# Squee!! American Idol 4 premieres tomorrow! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242 "2005-01-17T21:27:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/21 "2005-01-19T02:26:29Z")
Mark McGrath: You did _not_ just tell her she sounds like she has the West Nile Virus. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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:** [January 19, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/22 "2005-01-19T02:32:31Z")
ā€œI just found out I could sing a few weeks ago!ā€ :wally ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/23 "2005-01-19T02:33:19Z")
Thereā€™s a reason why no one told him he could sing. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/24 "2005-01-19T02:47:29Z")
Mark McGraff: You hear voices in your head? What are they saying now? ---
**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:** [January 19, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/25 "2005-01-19T02:48:28Z")
So when she says "all her friends: told her she was an ā€œawesome singer,ā€ can anyone else see these ā€œfriends?ā€ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DoperChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@DoperChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoperChic)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/26 "2005-01-19T02:48:46Z")
OMG!! That was scary. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/27 "2005-01-19T02:50:27Z")
Someone needs better friends! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/28 "2005-01-19T02:53:41Z")
I missed FreakyMary, since I was watching the glorious conclusion of this weekā€™s Amazing Race (squee!), but I think we can all agree on one thingā€¦ ā€¦Mark McGrath is, indeed, a hottie. Rawr. šŸ†’ ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/29 "2005-01-19T02:56:44Z")
Where do you get an accent like that? I have friends from Lousiana - they donā€™t sound like that. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/30 "2005-01-19T03:00:35Z")
Is it just me, or does FreakyMary look like Gilligan and Becky from Roseanne had a retarded baby? Thanks Amanda! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/31 "2005-01-19T03:04:14Z")
Hi. First time American Idol Show Watcher for more than five minutes. I just wanted to tap and say that the chick that said " God gave her this talent" was nuttier than a fruit cake and that the chick with the two british parents really surprised me by actually being able to sing. She was dressed like a trainwreck though. My favorite was the above forementioned heavyset-in-denial-chick-who-was-unfairly (WAH) cut blah blahā€¦ that said she she was older and carried herself with a lot of class and sang horrendously while dressed like a deflating parade float. I think she should be forced to watch herself sing on that tape every minute of every day for the rest of her life. The lady that hocked her wedding rings to make it to Idol surprised me greatly. I was expectingā€¦wellā€¦awful or horrendously deluded. She was very good, but she is apparently married to Gomer or something. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/32 "2005-01-19T03:07:26Z")
Unfortunately I missed the first 45 minutes due to class, and also I canā€™t program a VCR. I canā€™t help but wonder if Mary Roach was a fake. Remember that girl last year who did ā€œIā€™m So Excitedā€ or something, and she was wearing legwarmers and stilettos, and she threw a tantrum, and then it turned out that she was put up as a fake by a radio station? Thatā€™s what Mary reminds me of. And that stuff, like, ā€œIā€™m so pissed and screw you but Mark McGrath is a hottieā€¦ā€ I dunno, seemed fake-ish to me. On the other hand, Mary may have been the real thing. And if she is the real thing, I feel sorry for her more than anything. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/33 "2005-01-19T03:08:54Z")
Since I am a virgin to this show I havenā€™t been living under a rock, Iā€™ve been fighting the dumbing down of America through RTV and ā€¦Iā€™ve just given up. I want to be stoopid too. I have a few questions: [ul] [li]Do the judges have to endure ALL 100,000 possible entries or are there try out tapes?[/li][li]If there are try out tapes, they why the cattle call audtions?[/li][li] Can they play an instrument?[/li][/ul] Also, the guy who was the front man for a band surprised me. Constantine Something. With some fine tuning and a better song, he may be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/34 "2005-01-19T03:14:22Z")
I missed the last half hour of the show because Mr. Ujest and his desperate need to watch something on every station for a zinth of a second, made me endure the trauma of Artic Crab Fishing Industry on the Discovery Channel I am never eating crab again. Itā€™s brutal on the men. Fcuk the crabs. and some amazingly scary video footage of some murderous mudslide in Russia that killed loads of unsuspecting people. It isnā€™t good to toggle back and forth because in the middle of watching the footage of this mudslide I fully expected Simon to pip in, " Oh, too bad, youā€™ve got the range& power, but your all over the place." ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/35 "2005-01-19T03:18:22Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Do the judges have to endure ALL 100,000 possible entries or are there try out tapes? No, there are other judges that screen people for the potentially good ones, and the potentially trainwreck ones, and those are the ones that get sent on to Paula, Simon, and Randy. > [@](#): > > Can they play an instrument? No way, Jose. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/36 "2005-01-19T03:30:44Z")
I like the guy who did ā€œSunshine of My Lifeā€ and the fellow who sang ā€œSunny Side of the Streetā€ (I think it was). Randy was typically Randy in being the only ā€œNoā€ for the latter ā€“ he doesnā€™t understand or appreciate anything before 1980. New Orleans will be good to see. Thatā€™s a town with some serious music in its blood, and I bet there are some good entries. I also doubt there would be many people deluded about their talent level in a city that takes music so seriously, but ya never know. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/37 "2005-01-19T03:30:57Z")
The self-delusion is the _only_ reason I watch the show. There were a couple of really good singers, particularly the music teacher in dreadlocks. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/38 "2005-01-19T03:32:53Z")
Itā€™s obvious from the first round who will be in the finals. After four years or whatever, I think Iā€™ve had enough of the car crash value of donā€™t-know-they-suck losers and would happily skip the first two rounds and go to the semis. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/39 "2005-01-19T03:37:28Z")
I think Constantineā€™s interesting, not substantially better than a lot of the guys who didnā€™t make it, but they chose him for his name. Way easier to remember than last years Jon and John and Matt and George and Billā€¦ugh. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242/40 "2005-01-19T03:57:22Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#): > > Someone needs better friends! :eek: ā€¦ or better medication šŸ˜ƒ I think this year will be a good one. Last year I started to have my doubts about the competition because they didnā€™t show at this stage many interestingly potential singers, mostly train wrecks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-american-idol-4-premieres-tomorrow/285242.md?page=3)