I don’t know who I’d like to hear sing Living For The City more-- Taylor or Chris.
Sorry, Biggirl. I’ve already got Chris singing “Higher Ground.” If you have a different idea, you’ll have to take it up with management.
Perhaps everyone figured God would call in and vote for him?
I was pretty sure Will would go but I admit Gideon came as a surprise, I figured he would be safe. He’s not my favorite and his smile is creepy - it’s too big for his face - but he was a better singer than some.
I am not surprised by the girls and I agree song choise had a lot to do with Ayla leaving.
I’ve never liked Melissa, but I started fervently hoping she’d make it and Ayla would go home. Ayla goes home to rich parents and a scholarship to Boston College and an opportunity to do what she really wants to do, which is play basketball and pledge the Phi Gams. Melissa would have gone home to a waitressing job at a truck stop in Tampa.
I’m doing a psychiatry rotation, and one of the heavy-duty new antipsychotic drugs we use is called Geodon.
So it has been distracting for me reading about Gedeon… Anyway, I think he was not actively objectionable, and thus a shame he’s going home. Even though he was pretty derivative (had a great voice though). Although de gustibus etc., I’m sure the people I find objectionable (namely Bucky and the twerpy one) are Jesus Risen for some.
Anyway, I haven’t ever actively watched this show before and it strikes me what a limited audience they are really playing to here, even though it seems everyone is watching it. There’s only a finite subset of people who consume music by giant-voiced people. Face it, much of the most popular pop and rock music out there is not sung by the Mariahs and Christinas. It is sung by the Britneys, the Bonos, the Chris Martins, the distinctly mediocre voices. It gets old hat after a while, at least for me, watching these people belt out torch songs week in and week out.
For this reason, I think the show has a definite half-life. It seems as popular now as when it began, but I don’t think we can expect 15 years of this. And we are already seeing a bit of a mixed bag with the winners and runners up as to their commercial success. I’d like to see variations on this show in that case – maybe a singer/songwriter American Idol where every week you would need to perform a song that you wrote That might be kind of interesting…
Anyway, it is a reasonably entertaining thing to do with the wife, especially now that the chaff is (mostly) eliminated
I guess I can be happy that 3 out of the 4 I wanted gone were gone, but I really liked Gedeon. He had a good voice and his intros were creepy fun. Compared to Kevin who’s singing I can’t stand.
Was anyone else shocked at how BIG Kinnick’s head looked when she was standing next to Seacrest.
WOW.
He’s just a tiny, little man.
And the beginning of the end is upon us. Kevin stays but Gedeon goes? Yay America.
I don’t picture myself seeing this through to the end.
I can’t believe I was only half-right (I predicted Will and Kinnik going, but not Gedeon or Ayla). But I won’t cry about it. Unless you make me sing. And then you’d all be crying too.
Seriously, I really felt bad for Ayla.
In my own defense, I always liked Will because I think he is a great, mature performer, and to my (vastly untrained) ear, he can really sing. I think he’s cute too; I also think Ace is adorable but wouldn’t have been too upset to see him go. There are a lot better singers. Like Will, for one. It’s especially galling that Kevin is still there when he’s so clearly outclassed by every other person in the competition - and a lot who aren’t (hi Patrick!). I don’t think Will would have made it to the end, but he deserved to be there more than Kevin (nothin’ but love, Kev, but just…no).
I never felt that strongly about Gedeon but it was sad to see him go, especially when his sing-out was so good. He was growing on me, too. On the other hand, I agreed with the female ejections. Ayla could be a good singer, but she didn’t display the passion she insists that she has. Melissa wants it more, you can tell. And she’s not bad.
Is the talent this year better than normal for AI? I only watched the first season in full, and just bits and pieces after that. I don’t remember thinking so many of the final 12 were actually good. At best, it will be 2-3 weeks before we start voting out people I really like. Sigh!
It was worth watching just to see Bo Bice, who’s as hot as ever. I also found Seacrest’s spiel about him rather interesting, in that it conveniently avoided the fact that he finished second. (“His album’s about to go platinum, folks. But that’s what you expect from someone who gave his all for 14 weeks, and in the end…uh…really gave his all for 14 weeks!” 
) Somewhere, Clay Aiken definitely approves.
Dang. Looking at Gedeon, yes, his image could’ve used some work, and I figured that it would be his undoing, but I certainly never expected him to go this soon.
That’s the thing about predictions. You plot the most rational, sane, well-thought-out course…and then the exact opposite happens.
Ayla…what can I say? You try to tell yourself that this is a competition, there’s only one champion, you have to be prepared for failure, but who knows how you’ll handle it when the bad news finally comes. I noticed that Seacrest was very consolatory toward her (more than I’ve ever seen him for anyone else), and I was actually concerned that she wouldn’t be able to make it off the stage without bursting into tears. It was sad, and yet comforting at the same time to know that there are things even reality TV can’t script.
If Chris makes it to the top 3, I’m happy. Everything else is icing.
Very true, but that ain’t saying much.
This season is weird, in that NOBODY is really that good.
Chris is pretty cool, but he’s no Bo (and even Bo tends to suck lately). Simon has officicially lost it in claiming that the pickle girl is better than “last year’s winner”.
I think AI needs to take a break for a few years - they’ve all exhausted the real talent.
p.s. Kalhoun, you are insane if you think Mandiva is any good.
