# 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:** 8
**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, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/141 "2006-03-15T02:42:34Z")
I love Paris! ---
**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, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/142 "2006-03-15T02:42:46Z")
In her pre-song interview, Paris sounds like a five-year old. And those goofy-ass extensions make her look like she has some kind of developmental disability. _Lose the extensions, Paris! They’re not doing you any favors!_ Oooooh … _here_ is the Paris we all know and love and so desperately missed! (Well, except she’s a little bit flat, but she is forgiven, because the extensions are gone and those shoes are _hawt!_) ---
**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, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/143 "2006-03-15T02:43:10Z")
I think Paris made it back to the promise we saw at her audition. ---
**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, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/144 "2006-03-15T02:43:15Z")
It’s like somebody flipped a switch and turned off the suck. The last three performances ahve all been very strong and I expect that Chris’s will be to. The good performers were really backloaded tonight. ---
**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, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/145 "2006-03-15T02:44:08Z")
The best I’ve heard Paris since the audition. ---
**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, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/146 "2006-03-15T02:44:44Z")
OK, chickybaby - gratuitous. Stop singing! _Enough!_ ---
**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, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/147 "2006-03-15T02:45:34Z")
That was a weird song, but Paris rocked it well. But who dressed her like Barbie’s nightmare dream house? But impressive that she could move like that in 6-inch platform heels. Simon is spot on. I was just thinking how it started off as such crap and now everyone’s great. Except Ryan… ---
**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, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/148 "2006-03-15T02:46:47Z")
[QUOTE=vaderspal] …and now everyone’s great. Except Ryan… [/QUOTE] One consistency we can always count on. ---
**Author:** ![marymargaret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/149 "2006-03-15T02:49:10Z")
Paula’s loaded again. ---
**Author:** ![marymargaret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/150 "2006-03-15T02:50:30Z")
**Higher Ground** is a good choice for Chris. ---
**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, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/151 "2006-03-15T02:51:13Z")
Oooh… Chris… Now he can talk while giving me a massage… But I think the music is killing his part… ---
**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 15, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/152 "2006-03-15T02:52:00Z")
Paris needs to pull a page from the Pickler book and learn when to shut up, great performance until that, though. ---
**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, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/153 "2006-03-15T02:52:20Z")
The music does suck, but not Chris’s best performance. ---
**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, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/154 "2006-03-15T02:52:35Z")
No, stop with the goat thing Chris! That was a lot of smoke. ---
**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, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/155 "2006-03-15T02:52:37Z")
Somebody called this song choice last week – and noted the Chili Peppers connection! _Yay, whoever you are._ (I suck, but I’m not lookin’ that shit up – it’s already past my bedtime, and I still have to watch the Race, dammit.) _Pssst!_ Don’t tell my husband, but I want to have Chris’s babies. _NOW._ ---
**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, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/156 "2006-03-15T02:52:51Z")
Of course Chris would pick the Chili Peppers song. The band sounnds pretty kick ass. I’m actually hearing some tasty guitar. I think Chris was really just OK, though. Not bad bit not spectacular. The arrangement upstaged him a little. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/157 "2006-03-15T02:53:56Z")
Well now, THAT was a great performance. ---
**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, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/158 "2006-03-15T02:54:19Z")
It’s obvious that none of the judges know that the Red Hot Chili Peppers already did that song that way… they think Chris came up with that “interpretation” on his own. ---
**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, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/159 "2006-03-15T02:56:15Z")
Simon: “I hate when people do a karaoke version of a song…” I take it Simon has never heard the RCHP version, then? Because Chris’s singing tonight was a total karoake routine. Now is the time when I confess that’s the only version I’ve ever heard, and I had no idea it was even a Stevie song. ---
**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, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314/160 "2006-03-15T02:57:31Z")
I don’t get all the complaints about the band. They sounded fine to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-week-of-3-14/348314.md?page=9)