# American Idol - 5/17 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128 "2005-05-16T20:34:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/41 "2005-05-18T00:32:31Z")
How do you mak Air Supply even more insipid? Countrify it. It was tough for to follow Bo’s _a capella_ virtuoso thing, though. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/42 "2005-05-18T00:33:07Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Bo just won this competition. That was the coolest, ballsiest thing I’ve ever seen on this show. Damn straight. But talk about an obscure song choice. I think I’m probably the only guy in the country who has that album on his CD rack and actually still plays it. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/43 "2005-05-18T00:34:11Z")
If Carrie were old enough to actually rember that song, I don’t think she would’ve picked it. I regret complaining about her country choices. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/44 "2005-05-18T00:34:19Z")
Wow. That was as though Bo strode out there stark naked. And he had a 10-inch schlong. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/45 "2005-05-18T00:34:55Z")
**minty green** , since you know – what was that song? Who sings it? Is it as good on the CD? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/46 "2005-05-18T00:38:04Z")
> [@minty green](#): > > Damn straight. But talk about an obscure song choice. I think I’m probably the only guy in the country who has that album on his CD rack and actually still plays it. What was it again? And who? ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/47 "2005-05-18T00:39:45Z")
Donna Summer! _ **w00t!** _ Loving Vonzell’s outfit, although I am at least 10 years too old to wear it. Does she know how to sing without smiling the whole time? Her smile is stunning, but it’s distracting. Maybe a little too much dancing, because she sounded … something. Not quite right. Lord knows, not awful, but not as good as I expect Bo and Carrie to be. Poor thing. AI2 or AI3, she could have won. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/48 "2005-05-18T00:41:13Z")
Sweet baby Jeebus, is it hot in here? My husband is getting lucky tonight, that’s for DAMN sure. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/49 "2005-05-18T00:41:51Z")
Good thing Bo nailed the first 2 songs. What a crappy song choice. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/50 "2005-05-18T00:42:34Z")
Well, that was right in Bo’s wheelhouse. It looks like he’s done that tune before in a few thousand bars in his life. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/51 "2005-05-18T00:43:41Z")
It’s kind of unfair to blame Bo for that song choice. He didn’t pick it. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/52 "2005-05-18T00:49:49Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > It’s kind of unfair to blame Bo for that song choice. He didn’t pick it. Who said he did?!?! I know Paula picked it, but it was still a “choice” was it not? 😛😛😛 ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/53 "2005-05-18T00:50:43Z")
Is that Carrie’s real hair? I didn’t like that performance. I really would have liked for her to sing a Dolly Parton song. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/54 "2005-05-18T00:52:39Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > Who said he did?!?! > > I know Paula picked it, but it was still a “choice” was it not? 😛😛😛 I was talking about Simon calling it a “wedding” performance. I thought it was a snark at the song choice but Bo did it about as well as he could have. It’s kind of hard NOT to sound cliched on that song. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/55 "2005-05-18T00:52:42Z")
The look Simon gave when he said to Carrie “That should be enough to get you into the final” screamed to me that he is not pleased with this crop. I haven’t been watching AI all that much though so I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/56 "2005-05-18T00:53:37Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > **minty green** , since you know – what was that song? Who sings it? Is it as good on the CD? “In a Dream” by Badlands, a tremendously underappreciated late-80s early-90s rock band put together by one of Ozzy Osbourne’s former guitar players. Off their 1991 album [Voodoo Highway](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000008D4E/qid=1116377748/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-5456973-3507226). I always liked the original because the band’s singer, Ray Gillen, had such a great voice. On the original, the the first verse is completely a capella, with acoustic slide guitar joining in on the second verse. Gillen, incidentally, died of AIDS about a decade ago. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/57 "2005-05-18T00:54:39Z")
I thought Carrie’s last song was pure karaoke but I’m not a fan of the country-pop genre anyway. Bo owned the night. I guess “the Vonz” will probably go tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/58 "2005-05-18T00:56:24Z")
> [@minty green](#): > > “In a Dream” by Badlands, a tremendously underappreciated late-80s early-90s rock band put together by one of Ozzy Osbourne’s former guitar players. Off their 1991 album [Voodoo Highway](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000008D4E/qid=1116377748/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-5456973-3507226). > > I always liked the original because the band’s singer, Ray Gillen, had such a great voice. On the original, the the first verse is completely a capella, with acoustic slide guitar joining in on the second verse. Gillen, incidentally, died of AIDS about a decade ago. Holy crap. I remember that band. I had their first album. That was the band started by Jake E. Lee, right? ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/59 "2005-05-18T00:58:09Z")
Yep. I was lucky enough to catch them live a couple times. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128/60 "2005-05-18T00:59:40Z")
Cool. I always thought that Lee was an underappreciated guitarist. He did some really interesting and inventive work with Ozzy as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-5-17/304128.md?page=4)