American Idol 4/26

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Oh, man. I feel awful.

I didn’t like Constantine. But I liked having him around. I understood his fanbase, even if I wasn’t in it, and his presence added something to the show. And I was hoping so hard for a Connie/Bo final 2, so they could go head to head, with Bo triumphant, of course. :frowning:

I was sitting there thinking, “None of those three deserves to go. But it’ll probably be Vonzell, dammit.” So relieved when she was sent back to safety; she and Bo are the only ones I’m actually fond of. Glad enough others feel as I do.

Then I was thinking, “Well, at least Anthony got one kick-ass performance before he left.” Then Ryan started dragging out his address to Constantine, and I had that awful swallowed-a-nickel feeling when I realized he wasn’t faking Anthony out.

Oh man, this is not right. In fact, it’s unbelievable. I honestly thought Con’s fanbase would get him to final 3, if not final 2. WTF happened?

vivalostwages, you just have to keep dialing until you get through. If you’re voting for Bo, you have to be especially stubborn.

Only Mostly Dead, I have Kim Locke’s album, because I genuinely like her single (“8th World Wonder”). Unfortunately, the rest of it doesn’t quite live up to that first track. And I have John Stevens’ single for “Come Fly With Me”, and will acquire his album, Red, when it comes out in June.

Long Time First Time: But by whose standards is Scott’s story the most compelling? Anthony has endeavored from day one to make sure everyone knows that he wasn’t born in this great! country! and that doctors told him he’d never talk, let alone sing. Carrie never misses an opportunity to mention how the bright lights of this big city are just blindin’ her, y’all. And as you see from this thread alone, many people are focusing on the negative aspects of Scott’s story, not the Joe Baggadonuts image he tried to project last night.

And yes, that commercial was way cool. Bo is just…he’s got “something”, yanno? Even when he’s just running after a toy car, he’s compelling. :::wuv:::

And the group sing sounded awful to me, too. I noticed that the point where their harmony was particularly sour was right after Scott’s melismatic solo. Wonder if he threw them off?

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Ooh, I have a new anonymous hotel check-in name!

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I think this is the first time I’ve been shocked at the result.

Never would’ve expected Constantine to leave so early, and especially never would’ve thought that Scott wasn’t in the bottom 3.

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Anybody wanna sign a petition?

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I bet next time they get someone with a criminal record they’re kicking him off right away.

The only thing that could make the rest of this season watchable is if this is the tipping point, like last year’s dustup when Jennifer Hudson went before John Stevens. Hopefully people will stop assuming everyone good is safe and decide it is Scott’s time to go.

Utterly fucking absurd. He’s this year’s Jasmine and he’s not even pretty. :frowning:

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Hey, everybody. I’ve never really been a fan of this show (did get kinda caught up in the Jasmine Trias story given where I live), but for one reason or another, I’ve been following this season.

Yeah, it’s kinda mystifying how Scott Savol has been hanging on for dear life all these weeks. The thing is, he really has nothing going for him, unless you count that highly spurious good 'ol underdog or whatever thing, which I don’t. Generally, there’d at least be an explanation at this point (I know there was for Jasmine).

Anyway, if revamping the voting is in order, and they almost HAVE to do it for the next season, I have a few suggestions:

  • Upon connection, make the caller wait for a long time…30 minutes should be sufficient…before the vote registers. It’d still be possible to make multiple votes, but only a handful, not hundreds, and each vote would be a pretty big sacrifice. Make it so that a contestant needs broad appeal among a wide variety of populaces to stay alive, not just one state full of rabid fans with way too much time on their hands.
  • As suggested before, make the vote before who the caller wants out. Given that the idea is that someone gets eliminated every week, this makes perfect sense. If Ryan Seacrest has any qualms about telling us to give someone the boot, he can always just make a general announcement at the end of the show.
  • Better yet, scrap the last-man-standing format altogether and make the callers rank all the contestants, top to bottom. Maybe a third of the way through there’s a cut down to 12, and then another third in it’s down to 8, and those go the rest of the way. Reward overall performance, not just not being the worst on one particular night.

