American Idol 2007

[Weeble]

Did you see the train wrecks! Did anyone grab your attention?

Will it be another Idol from the Birmingham, Alabama area?

Here we go.

[Weeble]

Come on you had to have seen the show.  Did you see Apollo Creed? What about the Wizard of Oz girl? what about the rocker edition of Dancing Queen?  Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?

[Bon Voyage]

Nope.

I was with my small group from church yesterday.

[Jimbob]

We Tivo'ed it and watched after our daughter went to bed.  The Oz girl....WOW.  She could seriously be the voice of Chubaca!  One thing it did do is confirm my thoughts from a couple seasons ago: "It Ain't Simon's Fault".  I especially thought of this as the juggler/singer cried.  His mother was there telling him, "Don't worry, you'll still be famous."  Goodness, they encouraged him to go on TV with a talent? that was totally against the premise of the show, and they HAD to know what he was being set up for.  The poor kid was broken.  And it was by AI, it was by the people who misled him, whatever their purpose may have been.  That's my two cents.

[Bon Voyage]

Contestant:  "Is there anything that I can do to improve?"

Simon:  "Leave"

[Jimbob]

Tonight

Contestant: "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?"

Simon (throwing hands up): "No!"

[memmy]

I watched with my husband lastnight, most of it anyways.

Yeah, I saw the Lion gal. She was quite a character. Did you hear her ask if they wanted to keep her sign she made for it though? Oh man.   

I can hardly stand to watch anymore, it until it gets down to real talent. I'm too much of a wimp to see so many people make fools of themselves, and get torn apart, even though they set themselves up for it. Hubby has been watching it all though. He's much tougher than I am.   

[Big Mike Lewis]

"Where are the singers?"

That's all I kept thinking.  No one can sing anymore.  Even the ones that made it were only "okay" to me.  They only got a handful from each city so far.  I think they're trying to keep it smaller this year.

They need to raise the age limit.  I would kick the pants off any of those that made it so far.

My favorite funnies were the guy with big eyes who looked like a Quizno's spongmonkey (who ironically sound like many Idol contestants) and "Red" who sang Bohemian Rhapsody.

[Jimbob]

Yeah, not a great pool so far, huh?  I totally agree about the age limit, too.  Good is good, I don't care how old you are (though I am glad Tina Turner has finally started wearing pants!).

[Big Mike Lewis]

...I edited my previous post above...

[Jimbob]

You didn't like Gomez from the Addams Family?

[Big Mike Lewis]

His new best friend from the line was pretty good.  I am glad Tina has started wearing pants too.

[kalen]

What is the age limit?  I've been thinking I might audition -- I'm certainly better than most of those I've seen on TV thus far, though I have to say The Amazon Woman could pound my vocal stylin's any day.

[Big Mike Lewis]

28

[kalen]

Oh.  Bummer.  I just turned 30.

I've been told I look younger though -- I bet I could lie and pass for 25 at the most.

Oh wait, that wouldn't be very Christ-like....

[Weeble]

Mike, I winced when that guy claimed to be the king of the vocal percussionists. Have you ever heard anyone better in the Portland Area?

[Big Mike Lewis]

Me...no really...

All he did was sing and throw a few sounds and beats in there.  He did all the "cliche" sounds; if I might use that to apply to this genre.  He did nothing original.  The new guy in Rescue is supposed to be pretty phenominal.

[Cross-titled]

... Good is good, I don't care how old you are (though I am glad Tina Turner has finally started wearing pants!).

She must not be planning on going to camp.

[marc]

Well, I flubbed my audition again this year.  I really should have thought more about my song choice, I guess.  Simon called my rendition of "Oops, I Did It Again" "creepy".  Maybe it was my midriff-baring outfit; who knows.

Next year, I will choose something more macho.  I may even raid the Peter Allen songbook.  After all, if a guy's self-confident enough to wear all those sequins, who would dare question his masculinity?   

[janine]

Me...no really... All he did was sing and throw a few sounds and beats in there.  He did all the "cliche" sounds; if I might use that to apply to this genre.  He did nothing original.  The new guy in Rescue is supposed to be pretty phenomenal.

Would y'all say this is a good example of it, well-done?

