Eh … it’s no much that it “doesn’t belong” as that … well, Pearl Jam isn’t exactly your average pop-idol kind of band, you know? They have some really great songs, but it’s just not what you’d expect when you’re trying to show off how well you can sing. Most people don’t talk about Eddie Vedder’s spectacular vocal range, or anything like that. Also, “Jeremy” is a song about a kid who kills himself, so … not quite a happy fun song, that one. (In another off-shoot Idol thread some of us talked about some songs we’d like to see on Idol, and while Pearl Jam was mentioned, “Jeremy” wasn’t.)
Ah…okay, I’m hip to that.
No, really! Totally hip.
Speaking of hip, this show was a disaster for us old farts. A grand total of ONE song that I’d ever heard in my life – the Steve song sung by Carlton from Fresh Prince.
I thougt that perhaps the weight loss talk was getting too close to Randy’s personal life…but that’s all I got.
Speaking of Randy: my total wild guess backstory is that Randy took one too many digs this year from contestants wondering who he is, and why he deserves to be a judge, and threw a little hissy fit. And demanded that Travis Tritt get planted in the audience, just so they could throw Randy a bone about how he actually has a day job as a record producer.
Which makes it rather unfortunate that he didn’t know the 311 song. I know it’s not exactly the type of music he produces, but shouldn’t two people in the music industry know 311? Well, I can give Paula a pass on that one, but not Randy.
It kinda says, “Hey young people! I don’t know 311, but I work with Travis Tritt! Oh yeah, did I mention I was in Journey, too? I’m…cool?”
OTOH, I don’t listen to top 40 or country, so I wouldn’t know a Beyonce song if it smacked me in the face and I had no idea Alaina was singing Dixie Chicks until somone mentioned it. This morning, a couple of early twentysomethings in my office were talking about someone named Akon(sp?) and I have no idea who that is. Perhaps I shouldn’t judge them too quickly if all I listen to is alternative and oldies.
VFTW re-endorsed Sundance. Guess he’ll be around a while longer.
I’d like to watch a final 4 consisting of:
Blake Lewis
Chris Sligh
Melina Doolittle
Lakisha Jones
That would be an entertaining show.
Everybody else reminds me of watching Starsearch. Zzzzzzzz…
Hee. “Phil, your voice reminds me of a singer I used to work with…Steve Perry!” “Hey, I’ll take that!” Of course Phil’s song was written about Jesus and he lifted his hand to heaven; subtle praise the lord though.
Paula more negative than Randy?? Ryan: “Anyone can tell those are two different haircuts; I don’t know which one has more extensions though.” Catty Seacrest, I like it!
Please leave, Jared; talk about karaoke! Please leave, Sanjaya; you can’t take 7/8 of your minute with insipidness and then try to sing out. Please leave, Phil; your bug eyes are weird.
3 1/2 men deserve to go on? That sounds about right.
I was waiting for a Pearl Jam song since Season 1 and am still waiting. Jeremy was a stupid choice, has no real melody (save for what Sundance left for the back-up singers) and isn’t a song that allows the singer to connect with the audience.
Sundance is now dead to me (rips shirt-sleeve).
Blake is the only interesting male (covers Keen, Jamiroquai, 311 in 3 weeks!), and I include Chris 1 and Chris 2 in the top 3.
Time to ogle Antonella…
No. Simon takes significant issue with anything that will put the contestants out as a frontrunner due to non-singing-related things. Sympathy for Fantasia as a single mom/illiterate, Pickler for her daddy issues, the whole host of sob-stories we saw during the auditions (the “crack baby,” the chick whose dad killed his wife and shot himself, even Phil missing the birth of his daughter)… AI is, to Simon, a singing competition and he hates, hates, hates the stupid glurge that gets pulled out and takes the attention away from that. So when Ryan wanted to draw attention to Chris’ amazing physical transformation, Simon shut him down- just like he did last week with Brandon’s “Just wanted to say happy birthday to my dad” improv.
I want Sanjaya to go home. Now. Right this very second. The best thing he could possibly do is step up and quit if it looks like someone more talented is going home instead of him. In a few years he may be an ubersinger, but right now it’s just painful to watch him. When even Paula can’t think of a nice thing to say, it’s time to hang up the towel.
And while I appreciated Phil wearing a hat to hide his creepy alien head, the fact that one of his ears was tucked up under the band and the other bent over apparently holding the hat in place distracted me more than his CAH.
A couple of questions about that. Is the show itself unaware of these people? Simon keeps saying things like, “Well, obviously people do like you or you wouldn’t still be here.” And shouldn’t their influence wane with every elimination, given the dillution of their votes? I suspect it would unless they’re getting a lot of new joiners every day.
I’d also like to make the comment that these people bother me this year. Last year, it didn’t make any difference to me, but this year, with Lakisha and Melinda, there are people with extraordinary talent doing their best to make a go of this. The VFTW site rationalizes their mission basically by saying that they’re punishing the producers. And that’s fine, but does it not occur to them that they might end up hurting these two women and the opportunity that they so richly deserve?
I think they feel like the people who get displaced aren’t going to be the real frontrunners but the filler contestants who are only on the show to get voted off anyway (let’s face it, Simon could cull the full Hollywood field of hundreds down to a top 5 on the first day if he wanted to, but they need cannon fodder to make a show). It’s the Alainas and the Nick Pedros who get squeezed out, contestants who would only last one or two more weeks anyway. I don’t think VFTW hurts the Melindas or the Lakishas or the Blakes or the Slighs and the deeper the show gets, the less effective VFTW becomes anyway (harder to garner a plurality of votes).
Yes, but I think it hurt Leslie Hunt. I may be alone in the wilderness here, but I liked her and thought she’d improve with time. Ah well, guess we’ll have a few more weeks of Antonella.
My guess is that they do know about VFTW, but they would never mention anything about it on the air, for fear of giving them any publicity. The more people that know about that website, the more power it would give them.
But his favorite band **of all time ** is 311? Of all time? I feel old.
To the doper fans of American Idol: :smack:
On behalf of American Idols fan of Hawaii,
I need to apologize to you all.
It seems people here believe that Sanjaya is “Hawaiian” and so are voting for him in droves.
After finally watching last night’s offering, I figgered out this year’s theme: “The Guys Suck!”
Although, tonight, I expect it to be more like “The Melinda Doolittle Show!”
I’m waiting for Seacrest to bust out and yell “TOUCH MY MONKEY!”… . .
I really like Jordin’s voice. The sped up song did nothing for me, and I don’t think it was a great song choice, but something about her voice just sounds pretty to me.
Oh, and that is not a good look on Seacrest. Oy.
Jordin should have sexed it up a bit. She looked too sweet singing about the right kind of sinner.
And cheers for throwing us old folk another bone!
Oh, and Seacrest looks like a hunchback sitting there.
What was it that Randy said about Paula being under the desk? I missed it.