined…
Ah, the late, lamented Muppets Tonight.
“No one love Robot Lincoln…”
I agree with your wife. 
That’s not nice!
Vanilla is good. Chris is not.
“Un-flavored for me!” — Maude Flanders
Oh, please let Sanjaya go home tonight.
If you repeat it enough times, perhaps you can make it happen.
(Kidding. I know that’s goofy stuff. But I really am sick of him.)
Is it possible to lose your mind from eating Triscuits? Because – I have to be crazy, because I just saw Fergie on my TV, and she had her armpits and her midriff covered, both at the same time, and I didn’t stick pencils in my ears to block her out, and … I kind of think she sounded OK. Her outfit was ridiculous, of course, but she didn’t sound terrible. Maybe because she wasn’t spelling anything?
What the hell? Why is Fergie on? Well, at least she didn’t sing “My Humps” shudder
This group may not be the greatest group of finalists on individual performances but as a group I think they sound pretty good. Of course it helps to give Jordin and Melinda more lines.