Agreed. One of my all time favorite performances was at a Stanford-USC football game. The Stanford band came out and started playing the USC fight song, marching around with their arms straight and looking like idiots, running into each other as they marched. Too funny. USC=way too pompous, not enough humor.
Two hour cheese-fest, a hodge-podge of disconnected bits. Some worked, some didn’t…my personal list:
Great moments:
Carly & Michael Johns, The Letter. What I thought should’ve been the Final Two. Alas…what might’ve been.
DC & ZZTop. DA & whoever-that-was. Both showcased their talents well.
Brooke & Graham Nash.
Jimmy Kimmel’s Simon insult montage.
I Am Your Brother.
The Pips.
Busts:
The opening number, and the direction of same. You’ve got 12 singers & another dozen dancers on stage, so let’s just do a wide-shot of the singers, with audience arms in the way. Why’d they even bother putting the dancers up there if they’re never going to show them?
Amanda.
Syesha & Seal.
Shameless movie plugs.
Donna Summer, George Michael, Bryan Adams…meh. Jonas Brothers…who? Why?
I missed a chunk of the show due to some other things occupying my time, but from what I remember:
The crazy dude with the USC folks: awesome.
Didn’t care for Jordin’s short gold dress; it makes her look humongous.
Carrie Underwood looked hot. And I am a hetero woman.
The replay of the guy singing “Let muhhh pippullll goooo”: I hurt myself laughing.
Jimmy Kimmel’s mild roasting: good.
Black, Stiller, and Downey with Gladys Knight: fantastic.
David Cook winning: Justice is done.
I couldn’t be happier with the results. And I have to say that both of the finalists were class acts. I was quite impressed with how both of them never really got adversarial and always seemed like they genuinely liked and respected each other. I thought Archuleta handled the loss with class. And I think Cook has been admirable and humble every step of the way. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
That link isn’t working for me, and it doesn’t seem to be on Youtube - anyone got any other links?
I have more link trouble. Sorry. If you go to mjsbigblg.com, it’s currently on the main page.
Does anyone know if DC will be on the talk show circuit or anything now, and if so, how do we find out which ones/where so we can TiVo it?
I’d try Google.
Bleah. that sounds like a lot of ongoing work. I was hoping there was some centralized location that kept up with their publicity…
Future Idol Contestants:
Please, when the judges, guest judges, guest mentors, and random internet posters tell you to sing the lyrics like you mean them, please re-watch George Michael’s performance from last night.
Thank you.
I couldn’t make it through George Michael’s performance last night. I got about 2/3 or 3/4 through his song and I was so monumentally bored I had to skip the rest. It seemed like the song wasn’t going anywhere… it didn’t build to anything, it didn’t change, it was just swimming around in its little boring puddle. Bleah.
“I think this show is a springboard.” — David Cook (around -00:32).
He’ll be on Ellen DeGeneres’s show next Tuesday (that’s 4:00 EST).
And apparently Leno tonight.
Thanks, BetsQ, that worked for me.
Yeah, me too. I was hoping he’d bust out into “Careless Whisper” at some point, but no. He said something about having a cold, I think - he still sounded pretty good, but what a song choice. Way to lose the momentum of a finale show (and I did enjoy it).
Thanks to the Jews controlling the weather, a storm here last night prevented this from recording, so what I’ve seen of it has been on YouTube. I haven’t watched George Michael and other guests yet, but DAMN! I can understand blatant product placement if you’re a low rated struggling Bravo! reality show or a so-so sitcom or even if you’re a big budget movie having to hedge bets you’ll recoup that $100 million come-what-may, but American Idol is
1- the highest rated variety show on TV (meaning that it generates millions and millions and millions and millions in ad revenue, which alone sustains most shows)
2- has four big-bucks stars (the judges and Seacrass) who are probably still not pulling down what the casts of Friends and Frasier earned, which should significantly up their already significant profits
3- has points in a national tour that rakes in millions
4- has points in the winner’s album that could potentially bring in millions
5- has (I’m guessing at least) points in the I-Tunes sales
6- ample product placements already with the Ford and Nokia endorsements
7- an excellent marketing/tie in department (like Jeopardy with their contestant searches, the A.I. talent searches cost them nothing and if anything make money for the show due to considerations provided by search venues)
So WHY do they need to promote Love Guru on their finale? The movie that looks dreadfully unfunny (Mike Myers is in the Robin Williams “that schtick used to be funny… then it wasn’t” phase of his career I fear) and its revenue will largely be courtesy of Justin Timberlake in bikini briefs, and the interchange twixt Myers/Archuleta/Cook was not exactly magic.
OTOH, the moment when David Cook burst into real laughter over Archuleta catching the shaving cream was one of the sweetest and funniest moments in the show’s history and one of the few times Archuleta’s laughter/smile looked sincere. (Judging by his mugging at the camera at that moment I’m not sure Myers knew the laughter wasn’t for him.)
Opal - found this: Appearances by American Idol Contestants.
DC’s doing Leno tonight, top 10 are on Larry King Friday, and DC is on Regis on Tuesday.
Oh perfect! Thank you BetsQ!
My 1-2-3-4 picks finished 2-1-3-4, which is downright phenomenal given how my predictions usually go. All in all, I still think it should’ve been Archuleta, but that’s just how it goes, and in the end I really don’t think it makes a huge difference. Arch has his whole life ahead of him, and it’s never too late to produce listenable pop. And it’s impossible to fault Cook about, well, anything; he’s been a complete class act all throughout, and he understands that, first and last, it’s all about getting your voice out there and convincing the country you’re better than the rest.
I just feel sorry for any and all future rockers, who are undoubtedly going to get clobbered before they’ve reached first base. Oh well, nobody said this was a fair contest.
See you all next time…
Cook on Jay Leno. (If his life was a movie this is where he’d be in a montage showing Leno, Letterman, a Muppet Show appearance, Dr. Zaius applauding him, statues being unveiled, etc.).