American Idol

Sky wrote:

Luca wrote:

I'll pour Abrahammy, GE, and Sky some drinks to try to take the edge off.

Will it be a Lemon Drop, Margarita, or tequila straight up?

Will there be a guest celeb performance tonight? Has anyone heard?

Before reading the following posts, at about that time in the show, I'd have taken a tequila shot straight up, and I don't do tequila shots!!!

Darn, I didn't know shots were being served last night. I love tequila shots.

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Simon\'s new lover, er, I mean find Leona Lewis.

Thanks for posting that FC. I knew I had heard something about her, in the rumor mills, but wasn't certain. She put me to sleep a few times last night.

I was a bit surprised at Carly's exit, but what can you do at this point? Someone has to go. I'm glad for those here who are Jason, David C, and Brooke fans that they are still on. Hope I didn't leave anyone out!

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Does Champagne go with Cheetos?

I think champagne goes with everything.

I Lau!

So good to know Champagne goes with Cheetos! I was eating one of those 100 calorie bags (my feeble attempt at a diet ) when Luca offered the Champagne

Who are you rooting for Lau?

I didn't know there was so much Jason hate. All the boards I go too love him on the show - but sadly for the wrong reason. I read so much "he was really horrible but I hope he stays because he is so pretty!!! Which I don't think is any different than people voting for Brooke because she is a pretty and sweet girl. What's good for the goose is good for the gander and frankly I think Brooke is very talented. Not saying Jason isn't (though as you know his voice does nothing for me) but if it was wrong for America to vote for Brooke for whatever reasons they did, it is just as wrong to vote for Jason because he has beautiful eyes and all the other reasons I read these ladies were voting for him. I know you ladies like his singing/performing, but most I read are just voting because he is good eye candy and charming. Not that those are bad qualities to have!

So I am not that surprised that today there might be some hate when you consider Carly sang her freaking ass off last night and was simply amazing (too bad she didn't sing it that great on Tuesday) and Jason is not even bottom 2. The thing is way more females vote and like I said the ladies love those 3 guys. If women are voting for Brooke it is probably because they love her style of music - which I do - and simply just like the person she is, and yes, maybe some felt for her because of her mistake the night before.


ETA: Broadway's current Phantom raves about DC's performance!

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2008/04/phantom_star_reviews_idol_perf.php

If I had been voting for eye candy, I'd still be in mourning over Michael Johns. Now, THAT was one gorgeous man.

I do not like dreadlocks. Like, at all. I think it looks ridiculous and pretentious on anybody who is not African-American. I vote for this kid because I really, really enjoy his singing when he's in his comfort zone.

Women are voting for Jason because he's handsome and Brooke because they like her style of music? Oh, Firecracker, you know I love you, but please, understand that there's much more to it than that.

I think he'll do much better next week. And I do think Cookie ought to win.

I was just coming here to say that next week should be great for Brooke and Jason! Neil Diamond songs are so perfect for them! I think Jason should do "Sweet Caroline", but personally I would like him to do "Forever in Blue Jeans"! LOVE that song and I think it is so Jason!

I hope DC does "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show"!

I bet David A does "America"!

Yes, I think next week is going to be an excellent week all the way around. Strangely enough, I think the person in trouble with the theme will be...

Syesha. At least if Brooke holds it together mentally. I am a little worried about that girl.

I am really looking forward to next week! Grew up on Neil! My parents LOVED him and took me to several of his concerts. He really put on an excellent show! His music was always playing in our house and in the cars. Sadly, his voice is not what it used to be, but he sure wrote some wonderful songs.

Oh, maybe DC can rock out "I'm a Believer"! I adored that song when I was little! Go Micky Go Davy! Yes, next week is going to be like my childhood passing before my eyes! It will also bring back memories of my dad singing and dancing in the family room to Neil Both sweet and sad at the same time.

Not to be mean but I am ready for Syesha to go. Brooke should have some confidence back what with the theme and being forgiven for her mess-up. I hope she can hold it together and be the last girl standing. She's been the most popular girl all along and it would be fitting to be the last one standing. It just really is going to be Top 3 boys! Abrahammy that is great for Jason. Other top 3's have done well for themselves. Elliott comes to mind. Kim Locke has been hanging in there too.

Alrighty.....I just listened to David C., Jason, and Brooke's studios..............OMG!! David C is FANTASTIC, BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT!!! Jason's is very nice, I love him for trying the song. Brooke was so beautifully sung.

