# American Idol week of 3/14 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314 "2006-03-14T14:38:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/121 "2006-03-15T02:23:15Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Poor, poor Kevin. It’s like some kind of cruel prank keeping him here and telling he’s a “sex symbol” and everything. [/QUOTE] But, that’s one of things I like most about him. He _knows_ he’s the biggest dweeb on the face of the earth who isn’t my husband, and he wears that self-awareness so well. “Yeah, I’m a twerp, _so what?_ So is Bill Gates, and lookit the hot piece _he_ married!” Kevin’s laughing all the way to the bank. Someday that boy is going to host a late-night talk show, I can just tell. I do know this: I have absolutely no objection to my kids buying his records. _Riddle me this, Batman_: When did Iron Butterfly become even _vaguely_ appropriate for an investment commercial? _Who is running this gosh-darned network?_ Everyone is off their chum tonight, including me. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/122 "2006-03-15T02:26:25Z")
Yeah, I don’t feel remotely bad for Kevin. Worst case scenario is he pays his way through college with appearances and gets tons of ass. McPhee is really really good. ---
**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 15, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/123 "2006-03-15T02:26:30Z")
OK, Kat’s the best so far tonoght by a mile. But didn’t she learn her lesson about the empire waist lines? ---
**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 15, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/124 "2006-03-15T02:26:55Z")
What is up with her and high waisted clothing. That’s why everybody keeps saying she’s pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/125 "2006-03-15T02:27:42Z")
Kat looks pregnant in this dress, and the shoes are wrong – hippies don’t wear heels. Why don’t I have the McPheever like everyone else? She’s good, but doesn’t move me. Another person I think is technically proficient, but as appealing as wet toast. She is _not_ “da bomb,” Randy! _She’s just OK!_ ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/126 "2006-03-15T02:27:30Z")
She’s moving weird. Is it the shoes? She sounds typically fantastic, though. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/127 "2006-03-15T02:27:56Z")
Katherine–for the eleventy-millioneth time: NO EMPIRE WAISTS. I see on preview the Dio beat me to that observation but so what. Katherine was really, really good. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/128 "2006-03-15T02:28:36Z")
She did sing pretty… But is her bra part separate from the rest of the dress? ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/129 "2006-03-15T02:30:31Z")
The judges’ commentary is sometimes eerily relevant to how the singer performed. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/130 "2006-03-15T02:32:51Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Kat looks pregnant in this dress, and the shoes are wrong – hippies don’t wear heels. Why don’t I have the McPheever like everyone else? She’s good, but doesn’t move me. Another person I think is technically proficient, but as appealing as wet toast. She is _not_ “da bomb,” Randy! _She’s just OK!_ [/QUOTE] Nah, I’m with you. No PHEEver. And I don’t need to be the 10th person to comment on the maternity dress, do I? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/131 "2006-03-15T02:35:08Z")
Taylor scares me… I don’t care how he sings, he creeps me out… ---
**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 15, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/132 "2006-03-15T02:36:37Z")
Good song choice for Gray Charles. I’d like to hear a little more up-tempo but still pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/133 "2006-03-15T02:37:01Z")
Wow! Who woulda thunk it? Give Taylor a whole big stage, and he’s not spastic any more! I think actually that was my favorite of the night. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/134 "2006-03-15T02:37:08Z")
\*Dear Taylor Hicks, Please find $20 enclosed in this envelope. Even in Hollywood, it should be enough money for you to find a Vietnamese beauty salon, where you can have your eyebrows groomed so that it does not look like you are wearing baby chinchilla pelts on your face. Keep up the good work, but please stop dancing! Love and harmonicas, **rockle.** \* ---
**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 15, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/135 "2006-03-15T02:37:08Z")
Yay! Just like I wanted. His hair looks awesome. He is awesome. Even the dancing was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/136 "2006-03-15T02:37:31Z")
Finally, someone singing with some feeling. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/137 "2006-03-15T02:38:44Z")
What’s up with Simon’s comment? He drank from Paula? ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/138 "2006-03-15T02:40:59Z")
I hate to say it, but I liked Taylor even more than McPhee. Except for the cheat of the backups singing over his na-na-nas, he was the first person to really _own_ the song. I’m still trying to work out whether I like him or not, in general. Did anyone else think he was shamelessly trying to jump on the Ace train with that hat in the rehearsal clip? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/139 "2006-03-15T02:41:50Z")
Oh, thank heaven. Paris got rid of the spaniel ears hairstyle. ---
**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 15, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/140 "2006-03-15T02:42:24Z")
They colored Taylor’s hair. It was much, much whiter on top. The darkened it some and silvered it up. It looks great. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314.md?page=8)