# If you start an AI thread and nobody posts, does it make a sound? American Idol 4/11 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246 "2006-04-11T17:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/61 "2006-04-12T00:27:39Z")
How is it possible that there’s a Queen song I’ve never heard? Is it supposed to suck? ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/62 "2006-04-12T00:27:51Z")
This Queen song makes me sad. It came out right before Freddie passed. Sniff. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/63 "2006-04-12T00:27:51Z")
Good Lord, he has faaaar too much make-up on. I’m liking the singing though. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/64 "2006-04-12T00:28:32Z")
So much for Chris trying to do a straight version instead of trying to make it alt-rock. That actually was kind of successful, though. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/65 "2006-04-12T00:29:08Z")
Bucky did much better than expected, but there was something just wrongbadoff with the backup vocals. Too often they’re overpowering, but where Bucky needed them on the chorus they were too low somehow, there’s not a great lot to do with a 4 note melody there but it didn’t sound monotonous when Queen did it because of the strong choral element. He got rather ripped, IMO. Ace sucked, just ick. Kellie does Lita Ford!? She didn’t raise my ire so much as the horrific choppy arrangement, she did well at what she set out to do actually. Every year there are songs that it just hurts to hear get badly butchered and while I’d expect a truncated version of that more than anything else, it still was distractingly gawd-awful. As is her interaction, but I simply mute that to enjoy the show better. Chris rocked, sure, but meh. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/66 "2006-04-12T00:29:38Z")
[QUOTE=KarlGrenze] She probably knows what "on paper"means… she didn’t get that Simon was giving her a backhanded compliment (“You suck, you should have sucked, but you didn’t.”) [/QUOTE] I disagree. I think she actually has no idea what the expression “on paper” means. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/67 "2006-04-12T00:29:51Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] Good Lord, he has faaaar too much make-up on. I’m liking the singing though. [/QUOTE] Oh, yeah … I forgot to mention – wait, did Paula just say “supersede”? Does she even know what that _means?_ Oh, anyway … ooooh, _Chris just smiled._ My knees have melted. What was I saying? ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/68 "2006-04-12T00:29:57Z")
That’s how you do it when asked “How do you think you did”, instead of saying “I think I rocked”, “I dunno” is the proper answer. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/69 "2006-04-12T00:30:10Z")
Ok, so why did Simon say it was indulgent? ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/70 "2006-04-12T00:30:37Z")
I have loved Chris since day 1. The man is gorgeous. I love his eyes and his smile. I’m even liking the extra facial hair tonight. I almost cried tonight it was so bad! It’s the first time I’ve heard the goat others have talked about. He missed several notes. He did poorly. And I’m over at my parent’s house watching, and they are already prejudiced against him and now like him even less. Poor poor poor! ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/71 "2006-04-12T00:31:51Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] So much for Chris trying to do a straight version instead of trying to make it alt-rock. That actually was kind of successful, though. [/QUOTE] Yeah, and it just made me shrug and realize that Chris will hardly ever not do an alt-rock version of something. Every once in a while, sure… but most of the time it’ll be the same, and I’m tired of the alt-rock scene. I listened to enough of it in the late 90s. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/72 "2006-04-12T00:32:46Z")
“Innuendo” is an odd song choice, and while Chris did a good job, I’m not sure it worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/73 "2006-04-12T00:35:01Z")
[QUOTE=JeffB] “Innuendo” is an odd song choice, and while Chris did a good job, I’m not sure it worked for me. [/QUOTE] I’m not very fond of the song. I have said before that I would have liked him to do “Fat Bottomed Girls,” but since dibs had obviously already been called on that one, I wish he would have done a song I at least _recognized._ Anything. Big ups to him for apparently actually owning a Queen album, though. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/74 "2006-04-12T00:35:12Z")
I just feel like I’m watching a different show. I don’t think Chris did well at all, and I wanted to like him. I agree it felt more authentic than any of the others so far, but vocally he started really weak and flubbed the lyrics. He has enough confidence to override those problems, but I agree with Simon that he could have picked a song that he could really run with. I dunno, I guess I’m just not on the same wavelength as everyone else this week. Oo! Katharine is on… ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/75 "2006-04-12T00:36:07Z")
_What are they doing with the lights tonight?_ ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/76 "2006-04-12T00:36:41Z")
She sings very good… ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/77 "2006-04-12T00:37:26Z")
Hmm … not feeling the love for Katharine tonight. This song is very screamy, and I think she looks awfully like Kelly Clarkson. I think she should have done the first song. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/78 "2006-04-12T00:37:53Z")
Woot. Highlander. Best of the night so far, I think. Good choice for Kat. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/79 "2006-04-12T00:38:25Z")
I wish I could put my finger on why I don’t like this girl. She so does not move me at all. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-start-an-ai-thread-and-nobody-posts-does-it-make-a-sound-american-idol-4-11/352246/80 "2006-04-12T00:38:46Z")
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