My first thought when fake-baby-voice dragged her huzzband in: “Um, hon? Do you even know you married a homosexual?” He was gayer than Ryan and Simon in a bubble bath.
First off, I’d like to reflect on just how amazing it is that this has become the show that brings my whole family together on Tuesday and Wednesday. Honestly, aside from a few volleyball games and election results, there’s nothing else that all three of us watch together for an hour at a time.
So it’s off to Hollywood, and for this viewer, not a moment too soon. Fun is fun, but I can only take so much blinding ignorance and overacting. Predictably, there were a ton of clunkers, but I liked what I heard from all the good singers (in fact, I think that 17-year-old may have been a bit unlucky).
Anyway, judging from the meltdowns, I say they’re legit, and the producers deliberately chose those nutjobs for that very reason. Not easy to convincingly fake something like that, as any pro wrestler will tell you.
I actually think there was a little more variety in the song choices than in previous years. This is very good news for me, of course, as my absolute #1 beef with this program was the incredibly consistent insipidness of the song choices. Now that this show’s an established hit, maybe they won’t be afraid to let the contestants dig a little deeper, go outside the box, find something unusual and creative that suits them. Here’s hoping.
Okay! Prelims over, time to separate the boys from the…slightly less annoying boys! 
When I came back into the room and I saw Paula was gone, I asked my husband, “Where’s Paula?”. He said, “Rehab.” I love that he can be as snarky as me sometimes.
Me too, but she needs to tone down the affectations, like Randy said. She oversang it.
I liked the Hasselhoff guy too. We were all yelling, “You’re going to Hollywood!” before he even sang.
I’m worried about Pickler Redux. Bigger boobs, sadder story, phonier accent…and a decent voice. I predict we’ll be stuck with her most of the show. All we can hope for is that she’s entertainingly dumb.
Actually, tonight is another prelim round–the open auditions in L.A.
Dullest AI show ever. Only the mop-Hoffer was funny.
Next week too, I think. The Wed episode is something like “The Rest of the Best”, and is supposed to be only good auditions we haven’t seen, or something like that.
Oh well that’s good. There was a local girl who made it and they didn’t show her. I like to know who’s going to Hollywood so I can make my predictions.
It sucks that the first live show isn’t until 2/13.
Good auditions? PBTA!
Pickler, Jr. isn’t endearingly dumb like the original was. She’s just a pathetic case. I mean, who the fuck goes on national TV and says something like that? And just in passing! She may as well have been telling us about her trip to the mall, fercrissakes.
I liked Jack Osborne.
I liked Young Performing Arts School Girl.
Long Haired Girl creeped me out. She’s good in a choir setting, but AI she ain’t. I don’t see her gettin’ down with anything on any Top 40 list from the last 40 years. I’d like to have her over for a sleepover so when she falls asleep I could cut that nasty-ass mop, though. I mean, how bizarre to see her mom brushing her hair in the waiting auditorium. <shudder!>
So far, I don’t see any great talents. I’m getting a “just ‘so-so’” vibe from everyone.
I loved how Pickler Jr. couldn’t wait to tell the judges that her daddy was paralyzed. She was looking to milk that for all it was worth from the second she walked in the door.
I liked the Jack Osborne guy. I think people will like him. I think Paula will fall in love with him because he has crazy hair. Seriously, what is it with her and guys with crazy hair? I remember how she used to drool over Justin Guarini. Then there was that Corey kid.
My husband has the same shirt as the helium-voiced girl’s husband. However, he does not wear his with the collar up.
I got a strong fundy vibe from Long-Haired Girl. In fact, I’m surprised that she would want to be on AI, and that her parents would be okay with it. There have been plenty of churchies on AI, but I suspect that if she had gotten a golden ticket, she would have Chick-tracted the other contestants to distraction.
I liked the exchange between Paula and Simon about the girl who brushed off her shoulder. They could genially talk about how it meant fuck off.
Simon to Brandy: “Call me!”
Long haired protestant girl could have sang like Charlotte Church and she wouldn’t have gotten through- I am sure the show doesn’t want someone up there singing “Onward Christian Soldiers” or some such- and neither does the audience.
I was stunned that they didn’t put Hair Girl through. It was the best voice of the evening, in my opinion. She (or anyone else) could easily change what it means to be a pop idol. The “ideal” today would have been laughed off the stage in the 70s. Things change. Times change. I think AI should be about setting trends, not relying on the status quo. In music, last year is so last year.
I did like Afro Nerd, though. And after reading his blog, I like him even more.
I hate that they put Picker 2 through, but not because she wasn’t talented. She was. I hate it because now people will crucify her for no good cause. It is the freakiest non sequitur conceivable. What, she takes care of her paralyzed father and is relatively naive about the wicked world outside her small village? :eek: God I hate her.
What the fuck.
Logn haired chuch girl would have probably become a cause celebre in the Chrisitian community, with churches urging the flock to support her and call in for her by the millions- Simon wisely recognized this and put a stop to it before it started- she clearly could sing. Their was no other reason for her not to go thru except that it would turn AI into Christian Idol.
The Cousin It people were from my hometown, but I definitely haven’t seen them around! I don’t go to church though.
Personally, I didn’t think the long-haired girl’s voice was that great. It was nice enough, but I’ve heard very similar at pretty much every wedding or funeral I’ve been to. What I really didn’t get about her was why you’d want to have hair so long that you had to wear high-heeled shoes so you wouldn’t step on it.
I’m sure there is some obscure scripture passage which could be interpreted as “grow ye hair long to pleaseth Him”, same as the one that some think encourages snake handling.
I think people (including me) will hate her not because of her sob story, but because she’s using it to get attention and to get ahead and it’s because she probably thought, “Kelly Pickler did it”.
That doesn’t fly with me. Sorry. I mean, good for her for taking care of her dad, but she came across as “Aren’t I a wonderful person?” and that bugged me.