American Idol

[desoto_hia873]

Sadly, I was right again this week - Nadia was the one to go home. Insane. Scott and Bo (!) joined her in the bottom three and Scott was the one to get the first reprieve. (He's obnoxious! He has an ego the size of... something really big! He sang Hall and Oates! EW!) How is it possible for Scott, Anthony, and Anwar to be in the competition longer than Nadia?

I still liked the song she sang last night. I think if she hadn't been the first to perform that things might have gone better for her. When you go first, you get lost in the shuffle.

::sighs::

Kristina - 4, American Public - 1

Comments

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I've never seen AMI before, but I really like the Bohemian Rhapsody guy. He kinda thrilled me.

And then the evol!Simon said something nice, unprecedented, so I felt like a sheep. A simon sheep.

Is this moral conflict common to watchers of AMI? It seems like a lot of work. I was just there so I wouldn't forget to watch House, and now I feel like I'm all dragged into a thing. :)

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Bohemian Rhapsody guy is Constantine Maroulis. He's this season's hunk - many icons of him are already flitting around LJ. The best part is him standing next to Ryan Seacrest - take a look if you watch next week, he just *towers* over him.

I kind of like ev0l!Simon. He's as blunt as all hell and occasionally nasty, but he's also very often right. I expect his bad behaviour is encouraged by the producers - it probably helps the ratings. Think of him as unsouled Spike - he won't leave such a bad taste that way. :-)

As reality shows go, AI is reasonably respectable. They cheese it up as much as they can, but there are usually a couple of genuinely phenomenal talents each season. Last season's winner, Fantasia, was like the love child of Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald. She's got what it takes to become a Big Name and not in a Britney Spears kinda way.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I got the feeling that Evol!Simon liking anyone was so unprecedented that liking Constantine was Simon-sheepy. I felt guilty for agreeing with Evol!Simon.

But I dug the Constantine guy and how he played the camera. He's no beauty queen, but he managed to come off very sexy. He made me think of Sean Bean -- a singing Sean Bean. *g*

The other contestants were fine, but they didn't make an impression. Professional and talented... but hell, everybody's talented. I guess that's what the show's about, eh? :)

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

I got the feeling that Evol!Simon liking anyone was so unprecedented that liking Constantine was Simon-sheepy.

Simon likes lots of the contestants, but he's harsher in his criticisms than the other judges. Paula Abdul pretty much just gushes about them all, while Randy Jackson contents himself with saying "It was just alright for me, dude" when commenting on a sub-par performance. Nadia's best performances were in the first episodes - Simon told her then that in a competition filled with hamburgers, she was a steak. A couple of weeks ago, he told Carrie that not only was she going to win the competition but she was going to outsell all previous winners combined. (Do I have alot of useless stuff stored in my brain or what?) He's been increasingly flattering of Vonzell and has compared Bo Bice favourably to professionals.

Constantine isn't GQ material, but he knows how to work it. He has alot of experience performing - he's in a band and toured with a production of Rent. He gives me something to look at in between the Jim-weekends. :-)