American Idol - On the Fence
Updated: April 27
I’ll update this tomorrow, or maybe even later on today if time permits. I don’t know how I feel about last night’s two hour American Idol telethon, full of surprises and a big shocker. I wasn’t surprised or shocked, just bored. I’m mulling it over.
Check out Anthony Gilpin’s take on last night’s American Idol.
Update: I can’t make up my mind on this one. I want to criticize American Idol Gives Back, but I can’t quite put my finger on what it is about it that needs criticizing. The commercial aspect of the charity, perhaps, or turning a “Singing Competition” into a telethon. If it’s doing good for people in need, then it must be good. Right?
I suppose the idealist in me feels that American Idol should give back beginning at home. Randy Jackson’s Hurricane Katrina cause seems thrown in as an afterthought, and Paula Abdul’s work with children seems token at best. The real focus and footage is the visit to Africa. Not to say that one life is more important than another, but we’ve got some serious problems here. Next season, instead of watching American Idol, I think I’ll take notice of the idealist and volunteer that time towards a good cause.
Maybe I’m just ticked off that a stupid “fluff” show that’s fun to rag on has compelled me to open a can of worms.
I roll my eyes a lot during this show. I didn’t catch Simon Cowell rolling his eyes at Chris Richardson, because I was busy rolling mine. Not at the sentiment of Chris’s acknowledgment of the Virginia Tech tragedy, but at the timing of it. I don’t think I’d quite digested that Chris admitted to deliberately singing nasally and that nasally was a form of singing, before he sent out his message of condolence. Chris is from Virginia, so it was appropriate to make some mention, but perhaps it would have been more appropriate to dedicate the song to the people at Virginia Tech before he sang it (through his nose) rather than to wait until he was in the middle of a harsh judgment from Simon Cowell to play the sympathy card. I don’t think any of it was deliberate, it was all just bad timing.
Haley always seemed like a beauty pageant contestant who happened to wander into the wrong television program. I think her skimpy outfits were her downfall, although being in the top ten and on the American Idol Tour isn’t much of a fall. I don’t think Haley was getting the female vote. It’s one thing to know you are sexy looking and have a good time with it, it’s another thing to flaunt it and look smug about it, which is where Haley crossed the line. I guess she figured no one would notice her singing performance if they were distracted, but the obvious distraction ploy became annoying.
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Yes, it happened to me. Last year my favorite, from the beginning, was Taylor Hicks. A big plus for me was that I found him entertaining. Sanjaya is no Taylor Hicks, but he is…….. well, Sanjaya. I am both entertained and amused. I laughed throughout his entire performance on Tuesday night and then laughed some more at Randy Jackson, who is always amused by Sanjaya.
Sanjaya was in the top three last night, along with Jordin and LaKisha. This is wrong. And it’s even more wrong for me to say this, but something bothers me about LaKisha. It bothers me more than Melinda’s neck, or lack thereof, and that something is LaKisha’s face. She looks like if she had to chew gum and think at the same time, the gum would fall out of her mouth, know what I mean?
The bottom three: I keep waiting for Phil to shine, but he teeters between steamy crooner and creepy psycho guy. I’m always on the fence about him. Hayley, well she’s playing the T and A card still and needs to go home. Gina is out, no surprise. I was always so distracted by the tongue stud that I couldn’t tell you if she could sing or not.