Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Tinkerbell819, I noticed her blue tongue also, maybe a throat lozenge? I enjoyed watching last night. I like the newish format and there wasn't too much goofy stuff. I don't get why they replay stuff from the first auditions, maybe a quick clip to remind us but I don't need to see so much of it to remember. The young blond kid is starting to get on my nerves. Maybe I'm just seeing too much of him.
Originally Posted By mele Ha, you said "lozenge". ;-) I'm sure it was some sort of lozenge because there were a couple of others with blue tongues, too. Yeah, I am not really into the young blonde kid either. Even though I like the rock nurse with the black hair, I wouldn't be able to stand song after song of her.
Originally Posted By DAR The young blond kid would be Josiah or the cryer as a like to call him. Seriously he's worse than a woman ;p The ladies I work with love love love love the Australian guy(my early pick to win it all)
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 OK, DAR, I really wanted to call him the cryer but thought I'd be deemed harsh. Your post made me laugh so I can now officially call him the cryer mele, I agree with you about the rock nurse. She is good but I don't know if she can hang in there. I really like her personality so far. I like the girl with the long curly hair that seems to like stripes and there was one other girl, shoot, I need to go on the Idol website before I post, I can't even describe her.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 DH thinks that they put the cryer through because he was the last singer and they needed one more person to make the 50 count OK, checked the IDOL website, the girl with the curly hair is Brooke White, the other 2 I like are Natashia Bla-- (shoot can't read my own writing) and Ramiele Malubay. For some reason I was paying more attention to the girls than the guys last night.
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall I, too, noticed a lot of the contestants had the blueish tongues, must have been some throat thing, a lot of them were sick. I like the Aussie and Archuleta kid, too. It does seem to be better talent this year than the last 2 years at least, but I guess it will show when we get to the small stage and eventually main stage. Looking to be a better season than last.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I think the 16 year old David will make it. They obviously love him. I HOPE the rocker nurse makes it. There's something about her that's genuine, that I really like. She obviously likes Janis, but sounds more like Melissa E. Her weakness, which Simon pointed out, is she needs to modulate the performance more, which Janis always knew how to do, but early Melissa didn't - too often she'd start at "10" and have nowhere to go. But if this girl can learn how to mix it up a bit... I like her. I like the Australian guy. I also like the girl who blew out "Chain of Fools" after being hoarse before. That was one of those performances that pushes you back in your chair a little and makes you go "whoa." (in a good way). The blond kid annoyed me too at the end; not because of the crying, but because he thought he was so "brave" to sing a capella, when EVERYONE has done so at some point, and the only reason he did so here was because he couldn't get it together with the band. I was surprised they let him stay, actually; I thought his earlier performances were okay, but kind of overrated by the judges. The only one I was glad to see dismissed was the girl (the beauty queen?) who did "Unchained Melody," Simon inexplicably said "yes" (thinking with his other brain, perhaps), Randy said "no" and then the beauty queen said "Give me another chance, Paula." Not asking nicely, but more like a command! Paula said "no" and I was glad.
Originally Posted By DAR Wouldn't have been great if the beauty queen had said, "please give me another chance or else I have to marry a very rich man who will be old enough to be my dad."
Originally Posted By DAR And I have another question what song was Jeffrey Lampkin singing, the one about food? That was made up right?
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 I was glad to see the "beauty queen" leave. Her singing was fine but the whole early Shirley Temple pouting thing was annoying. I think she might have gone through if she hadn't gotten pushy with Paula.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <<might have gone through if she hadn't gotten pushy with Paula.>> Which would have been totally ridiculous cause that performance was horrible. I don't think Simon was "thinking with his other brain" like another poster said. To me it seemed that Simon said yes (knowing Randy would say no) just to put the decision squarely in Paula's lap. I think Simon has had it with Paula being mealy-mouthed with low/no talent contestants and this was his way of highlighting how absurd the result would be if she kept doing that. And I agree with the other poster who said the contestant was basically "commanding" Paula to let her through. That left a very bad taste in my mouth. Totally came across as a brat having a temper tantrum. And people say all sorts of bad things about Paula being a drunk or stupid or being a "has-been" and all other sorts of things but I think she is nice and has a kind heart and I think it's disgusting when contestants try to manipulate her and take advantage of her just because she's nice and doesn't want to crush anyone's dreams.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I don't think Simon was "thinking with his other brain" like another poster said. > That would be me. <And I agree with the other poster who said the contestant was basically "commanding" Paula to let her through.> That would be me too!
Originally Posted By chickendumpling LOL. Well, if we had an edit button, I would hop right in my previous post and replace "other poster" with Dabob2! Sorry for not giving credit where credit was due. It was partially due to laziness (not wanting to go back and re-read to find the quote) and partially due to, okay, you got me - it was allll due to laziness. LOL. I'll try to be better.
Originally Posted By DAR Telling Paula to let you through should be grounds for being told no. But I wouldn't have hold it against any of the contestants if they told Paula to make a decision.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss What was ridiculous is that the beauty queen moaned about not getting a fair chance. She got the same chance as everyone else, so really what he wanted was an unfair chance in her favor.
Originally Posted By mele I was just going to say that, trekkeruss. She had plenty of chances. It really annoys me to see pretty girls play stupid and cute to get what they want, especially when they aren't very good actresses. It's even more annoying to see guys fall for it. LOL
