# American Idol March 13-14 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798 "2007-03-13T21:22:01Z")\ **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 14, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/21 "2007-03-14T00:28:14Z")
I’m digging Chris S’ arraingment of Endless Love. So much better than the original. Randy is an ass. I’m the only one who liked the arraingment, huh? The original Endless Love is for singing in the shower— sappy and slow and drippy. And now that the judges mentioned it, it did sound like Coldplay. I like Coldplay, so there you have it. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/22 "2007-03-14T00:31:46Z")
Nope, Chris did well vocally on it, but the arrangement did suck mightily. Melinda makes me squee. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/23 "2007-03-14T00:32:31Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Uh oh. Pauler is blubbering. Is she off the wagon already? [/QUOTE] I was thinking the exact same thing. **Dio** whats up with you comparing everyones song choice to eating ass??? 😃 got someth’in to say? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/24 "2007-03-14T00:33:50Z")
I thought Melinda wasn’t quite as good as the last few weeks, but she was still great. I love her sense of humor. I liked Chris S actually, but maybe that has something to do with the fact that I haven’t heard either the original or that Coldplay song. It didn’t sound like their first two albums, which are the ones I have. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/25 "2007-03-14T00:34:03Z")
I can’t believe that a) Paula said something coherent and b) I agree with it. Stop trying to be edgy, Chris, and learn to sing a song well. When you become a big shot superstar then you can do the Tom Jones unique arrangement. Hell, even the divine Miss Ross warned you not to jack with the song! That song is pretty twee as it is, but you seriously fucked it up, son. It would have been so much better sung closer to the original. I can’t believe the band didn’t suggest that the arrangement was not going to work. Are they not allowed to give feedback to the performers **Biggirl** , I like Coldplay as well, but you have to agree that was a butchery! ---
**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 14, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/26 "2007-03-14T00:34:15Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] I’m digging Chris S’ arraingment of Endless Love. So much better than the original. Randy is an ass. [/QUOTE] I disagree. I think the judges were right. the arrangement didn’t work at all. It was too fast and it drained the melody. Chris was also off-time and off-key at times. That wasn’t his best performance. I’ve rearranged a lot of easy listening songs for rock bands. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do it. You have to retain the melody better than that. ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/27 "2007-03-14T00:35:12Z")
Melinda: I love her voice, and really appreciated the emotion she brought to that song. Too bad the song was boring, though. Chris Sligh: I love his voice, but man! That arrangement made me think a hack anime soundtrack composer got drunk at a karaoke bar, heard someone sing “Speed of Sound”, and thought “_Ah! Kore wa watashi no_ theme song!” And from the “no they did-n’t” category: “Simon, get out of my closet.” “Well, come out then!” ---
**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 14, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/28 "2007-03-14T00:36:09Z")
[QUOTE=Talon Karrde] I thought Melinda wasn’t quite as good as the last few weeks, but she was still great. I love her sense of humor. I liked Chris S actually, but maybe that has something to do with the fact that I haven’t heard either the original or that Coldplay song. It didn’t sound like their first two albums, which are the ones I have. [/QUOTE] Did Coldplay cover that song? Do we have another Livegate scandal on our hands? ---
**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 14, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/29 "2007-03-14T00:36:12Z")
I think Diana means “enunciate”. Is pronunciate even a word? I think that was my favorite Gina performance to date. And Paula, Love Child is NOT a feel-good song. My son loves her. “A tongue ring and big boobies. What’s not to like?” ---
**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 14, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/30 "2007-03-14T00:38:13Z")
I just can’t get into Gina. I always want to channel surf when she’s on. This is adequate I guess. Not very exciting. Kind of a dull song. She hit the high note without screeching. Just meh over all. ---
**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 14, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/31 "2007-03-14T00:39:19Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] Is pronunciate even a word? [/QUOTE] No. It would be fun to listen to Diana and Paula have a couple of glasses of wine together. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/32 "2007-03-14T00:40:30Z")
I wonder if the album _Diana_ is off limits? [ul] [li]I’m Coming Out[/li][li]My Old Piano[/li][li]Tenderness[/li][li]Upside Down[/li][/ul] Those are some of the best pop/disco/funk songs ever. We’ve heard four singers and they haven’t picked any of those winners. Diana has Reach Out…, Muscles, Theme from Mahogany, and The Supremes stuff. These people need to be hit with a hairbrush over song choice. The last thing I expected on Diana Ross night was to be bored… ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/33 "2007-03-14T00:42:11Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] It would be fun to listen to Diana and Paula have a couple of glasses of wine together. [/QUOTE] Oh my dear lord, that could be the Youtube clip of the century. OK, the month, but you know what I mean. Gina: I liked this performance a lot, actually. Sure, it’s not as melodic as other contestants’, but it suited her style just fine. I want to see more of her. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/34 "2007-03-14T00:43:42Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] It would be fun to listen to Diana and Paula have a couple of glasses of wine together. [/QUOTE] With each glass making them more and more coherent. I’m working tonight so I haven’t been able to watch. Did Sanjaya go with _Lovechil_, _I’m Coming Out_ or _Theme from Mahogany_? ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/35 "2007-03-14T00:44:32Z")
Love Melinda, and I actually love “Home,” but it’s not the most spectacular song in the available catalog. I will say this, though: one of the keys to doing well in this competition is knowing your strengths and playing up to them, and Melinda knows that better than anybody. She knows what she can do, and she \*does the hell out of it. \* I hated Sligh’s arrangement. It was bad. Really bad. Because I’m on tape delay … I think Gina was awesome. And she at least listened to the suggestions that Diana Ross gave her, and she “pronunciated.” I understood every word she was singing, even though I cheated and learned all the words ahead of time. Like, when I was 6-ish. Oh, Sanjaya. I think I hate you. This song is from the climactic sequence of the best episode of “Designing Women” EVER, and you wrecked it. Plus, _ **YOU’RE NOT EVEN SINGING THE DIANA ROSS VERSION!** _ Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell are both going to haunt your ass _forever._ And, he stole Paris Bennett’s hair! ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/36 "2007-03-14T00:45:00Z")
Diana Ross: Sanjaya:: Diana Ross: Michael Jackson. This is not going to go well, I’m afraid. In the words of the anti-weed dog cartoon: “you disappoint me” ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/37 "2007-03-14T00:46:55Z")
Re Sanjaya: You know you suck when the back-up singers are more interesting than you are. That was dreadful. ---
**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 14, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/38 "2007-03-14T00:46:57Z")
It looks like Sanjaya is going for kind of a female Greg Brady look tonight. Poor kid. He is so going home tomorrow. ---
**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 14, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/39 "2007-03-14T00:47:28Z")
Well, at least Sandy moved a little this time. He’s such a baby girl, is our Sandy. ---
**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 14, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798/40 "2007-03-14T00:48:38Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] With each glass making them more and more coherent. I’m working tonight so I haven’t been able to watch. Did Sanjaya go with _Lovechil_, _I’m Coming Out_ or _Theme from Mahogany_? [/QUOTE] He did “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” I didn’t know Diana Ross had done that one. The poor kid really botched it, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-march-13-14/395798.md?page=3)