Originally Posted By Labuda Ok, so I did an AI marathon tonight... watched last night's episode then tonight's. Standouts: rock band chick with the tats and horrid hair, girl wearing black & white top who has teeth like a horse, Oil Rig Texas dude (go Texas!), the last girl they put through tonight, and hot widower church dude. I'm interested to see how far Jason Castro's brother goes. Also a slacker, but has good potential is the impression I get. Oh, and I'm looking forward to New York - I caught a glimpse at the end of tonight's montage of glittery chick who flipped off the camera with both hands last year!
Originally Posted By mele The last woman on tonight's show was awesome. (And they played some Brandi Carlile while showing her story. But that's not why I like her. LOL)
Originally Posted By mele Alexis was the crazy glitter-eyed girl from Philly last season. The one who is going for "actressing". ;-)
Originally Posted By Dabob2 The first friend from Milwaukee (with the sawed-off Mohawk) I thought was only okay, but the second one who sang "Grapevine" I liked quite a bit. The final woman was clearly the class of the night, plus she has a story; she's the first one I've seen so far that I will be shocked if she doesn't make the final 36 (I think it's 36 this year), but you never know what will happen in Hollywood.
Originally Posted By mele Hollywood week is my favorite part of the show. I am looking forward to seeing who decides not to practice, who acts like a diva, who freaks out and who blows the competition away.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 That's always my favorite part of the show, too, and I always think they give it short shrift. This year, apparently, they give it at least one extra night.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I really like when they show all the people singing the same song - I liked the band teacher guy.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I really like when they show all the people singing the same song - > I hate that. Because all of those people obviously didn't choose that song to sing. (Last night it was Signed, Sealed, Delivered. They filmed clips of all the bad singers singing it, PLUS entire groups singing it. This is obviously not spontaneous.) After the judges determine that these people are laughably bad, they are ASKED to sing some of it, just so they can put these little clips together. So that we can laugh at them some more. It's cruel. Some of these people clearly don't even know the song in question, tend to have quizzical looks on their faces, and thus look stupid as well as not being able to sing. Think about it. The judges have seen contestant X singing the song of his/her choice, and have determined this is one of the "bad ones" the screeners have sent through. They KNOW this person is not advancing. And then they say "Hey, could you sing a little Signed, Sealed, Delivered for us? Don't know it? It goes like this... Really, would you mind?" All so we can laugh at the same person a little more. Ugh.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I like the groups that sing it - Most of them sound good - I thought a couple seasons ago it was said that these songs were taught to the particapates while they were waiting - which is why they show them all in the bleachers singing it.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck I liked the second Millwaukee (sp?) guy who lost his wife and also the last girl that sang last night. I very rarely watch American Idol at all (usually working) but apparently DH watches it sometimes.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 Next stop, Louisville.... In early Sept 08 a friend and I had dinner in Louisville during the time that the Am Idol auditions were in town. In fact, we had dinner at the 21c Museum Hotel where Simon, Paula, and everyone were staying. We didn't see anyone from AI but did notice lots of security in and around the hotel. During dinner, I noticed a lot of servers going into the restaurant's private dining room and coming out with big smiles on their faces... 'Somebody' was in there. Don't know who.. ___________________ I thought it was funny last night when Randy said yes to the boy with the cheerleaders. Then Paula asked him to sing something else and Randy changed his vote to no... Ouch.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<First female contestant to gain DAR's love: Casey Carlson>> She graduated from the same High School my kids went to. DAR... you might want to check out the pics at this link (sexy but OK for LP). <a href="http://photos.tmz.com/galleries/casey_carlson__american_idol" target="_blank">http://photos.tmz.com/gallerie...can_idol</a>
Originally Posted By ecdc >>So that we can laugh at them some more. It's cruel. Some of these people clearly don't even know the song in question, tend to have quizzical looks on their faces, and thus look stupid as well as not being able to sing.<< I'm not sure why, because I've defended Idol in the past on this, but it all strikes me as much more mean-spirited this season. I don't think Idol's changed, so much as I have. Sure, there's some people I don't feel bad for. But a lot of these kids (and maybe that's the difference; I'm now too old to compete, maybe these people just seem so young suddenly) are clearly deluded and not all there. On top of that, they've strung these kids along. They go through at least two sets of screeners before seeing the TV judges. Yet Idol still portrays it as if everyone gets in to see them. It's just bugged me this year.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Isn't that interesting. My wife and I were commenting that the tone of the show was nicer this season. Sure, you have to have some of these 'ringers' in there -- especially the ones who have all this bravado "I'm the little girl with big voice" -- and they start in and can't carry a tune in a bucket -- it's funny! Overall though -- it's been a kindler, gentler AI -- look how many times Simon has said 'I like you' to contestant. Lots.
Originally Posted By SFH My wife noticed that the KC show (2nd show) showed a blond girl with glasses singing badly, then showed her in a montage of "going to Hollywood" people. What gives? My wife wasn't the only person to notice... From VoteForTheWorst.com: <a href="http://votefortheworst.com/blogs/thefunnystone/20090115/kansas_city_auditions_karas_horny_guys_are_all_gay" target="_blank">http://votefortheworst.com/blo..._all_gay</a> "We end the episode with a montage of the cannon fodder that make it to Hollywood, including one girl with blonde hair and glasses that they had just shown in a bad montage a few minutes prior. So she was bad then, and now she’s going to Hollywood? Get your editing straight, Idol."
