Rocker Nurse reminds me of Roseanne Barr, especially when she does the “Janis” voice.
I missed the guys and wish I hadn’t, and I saw the girls and wish I hadn’t. Overall, I was sorely disappointed, and I am glad I have wireless internet in the living room so I can play WoW and watch “Idol” at the same time. Because some of this so-called “music” really makes me want to whomp the hell out of giant toxic virtual spiders.
As usual, I have nothing relevant (heh!) to add, but I would like to mention that Brooke White needs to do something with her hair, because (1) it looks completely fried and (2) it is not supposed to be the same color as her skin. Also, Carly did not impress me overmuch, and my feelings about her were definitely not syncing up with all the judges’ slurping.
Oh, and for once Randy was right about something: Rocker Nurse’s “trousers” were pretty hot. I’d wear them. (They wouldn’t look as good on me, though, because I don’t have a 23-year-old butt any more.)
One of the sad things to me was that you couldn’t pick a richer period for pop and rock music than the 1960s, and nobody did anything really interesting either night. It’s like selecting boxed cereal from a Vegas breakfast buffet.
I was out last night and missed the show, but I have been watching the performances this morning on americanidol.com. No judges’ comments, no chit chat with Ryan, and when you can’t take it anymore you can hit stop and jump to the next. Made me realize how few of the performances I would actually watch from start to finish if I wasn’t planted in front of the tube.
Fox “News” after Idol would be a riot if it didn’t make me want to cry. Yesterday the promos for the “news” were: “Learn the Idol’s nicknames!” No joke.
None of the girls blew me away, but here are my picks for the top three, and the notes I took during their performances:
Amanda - What’s up with her hair, it’s way over teased. She’s a performer more than a singer, but I like her.
Asia’h - Good performance, lots of personality.
Syesha - Impressive rendition. Very good.
And the bottom two:
Kady - I like her dress. The song is slow and boring.
Amy - This is not good. Her pitch is way off.
There were a lot of mediocre performances, so Kady could be replaced at the bottom by several other people - Brooke, Alexandrea, Kristy, Ramiele - but Amy needs to go.
Well, Simon wasn’t the only one with his panties in a twist last night. I wasn’t really fond of any of the performances, either. If forced, I’d have to choose Asia’h, Amanda, and Ramiele as my favorites of the night. Carly was OK too, I guess. I hated the song, though. There’s just too many blonde girls in this group. I can’t tell any of them apart except for the one who’s never seen an R-rated movie, and she annoys me.
Also, and I don’t want to offend anyone here, but the AI threads are already becoming confusing. For those of us who don’t post while we’re watching, it’s difficult to slug through all the posts that don’t include the singers’ names. I hate to skip over posts because I really do want to know what everyone here thinks, but I can’t tell what you thought about which singer unless you’re more specific. I know we’ve had this problem in the past so I just wanted to give everyone a friendly reminder. And now that I’m thinking of it, did we end up splitting the AI threads into two last year, one for posting along with the show and one for post-show discussion? Or something like that? I can’t remember.
ETA: Oh, and why are they giving theme nights already? Usually in the top 24 don’t they just let them sing whatever they want? I think they’re severely limiting the contestants by making them do theme weeks this early on. Let them do what they’re good at until they get their stage legs, at least.
Yeah, we’ve been through this before. It’s gotten to the point that I made myself a cheatsheet with the order of the performers on it so I could figure out who they’re talking about. It works most of the time, but it’s still confusing when the comments overlap.
I forgot to mention my favorite comment of the night, by Amanda:
“Simon thinks I’ve overdone the Janis Joplin performances. I plan to counteract that by not doing any more Janis Joplin songs.”
It was almost as if the idea was a revelation to her.
I wonder if this is so everyone can be on “even footing” at this point, at least in terms of singing songs that people in the viewing audience will recognize and not necessarily be sick of yet. I think it was last year when Ayla Brown sang a Natasha Bedingfield song, “Unwritten,” and most of the feedback I heard about her performance around the water cooler was of the (1) “Who Whatingfield?” or (2) “I am so sick of that song already!” variety.
Not that my familiarity with these songs diminishes my contempt for some of the performances we’ve seen, though. 
Weeeelllll. . . I try to put in a name but I barely remember them. Usually I put in the name I made up for them and hope people know who I mean.
I don’t expect to get all the blondes right at any time. They all look and sound alike to me.
I can’t watch the clip right now but I’m so glad he’s getting this attention. He was my favorite in the auditions. Yes I did call him mentally unstable mostly as a joke, atomicbadger, but come on - dude lives in his car.
Idol would be a terrible place for Josiah. While older performers who don’t fit the pop idol mold - like Taylor Hicks or Chris Daughtry - are savvy enough to work the machine to their advantage, Josiah would spend all his time fighting against it. He has been given an amazing opportunity to show his stuff to millions of people, and has already won a good number of fans. That’s a huge leg up over your average working musician, and without the embarassing Disco nights, product-placement skits, cheesy tour, unfavorable (I’m guessing) record contract, and bullshit can’t-release-your-album-before-the-winner rules (unless that applies to booted auditioners as well). Josiah could very well end up being this season’s success story - without having made the top 24!
This comes as news to Simon, who is apparently oblivious to the 60s. He may have heard of the Beatles, but AI doesn’t have the rights.
Followed almost immediately by someone else doing a Janis Joplin song. 
My memory is hazy, but I seem to recall there were other female performers in the 60s besides Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin.
They pick Joplin and fall sooo short.
They do put the names on the screen when they’re singing. That’s how I knew how to make my cheatsheet.
What an awful night. None of the ladies were any good. The only one I think can sing is Carly, and she stunk it up last night too. It doesn’t help that song choice was absolutely dreadful on both nights. There is SO MUCH good music from the 1960s and many of the contestants sang early 1960s snoozers. Who is really choosing this stuff? Moon River? Are you kidding? Really? The only contestant who chose wisely, out of the 24, was Jason Castro. But honestly, I think he’d be good at anything.
I liked Alaina, but I really liked Ramielle. The rest can go.
Despite being told a few dozen times that this is the strongest group of finalists EVER, I think this group needs some pruning & some work before they achieve mediocrity.
(I think I’ll take on the task of investigating that claim. “Strongest” is completely subjective, of course, but through some google-fu we can see how each season’s group of 12 has done professionally since they’ve been on Idol.)
Well, that was easy…it’s all laid out in our friend Wikipedia.
Idol has produced 4 certified mega-stars: Kelly Clarkson (season 1) has sold 9.5 million albums; Clay Aiken (season 2) 4.7m; Carrie Underwood (season 4) 8.1m; Chris Daughtry (season 5) 3.8m.
The strongest single season to date has to be season 5, where 6 of the final 12 have sold over 100,000 albums (in descending order): Chris Daughtry, Kellie Pickler, Taylor Hicks, Elliot Yamin, Catherine McPhee and Bucky Covington.
Season 3 was probably the weakest: Fantasia sold 2.3m and Diana DeGarmo 166k, and nobody else charted (except William Hung). But season 3 gets bonus points for Jennifer Hudson’s Oscar.
This is just the tangibles…there’s a bunch of other Idols in touring Broadway shows, and Jasmine Trias is big in the Philippines. But that season 5 bar is gonna be a high one for this latest group to clear.
When I read this, I used Simon’s voice in my head and pictured his pushed-up sleeves and frustrated grimace/grin. Give it a try!
Liberal, are you channeling Simon?
ARE YOU SIMON?!? :eek:
(totally agree with your analysis, BTW.)