Not 100% sure…but I think they were in the group that totally bypassed this stage and made it straight on through to LA
Oh good, because I kind of liked them.
What about that weird Black guy that played the piano like a guitar? He’s the one who kept growling at the camera. Did they like him enough to send him straight through to the top 48? Cause I didn’t see him at all in the 2nd round.
Oh yeah, I forgot about him. I don’t remember seeing him at Vegas at all, but he had to be there.
And to be unoriginal and say some of what I said on my Facebook page…
I can’t believe that what’s her name and Echo the parrot made it through. There was a few times he was silent, and even if he did everything she asked, how is this a million dollar Vegas act?
And I feel really bad for 4Play and Cindy Chang. And I don’t get it, 4Play flubbed and immediately got sent home, but what’s her name, the Justin Bieber look-alike, flubbs and she gets a second chance.
Okay, so normally I feel people in entertainment get vastly bloated paychecks for doing not so much. But after watching the first of the ‘quarter finals’ shows, I’ve changed my mind. These were 1/4 of the best of acts they saw??? Migod. I can only imagine how horrible it was sitting through all the ones they rejected. :eek:
I’ve got the feeling the rest of you have (deservedly) bailed on the series, but for what it’s worth, my reactions to last night’s show.
My rating scale: ++ for ones I’d really enjoy watching again
- for ones that I wouldn’t mind seeing again
0 for ones I’m utterly neutral on
- for ones I’d on the whole rather not see again
– for ones I’ll hit mute on if they ever appear again on my screen.
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Miami All Stars + Nothing bad about them, but they suffer by comparison with the dancing we get on “So You Think You Can Dance.”
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Dezmond Meeks - Dude, you’re in the wrong decade.
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Those Funny Little People – Heck, make it -----------
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Fearless Flores Family 0 It’s an act I’ve seen in many small circuses, nothing special enough to make it deserving of winning.
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Squonk Opera – Even more painful to sit through than TFLP. Was the singer deliberately going for off key??
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J. Chris Newberry 0 And that’s a mercy grade, because I rather liked him the first audition.
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Snap Boogie 0 Another mercy grade, since he was handicapped by his injury. Last time he was much better.
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Echo + He’s really amazing for a parrot, but the trouble is, clearly we’ve already seen the vast majority of his repertoire.
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Fiddle Heads - I’m sorry, Billie Jean??? Wow, what a bad choice.
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Duo Aero 0 Another mercy grade. They’re good, but that was the wrong way to take your act.
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Anna Graceman + Good voice, bad song choice.
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Sandu Trio Russian Bar ++ By far the best act of the show, but there really wasn’t a lot of competition.
So… 4 go through on audience votes (and previous years some get put through later on by the judges) so the ones I’d like to see go on are the Russian Bar, the girl singer, the salsa dancers, and the parrot.
(And you’ll note they’re doing that tarting up all the acts again, and mainly the changes are for the worse.)
Sharon even commented on that for the Fiddle Heads: “Don’t listen to that lady telling you to swivel your hips”
For some reason, the Funny Little People appeal to me - leading to much ridicule by my family.
The Russian Bar bit was easily the best. Liked the comic (“Club Baby Seal” for the win), Anna Graceman was fine (although I’m philosophically opposed to solo singers on AGT - they’ve got other venues).
I’d give Snap Boogie a “+”. The parrot act is weak - it’s all based on her patter around the words the bird can say - and her patter is weak, and the word cues are way to obvious - you always know what the bird is going to say (especially when she has to prompt it more than once).
It’s so strange watching this show as the acts feels like I’ve been transported back to the 70s and I’m watching Real People or That’s Incredible. I’ve seen all this stuff before… like decades ago.
Motorcycle ball of death? I think I saw that at our local Shrine circus back in 78’.
Those funny little people? Does anyone remember the guys on Real People who put giant top hats over their upper bodies and painted their chests like faces with their navels looking like pursed lips while whistling the Colonel Bogey March? Yea, that was like 30 years ago.
Talking parrots? Really? Somebody call Priscilla Presley and wake up Burgess Meredith!
I SO do not get this. It’s perfectly fine for 60 seconds. Once. NEXT!
I was so pissed off at the judges last week dissing the idea that the cute girl who looks like Justin Bieber and Hilary Swank’s love child was wrong to want to use her own material! Excuse the fuck outta me, but on what grounds do you shove aside songwriting as inappropriate??!?!? HUH? She was crystal clear that it was her absolute desire and intention to present her songwriting to America as very much a part of her talent! If you don’t like it, fine, vote against it. But don’t blow her off on the basis that songwriting has no place in a show that presents people in giant midget costumes as “talent”! Fuck off!
It’s because she’s got a great voice but her songwriting sucks. They want her to win (or at least do well) so they gave her the best chance she had to do it, which wasn’t her songwriting or her failing to sing it.
I am the opposite of our lister up there. I thought a lot of the acts were good and think a lot will be missed by choosing just 4. I think the 4 will be:
Anna Coachman
Russian Bar Trio
Miami Dance (ugh)
Fabulous Family
So here is why I’m mad…I totally forgot about the snap dancer kid when I was putting in my four. If I would have remembered him I would have put him instead of the family and then gotten all four right. Stupid me.
My wife made a good point. None of these acts are good enough for an entire show by themselves. What AGT should do instead is have the top three do variety show. The overall winner could still get the $1,000,000.
The Little People were NEVER funny, but they are one of my memories of the 70s when it seemed they’d show up every time I went to the mall (they were locals). Always made me kinda nauseous. How they made it through to the quarter finals is beyond me.
IIRC they do do that. Once Jeb Hillbilly boy failed miserably as his “one man show” in Vegas they decided to have it be a national tour that ends in Vegas.
Going again by my bad memory I think they take the top ten acts and send them around the country for a while on a AGT live tour, and then they end it in Vegas where they stay there for a while.
Jeb Hillbilly Boy (aka Michael Grimm) has recently performed twice this year at our locals’ casino, Green Valley Ranch, in Henderson (suburb of Las Vegas). A nice casino, but they still don’t have a “real” theater for this type of act; they perform in a large ballroom with folding chairs. Tickets for his show were $39. Hardly the huge headliner act on The Strip they hint/promise to the winner.
Piers made some comment that this year’s talent “is through the roof”…I think he meant “down the toilet”; there is not a single performer I would want to see in a 90 minute show, if the tickets were free and included 3 free drinks. If this is the best they could find, then obviously America’s Got NO Talent. We keep watching, hoping they might be holding back a ringer, someone with real talent - but so far, this is a really bad amateur talent show this season.
I wonder what happened to Elew and to Chicago’s Ultimate Tumblers. They seem to have simply disappeared.
I was sad that Squonk Opera put together such an uninteresting performance. I hadn’t realized that they were hometown folks, nor that they were named after the Genesis song. Both are good things.
No not Michael Grimm. The guy before him.
Well, if you think it’s that bad, I guess there’s still hope for the Internet pick.
I LOVE Michael Grimm. FTR.
I believe the hillbilly in question is Kevin Skinner, the chicken catcher. I agree that solo singers have too many other opportunities to be included.
The knife throwers had a good act, I thought. I’ll be happy to see more of them (unless they’ve shown us everything).
Yes that’s who I meant.
Me too