Nadia didn’t cry on her singout, but she was leaking tears all over the place while her farewell reel was playing. Ryan gallantly offered his tie. Also, last year when Melinda Lira was voted off in the first round of the semis, she was very bitter, and understandably so, about not having gotten any exposure beforehand. And on the same results show, Sarah Mather performed her singout with zero enthusiasm and one hand in her pocket.
I never liked Will, so not sorry to see him go.
I was neutral on Kinnick; I feel somewhat bad for her, but still, I never really warmed up to her.
Ayla was a surprise; I figured in this particular round, people were basing their votes on all three performances, so she would be forgiven the same way Elliot was forgiven.
I felt bad about Gedeon initially, but having thought it over, I’m not sure we need yet another of those R&B guys who never ends up really bringing it. I like Bucky a lot, so I’m glad he got in. And whether or not I’m justified in liking Kevin, I do. Even if he gets voted off next week (and that wouldn’t surprise me) it was worth it just to see his reaction when Ryan told him he was in. Hurrah for my little bug!
It’s a shame Gedeon had to go before Kevin, but he’d have gone pretty quickly anyway.
I’ve always wondered why they don’t all take it as hard as Ayla. I know I would. And then to have to sing…fuhgedaboudit.
Leaving next week? Gotta be Kevin. Please.
I don’t really have Malibu Barbie Dream Song Choices for next week for everyone, but I think Chris would do a bang-up job on “Superstition” and Mandisa would kill on “For Once In My Life.”
Finally caught up watching this week’s episodes, and a few random comments:
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I have the McFeever. Catharine is, as the kids say, hawt. Do me a favor though Cath, please please don’t associate yourself with Constantine ever again. I can’t take the heartache.
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edwino stole something I was going to say. I would love love love to hear some normal songs from these people once in a while. If my daughter (who is 1) only watched AI and never heard other music, she’d definitely think every song has to have a glory note. Why can’t we hear some contemporary stuff with good melodies and rhythm?
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I like the Pickler. “I’m a mink!” was the best line of the week. And she didn’t suck for the second week in a row.
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I’m over Paris. She looked promising at first, not she’s just irking me.
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I would be over Mandisa, but I was never into her to begin with. Loud is not the new good in the Slacker house.
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Is Kevin going to be this year’s scandal contestant? You know, the one that stays way too long, causing outrage on the internets when better singers go first?
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Can Pauler and Randy shut up for 15 seconds while Simon makes a comment? I fast forward through what they say because it’s the same damn thing every time (you did your thing, I’m a big fan, you look great up there). Simon is actually interesting. Let the man speak!
I’m pretty disappointed about Gedeon. It actually made me cry when he got eliminated (which is stupid, I know), and I had to run to the bathroom quick so my husband wouldn’t see. Can’t have him see me crying over American Idol. That’s silly! I dunno, it’s just been a long week. It’s just a travesty that he got eliminated while Kevin gets to stay. Gedeon, I feel, would have continued to give solid performances in the theme weeks, while Kevin’s performances are sure to be cringe-worthy. sigh
I don’t really feel that bad for Ayla, and I don’t think it was just the song. I think the reason she didn’t pull in the votes is because many of us see in her that popular high school girl who was perfect at everything. And it wasn’t us. I think she was hard for people to relate to. I think the Pickler should have gone before her, but whatever.
As for Will and Kinnik: I like you, but it was your time. Good luck, kids.
“I’m a mink” was the best line of the week? I guess it’s not a very competitive field.
I think people sometimes over-think these things.
The main reason Ayla is gone is that she wasn’t a very good singer. Not one of her last three performances was at all inspiring or interesting or demonstrated particular talent. Forget her achievement bit or the basketball thing; she wasn’t a great singer so she didn’t stand out so she’s history.
Kevin stayed simply because he’s cute and people like voting for cute. To some extent, anyway; after all, he was bottom three just last week. He’s not leading in votes and he’s not going to last long.
My predictions for the week after Stevie week:
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Chris will talk in the interview about his youthful desire to be a woman before finding the Jews-for-Jesus and Hare-Krishnas in some order, then will sing Sympathy for the Devil.
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Kevin in his interview will talk about what he thinks a girl’s bellybutton would look like and will then sing ‘Shine on Harvest Moon’.
-Mandrisa will recall the pain of being the biggest girl in her yoga class and will then belt out “Big Girls Don’t Cry”.
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Taylor will play a Jew’s Harp rather than say anything during his interview and will then give an incredible bluesy version of “The Rain in Spain”.
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Paris will talk about how much she loves her gay uncle Lisa and then belt out a fabulous jazz version of the Monorail song from “The Simpsons”.
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Elliot will discuss his childhood in an internment camp for kids with really bad orthidonture and then sing an incredible rendition of Greensleeves.
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Lisa: interview portion- her phobia of germs and how it killed her aunt. Song: Cat Stevens’s Peace Train
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Ace will talk about how ostracized he felt being the only kid in 4th grade with a cap in the back pocket of his too-tight jeans and will then sing “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”.
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Kellie will talk about her confusion the first time she ever saw a flush toilet (“People do that… inside the house?” [March 1997] and then sing a rousing rendition of Eminem’s Cleanin’ Out My Closet that she’ll dedicate to her Meemaw.
Bucky will discuss how he and his twin brother grew up in a version of Parent Trap after his parents divorced and his mom moved with Rocky to the next trailer park over and they never met until both worked at the same Dollar General, then will sing Helen Reddy’s I Am Woman.
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