Didi, Bowersox, and that Garcia kid are my top three. Hopefully, they finish between 2-4, so they don't get the winner's curse.
Any they are the only three with any talent at all, and I agree on Big Mike. I'm rooting for him too. Seems like a genuinely good guy. My favorite of all is Garcia though. Everyone else should really just go home. Did anyone else notice that when Allison from last season came out she completely blew all the others in the competition this year away?
My comments on tonights show. I at least have somebody I am rooting for this week, which is a step up from my big fat "meh" from last week. There is something about Alex Lambert that I find endearing. While I recognize he didn't knock it out of the park with his performance, but I like his voice and I like his awkwardness. I like how he didn't know what to do with the praise he was getting.
Last night was a hell of a lot better than last week. Especially considering the guys lost a day of rehersal and took what would have otherwise been the girls night. About Ellen, I love her talkshow, love love love it but in this venue I'm not sure she's working. She's so serious and I'm so used to her being funny that when she is serious it just doesn't work for me.
These dudes are the worst. I don't see how any of these guys could potentially be superstars or even front-men. It's only a couple of weeks in, and nobody has consistently killed it. There have definitely been some good performances, but I just don't see any standout guys at this point. A few observations from this week: Mullet-boy was surprisingly better, but I would still punch his parents for not making him cut that fucking mop. That 16 year old kid looks like Ellen. Or a hobbit. Goldilocks should put the wood to Kara. He sounds like Bob Seger. Would be awesome to hear some acoustic "Night Moves". Why the fuck is he doing a Gavin Degraw song? Andrew Garcia looks like a grown-up Mexican version of the little kid from Jerry Maguire. He sounds much better in an acoustic setting. Nice voice, but he sings way too softly for a big accompaniment. Once when I was a kid, I accidentally zipped my dick up in my onsie. I wish that Jermain Sellers guy would have done that. What a whiny bitch. Ellen is worthless. I'm not too thrilled about the girls either. Oddly, the one I really look forward to hearing every week is that 16 year old Haley girl. She probably won't make it past the top 10, but I'm really drawn to her. My fiancee thinks I'm nuts. Probably.
Simon got it right on her early. You could be great or annoying. Oh, well, annoying it is. Bowersox is now my top pick. That chick is really good. She's the only girl with any kind of star power or stage presence as far as the girls go. Some of the guys have really good voices, but they are just so, meh otherwise. I was really disappointed in Didi too.
All I have to say is that on Tuesday, Kara looked fucking hot for the first time with that red dress and her just-been-banged-on-the-counter-in-my-dressing-room hair. I honestly don't like this show, but the girlfriend loves it and insists on watching it on the good TV, so I tolerate it (she watches Simpsons and Futurama with me, so we're probably even). This year, though, no one stands out and the judging is mostly useless and retarded. Randy says the phrase "pitchy, dawg" more than anything else, Ellen is a vapid little hobbit, Kara looked hot once, so that was cool, and you can tell that inside Simon's head is a cartoon of him flipping through piles of cash behind the future set of X-Factor (or possibly a wind-up monkey clanging cymbals). It feels like very few people still care about the show, contestants included, and it's making for some seriously dull TV and a horribly boring 2 hours of couch time that could be spent watching anything on Discovery or having sex.
I don't really care what the judges look like as long as they are doing their job. This year everything seems lackluster due to all the changes already in place and the ones they all know is coming. As for my favorite, it's Crystal. She is so comfortable up there just doing her thing. I do wonder why she landed in the hospital though. I've done some poking around but have come up blank as they are keeping it all hush hush. Does anyone know anything?
Pregnancy, diabetes = Gestational diabetes. Or, if pregnancy is involved, could be pre-eclampsia. Both of those conditions are perfectly serious enough to explain the shenanigans, but I'm not a doctor, I just pretend to be in real life. I totally agree with Iczorro's assessment, especially about how down the judges were on Katelyn. I thought she was the second best of the night. I am LOVING Bowersox, and very disappointed in Garcia. I so want to see him do well. Step it up brotha!
