The this week’s Idol thread is a monster at 8 pages and counting and this isn’t really about this weeks competition so much as it is about an old fogey who wants to hear certain people sing certain things for reasons that are not always reasonable. I looked for, but could not find, the poster who wished for some Patsy Cline in the other thread. It started me thinking. . .
The one thing I’d really, really love to hear even though I know it won’t happen in a million thousand years, is Sanjaya do Ronnie Dyson’s If You Let Me Make Love to You. He’s got an old-soul voice that would match perfectly with the song’s sad melody. Oh sure, he’s only 17 but he has that Teen Beat look about him and it would make all the young girls swoon to hear him sing: If you let me make love to you
Then why can’t I touch you. . .
After And I Am Telling You, there is no where for Lakisha to go except for Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You. After that, there will be nothing left for her to sing and she can go home to her daughter.
Blake Lewis already has the haircut so I Ran from Flock of Seagulls.
And since Stephanie seems to be rocking Fantasia’s haircut, she can do Summertime.
I want Melinda to do Thriller but only if she does the zombie dance. I am very interested in what her head would look like doing it.
They play that Wendy’s commercial at least twice during every showing of Idol. Chris Sligh should embrace that and sing Violent Femme’s Blister in the Sun.
Phil Stacey has got to do either Back on the Chain Gang by the Pretenders. Sure that awful girl sang The Pretenders already but the song goes so well with his POW look. If he doesn’t want to repeat an artist then The Animals We Gotta Get Out of the Place will do just as well.
Haley was the one who said she wasn’t going to change her old fogey style, right? This old fogey has got some choices for her:
Not so old but just as fogey: Celine’s My Heart Will Go On
Old and fogey: Debbie Boone’s You Light Up My Life
So old and fogey they’ll have a grave ready for her when she finishes singing: Morning After (The Poseidon Adventure Theme) by Maureen McGovern.
Antonella and Sundance can both gargle razorblades as far as I’m concerned. I do not understand why Sundance keeps getting all this love. He sang one song well and has tanked every other time he has opened his mouth.
Anybody else have songs they’d like to hear on Idol?
I’ve always wanted to see a hard rock/heavy metal night. I’m sure it will never happen but I would love to see Ozzy as a guest judge (of course, he might need to bring Sharon as an interpreter).
Has anyone ever done Hallelujah? Melinda or Blake would be interesting. Or maybe each of them should have to sing it and then whoever nails it wins the whole shebang.
No? Well then I’d like to hear the dorky red haired girl with the sweet smoky voice try Patty Griffin’s Rain.
I wonder if they’ve done any of these songs to really show your chops on:
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Both Sides Now
Birthday
Gollum’s Song
Summertime (okay, maybe they’ve done this one)
Cities in Dust
Six Feet Underground
Best Looking Boys
Rio by Duran Duran
Of course, even if they had, I still wouldn’t watch, because I wouldn’t expect the results to be anything less than Whitney-Houstonesque bombast.
I’d like to see them do another musicals night, but this time without last year’s lame caveat that they had to be “classic”. I want to see the contestants attempt numbers by Sondheim and Webber, with bonus kudos for pulling off Les Miz. I could see Blake and Chris doing numbers from Rent, or LaKisha doing numbers from Hairspray. Ooh! And Gina doing one of Elphaba’s numbers from Wicked…(OK, musical fangirl mode off.)
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[li]Warmth of The Sun - anyone who has a high range without falsetto[/li][li]I second the Patsy Cline thing for the girl (present) who had the lower voice…the Naperville girl?[/li][li]I’d like to see someone sing a Monkees song. They get a bad rap for instruments, but Dolenz and Jones were excelletn vocalists.[/li][li]A Matthew Sweet song for whomever’s singing Brian Wilson.[/li][li]Why don’t any of the younger girls sing Liz Phair?[/li][/ul]
I’m sure there are more, but I can’t think of them right now.
I’d be interested to hear someone do some Tori Amos, but then I wouldn’t be able to listen to it anymore and I would have to add it to the list of songs ruined by Idol:
Call Me
Piece of My Heart
Edge of Seventeen
anything sung by Constantine
anything yet to be sung by Alaina and Nick
Can she interpret for Pauler too?
I would loooooove to hear someone tackle that one. Talk about trainwrecky!
I’d like to hear something by Aerosmith besides “Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.” That one’s been done to death, and it’s not even in my top 50 Aerosmith songs. An Aerosmith night would be awesome and Steven Tyler and Joe Perry would be kick-ass guest judges.
If Blake wants me to love him forever (I mean, of course he does. Who doesn’t?) he’ll sing some Weezer for me this year. He’s the only contestant on the show I could ever imagine doing Weezer.
Do all of you remember when there was the hubbub about Courtney Love saying she was asked to replace Paula? Well, apparently they just asked her to be a guest judge because they were going to feature Nirvana. That would be interesting, and probably really, really bad. I love AI, and I love Nirvana, but I think Nirvana’s music is more suited to Rock Star.
I have dreamed many a night * of a “North of the Border Night” on American Idol, where all the songs were written or most-famously-performed by Canadian artists. It’s hard to say who would sing what without knowing who the Top 12 are, but the artists in the “playlist” are:
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[li]Barenaked Ladies. Their three most likely candidates are “What A Good Boy,” “Brian Wilson,” or (squee!) “The Old Apartment” – but these songs are not for the meek. It will take a special kind of guy – or girl – to do these songs justice.[/li][li]Sarah McLachlan. Anything but “Angel” – super big ups to whoever has the stones and the voice to cover “Possession.”[/li][li]Bryan Adams. I know he’s cheesy 80’s tripe, but I love that cheesy 80’s tripe.[/li][li]Nelly Furtado. “I’m Like a Bird” could be a good number.[/li][li]Glass Tiger. You all know you know the song, so sing along: “Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone.”[/li][li]Celine Dion. Although someone will probably sing her stuff anyway.[/li][li]Neil Young. I can actually picture Sundance singing “F*ckin Up” and I don’t know why.[/li][li]Shania Twain … or, alternatively, “some white-trash version of Shania karaoke.” *[/li][li]Jeff Healy. “Angel Eyes” is one of my favorite songs ever and I would like someone to sing it.[/li][li]Joni Mitchell. She has so many songs to choose from; I’d start with “Help Me” and the right arrangement.[/li][li]Gordon Lightfoot. But who is going to tackle “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”?[/li][li]Alanis Morissette. 'Cause I’m here to remind you.[/li][/ul]
= OK, maybe only once or twice, but still.
** = That was a thinly veiled Idol reference. Get it?*
