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Really? A few minutes ago, it was
Haley, then Gina. Jordin was third from the bottom. Damn.
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Today, DialIdol lists
Melinda
Phil
Sanjaya
Chris
Blake
Jordin
Gina
Lakisha
Haley
I’m tellin’ ya, there’s something skewed about the West Coast results on that site.
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Oh I loved Simon’s response to Sanjaya: (paraphrased): let’s try a different angle tonight: It was great!
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I agree, and laughed out loud when Simon said this. Not to nitpick, but I got a kick out of the word he actually used, “Incredible.” I’ll bet Simon carefully chose this word, which of course strictly means nothing more than “unbelievable.”
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After Simon’s comment, the camera went back to Ryan and Sanjaya and you could see (but barely hear) Sanjaya yelling to Simon “welcome to the universe of SANJAYA!!!” I think he actually thought Simon was coming around and finally acknowledging Sanjaya’s awesome talents.
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Thanks–I missed that part and was dying to find out what he could say to that. :rolleyes: indeed. Go away now.
I’m with yellowval on the ratings. I cast votes for Melinda, Jordin and a couple others I can’t recall right now.
Sanjaya and Haley: GO HOME ALREADY!!
Oh, and I usually like Lakisha, but I’ve noticed something “tinny” in her voice. Do the rest of you hear it?
Well, according to Dialidol, only Melinda is totally safe.
Phil and Sanjaya second and third? Lakisha second to last? Weird.
Except for Melinda, they were all so awful!! :eek:
NOT!! 
Some were just merely boring - blah blah blah!!! :rolleyes:
Sanjaya *third * on the […biting tongue for CS…] frigging list? Holy frigging cow. What a joke. No frigging way that mother frigger belongs in the top frigging three. Damn it. Just plain damn it. George W. Bush as our president and Michael Jackson Jr as our Idol. What’s next? Keith Richards as Surgeon General? Ward Churchill as Poet Laureat? Rush Limbaugh as Secretary of Education? How about Pauly Shore for an AMPAS Lifetime Acheivement Award? Jesus, people. Damn.
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I agree, and laughed out loud when Simon said this. Not to nitpick, but I got a kick out of the word he actually used, “Incredible.” I’ll bet Simon carefully chose this word, which of course strictly means nothing more than “unbelievable.”
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Thank you! I knew what I said wasn’t right but I couldn’t remember what the actual word was that he used. I tried to Google for it but came up with diddly squat.
Lib, there’s no ban on using expletives in this forum.
Haley can misbehave with me any time she feels like it. Consider this an open invitation. As for being an the next AI, not likely. Not enough star quality.
Actually, Jordin is gearing up as the frontrunner. Not that I’d buy an album with her or see a show, but I think she’d work very well.
When wil the producers pick a theme that leaves the big voice girls exposed for their lack of range (i.e. in genres) ? A rock theme would be nice.
These standards are meat and drink to us in the ~99 household. This is why kaylasmom and I spent so much of last night’s show shouting derisive scorn at the judges. Blake and Phil both deserved lambasting for their wooden performances (Phil was worse than Blake, FWIW, but YOU DO NOT SING A FOUR MINUTE SONG WHEN YOU ARE ONLY GIVEN TWO MINUTES TO SING, MR. BEAT-BOX!!!).
Melinda was flawless. My first feeling was that they should have saved her for last, but about halfway through the show I changed my mind. She should have gone FIRST, and everybody who followed her should have been told why they didn’t measure up to the standard she set. Simon telling her that the verse was boring was arrogant, ignorant and WRONG.
Frankly, I think Simon just doesn’t like the Great American Songbook. How else to explain him airing as a complaint the fact that a song, arrangement, or performance is “old-fashioned”? If you don’t want the classics treated with the respect they deserve, you shouldn’t schedule them.
Lakisha should go home, just because of implying that Tony Bennett and his instruction should go to hell. Oh, and because she couldn’t find the right key for the first 2/3 of her performance.
Haley, please decide how you feel as you sing Ain’t Misbehavin’; bluesy, torchy, or vampy. The smorgasbord of styles you tried to give us just. didn’t. work.
Gina, good job on Smile. Tasteful, understated, and you kept the microphone in front of your mouth so I didn’t have to look at your tongue stud. The red mezzanine on your hair was unfortunate, but I suppose it couldn’t be helped.
Sanjaya, you sounded like you were singing karaoke. It was not anything to rate an impression. And the suit makes you look, as Liberal so astutely points out, creepy.
Jordin, and Chris R. Please forgive me, but I can’t remember what either of you sang. I can only say that Jordin’s performance was good, and Chris’s wasn’t.
And who was it above that said they didn’t like Melinda’s hair? C’mon! Who doesn’t think D.W. is adorable?
I listen to the show (TV’s in the other room) and don’t actually watch them so I get the names mixed up. I sort of like it that way and I don’t have to look at Ryan or Paula. I guess I liked Phil more than most people did. He did have a very effortless Frank Sinatra quality when he sang last night and I liked it. He wasn’t the best but he wasn’t as terrible as they thought he was.
I thought they were all pretty good. My least favorite was Sanjaya. I think he’d be perfect on a cruise ship and I don’t mean that in a bad way. His voice isn’t terrible but it’s not that strong.
Btw…I’m about to leave on my first ever cruise. After 6 seasons of AI telling me that “cruise ship” is the bottom rung of the entertainment ladder*… I’m not sure if I should partake in any of the entertainment offered, or check it out and find that Sanjaya should only be so lucky…or what.
*Actually, in Simon’s World, I believe it goes, from worst to best:
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After Simon’s comment, the camera went back to Ryan and Sanjaya and you could see (but barely hear) Sanjaya yelling to Simon “welcome to the universe of SANJAYA!!!” I think he actually thought Simon was coming around and finally acknowledging Sanjaya’s awesome talents.
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He’s like the Borg. Resistance is futile. Once he wins the competition you’ll start to come around.
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Actually, in Simon’s World, I believe it goes, from worst to best:
I think Simon gets too much static for those comments. He’s basically telling people they still have potential to make a living as a singer. If he said, “You couldn’t even get a job on a cruise ship,” that’d be harsh. All he’s saying is that he doesn’t think someone is going to be a star. And most people aren’t.
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I think Simon gets too much static for those comments. He’s basically telling people they still have potential to make a living as a singer. If he said, “You couldn’t even get a job on a cruise ship,” that’d be harsh. All he’s saying is that he doesn’t think someone is going to be a star. And most people aren’t.
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That’s my take on it, too. Somebody who can make a living singing on cruise ships is doing so much better than the average musician, it ain’t funny.
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That’s my take on it, too. Somebody who can make a living singing on cruise ships is doing so much better than the average musician, it ain’t funny.
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Case in point: Jennifer Hudson, who actually was a singer on a cruise ship before “Idol.” And Oscar.
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… I understand that Simon & Co. want these kids to take the old songs and do something “fresh and exciting” with them, but then we run the risk of going to that very unpleasant Michael Bublé place. And I think we got awful close, anyway. …
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See? I warned you people. Maybe I wasn’t drunk, after all.
Also: Michael Bublé and Peter DeLuise … separated at birth? The likeness is a little freaky.
This show is bullshit. I almost don’t want to watch any more. (I will, because I have no spine or will power, but I almost don’t want to.)
Would someone please spoiler box the bottom three and who got the boot for me?
I’m at work again this week and really don’t want to have to wait.
Thanks.