[spurly]

I haven't watched it, however Roseanne is on a tear because she thinks that American Idol is making fun of people on its show for ratings.  (I haven't seen her show either, just a clip of her ranting on FoxNews.)  I think it is funny that FoxNews hightlight American Idol like it is news, when all they are really doing is promoting a show on their sister network.

[Weeble]

Me...no really... All he did was sing and throw a few sounds and beats in there.  He did all the "cliche" sounds; if I might use that to apply to this genre.  He did nothing original.  The new guy in Rescue is supposed to be pretty phenomenal.

Would y'all say this is a good example of it, well-done?

Yes, but he is so much more than a vocal percussionist.

[Weeble]

I haven't watched it, however Roseanne is on a tear because she thinks that American Idol is making fun of people on its show for ratings.  (I haven't seen her show either, just a clip of her ranting on FoxNews.)  I think it is funny that FoxNews hightlight American Idol like it is news, when all they are really doing is promoting a show on their sister network.

Here is my question for Roseanne.  Which of the contestants did not know going in if they were terrible Simon would rip them apart.  Even the "Urban Amish" guy and the "Big Red Viking" guys who had never seen the show before knew that if they were bad they would get trashed.

[OldDad]

IMO, we've not seen a "finals" candidate yet.  Those put through to Hollywood whose auditions were actually shown were very subpar, lone exceptions possibly being the brother and sister from the Seattle auditions.

If any of the others make the group of 12, I will personally apologize to Bucky.

[Weeble]

Is it just me or is everyone yelling this year? If I tum the volume down to where I can hear the singers with out blowing the speakers then I can't hear Simon say Rubbish!

[OldDad]

Again, IMO... Tuesday, we only saw a couple of people capable of making it to the final 12 - "Sundance" and Melinda the backup singer, both from Tuesday.

"Jesus Castro" got through because the judges were so shocked he could actually sing a little.  Had he been more normal looking, he would never have made it.

I don't think the guy who's wife had the baby was very good at all - he won't last 3 days in Hollywood.

Wednesday - the only good bet for the 12 was 16-year-old Jenry, good voice and nice looking kid.

[Weeble]

OD,

    I would agree that "Sundance" was good.  And IMO he is the only good singer that I have seen so far. There is suppodesly a Youth Minister, Joey Mustain, from Florence who made it to Hollywood from the Memphis auditions. According to the paper; Jeff Cook from Alabama said that he was the best singer he had heard in a long time. But I didn't see him last night so who knows.

[Jimbob]

I've not had time to watch the Wed. auditions.  I watch Tuesday's last night, and like Sundance and the backup singer, too.  Beyond that, not much in Memphis, or anywhere else they've been so far.  I think the baby guy was just about hooking people emotionally so they keep watching till Hollywood.  He was alright, but no hook beyond the birth of his kid.

[Arkstfan]

Sundance will be a serious contender along with the back-up singer.

I thought Antonella from NY (the hot friend of the trained singer) has a good shot at making the final 24.

Jesus/Castro was on the Fox station here in Little Rock last night and they had more of his singing. I don't think he has a shot of making the final 24.

[Follower the Heaven Bound]

lower the min. age.

I could accomplish something.... 

[Weeble]

As a proud resident of Alabama I just want to say that the freaks from the Birmingham Audition all came from the Atlanta Area.

[Bon Voyage]

Did they all come with water bottles with secret compartments that had a pungent dark particulate?

Because if they did, it would explain a lot of things.

[Big Mike Lewis]

Winner of American Idol 2007 - Chris Sligh, The big dude with all the hair.

He's my pick.  Out of everyone I saw, he was cool and could really sing.  His voice seemed to be very different so that he would be able to really stand out no matter what genre they are assigned to sing each week.  He was funny too.  His goal was to make David Hasselhoff cry.

You heard it here first.

[Arkstfan]

I was about to lose hope for the audition phase until the girl came in who thought she sang better on the carpet. One of the funniest segments of television in a long time.

[kalen]

Winner of American Idol 2007 - Chris ________, The big dude with all the hair.

I can't remember his last name.  He's my pick.  Out of everyone I saw, he was cool and could really sing.  His voice seemed to be very different so that he would be able to really stand out no matter what genre they are assigned to sing each week.  He was funny too.  His goal was to make David Hasselhoff cry.

You heard it here first.

I thought the same exact thing.  I loved that guy and WANT him to win.  :o)