# American Idol 4/22 and 4/23 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405 "2008-04-22T15:23:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/41 "2008-04-23T00:12:58Z")
I agree with the judges – she’s definitely better suited to musical theater than straight singing. It sounded like ALW agreed; maybe she’ll end up on Broadway like Fantasia. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/42 "2008-04-23T00:13:19Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I liked Sy tonight. [/QUOTE] I’m at work but recording it. What’d she sing? ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/43 "2008-04-23T00:18:56Z")
OK, I’m NOT liking _Memory_ on Jason Castro. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/44 "2008-04-23T00:20:17Z")
I hate this. I hate this song, I hate him singing it, I hate his face. WTF is he wearing? I’ve never wanted something to be over so much in my whole life and Kristy Lee was only sent home last week. OMG, that was terrible. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/45 "2008-04-23T00:20:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I’m at work but recording it. What’d she sing? [/QUOTE] I actually didn’t recognize the song (I’m not a big showtunes guy), it was an uptempo, jazzy, very Broadway kind of thing. I didn’t recognize it from JCS which is the onlu ALW show I’m really versed in. Castro just did “Memories,” and sounded kind of breathy. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/46 "2008-04-23T00:21:37Z")
Syesha did a kind of jazzy thing that I didn’t know but it was damned good, the best she’s done. WRONG SONG CHOICE JASON! You should have talked to me. You would have killed with “Any Dream Will Do” And goddamn it, I officially like Andrew Lloyd Webber now, as a person. :cries: ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/47 "2008-04-23T00:22:27Z")
Poor Jason. Not his night at all. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/48 "2008-04-23T00:22:31Z")
That was the worst rendition ever on prime time. It was horrible. Go away Castro. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/49 "2008-04-23T00:23:22Z")
Sy sang something like “Another Rock and Roll”? I don’t know, I’d never heard it. Simon commented she was very sexy. He was right. Very sexy, very flirtatious. Jason singing Memories…definitely not a good match. But he tried. ETA: And he’ll get millions of pity votes from his fangirl brigade, too, I’m sure. He’s not going anywhere this week. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/50 "2008-04-23T00:23:48Z")
I think this was Syesha’s song: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDpS\_6auAwM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDpS_6auAwM) (but she was much better) ---
**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:** [April 23, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/51 "2008-04-23T00:25:05Z")
If Castro was going to do “Memories,” he should have done it in the vein of that Hawaiian “Over the Rainbow” thing – plunk on a uke and make it really uptempo. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/52 "2008-04-23T00:26:57Z")
The song is called [Memory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_(song)) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/53 "2008-04-23T00:28:06Z")
HAHAHAHAHAHAA. Go home, seriously. She looks like she has no idea what to do with her face. Like she was trying too hard to capture whatever it is that Andrew had tried to explain to her. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/54 "2008-04-23T00:28:42Z")
Huh? Brooke gets a do-over? ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/55 "2008-04-23T00:28:58Z")
Oh, Brooke, honey, you should have just glossed over the slip. Start over? Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/56 "2008-04-23T00:29:17Z")
Wow, Brooke had another insanely poised false start. She deals with that so well, it doesn’t seem to hurt her like it does other folks on this show. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/57 "2008-04-23T00:30:05Z")
Brooke is boring me. Now we know she’d make a terrible Evita. Honestly, Madonna blows her out the water on that song–_Madonna_. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/58 "2008-04-23T00:32:00Z")
I’m kinda surprised - I thought Brooke would do this song well. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/59 "2008-04-23T00:32:04Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] (I’m not a big showtunes guy) [/QUOTE] At least you’re man enough to admit it, and that’s the first step on the road to recovery. The second requires a choreographer. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-22-and-4-23/446405/60 "2008-04-23T00:32:05Z")
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