I loved Ryan’s intro to the Melissa/Ayla cut: Looking back on this journey, Ayla, you are a straight-A student and star basketball player with a famous father and a new Porsche at 16 and all the absolute bestest friends a girl could ask for and a strong but sensitive lacrosse-playing boyfriend, and Melissa, you took that first plane ride from Buttfuck to Denver… well, the plane ride was worth it!
And then he was like Ayla’s coach, psyching her back up with all the positives so that she didn’t crumble into a fetal position on stage.
Eh. Whatever. You don’t think Ayla was a good singer. I do, but I don’t think she was likable. How am I reading any more into it than you are? Neither of us knows exactly why people vote the way they do. I, for one, can’t understand why someone would think Kevin was cute and vote for him for that reason.
Yeah, I think you’re right. But it would have been nice to have someone from New England in the finals. AI skews very very Southron.
Ayla’s biggest problem demographically is that she’s in the same niche (smart overachieving female youth) as Katharine & Lisa, who both tended to sing as well or better than she, (& who both have TV star good looks). Even with the height, she gets lost in the mix.
Hurm. I confess after hearing Simon dis Melissa Tuesday, I didn’t power-vote for Ayla as for Melissa, my own self. I wonder if the margin was about 85 votes? naah.
In that vein, I think the most votes I gave a guy this week was 10 for Gedeon. I just didn’t have that strong an opinion, & I went somewhere else for real human interaction during the voting period.
Shame about Gedeon, though. I was curious to see how he’d do with an assigned song.
Yes, but he said it about Ayla and the judges, not Ayla and Melissa or the other contestants.
Also, I’m not sure Ayla would have cried if Ryan hadn’t immediately started twisting the knife. “Think about how faaaaaaar you’ve come! A lot of people don’t get this faaaaaaar! Think about all you’ve accomplished!” Which just seemed unnecessary to me, and almost backhanded, like “You’ve come this far…just to get voted out before it really starts to pay off!”
I think that Walter Windchill’s Wonder choices are really very good. They fit each singer perfectly. But Sampiro, I think it’s juice harp, not Jew’s harp. But maybe I’m victim of another minx gaffe.
Jew’s Harp is historically right. I think sometime in the late 20th Century people started calling it juice harp out of political correctness (It was not called a Jew’s Harp for any association with Jewish culture, but a joke about it being the cheapest instrument you can buy).
Then, I was raised calling it a gewgaw, hard gees. I actually play one. There’s really nothing to it but having the jaw muscle of a pit bull.
Huh. Never heard “juice” harp; only every heard Jew’s harp. Ever had one clang against your teeth if you don’t hold it at the right angle? Truly a dangerous instrument.
