# American Idol Mar 20/21 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486 "2007-03-18T22:11:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/21 "2007-03-21T00:10:13Z")
Hayle should have listened to Lulu’s advice about the sticatto thing. This old fogey will enjoy hearing these old songs. Which came out mostly before I was born and I _still_ enjoy them. I won’t be a good judge of the singing because I really like these songs. I’m a top forty freak. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/22 "2007-03-21T00:10:45Z")
Haley was mediocre but I like the hooker shorts. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/23 "2007-03-21T00:13:10Z")
Hmmm, Lulu is useful. She stopped Haley from Celine-izing that song. IMHO, Lulu delivered it better than Haley, but apparently all is forgetten if you flash your legs and bounce. Personally, I hate the look of 2 inch heels and shorts. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/24 "2007-03-21T00:14:20Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Haley was mediocre but I like the hooker shorts. [/QUOTE] Hooker-style or no, I want those shorts. That, and the ability to get away with no bra or stick-on bra only. I miss being…twelve. And while that song was perfect for her, can she please stop singing through her nose? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/25 "2007-03-21T00:15:26Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Haley was mediocre but I like the hooker shorts. [/QUOTE] You sound like Simon. What was it he said? “Nobody is going to be talking about your singing 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:** [March 21, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/26 "2007-03-21T00:15:48Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] You sound like Simon. What was it he said? “Nobody is going to be talking about your singing tomorrow”? [/QUOTE] She was singing? ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/27 "2007-03-21T00:18:00Z")
I didn’t think Haley was spectacular but she did just enough to not get hammered by the judges, which must be a nice change for her. I dig that girl; quite attractive. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/28 "2007-03-21T00:18:50Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] This old fogey will enjoy hearing these old songs. Which came out mostly before I was born and I _still_ enjoy them. [/QUOTE] Yeah, me too. Although I like to think about it as “Editorial Approval”: when I have kids, they’ll need me to give them money to buy records\*, and I’m not shelling out cash for stuff I don’t like, or at least approve of. \*\* = Yeah, yeah, I know. By the time I have kids, nobody will buy records any more, and we’ll all take our personal spaceships for our vacations the Moon. Whatever. I’m old, leave me alone!\* Anyway … Haley was OK. Not spectacular, but she looked cute. Lulu was right on about the staccato business, though. Oh! This is the best Chris has sounded so far. Good on him. This arrangement is neither horrid, nor tragically unhip, I don’t think. And he really kind of does sound like Jason Mraz, whom I adore. Yay Chris R.! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/29 "2007-03-21T00:19:06Z")
Jesus, can anyone be more nasal than Chris R? I can’t stand it! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/30 "2007-03-21T00:19:32Z")
This kid really sucks. Sqweeky little voice. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/31 "2007-03-21T00:19:36Z")
Chris R. Nasal McNasalnose all up in the schnhozz again. I don’t understand why this guy gets votes, but I’m not a 14-year-old girl. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/32 "2007-03-21T00:22:43Z")
Why are they lying about R? He sucked. They must really want to get rid of Sanjaya so they don’t want anybody to draw fire away from him. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/33 "2007-03-21T00:23:02Z")
Saw Jerry and the Pacemakers on PBS Sat. night. He was really old and still buried that kid. ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/34 "2007-03-21T00:23:05Z")
Chris R. looked cute, and sang on-key, but when those are your best selling points, you’re probably going home soon. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/35 "2007-03-21T00:26:14Z")
That was the only Chris R. vocal that I ever enjoyed. He did a nice job with it. (It probably helps that I’ve always really liked that song.) But I think that it also displayed that, without all of the performance around it, his voice is really quite limited. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/36 "2007-03-21T00:26:45Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I don’t understand why this guy gets votes, but I’m not a 14-year-old girl. [/QUOTE] Well, neither am I, and I think I may vote for him. This song is pretty whiny to begin with, I think. I agreed with Randy: that was a good arrangement, not to tricksy or melismatic (is that a word?). Good control over his instrument. While Sligh and Blake try to out-bell-and-whistle each other, Chris R. can just be cute and charming and straight-ahead talent. Or, at least, not Sanjaya – the relative merits about which enough cannot be said. Huh. On preview – perhaps all the stress from my furnace problems has suddenly made me deaf … ? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/37 "2007-03-21T00:28:34Z")
Boy, what tough, hard-hitting questions they’re getting from these letters. “What is the hardest part of getting ready for the show?” Whoa, slow down there, Bill O’Reilly. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/38 "2007-03-21T00:28:42Z")
What’s the topic today? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/39 "2007-03-21T00:29:43Z")
Hmmm…I didn’t think Chris R was bad, and I do NOT like that song. And it really seems like the guests are being helpful; I’m impressed. And I’m squeeing over Stephanie’s song choice. (That officially means I’m old, I know.) Bah, too bad she didn’t nail it. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486/40 "2007-03-21T00:29:56Z")
The dress doesn’t seem to go with the song… I do like the voice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-mar-20-21/396486.md?page=3)