Anyone watching this?
It is sooooooooooo EVIL!
heh heh heh
You will never convince me there aren’t shills among the contestants. I got this from the commercials, I am not watching the show.
My daughter wanted to watch this so I’m watching it too.
Someone shoot me, please!!!
DEFINITELY shills.
Tamika for president!
What qualifications does Paula Abdul have to be in a position to judge TALENT???
This has got to be a setup. C’mon! Holding auditions in NYC, and this is what shows up!?!?
So it’s basically black women, really fem Latino guys, and Justin Timberlake clones?
Yeah, some of those contestants were TOTAL phonies–and bad actors, at that. And I wasn’t too hot on the hosts; they seemed pretty lame and tried way too hard.
Some of it was pretty funny though. I kept wishing they would show that girl fall down again–the whole hour and a half was worth it just to see her take that fabulous spill right in front of the table when she was running up to hug Paula Abdul. That was totally something I would do. 
Wow, Paula Abduhl should go after whoever was lighting her, because she looked B-A-D whenever they did a close-up.
I am a 40 some odd year old woman who is way out of the demographics for this show, and I’m old evough to know better anyway. So what follows is indeed a rationalization, so please put those pins and needles away and go burst someones else’s balloon.
C’mon folks–this is a show about dreams!! This is drama, this is hope beyond reason, the power of belief over reality, the never-say-die (or at least never-say-talentless), guts and glory spirit that made this country great! I fell in love with every contestant, Gods bless their little Pollyanna hearts. I don’t know why some of those people thought they had an ice cubes chance in hell to be an American Idol (although the success of Rod Stewart and Neil Young springs to mind), but I’ve got to be impressed with their willingness to lay it on the line. May each and every one of them know everlasting joy every time they sing, even if Simon told them to never open their mouths again. I’m not so interested in the rest of the series, they obviously picked talented people, and while some of them may screw up or prove to have less talent than looks, none of them will evoke that same feeling of admiration for sheer blind optimism as those poor deluded, and delightful contestants who have a voice only a mother could love (a tone deaf mother).
Idols is also being held in South Africa and it’s causing some controversey. Two of the girls slated to do well, were voted off leading to charges and rumours of mass phone voting by the other contestants supporters (as in a few numbers vote thousands of times) and accusations that the public doesn’t know what talent is.
Hope the same doesn’t happen in the US.
“I wasn’t trying to do the right notes.”
HaHaHaHaHaHa!
And I second The Wrong Girl–lil’ miss starlet falling on her ass and sliding under the table will be forever burned into my memory. I literally fell to the floor laughing at that one.
And while I kept watching because the baddies were just SO bad, it was pretty cool to see how excited a lot of the finalists got. I loved the big black mom out in the waiting room who looked like she was going to wet herself when they accepted her son. Really sweet, I thought.
bella
Are you saying that the public DOES know what talent is? I think we could get a really good argument going on that point!
I have to agree with LolaCocaCola on why in the world do they have Paula Abdul as a judge. She can dance, but IIRC, she was notoriously bad in the recording studio. Rumors were that after hours of takes, her songs had to be spliced together to get a decent one out. I wanted to see Paula get up and do a sound bite herself. Now that would be true entertainment if rumors hold to real life.
I had to mute the tv several times because it was just too painful. But I watched, and will be watching again tonight! My favorite was the transsexual–Amnesia (“And don’t you forget it!”)–now she sang better than a lot of those outtakes we saw.
My husband is trying to convince me that this was the guy who auditioned in LA and Seattle and then somewhere else again. But honestly, even if she could sing really beautifully, do you think they would have let her through. I just felt awful when that other (very talented) girl said “I knew I probably wasn’t gonna get through today because I’m a big girl but that’s alright.” You could hear her heart breaking. She’s got guts. I hope she’s the one who wins.
I watched it. I don’t know why but I did. It was pretty obvious who they were gonna choose even if they couldn’t sing very well. At least they didn’t always go with the looks as some of them didn’t look the greatest but could sing. I thought the best part was the guy who was stripping, that was a riot. I missed the girl who fell.
They’d never have let Amnesia into the big time. I thought Paula was loving Simon’s embarrassment when she blew into the room. And I loved that girl you’re talking about, miamouse. She made me cry, a little.
As soon as she started singing, I thought “If they reject this girl because of her size I’m going to be PISSED!” Then they let her in and I got a little teary-eyed too.
The blond girl (not the cheese girl) from LA was so funny when she was like, “I am beautiful, and I can sing and I don’t care what you think.” Ugh. She wasn’t even close to being pretty. Slutty maybe, not pretty.