Right now, this looks like Bo’s contest to lose. Vonzell looks dialed in and could make the final two. Anthony’s a dark horse.

Scott…honestly, I really don’t know why he’s still in it. He’s gotta know that he doesn’t have a chance in hell of winning. And it’s all or nothing now; if he doesn’t get that guaranteed recording contract, his chances of pulling a Clay Aiken are nonexistent. Tick off a lot of the country and have nothing to show for it…why?

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You know, another benefit to the call to eliminate setup is that it’ll prevent the stupid holding your fingers up based on the number you’ve been assigned, or the ‘call’ hand signals. Though they’d never go for it. They may think it too ‘mean’… bah, I say, it’s on FOX for God’s sake!

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That’s it. I’m going over to the dark side. America deserves Scott.

This makes me physically ill. [Forrest Gump]And that’s… all I have to say about that.[/FG]

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The vote for the worst site has had only 80 thousand hits. I assume that its impact is negligible. People are voting for Scott because they like him. He has paid for his crime and has said that he regrets what he did. I’m beginning to think that all this astonishment is another manifestation of Straight Dope’s general disconnect — as when a collective gasp followed the discovery that Christianity is the world’s largest religion, or the realization that Republicans had taken both houses of Congress and the White House. Perhaps it’s time to stop flaming the people who vote for Scott and start inspecting our own prejudices and presuppositions. Maybe we just don’t know what the buzz really is out there.

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Prejudice-schmedjudice! He’s just not that good.
I like DKW’s idea of ranking the performances but I’m certain that would be way too complicated for the average American Idol voter.

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I dislike Scott because he can’t sing. I didn’t prejudge him. I postjudged him, based on his performances. I have no interest in “what the buzz really is out there.” I’m not trying to put my finger on the pulse of why America has crummy taste in religion, presidents, and television. There’s no deep understanding there I’m not getting, any more than there’s some nutritional value to Cheese Whiz I’m not understanding. People are simply stupid and have lousy taste.

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Please leave your political and religious ranting out of this otherwise harmless thread. It’s not like we’re not already over-exposed to your opinions.

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I really hate to admit that I’m going to miss Constantine. I wasn’t a big fan, but he made the show interesting. I think he screwed himself over this week by trying to go back to the rock image. He was much better when he didn’t try to be the rocker, and obviously many people recognized that.

The one good thing about Constantine being voted off is that it will save Hal a trip to California.

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I think Lib might be onto something, however twisted. Let’s examine some facts here:

  1. In November 2000, America inexplicably voted for an ugly, squinty-eyed Jesus freak. The guy got way more votes than were warranted.
  2. Fox had a big influence on this.
  3. Many voters were disenfranchised.
  4. Therefore, the election was illegally stolen via a vast right-wing conspiracy.

I tried to vote for Connie the other night, but couldn’t get through. I was disenfranchised. Ya see where I’m going with this? Can ya hear the gears grinding in my conspiracy-filled head?

Scott’s going to win. I have no doubt. And we, as patriotic head bangers, should be ashamed.

At least Connie’s going to get lots of sympathy sex this coming week. With Paula, if he wants it. Which he won’t.

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Scott is really piling on the “Regular Joe” crap and I guess people are falling for it.

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Irregular Joe more like it.

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I agree. Although I would apply the same reasoning to explain why people think Bo’s such a great singer.

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I imagine this isn’t doing Anthony’s confidence any good-all your Idol mates are shocked you weren’t kicked off.

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Scott will be gone next week. There’s a pattern of outrage/justice that the show depends upon. Sometimes I think they make up the votes completely just to boost ratings. Scott will go, then there’ll be a mini outrage over, perhaps, Vonzelle going before AFed or something. Bo will win, and release a crappy classic rock record, and Carrie will release a crappy country record, and the world will keep spinning.

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I don’t have a problem with Bo’s vocals, just his song selection. I think the main reason people liked him at first is because he was keeping it real and it was a breath of fresh air on this show, and no one’s noticed that the air ain’t that fresh anymore.