# American Idol 4/25 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189 "2006-04-25T19:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/81 "2006-04-26T00:58:12Z")
Paula is sooooooo freaking drunk. LOL, it’s hilarious now. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/82 "2006-04-26T00:58:34Z")
Chris is sexy but he’s not getting my highest praise because he didn’t sing Closer. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/83 "2006-04-26T01:00:22Z")
Biggirl, I’m having a brain fart… which song is Closer? ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/84 "2006-04-26T01:00:25Z")
Chris was pretty awful. The judges are on crack. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/85 "2006-04-26T01:01:04Z")
I didn’t think anyone was all that great tonight, except for Kellie, who was atrocious. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/86 "2006-04-26T01:01:20Z")
Except for Kelly, everybody did varying shades of well. Paris was my favorite of the night. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/87 "2006-04-26T01:02:16Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] Chris is sexy but he’s not getting my highest praise because he didn’t sing Closer. [/QUOTE] Out of curiosity, how would they have “adjusted” those lyrics to get them on television? “I want to _lick_ you like an animal”? ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/88 "2006-04-26T01:02:57Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Out of curiosity, how would they have “adjusted” those lyrics to get them on television? “I want to _lick_ you like an animal”? [/QUOTE] That would kick ass… ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/89 "2006-04-26T01:03:01Z")
Chris was pretty good Paris was mediocre 3 others were m’eh and kellie was freakin’ terrible. They all sound like Karaoke singers. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/90 "2006-04-26T01:04:35Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Out of curiosity, how would they have “adjusted” those lyrics to get them on television? “I want to _lick_ you like an animal”? [/QUOTE] They could pull the Richard Cheese version and just have a dog bark at that part of the song. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/91 "2006-04-26T01:05:23Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] What is it with all the total ass song choices tonight? I wish I could say something bad about Chris’s performance but I can’t. He’s actually making a mediocre song sound pretty good. [/QUOTE] Maybe it’s just that that song’s suckiness resonates more with me since it was released when I was in high school and all the guys were dedicating it to their girlfriends to get laid. (Yes, a guy I was dating played it for me and, no, I had better taste than to sleep with a guy who likes that song.) But I despise that song more than all the others of the night put together. And yet – I could tolerate it tonight. So that means Chris must have been pretty good. Or I’m getting soft in my old age. In either case, I still think Chris sounds like he’s sitting on a washing machine when he sings. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/92 "2006-04-26T01:05:44Z")
[QUOTE=KarlGrenze] Biggirl, I’m having a brain fart… which song is Closer? [/QUOTE] It goes a little something like this _::clears throat::_ **I wanna fuck you like an animal I wanna feel you from the inside I wanna fuck you like an animal My whole existence is flawed!** Thank you, I’m here all night. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/93 "2006-04-26T01:06:27Z")
I’d let him desecrate me, **Biggirl**. 😉 I’m going to respectfully disagree with the always wise **rockle** here, I’m thinking your dislike of the song got in the way of enjoying Taylor’s best performance. He wasn’t spazzy, he wore that suit exactly right, the dramatic lighting combined with the razor-trimmed hair…wow, that was hawt. It helps that it’s one of my favorite love-gone-awry songs, I suppose, but I liked Chris’s version of the annoying Adams’ song, so there ya go. The guys just walked all over the girls tonight, huge. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/94 "2006-04-26T01:06:49Z")
They could have done Weird Al’s version with boing sounds and an accordian. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/95 "2006-04-26T01:07:22Z")
[QUOTE=ISiddiqui] That would kick ass… [/QUOTE] It actually would have, and then I’d have to tell you all a story about my man-child boy-cat, Owen, who _lurves_ me and wants to make kittens with me, and who licks me on the mouth in the morning to wake me up. Because he’s a _freak_. It’s _gross_, but cute in its own way. He was sitting with me during the recap scenes, and when the Pickler came on, screeching like a wounded rabid raccoon, he shot me this look like, “Bitch is _messed up_, yo.” God, I love that cat. On preview: **BabaBooey** , not a bad idea either, except it would confuse the Pickler, I think. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/96 "2006-04-26T01:09:33Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] It goes a little something like this _::clears throat::_ **I wanna fuck you like an animal I wanna feel you from the inside I wanna fuck you like an animal My whole existence is flawed!** Thank you, I’m here all night. [/QUOTE] I want you to know that I was curious to figure out what song you were referencing, so I googled “closer lyrics”. The top results were NIN and Kylie Minogue. I suspected you were talking about the former rather than the latter. :dubious: ---
**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:** [April 26, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/97 "2006-04-26T01:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=LilyoftheValley] And yet – I could tolerate it tonight. So that means Chris must have been pretty good. Or I’m getting soft in my old age. In either case, I still think Chris sounds like he’s sitting on a washing machine when he sings. [/QUOTE] The _goatee_ isn’t helping him dispel that similarity, either. He did it very well, although I kept wondering if he had a neck injury the way his head was flopping over on his right shoulder constantly. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/98 "2006-04-26T01:11:51Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Tonya] The _goatee_ isn’t helping him dispel that similarity, either. [/QUOTE] OH!!! Is that what they mean when they talk about people singing like goats! Duh. Guess I should have started watching AI years ago. It’s so educational! ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/99 "2006-04-26T01:12:14Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Tonya] I’m going to respectfully disagree with the always wise **rockle** here, I’m thinking your dislike of the song got in the way of enjoying Taylor’s best performance. He wasn’t spazzy, he wore that suit exactly right, the dramatic lighting combined with the razor-trimmed hair…wow, that was hawt. [/QUOTE] 'Spossible. “Just Once” is one of those things for which I have an uncontrollable and irrational hatred, like “Can’t We Try” and Doug Flutie. If I think about it long enough, I’m sure there’s an ex-boyfriend involved somewhere, but I’m not sure I want to dredge up sad old memories. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-4-25/354189/100 "2006-04-26T01:14:02Z")
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