# American Idol Top 13 3/10... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969 "2009-03-10T16:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 11, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/21 "2009-03-11T00:31:41Z")
Gokey = douche nozzle. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/22 "2009-03-11T00:31:42Z")
Danny Deadwife’s dancing looks less like Michael Jackson, more like the Elaine Dance. Unfortunately, he’s singing (screaming) the song pretty well on pitch. ---
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/23 "2009-03-11T00:33:32Z")
I really liked Danny. Good job. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/24 "2009-03-11T00:33:45Z")
I don’t get this Danny thing. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/25 "2009-03-11T00:34:09Z")
Why oh why do I hate Gokey so? Will someone explain it to me? If anyone else performed that, I think I would have thought it was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/26 "2009-03-11T00:37:15Z")
My dream is that someone will have their backstory video and say, “His life has been pretty easy.” “Great childhood.” etc… ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/27 "2009-03-11T00:39:51Z")
Michael _yawn_…why is Simon giving him a pass? Wait, what? What are these judges hearing?! ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/28 "2009-03-11T00:39:54Z")
Is that a small crystal flask dangling from Pauler’s wrist? ---
**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 11, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/29 "2009-03-11T00:41:58Z")
What a crappy bunch of finalists this is. They range from bland and vaguely likeable to bland and obnoxious. The only ones I could even conceive of rooting for right now are Anoop amd maybe Adam. It’s pretty obvious that the judges have already decided that Deadwife and Rounds are their F2, though, with Deadwife slotted FTW. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/30 "2009-03-11T00:42:34Z")
Whoa! I don’t always say this, but Paula is _wasted_ tonight. The look on Simon’s face when she was telling Oil Rig Guy that he “colored it up” spoke volumes. He looked embarrassed for her. So far, I like Lil and Danny, buy I agree…he can’t dance. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/31 "2009-03-11T00:52:49Z")
If you think about it, calling a guy with a dead wife “Deadwife” is pretty goddamned crass, even for the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/32 "2009-03-11T00:56:59Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > My dream is that someone will have their backstory video and say, “His life has been pretty easy.” “Great childhood.” etc… Kris was there. Easy life, supportive family, cute young wife. The hardest thing is that he has to go to California for the show, but it only brings them closer together! (gag) ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/33 "2009-03-11T00:57:04Z")
Sometimes these “look at my family” moments are so contrived. Kris and his wife are making toast and whole wheat spaghetti together. Weird. ---
**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 11, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/34 "2009-03-11T00:58:25Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > If you think about it, calling a guy with a dead wife “Deadwife” is pretty goddamned crass, even for the Internet. Not as crass as exploiting her corpse to get on TV. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/35 "2009-03-11T00:59:00Z")
What the heck, Kris? Does anyone else think that performance was really really weird? ---
**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 11, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/36 "2009-03-11T01:03:13Z")
Simon wasn’t giving relationship advice, Ryan, you tool, he was giving competitive advice. He was saying it was too early to play the wife card as a game strategy. ---
**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 11, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/37 "2009-03-11T01:07:44Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > What the heck, Kris? Does anyone else think that performance was really really weird? They buried his guitar in the mix (they do that a lot. I think the show doesn’t really trust these kids to know how to play their instruments). So he was windmilling around like Pete Townshend and producing very little sound. It also wasn’t really guitar rock song to begin with (more pseudo jazzy), so trying to act like Eddie Cochran just looked incongruous. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/38 "2009-03-11T01:10:33Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Simon wasn’t giving relationship advice, Ryan, you tool, he was giving competitive advice. He was saying it was too early to play the wife card as a game strategy. I took that to mean don’t let the teenage girl voters know you’re married. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/39 "2009-03-11T01:11:39Z")
I like Allison but was a little disappointed tonight. Anoop wasn’t as good as I’d hoped either. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969/40 "2009-03-11T01:15:11Z")
So does no one else want to comment on Paula’s new botox/facelift/skin tightening? Yikes. Scary. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-top-13-3-10/488969.md?page=3)