TUrban’s gone
Nooooooo!
And the idol voted out tonight is:
Tim Urban, Casey James was the last idol sent to safety. I wonder if the judges were sweating that they used the save too early.
:: patting BigBertha on the shoulder ::
It’s okay…
As expected, I loved David Cook’s segment
Annie Lennox was wonderful, and I enjoyed Elton John too.
So who were the bottom three?
Tim, Casey, and Aaron.
“This is not a solicitation where prohibited by law” - are you guys seeing this disclaimer too, or is a local thing?
This show is brutal in between performances (of which I’ve seen one lame group sing so far). Sigh.
Ta.
As for any “suffering” that Crystal may or may not be doing…, maybe she misses being away from her kid and husband.
As for the fellating judges…, when Sioban sings amazingly, she too gets fellated. It’s just that she’s only been good lately and not amazing.
And if she had the creativity to ask for a didgeridoo, she probably would’ve gotten one. THAT’S the difference between Crystal and Sioban. Crystal knows what kind of singer she is because she’s been doing this for years.
She picks songs that fit her voice and style. Sioban hasn’t figured out what kind of singer she wants to be. She’s paying too much attention to what she thinks the judges want her to do, instead of picking songs that showcase her abilities.
Wow, Alicia Keys is a great piano player and an amazing song writer; I wish she’d quit singing, though, because she truly sucks. Dawg, that was pitchy all over the place. The long-haired brunette who sang with Jeff Beck was good, though.
Okay, that was Joss Stone. She’s very good.
I enjoyed RuPaul, too.
Finally.
Jeez, that took way too long.
Could they have put her in a more unflattering outfit, though? Nothing against big girls, but her butt and thighs looked like they belonged on a totally separate body, like perhaps a parade balloon.
Alicia Keys is well-known on Go Fug Yourself for her unholy attachment to unflattering jumpsuits.
This year has bored me to tears.
**Bowersox **is the best by far, but someone needs to buy her caps or something… her teeth are brutal. But as a singer, she is hands-down the best.
Big Mike - give me the heebie-jeebies. I think he’s on the “down-low”, and he’s hiding behind a wife and big muscles. But there’s something about him that screams gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Siobhan - She’s got a rockin’ body and an amazing voice, but in another way, I look at her as a one-trick pony. I wait for her big scream every time she sings. Last night, she screamed early, and the rest of her song was very good. But please, God, don’t interview her after the song. She babbles like Edith Bunker.
**Urban **- Never would have won and is now gone. I don’t think it matters much in what order they go now anyway.
Casey - pretty boy who stunk it up last night. But he gets a lot of female votes and he does have nice hair.
**Aaron **- I have to say, if I close my eyes, I like him. When I open them, the voice doesn’t match the kid. But I think he’s very good. Not going to win, but good.
DeWyze - Like his voice, but he looks like he’s asleep. He has no personality.
Final 3 Siobhan, DeWyze, and Bowersox.
Final 2 DeWyze and Bowersox.
Winner - whoever Fox and AI thinks they can milk the most money out of.
After last year, I’m convinced the show is rigged. No way Adam Lambert didn’t blow everyone off that stage in every performance last year. I don’t even remember the guy’s name that won. I just see him in Ford commercials every week and it reminds me how Adam was screwed. My guess was Adam was a ringer put into the field, but didn’t want to win and be contractually obligated to AI. He’s the best male singer the show has ever had.
I watch entirely too much of this show. But my wife loves it, and I call this quality time… 
I don’t disagree with your final sentence, but Kris Allen (YOUR. American. Idol.) gets a bad rap here. First, no way in hell Adam would have thrown the competition, and certainly not for the reason you stated. He wanted to win. But he understood - and stated many times - that making it all the way to the finale was as good as winning, and that’s true. Adam was signed to the same label as Kris (and Allison) immediately after the season ended, so he was under the same level of obligation, more or less, as the winner. He even had to record that godawful single. OK, maybe he didn’t have to say he was going to Disneyland or whatever, but otherwise pretty much the same deal. Regardless, everyone in the top ten is under the thumb of the Idol machine until the tour is over, so if you have a problem with Idol politics, you’re certainly not going to throw yourself under the bus for second place.
I bought all three albums - Kris’s, Adam’s and Allison’s - and they are all terrific in their own ways. All three have a dud song or two and are generally overproduced, but that’s not too surprising considering they had about five minutes to record them on a handful of days off during tour. Still, very solid material and very much “them.” All three were amazing on the Idols Live tour (even saddled with cover songs) and Kris should be respected for being the first Idol winner to dump the crap coronation song from his tour set list and replace it with a searing version of the Killers’ “All These Things That I’ve Done.” Since then his first single (written by the Script) has gone platinum, and he’s been playing gigs almost non-stop since November - mostly small clubs, casinos and opening acts (for the likes of Keith Urban and Daughtry) and building a following bit by bit through sheer hard work.
Meanwhile Adam has been playing the role of celebrity more than musician, being a punching bag for bloggers and doing more red-carpet, talk show and hosting appearances than concerts. It’s unfortunate that his first big public post-Idol performance (on the AMAs) was the worst singing he’d ever done on national TV, which IMO hurt him far worse than the other stuff people seemed to find offensive. Still, he put out a great - if sort of ridiculous - album and this year has been able to play more shows. His second single just broke into the top 10, and he’s on tour this summer (with Allison! Hooray!) so he’s doing okay. However, what he’s offering the public is the male Lady Gaga that they weren’t asking for, so he’s had to struggle a lot with trying to convince the general, non-Idol-fan public to take him seriously as someone they want to listen to rather than just gawk at. By contrast, Kris’s brand of sweetly bland, smart and self-aware charm is the type that goes down easy and doesn’t get in the way of the music, making him an easier mass-market sell.
I don’t doubt a good amount of Kris’ win last year was due to teen girls thinking he’s dreamy, but ultimately he deserved it, and Adam would be the first person to agree with that. They are, after all, still close friends.
Who was the all-star band backing Mary J.? Some of them looked familiar but I couldn’t place them. Was that Travis Barker on drums? Who was playing the double-neck guitar? I thought she did a pretty good job on StH.
I never noticed that Siobhan had legs like that before. She’s only one that those silly outfits flattered.
I just want to say that I am extremely glad they didn’t do their normal top 7 kick-off crap. No two groups of three, and telling the 7th person to “go stand with the bottom group” without telling him/her who the bottom group was! That was sure refreshing. While it did it’s work the frist year they did it (the night J-Hud was kicked off), after that it was always so stupid.