YAY! I will go listen to DC's now! I downloaded it but I have kiddies here I am watching color and didn't want to distract them with music. But I just gave them morning snacks and fine music goes with fine dinning right!

Oh, I also would love for DC to do "Holly Holy" or "Solitary Man"! Or "Kentucky Woman"!

Here is a great one for Jason - "Crunchy Granola Suite"! Wouldn't that so go with his laid back/stoner personality?! How cute would that be! Or he could do "Shilo" or "Song Sung Blue". Lordy this week has Jason written all over it!

OMG Sky! You weren't kidding! DC just did what only Clay has ever done - make me weep with the beauty of his voice Seriously, I will need to fix my make-up now. Oh my word who would have thought he could sing like that? He could be the Phantom on Broadway right now! Gorgeous! Simply Gorgeous!

A You Tube of Jason singing and playing guitar at a friend's house. He is "supposedly" drunk. I think he sounds pretty good regardless.

Jason



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Gah!

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Who are you rooting for Lau?

No one in particular.

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If I had been voting for eye candy, I'd still be in mourning over Michael Johns. Now, THAT was one gorgeous man.

I do not like dreadlocks. Like, at all. I think it looks ridiculous and pretentious on anybody who is not African-American. I vote for this kid because I really, really enjoy his singing when he's in his comfort zone.

Women are voting for Jason because he's handsome and Brooke because they like her style of music? Oh, Firecracker, you know I love you, but please, understand that there's much more to it than that.

I think he'll do much better next week. And I do think Cookie ought to win.

Yeah, that's how I feel. I first just heard Jason and liked his voice. Like I said, there's something sexy about it. Also, he'll be near and dear to my heart just for singing Andy Gibb. I also love that he's so different from anyone they've had on this show. Memory was a really bad choice, but he usually knows the right song for his style and is able to really work it when he does. I've even said for the first time ever, I might buy a CD of an AI contestant.

I would have thought Brooke would be the hated one right now, since I've pretty much seen universal agreement that she's the one who needs to go. She screwed up and choked and let it all get to her like an amateur. I think one TwoP recapper said that at this point it comes down to professionalism, and Brooke is not exhibiting any of that. She does not look like she's having a good time and I have a feeling she'd be relieved to get the boot.

OK, I like to bring over the TwoP stuff for an objective perspective (see what I did there?). I also know that when I bring this stuff over, I have to do an FC ratings system, kinda like the parental ratings system where they say there's nudity and violence, so don't let te kiddies watch. BTW, this is Joe R., not Jacob.

FC RATINGS:

1 Not-kind David C comment. He agreed with Lau (and me)

2. Some other random not-kind comments.

Here it is:

The show starts early so I don't get to see Ryan's ramp-up to "This...is American Idol," but I'll assume that in the pan across the final six saw everybody shitting a brick except Castro and possibly David Cook. Cue the still-off-putting credits!
Ryan introduces the judges, giving Paula a kiss on the cheek as he passes. Then he gives Simon a peck on the top of the head, at which point Simon double-takes so hard he time-traveled all the way back to vaudeville. Ryan is actually the cooler of the two, basically telling Simon to relax and watch the Top 6 perform the ghastly "All I Ask Of You" with the ghastly Andrew Lloyd Webber. On a week when many, many dumb decisions were made -- starting with the fact that it's ALW week in the first place and not a broader, better musical theatre theme -- the decision to perform this song as the group number might be the dumbest. Every week we've seen the contestants try to forcibly mingle their voices around songs that were clearly not meant to be sung by large, unwieldy groups of people. Now what genre of music could possibly accommodate six people singing the same song? Hmmm. And yet! They picked a song from that genre that is so clearly meant for a duet, it practically says, "I am singing this song to you, one person, and only you." There's a song in Phantom (uh...sorry, Jacob) called "The Point of No Return" that's basically everybody taking turns being all intense and up in everybody else's face and pairing off and peering over candelabras and being that ALW brand over hyper-dramatic and it would have been eight kinds of fucked up and awesome to see here

