This is freaking ridiculous, although not suprising at all.
But I don’t get something: Scott isn’t the only contestant who’s thanking god at every turn. Nadia, while not visibly praising the lord and making a big ol spectacle of herself during every results show, is still obviously very religious. She mentions god quite often. And of course you know Carrie is a good Christian girl.
So you’ve got more options than the creepy domestic abuser, dear Christians, if you’re so against seeing a godless heathen win the title regardless of how much talent they may have.
What??? Bo has made Xtian comments, isn’t he as much the Christian contestant? Yeah, I guess I’ve heard reference to this. But Scott’s almost the Xtianity-as-superstition contestant; he seems to be praying for personal blessings, thinking his silent prayers & gold cross will save him.
Not that I care. It’s a singing competition. I still say that he could get into the top 6, but then people will see that his talent is not that great.
Both Nadia and Bo have apparently performed in Christian rock bands. Bo seems to be keeping a lid on any overt religiosity (to his credit) but I’ve seen his name mentioned favorably on Christian message boards so it looks like they know about him.
I can’t fathom why that crowd would single out Scott as their ambassador. Bo, Nadia and even Carrie would all carry that banner better than Scott.
On the other hand, maybe the overt Jesus praising is what they like. Maybe they think if you don’t make a spectacle of yourself, you aren’t really sincere.
If there’s any evidence that Scott is the favorite of the Christian Borg, I haven’t seen it. He’s been slipping week after week as his weaknessess as a singer come to be known. This week, he was second from the bottom against another bad singer who already had demonstrated that he can’t hold a fan base, having been voted out previously. If second from the bottom against a proven loser constitutes support, I’d hate to see opposition.
Your second sentence would be more accurate had you said “It happens when two contestants are perceived to occupy the same box, even if this perception is based solely on superficialities.”
As I said in last week’s thread, in terms of song choice and performance style (but not necessarily talent), Nadia is most similar to Bo, and Vonzell is most similar to Nikko, but it seems tht no matter how dissimilar two black female contestants are, they will always be lumped together in some meaninglessly labeled “black diva” category.
And it isn’t just black women for whom specious comparisons are made based on the superficial:
Except for sharing a semi-geeky appearance, Anthony Fedorov is nothing like Clay Aiken; this year’s contestant most similar to Clay (with his Broadwayesque performance style) is Constantine.
Constantine, however, will always be called “a rocker” and compared to Bo for no other reason except that he’s also a white guy with long hair.
The two performers from this season most actually similar to Bo are the aforementioned Nadia, and the recently departed Jessica. Jessica was viewed as “occupying the same box” as Carrie, apparently for no other reason than she was a white blonde woman.
I could go on, but I hope you see my point-that meaningful comparisons between contestants can only be made if one is willing to compare across lines of gender and/or race. However, if this isn’t happening on these boards (where people are smart enough to know better), I suspect it won’t be happening among the general AI voting public, either.
Thank you for allowing me to rant mildly on a trivial topic.
In fact, not only was poor Nancy a victim of domestic abuse, but her abuser ends up beating her to death. It’s a beautiful song, but the message is… perhaps not quite what Nadia thought it was…
My grandma was wandering through the room last night as Mom and I watched American Idol. She’s never seen any of it before, but when she heard Scott say the G word, she just sparkled. “Oh…he’s a Christian!” she cooed.
Me and Mom: :rolleyes: :smack: :dubious: :eek: :mad:
I thought Scott was incoherent and rambling. I also think it’s borderline blasphemous to think God expresses himself through a Karaoke competition. Sure, he’ll let 300,000 die in a Tsunami, but he’ll stop some fat cracker from getting booted on American Idol.
Maybe I’m in a minority, but I thought Fantasia sounded awful last night. Really screechy and downright hoarse. Basically, it was a really rough performance. Of course, what I really want is for Kelly Clarkson to get up there and do “Since U Been Gone,” and I was never a Fantasia fan, but I thought that pretty much sucked.
Nikko’s days were numbered, so I’m not surprised that he was eliminated, but I thought there’d be more of a voting backlash against Scott.
I can’t agree enough. After about 30 seconds, I couldn’t take it anymore and flipped over to Cinemax to watch a few minutes of National Lampoon’s Vacation until they announced who was leaving AI.
Yeah, I do still love Kelly. The husband just bought me her CD yesterday and I love “Since U Been Gone”. :o
Fantasia was waaaaaayyy overdoing last night. The husband hates her voice so much, I’m glad he wasn’t in the room for it or his head may have exploded–much like mine does when I hear Rachel Ray’s voice.
Did anyone else think it was funny that Ruben and Kimberly Caldwell were in the audience merely to promote crappy Fox comedy they had bit parts in? I thought it hilarious that only Ruben was shown. Unless I hear Seacrest wrong, I was under the impression that Kimberly C. was there, too. Right? [Nelson Muntz]Haw Haw![/NM]
Could be. Some of it depends on the standard of living. Like most teachers, he probably has a second job (music lessons, etc). That could contribute to the total.
I decided that I would be brave and leave the show and sound on during Fantasia’s performance, I think my ears only bled a little bit and my head didn’t explode (fortunately the song wasn’t longer). I thought she was trying to impersonate some rocker chick. If Fantasia keeps screeching like that she won’t have much of a voice left before long.
Kim C was definitely on the show “on a stick”. She was the blonde chick that sang into people’s sodas (ewww) and flipped off the other kids. I barely watched it and I saw quite a bit of her.
