Ahh, I blame it on Lost having some sort of addictive substance pumped through the air waves. I like Sawyer, Sayid and Miles, everyone else I could care less about.
I started this way, too. Really, I did.
Well, …except my daughter was completely over it two seasons ago and has since moved away and I still watch the stupid thing.
Kelly Clarkson
Ruben Studdard
Fantasia Barrino
Carrie Underwood
Taylor Hicks
Jordin Sparks
David Cook
While they’re all mainstream performers, they have different voices and styles. I’m not asking you to like the show, but they aren’t redundant. And by the end, the last five or so do have distinctive voices and stage presences.
The OP reminds me of “And it was disgusting smut–I couldn’t believe it! After five hours of that, I had to turn it off!”
gigi: Fair enough—definitely in agreement on Carrie Underwood, who I was suprised by (in a good way). And as I admitted, I’m working with a pretty small sample size. I wasn’t too impressed with the lot of also-rans I saw—who probably fit with my gripe more solidly—so I just avoid the show. Can’t argue with taste though—unless it’s Kelly Clarkson.
I kid, I kid.
I’ve watched 3 seasons now and I dislike a lot of it–I’m an outspoken melisma hater, for one thing, and contestants on AI are notorious for butchering songs by adding these warbling meanderings to them. David Archuleta is forever in my “douchebag camp” for what he did to Imagine. He should have his vocal chords removed for that crime. On the other hand, I loved David Cook, and I have his album, which is really quite good.
I cheered and wept tears of joy when Melinda Doolittle got kicked off. She had a nice voice, but she managed to take every song she did and make it sound exactly the same, and it was soooooo boring. It was boring to the point that it actually made me angry, and a TV show making me angry is a ridiculous thing to begin with.
This year I’m finding several of the contestants fun to watch, though they sent one of them home this week. I suffer through people like Gokey for a chance to watch someone like Adam. (I love his theatrical nature. Back when I was a theater person, I knew so many people just like that… ah, nostalgia.)
There are also times when they air it two hours a NIGHT, and unless I’m mistaken, there are weeks, usually early on, where it’s on at least three nights a week.
Meanwhile, shows that need those timeslots to even have a chance to make it get relegated to the Friday night death slots.
I watched it once for about 15 minutes. Simon’s schtick goes about two feet before it gets tired and worn out. Every song they sing is boring.
Postin’ “me too,” like some brain-dead AOLer.
If you want to start a conversation, just ask her if she is a Gokey fan or a Lambert fan. This year it is pretty much a great divide. Personal backgrounds aside . . .
Gokey – sings really well, soulful and safe, moments of greatness interspersed with moments of pandering, over-emotional manipulation.
Lambert – sings really well, edgy and current, moments of greatness interspersed with moments of self-indulgent preciousness.
Oh, and ask her if she prefers glam make-up and theatrical antics, or playing off one’s dead wife’s memory.
If she says “neither, I am a Kris fan,” tell her to skip ahead to the final two because Kris ain’t gonna be there.
If you want to end the conversation, tell her you think Randy Jackson has insightful comments, Kara secretly loves girls, Paula makes total sense to you, and Simon has no stake in the outcome. Her head will explode and you can go about your business.
This is precisely what I don’t want to do!
(Besides, having never seen the show, I don’t know what a Gokey or a Lambert is.)
GAH!!!
She’s going on about it again. She doesn’t watch it, of course. But she can’t help hearing it. And she’ll watch once in a while…
I’ve told her I’m not interested.
She’s been going on about it for five minutes, and she’s still talking.
I don’t care how talented some of the contestants are…they’re brown-nosing wannabes. But there are always tons more wannabes than ares; always have been. The difference is that we’re enriching wannabes *at the expense * of ares, and that’s a pity.
I predicted a Gokey/Kris finale and I am happy to see we are both wrong.
Simon’s shtick had actually been overshadowed by Kara’s idiocy this year and he seems quite reasonable.
ETA: I totally respect avoiding the show, and don’t mean to start any kind of discussion. But then also felt the need to respond to points made.