If murder was legal.... MY fiance now thinks I'M nuts. You should hear the devil language that spews from my mouth the moment she starts belching "enslave me baby one more time" with her crazy wind up monkey doll smile. I pray to god, when she's 20 and has four kids from three men and a coke habit that'd make ballsack wet, she looks back on this time period as the turning point for her crack-mother downward spiral. STOP FUCKING SMILING Blackney Spears. Stop. It's not funny. Your voice is terrible. You're stage presence is better fitting on Toddlers in Tiaras. No, you are not going to parlay this fame into another 15 minutes on My Supper Sweet 16 MTV crap. You're going to get unceremoniously punted off the worst and final season of Idol. You crazy waste of time. STOP FUCKING SMILING.
I don't think her voice is terrible, I think that many of this season's girls are too caught up in "vocal tricks". They're doing runs and trills that they can't pull off, and when they can pull them off, they're completely unnecessary and annoying. Look, Bowersox has to be the number one contender, but all the girls that are good sing in a way that feels natural, not forced. And all the unneeded vocal trills are just that. Forced. I haven't even watched a guys episode yet, but as far as I'm concerned, the competition is going to come down to Bowersox, Lily, Didi, Katelyn, and Garcia. That's my top 5. Bank it.
All I have to say about last night is WOW. Crystal is in a class by herself up there. I still don't know what her medical issue is but whatever it is it's still happening, not only did she have to sit down on stage to hear what the judges had to say, when the next girl was up she wasn't up in the balcony with all the others. Sure doesn't keep her from doing a fantastic job on stage though. One more thing, was last night mellow mushy weepy song night or what?
I'm going to go ahead and go on record here: I'd let Kara DioGuardi piss on my face just so I could see where it comes from. I've never seen her when she didn't look fan-fucking-tastic. Also, not only is she hot, she also basically is pop music. She has a lot to do with what is going on behind the scenes. As far as this week goes, Bowersox and Big Mike ftw. Either one would be fine, as they're both talented and seem like genuine people. Bowersox isn't as hot as some of the others. Hell, she isn't hot at all, really, but she's fucking good at singing. With that, I had a really nice dream about Lacey last night. Too bad it won't help her sing.
Well, Lacey Brown finally picked it up a little. She does have a nice, interesting voice, but her nerves have been fucking WRECKING her. Didi Benami finally did what she should have been doing, which is why I think she's top five or six. Siobhan Magnus is waaaay better than I expected, and she was looking cute as hell in that weirdo little outfit. Lili Scott was... ok. Bowersox is Bowersox. Katelyn Epperly seemed to be on fucking cruise control, counting on last week to get her in to the top 12. Which it should, because that sixteen year old chick and that black chick were fucking awful. The only way either of them continues would be the 16 year old if the idiots that always vote for the worst person pick her up.
Jesus Christ, but that black chick was just awful . My wife says if she isn't voted off next round, she's not watching anymore, and I don't blame her. That vote for the worst shit has way too much sway over the outcomes. Tim Urban is just so... bland. Simon is right, he has no chance of winning. I have to say most of the people this year really are not good at all. And they ripped apart Didi when I thought it was her best performance! My wife and I were looking at each other when they were judging her like, WTF, did they hear what we did? I just don't get it, same thing with big Mike, the ripped him apart and he wasn't that bad at all, though I think his voice, oddly enough, is too "soft" though he uses it well. Sibohn needs to stop screaming already. Garcia is a huge disappointment, he actually can't fucking sing at all. I have to say, I sing around my house better than a lot of them. Definitely Bowersox for the win. Her version of Me And Bobby McGee was perfect. Can't wait to see what she does next week.
Lots of people have said this, but this season is really mediocre. Not to discount Bowersox's ability, because I really like her, but she benefits hugely from the lack of talent in the competition. She looks like a smelly hippy, and that wouldn't have flown in prior years when there were really good singers who actually looked like pop stars. She definitely picked the right year to compete. I blame the judges to some extent for the poor performances. There is absolutely no unity in the advice and the feedback is worthless, especially from Randy and Ellen. I can't believe Kara suggested to Bowersox that she should put down her guitar. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I think the guitar playing is one of the most endearing parts about watching her perform. I've noticed that the contestants who play the guitar without much accompaniment sound much, much better, although that might just be personal preference. Oddly enough, the judges often times lambast the band arrangement (which I doubt the less musically-inclined contestants have much imput on), which can really fuck up a performance. Also, did any of you think that Didi Poonani looked like a total porn-star in last night's performance? I dig floozies.