Chris Brown is reputed to be this generation’s Michael Jackson. It bugged me how his singing seemed to not match the meter of the song. But there was clearly some kind of chemistry between him and Jordin.
Seacrest was mean to bring up that they didn’t boot anyone after IGB last year - and then tell that dude that they were steeltoeing his ass back to Brisbane. (Or whatever antipodean burg he’s from.)
But I post here for a very important reason. I need to know the name of the screeching harpy that thought it would be cute to scream repeatedly during the “please give” segment yesterday. Along the lines of “If you don’t give, I’ll keep screaming!” Because I want to punch her in the throat, boycott everything she’s appeared in, and become her #1 un-fan.
Funny, I was curious so I went to check the AI board. There were several threads criticizing Seacrest. I tried to post, but couldn’t, and now the forum is closed down!
Well, at least one person in the world is disappointed that Michael was sent home. My five year old has been rooting for him. Apparently he has cool hair.
I wasn’t a big fan of Michael, but I would have rather seen dead-in-the-eyes and/or actress-singer (Kristy or Syesha, natch) go before him. But he wasn’t going to last much longer anyway. He was pretty, I’ll miss looking at him. The impersonations, not so much.
Besides, this was GOOD for my Idol Prediction score!
That’s Mary Murphy, one of the judges from So You Think You Can Dance. Her scream is the SYTYCD version of “So check it out dawg*” on AI. She annoys the ever living crap out of me but I watch the show anyway. I just mute and/or ffwd over her shit.
Regarding Chris Brown and any chemistry, I half thought she’d just used her pull with the show to get her boyfriend on stage with her or something. He’s actually some sort of star? boggle
*in terms of predictability that is
Yeah, I suppose he wasn’t all that great, but dangit, he was fun to watch (isn’t this what ultimately propelled Taylor Hicks to victory?) and a helluva lot more worthy of my time than some neo-boy bander or carbon-copy diva. I can’t think of any justification for him going before Mercado, Smithson, or White, much less all three. (And if anyone, Castro should’ve been the one who dug his own grave.)
Who was it who said that the producers stacked the field so that a man would win? The very first two eliminations were both men, now the fifth as well, and barring a blockbuster run by Castro, Archuleta looks like the only one on the male side with any hope of winning it. And while he’s still very strong, he’s young, he’s had a few stumbles, he’s under unbelievable pressure, and it’s looking more and more like it’s going to come down to an do-or-die duel against KLC or Smithson. Pretty amazing, especially considering how strong the guy contingent looked just a few weeks ago.
I think the reality of it is that unless AI actually makes some real, fundamental changes in how the contest is run, all the tweaks and twicks and dinks and doodads won’t make a damn difference. The divas will get support, the bland popsters will get lots of support, rockers, no matter how poppy, will be left in the cold (Bo Bice was a fluke, deal with it), cute 'n safe will always beats rugged 'n edgy, and the philosophy of a bunch of tools on a joke website are no less or more valid than the philosophies of all the other tools.
Maybe that’s what pulls in the ratings and the producers have no incentive to change, and I understand that, but…dagnabbit, I want to use the term “icebreaker” again! “Archuletdown” is not doing it for me!
I can’t imagine David Cook winning. He’s too light on the charisma front. He’s not a particularly handsome man and his songs are beginning to sound the same week after week. He’s not even a “rocker” – he’s an emo singer with a weak guitar and an unoriginal voice (sounds like a ton of 1990s grunge types – even resembles Scott Stapp of Creed). I also agree with Simon. He came off as awfully arrogant after the performance Tuesday night.
And that brings up a further point… as I watch it this year, I’m genuinely becoming less interested in the show altogether and who wins. I’m finding all the singers quite boring except for Carly, and I’m not sure what Idol’s trying to pull with her. Every week she goes out and blows the doors off everyone else and gets slammed by the judges*. Is it the tattoo? Is it the former record deal? Then on the other hand, David Archuleta wheezes through total shit songs, changing melodies at will, and he’s crowned king every week. He didn’t even get dinged too hard when he forgot the words a few weeks back. What is up with that?
Paula doesn’t count. When she’s not rambling fake praise, does she ever say anything critical that wasn’t already said by Randy? What a waste of space.
Prolly not, since that’s not what he said. Ryan asked him if it had been scary playing the piano, and David said that playing the piano in front of a lot of people was new to him.
I guess there’s no way of knowing but I’d be real curious to find out what the demographic was of people that actually call in to vote.
By age, race, gender, and region.
For some reason I imagine it to be millions of pre-teen females and millions of senior citizens.
Actually Greg Grunberg (from Alias, Heroes) was on drums, he’s the founder of the band. And as was already said of course, the “House” guy was playing the fiddle…
Here’s a link to the website, they play charity shows, with a list of the members.