After the break, Ryan kicks it to the recap of last night's largely underwhelming show. Syesha being less the stand-up diva than she always is. Randy said: "Best performance to date!" Randy did not say: "Michelle Pfeiffer done did that slinking-off-the-piano bit already, dude." David A. was successful in turning "Think Of Me" into a Brian McKnight song, but Simon was less than appreciative. Jason committed war crimes against Betty Buckley with his rendition of "Memory," though I couldn't see it as any better or worse than his other performances, and on a night like last night that meant he was in the top three at least. Simon said it made him think of yet another ghastly wedding, making me ask the question (and perhaps not for the first time): what the hell happened to Simon Cowell as a child at a wedding that's made him this way? Brooke infamously started and stopped (get ready to hear about this a billion more times tonight), and Paula made a big deal out of it, but Simon thought it was her only option, and all of it distracted from the fact that the rest of the song was boring/crappy. Carly gave her best performance of the season on "Jesus Christ Superstar," though Randy Jackson failed to apologize to her for leading her astray all season. And then there was David Cook, stinking up the joint doing a poor-man's Michael Crawford routine so bad I'm surprised I didn't have to recap it. I still love him, but holy shit did I not enjoy that one bit.

Then Ryan brings ALW out to talk, and it's all really boring and really pointless except for two things, ...one being that Ryan brings up The Great Brooke White Stop/Start of '08, which apparently is a big enough deal to warrant massive amounts of damage control despite the fact that -- SPOILER -- it didn't affect the results. Or rather, it didn't adversely affect the results. I'd wager that the whole bloody affair probably got some folks off their asses to vote for her out of sympathy. The other thing is that ALW and Jason Castro apparently had the world's most unfailingly polite dust-up, because he's still talking today about how Jason just would not take his advice and probably hated him. The degree to which I do not care is impressive.

Then...oh, well then it's just from one vulgarity to another as the President and his dead-eyed wife appear in a video clip, talking about Idol Gives Back and thanking us/asking us/congratulating us/making us complacent/trying to convince us that what we do is nearly as significant as what he hasn't done. Also SIT UP STRAIGHT, for chrissakes. You're the goddamn PRESIDENT, get your elbows off your knees. I'd mention the irony in GWB talking about how Idol is important because "it shows how one person with talent can win over an audience of millions," but why bother? Because in the time it takes me to type "Then how did a person without talent do it, sir?" you'll have already gotten there. Next.

Ryan tells us that we're only doing Bottom Two this evening, though the Couch of Safety remains as massive as ever. Ryan calls Davids Cook and Archuleta to the stage, and clearly they're safe. He asks David Cook about his decision to sing "Music Of The Night" straight, and David pretty much says what we all said, which is that if the judges were going to persist in calling him "brave" all the time, he might as well actually do something different and sing the song as written this time. He's totally right, it was a smart strategic move, and yet: back in your box, dude. So, yeah, they're both safe, and they'll be back next week to sing with Neil Diamond. Awwwwwwesome. Ryan kicks it to commercial, but before he does, the BEST thing happens: we cut to the remaining four backstage, Ryan telling us that they're all waiting on pins and needles to find out who's safe, and Jason is totally in the middle of a gigantic yawn. How can you not love him?? Anyway: commercials.
...Wait, why is there fire? Leona Lewis is not the WWE champion. What's going on here? Whatever: commercial!

Or wait! No commercial, we just shuffle Leona off the stage and bring out Syesha and Brooke. They're both pretty calm about things -- I don't know what it is, but this week everybody seems totally at peace about their place in the competition right now. It's like Kristy Lee imparted some of her resigned essence onto the rest of them. It's good to see. So Syesha was universally praised and Brooke stopped and started LIKE, WE KNOW. She stands by it, to her credit, saying if she had it to do over again, she wouldn't have fucked up in the first place. Ryan also asks her about her uncharacteristically tight-lipped performance at judging yesterday, and she's like, "Yeah, I noticed I interrupt them a lot," which means "Yeah, somebody told me to stop doing that because it was making people hate me." Anyway, weirdly enough (unless you've watched the show before), Brooke is safe and Syesha is not. The body language is fun to try and interpret, because Brooke's very intently making the I Am Shocked face, while Syesha is making something like a No That Bitch Didn't face, and when they hug, Syesha very plainly tells her to stop apologizing and get her ass to the couch. It probably wasn't that contentious out of my head, but still.

