Egg – the word on the TWoP forum is that they will play the same recorded performances and judge responses back with new “live elements,” which I take to mean, “Ryan Seacrest apologizing for the snafu.”
The good: Carrie, Scott, Vonzell.
The ‘meh’: Anwar, Bo, Nikko, Jessica.
The ugly: Mikalah, Nadia, Anthony. (To clarify: they were not ugly, their singing was.)
And the WTF?!?: Constantine. I thought I loved him, I thought I hated him. I’m just so confused!
I thought it was hilarious when Simon compared Connie to a poodle in a leather jacket. Then I saw Nadia on the screen in her mohawk, and thought, “Speaking of poodles …” I couldn’t help myself.
I loved Carrie’s performance. I adore that song, and was prepared to be disappointed. I was not. I thought Jessica could have done more with “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” I was expecting her to really get in there and belt it out, and it seemed like she was holding something back. Anwar and Bo disappointed me, but I still love them both. I didn’t know the song Nikko sang. I hate when that happens. He sounded good, but I have no idea how good because I have nothing to compare it to.
Apparently, I’m the only one thinking most of Tuesday night’s songs sucked hard. A larger problem last night was resurrected from last year: the overpowering musical accompaniment drowns out any singer who’s not an over-the-top powerhouse. The audio engineers need to power down the backup band or crank up the contestants’ mikes to 11. Vonzell’s performance captured this problem. If you want to be heard, you need to ram the mike right against your mouth.
A related problem: the audio quality ain’t that great, folks. Are things being run by the local high school? Dunno, maybe it’s time I upgrade to Monster speaker wires.
Bo has a fine voice, but his Croce selection didn’t work for me, dog, not when he’s surrounded by high-energy acts. That said, maybe he’s showing off his repertoire–showing that he can do 70s pop tunes as well as 70s classic rock.
Nanny NewYorkah Goil has become a painful parady and is coasting on equal parts Schadenfreude and tawdry irony. Time to say goombye.
It’s irritating to see how Simon so nakedly tries to manipulate voting and influence voters. Sure, Randy does it too, but Simon raises it to an artform.
Sorry, but Cheddar McSmirkovitch isn’t being ironic and certainly ain’t no evil genius. He knows his demographic is teeny boppers and is singing right to them. David Cassidy, BTW, was only about 1,000 times better.
Ah, Nadia–what to say? One week, she’s Diana Ross, the next Grace Jones doing Cindi Lauper doing Billy Idol. IMHO, she took a sucky/idiosyncratic song with weird key problems and ran it into the ground. So much for filet mignon among hamburgers.
I know she’s a favorite here, but I’m sorry, that mohawk was just plain ugly. She looked much nicer when she had that Lauryn Hill look. Scott is a good singer, just hasn’t had that ooomph lately, no excitement–I hope he busts out soon. I didn’t think the Partridge family worked for Connie, just wasn’t right. (when IS the Partridge Family ever right??). The top 5 or so are all about the same level, it just depends on what you like.
Who’s gonna win?? Good gosh, who can predict the fingers of whoever it is that’s voting. I’m betting Anwar, the people can’t resist that smile.
My fav’s…
Upper Tier:
Carrie & Vonzell
Middle tier:
Anwar, Scott
Lower tier,
everyone else except Miqueda
hanging on for dear life:
Miqueda
Is that version of “Time After Time” sung by Nadia something unique to American Idol, or has another artist covered the song in that manner? I listen mostly to classic rock on the radio, and keep missing VH1 countdowns (which pisses me off because I still don’t have a copy of that Kelly Clarkson song to rock out to on my own time and I know that video’s on the countdown), so I suspect I might be a little out of the loop.
It was very cheesy when Scott flung off his glasses to the lyric “So take a look at me now”; not cheesy enough where I might vote for him, but cheesy nonetheless.
Well, in my own defense, that’s kind of what I meant when I posted that – like, I meant “evil genius” in the best possible kind of way. Kind of like Strong Bad: “Do you use your powers for good, or for awesome?” I like Constantine, for reasons even I don’t entirely understand. He comes off to me as someone who kind of knows how he comes off to people, and that’s OK with him. And even if he is a smug, arrogant jerk, he can sing, which still gives him one up on Carmen-the-Goat-Girl, so I can live with it.