Carly and Jason are called to the stage, and I am almost positive Carly is in the bottom two. It's just too perfect a scenario that after a season's worth of underperforming and hanging on by her fingernails, she knocks one out of the park and ends up going home or close to it. Ryan and Jason amuse me by futzing around about Cats and how totally out of it Jason appears at all times, and Jason stoners that all he knows is he doesn't want to have to sing it again. Ryan then asks Carly why she ended up changing songs for last night, and she says it's because "Superstar" was the more fun choice, and seeing as she'd been spending the whole season in a futile effort to flow her lungs out trying to live up to Randy Jackson's diva fetish, she figures she might actually try enjoying herself from here on out. So America voted, as they tend to do, and Jason's safe and Carly is not. Mmm hmm. Carly manages to take it like a total champ, which is leaps and bounds past what she's done over the course of the season, so good for her. Ryan asks Simon to explain this travesty of justice, and Simon just sort of tosses his hands up and goes, "Who knows, dude? It's Top 6." He says Brooke fucked up but had a very human moment, while Jason was shitty but charming, so it's not like it's a giant shock that they're safe.

After the break, it's time to find out who's going. Ryan asks us which of the two will be "put out of their misery," meanwhile they're both smiling and totally calm. You can tell it kind of offends him to see both Syesha and Carly seem so well-adjusted to whatever the outcome. Again, the KLC factor coming into play. He point-blank asks them why they're so friggin' calm. Neither of them gives the real answer ("Since neither of us is named David, we know we can't win this thing anyway, so whatever."), and instead they talk about how they're roomies. Ryan goes to the judges for clarity, and Randy says the dumbest thing ever, advancing the notion that this was a "popularity week" in the voting. Yeah, this week was unusual in that viewers put down their rubrics and didn't base their votes on a painstaking evaluation of the performances' merits but rather simply who they liked best. How unlike them! Ryan Seacrest, put me out of my misery. Nationwide vote. America decided. Carly's going home. And not that I think order of elimination means a whole lot among the four un-Davids, but regardless: BOO. After a season's worth of shaky, underwhelming, frustratingly wrong-headed performances, you can't call this booting unjust, but as is the case anybody gets sent home on their best performance, it's a bit of a shame.

Nevermind.

Having a sucky day.

OK, I knowI can be bitchy at times, but my statement that he was "objective" had nothing whatsoever to do with the guys agreeing/disagreeing with me. What I meant by "objective" was that they have no horse in this race.

If you read it, he was objective in his criticism of David. In other words, he said he still LOVED David, just not his performance, but that it was, like I said, brave of him to do it like it was written.

When I did the "FC Ratings System" I thought you'd find that cute and funny. I know you can get riled by certain things I bring over.

Like I said, I find the TwoP recappers hysterically funny and snarky. I have never tried to make anyone agree with me on that opinion. Even when I loved GB with my heart and soul, when they made fun of him I laughed till I cried, because they did it in a really funny snarky way. It's my kind of humor.

I know that my personality and the things I say are a lot more agressive than many of the people here are comfortable with, but I like to feel free to be me and I can be sarcastically funny. I try not to direct that sarcasm to any person on this board, but when it comes to bashing GB, as you can tell, I will go all-out, even if there are people here who think he's adorable and talented.

On message boards, it's difficult because you can't detect "tone". My post was meant to be lighthearted. You certainly dont have to read what I bring over. That is your prerogative. Some people think it's funny and entertaining, so I like to bring over the best parts of the recap for all to enjoy. I try to warn you about it, because you seem to take it hard when they snark on the contestants.

firecracker wrote:

Hi Sky!

I went to bed at 11:45 central time. I was at that site last night trying to get the studio recording before I went to bed, but the guy was unable to grab them from iTunes for some reason. He only had David A's. So thanks and I am glad that I was able to get it this morning! Ladies at The Clack House were buying it from iTunes last night and just loving it so I was getting anxious. I'll only be grabbing DC's and Carly's. I didn't care for any of the other songs.

Thanks for that link but I just cannot find any threads for videos. Maybe if I join I will see video threads.

What I wouldn't give for David A to be a shocking boot in the next couple of weeks - only so that I would feel more confident that DC would win. But he has a huge fanbase and I just do not see how it could possibly happen. Besides, he does have a really good voice and the judges love him, so he is there to the end I am certain.

I didn't look through the site, I just posted the link. Maybe I'll look around or ask again.........

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FC RATINGS:

1 Not-kind David C comment. He agreed with Lau (and me)

I'm assuming you didn't bring the FC Ratings over, GE...can you tell me where they are on TWOP so I can read it. I don't understand how its set up over there.

His review of David's performance is in what I brought over. That's why I did the ratings system (that I call the "FC Ratings System"), as a general warning that if you especially like a contestant, you may get upset when they snark on that contestant.

His review of David is all the way at the end of the paragraph that starts "...after the break..."

Oh - I thought it was 2 different things. Now I understand what you meant.

On the previous page I posted a link to an interview with the current actor portraying the Phantom on Broadway. He LOVED David's performance on Tuesday! Personally, that objective opinion means way more to me than some guy on TWOP.

An interview with Carly:

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"I am cool" says "Idol" reject Carly Smithson
The shocking exit of early "American Idol" favorite Carly Smithson stunned fans, but on Thursday the Irish singer was far from downhearted at being voted off the top-rated television talent show.

"Sixth place -- I don't think that is anything to be miserable about. I feel like I went out on high note," Smithson, 24, told reporters after her final appearance Wednesday night.

"I am cool. I am so happy. I just feel I have been given the greatest gift ever to be on the show," she said.

For Smithson, 24, "American Idol" was a controversial second chance to make a career in the music industry. At age 15, she got a record deal that went nowhere after her first album "Ultimate High" sold only a few hundred copies.

Smithson said the publicity surrounding her previous efforts may have worked against her on a show that is supposed to find fresh talent.

"I think I started out with bad press, and I don't think that helped me. I felt like (judge) Simon (Cowell) set a high bar for me and I felt I had to beat myself almost," she said on a conference call.

"I feel that 'American Idol' was my first real chance. It was such a different level. It is such a huge platform to launch myself."

Bloggers and fans on "Idol" message boards speculated that Smithson's prominent tattoos -- her husband is a tattoo artist -- may have put voters off, and that her choice of the title song from the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" may have alienated some religious conservative voters.

But Smithson said she loved the prominent tattoo of a geisha on her arm, and suggested the judges may have misunderstood the image she was going for.

"I don't think they liked the whole pop rock...idea I have about myself," she said.

In a strong, diverse field of singers on this season's show, Smithson said she felt the female contestants suffered from an audience that lends itself toward women voters.

"Women tend to vote for the boys, and the boys are adorable. I definitely feel the girls have had to struggle this year," Smithson said.

With her own personal favorite, rocker Amanda Overmyer, voted off a month ago, Smithson said she could not predict the eventual winner in May.

"It's anybody's game. Not one person feels safe anymore. With all these shocking eliminations, you never know what is up the sleeve of 'American Idol'," she said.

Smithson's exit leaves five contestants David Archuleta, David Cook, Jason Castro, Brooke White and Syesha Mercado, competing for a recording contract and a shot at the instant stardom enjoyed by two of the show's previous winners, Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood.

Abrahammy, you know I love you too - that is why I said that I knew the ladies here who love Jason are not just about his looks but his music. I was referring to all the comments I read at other sites. The CH alone has a slew of posts about how he isn't a good singer but they want him to stay anyway just to look at him. So my point was is that really any different than anyone who voted for Brooke because she is a pretty blonde? Just seems the same to me.

Just a comment...I like to read all sides of the story whether it is nice and glowing about our favs or snarky...I don't agree with Jason at TWOP about David C or about ALW songs being a bad choice for AI. But I do agree with some of the other truthful observations he makes and he is a very witty, entertaining person. I like snarky satire and I like that he does not seem to be on a witch hunt going after someone just because he does'nt like them. He dishes out the criticism pretty evenly and certainly has a strong opinion about his likes and dislikes, but seems to recognize
talent when he sees it. I take it the same way I do when Simon says something that reflects his taste in music or music styles that I don't agree with: I make a funny or snarky comment and move on because overall Simon is entertaining and often makes some very good assessments of the performances.

I hope we can all continue to speak our minds here without having to walk on eggshells because an opinion we have may not be in sync with someone elses.

I mean after all...it is just American Idol.

*sniff*. Luca, I wuv you.

What's the expression? Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one.

Sorry. I couldn't be all sweet and mushy for too long. ;-)

As far as I'm concerned everyone can voice their opinions. If I don't agree or don't have anything to say, I won't! It's great to have a site where we can voice opinions and not get jumped on over it.

Jason's definitely eye candy but at the same time, he brings the comical each and every week. He's entertaining in a way that better singers on the show like Cookie are not. Or Archie whose every utterance seems coached.

I've noticed that about Archie, it seems he fumbles alot when asked a question he's not prepared for. Part of the attraction to Jason is his laid back humor and attitude, he's also very, very cute! I love his voice, so I'm hoping he puts out a cd, because I will definitely be first in line to buy it.