Unless one of the contestants for whom a wrong number was shown got the least number of votes, there would be no reason for a re-vote. If one of 01 through 08 got the least number of votes, the vote would still be fair since they got either the intended number of votes or more than the intended number of votes. This means that Mikalah, Anwar, or Jessica got the least, and a re-vote is necessary to avoid a controversy or lawsuit.
Well, pooh. Speaking as someone who spent an hour voting for everyone except Mikalah – what a pain! But I guess it can’t be helped. I’ll do it again if it means getting her off the show.
Wow, you guys. I don’t get the Constantine “love” or even “tolerance” for that matter. I thought I was going to come here and find dozens of you posting exactly what I was thinking. That Connie is a Corey Hart wannabe (which is bad enough) who sings like he has marbles in his mouth or, as I said on another MB, “needs to have the d*ck slapped out of his mouth”.
I said it here last week: he thinks he’s being ironic when he does things like wear a Guarini t-shirt or sing a PF song. The smirking makes him seem even toolier (yeah, it’s MY word, shut up!) to me. I was alternately cringing and slackjawed through the whole song. I had my finger poised on the mute button, but I wanted to see the entire train wreck.
The only rocker I see in this competition is Bo. I don’t know how he does it, but he appears cool even on this hokey show. I totally agree with Simon. He seems totally at ease on stage, like he’s already a star.
Constantine is the rodeo clown in this show.
Let me apologize: I didn’t mean you & that remark. The remark was actually right in line w/ what I was thinking, only a more colorful way of saying it. I intended to be in agreement w/ you and when I saw that, it gave me the perfect way to introduce what I had been thinking. I should have been more clear. Sorry about that.
As for the sniping: It was probably shock from the first AI threads this season where the true hacks were sniped at, but it all seemed fairly light hearted. When I came back, it seemed to be much more viscious and less in jest or good humor.
In reality, I most likely missed the progression along through the season and just didn’t get the joke. So I am quite sure that was my bad as well. So, sorry to everybody about jumping to conclusions when I should have known better.
It’s things like this that keep me humble.
My opinion, based on far too much time spent on AI message boards, is that Mikalah’s fan base is very young girls (13 or younger) and Constantine’s fan base is girls 13-17. Mikalah will be hurt by the re-vote since tonight’s show airs an hour later. On the east coast the voting period will be 10 - midnight on a school night.
Even though the calls are toll-free, they are not free if one is using a cell phone. Text messages are 10 cents each, and a regular call uses up a minute of cell phone time. I have no idea what the cell phone budget is for a typical 10-13 year old girl, but I’m guessing some parents may not be thrilled about paying for a second night of 2-hour voting.
Oh, OK then! 
Great minds and all that rot.
With Mikalah singing the female part and Nikko doing the baseball announcer part?
THAT would be funny as hell…
I think either Mikalah or Scott will go tonight.
Two thoughts:
Is Cingular Wireless going to not bill for the text messages that were sent last night, or are they going to make them free tonight?
Also, I thought it would have been somewhat poignant if somebody had chosen to sing “Disco Duck” last night (yes, it was too a Billboard #1 hit, and it was released by Rick Dees, who last year lost his morning radio show to Ryan Seacrest. Anyway, if somebody can seriously try to compete using “I Think I Love You”, “Disco Duck” is just as realistic).
Miccailah was next to last last week, and her performance this week was no better with the only person who was worse having already taken a flight home. You would expect her to be eliminated if there WASN’T a voting screwup. Changing things can’t make her chances worse.
It can’t make it any worse for her if she did indeed receive the lowest number of votes last night (or if she would’ve even if the phone numbers had not been wrong). If her very young fan base managed to push her through again last night, then she will be hurt if they are unable to get out the votes tonight.
Interesting question.
I read an article that they were not going to charge people for last night’s text messages.
Digital article. or dead tree? It’d be nice to have a link.
In any event, thanks for the heads up.
I just noticed how pretty Carrie is. Everbody makes faces when they sing. Usually funny faces, but Carrie’s singing face is really pretty.