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American Idol Season 8 discussion thread
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themadcowtipper
Smells faintly of rancid stilton.
I think it is obvious that Danny and Ricky were above everyone else based on tonights performance If I had to guess who moved on it would be Danny and Ricky(probably Anoop since he seems more popular on the internets) and the crazy bitch(really I think the blonde chick is better, but noway she beats out the crazy chick)...
You know the producers are pissed Tatiana hid the crazy. They knew her crazy ass was a ratings draw and a highlight reel waiting to happen.
Maybe she's just a diabolical genius and knew acting that way would get her through Hollywood.
I'm gonna go with, nah, she's nuts. But who knows?
Maybe she's just a diabolical genius and knew acting that way would get her through Hollywood.
I'm gonna go with, nah, she's nuts. But who knows?
I'm trying to vote for him but the lines are busy every single time. WTF.
sixthsubset
Banned
sucks that stephen fowler did bad, and that ricky braddy probably won't make it through
i like michael sarver, but he doesn't deserve to make it through, and i have a feeling that some how he will.
people hating on danny gokey are stupid. milwaukee yay!!!
i like michael sarver, but he doesn't deserve to make it through, and i have a feeling that some how he will.
people hating on danny gokey are stupid. milwaukee yay!!!
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
Danny and Alexis get the top votes, Anoop gets next-best. The judges will bring back Ricky in the wild card. Tatiana can sing, but I don't think enough people actually LIKE her enough to vote for her. Stranger things have happened, though, so you never know.
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
mre said:
The new format makes that difficult. Only 3 get through tonight, 9 go home & hope the judges like them enough to pick them as wildcard contestants.
SteveMeister
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Husker86 said:
Oh absolutely. They'd like to avoid another Sanjaya if possible
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I don't get it.
I mean don't these people WATCH this show? You can't come out there with these middling yodel songs. This is WHY they are doing this format this year; if you can't come out there and do the right fucking song, then you are out. You can't just pick a song because it has a million runs in it.
It's just so obvious what you need to be looking for in song choices but they always miss it:
A VOCAL HOOK. i.e. should be rocking Bon Jovi songs out of the park.
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Jackie Tohn -- "A Little Less Conversation" : Sounded like she had a seizure in the middle of the song. She should have been doing something a little rockier and more actual singing rather than weirdo stuttering. Perhaps Alanis Morisette or Joan Jett. She's gone, and should have realized this was the wrong choice.
Ricky Braddy - "A Song For You" : Slowed the song down too much but the best vocals of the night. Right song, wrong arrangement. Should have aped Elliot's superior arrangement. Doesn't have enough charisma to make it out of this round, but vocally pwned every one else.
Alexis Grace -- "I Never Loved a Man" - This wasn't all that. Lacked a recognizable melody but she sounded like she was singing which is more than I can say for some people. Something bluesier with a vocal hook would have been better, but Simon's praise will get her to the next round.
Brent Keith - "Hicktown" - Utterly awful. His voice is reed-thin and he wouldn't have made it out of round one in any other year if it weren't for the two that followed him. He picks a tuneless ditty that no one knows and doesn't even nail it.
Stevie Wright -- "You Belong With Me" - She didn't even sound like she was singing, she did a song that was young, but not at the appropriate vocal range. She was looking for something more like "Since U Been Gone" but ended up in the wrong register of a song whose register she could never hit anyways. Takes a brutal beating from the judges.
Anoop Desai -- "Angel of Mine" - Ugh, really? Angel of Mine? The verses are rather tuneless, but Anoop sings it because he wants to do soulful runs all over the damn place. Has a lot of charisma due to the "I look like a dork" thing, but it's an awful arrangement of the wrong song. He's gotta show he can do something other than 90s R&B at some point, right? He will get wild-carded in any case.
Casey Carlson -- "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" - Her voice is razor thin and she fucks with the arrangement to make her sound like Betty Boop singing it. Terrible. The verses are again, tuneless and boring. People need to learn that you need less verses more chorus because the chorus is where the hooks are. Something like Avril would have again worked here. Casey needs to emphasize that she looks like this:
Michael Sarver - "I Don't Want To Be" - Totally the wrong song. He has absolutely no clue what he's supposed to be because he sings a song that's 10 years too young for him. He's not gonna attract the kiddie vote, he needs to attract the soccer mom vote by picking a relatively safe song with a nice vocal hook, i.e. "Where the Blacktop Ends," perhaps a Bon Jovi song.
Ann Marie Boskovitch -- "Natural Woman" - No no no no. Wrong wrong song. This is too slow, too boring and too obvious. Her voice is thinner than she realizes and has a very young girly quality to it; she needs to do something that emphasizes the girliness in her voice; something like Lisa Loeb's "Stay" or a Jewel tune.
Stephen Fowler -- "Rock With You" - Just bad, and the backup singers were out of tune. He sounded hoarse, and it's a boring song anyways that people don't really remember Michael for.
Tatiana Del Toro -- "Saving All My Love For You" - She was better than the other girls but Idol pretty much turned her into cannon fodder with editing and absolutely brutal judges comments where they pretty much dismissed her passable vocals by emphasizing the total batshit lunacy that she was obviously trying to play down.
Danny Gokay -- "Hero" - Mediocre performance, BUT, Gokey picks a song with a vocal hook so he gets extra points on top of the total pimp points Idol gives him anyways. He therefore soars from "would have made it through" to "guaranteed lock."
I mean don't these people WATCH this show? You can't come out there with these middling yodel songs. This is WHY they are doing this format this year; if you can't come out there and do the right fucking song, then you are out. You can't just pick a song because it has a million runs in it.
It's just so obvious what you need to be looking for in song choices but they always miss it:
A VOCAL HOOK. i.e. should be rocking Bon Jovi songs out of the park.
//
Jackie Tohn -- "A Little Less Conversation" : Sounded like she had a seizure in the middle of the song. She should have been doing something a little rockier and more actual singing rather than weirdo stuttering. Perhaps Alanis Morisette or Joan Jett. She's gone, and should have realized this was the wrong choice.
Ricky Braddy - "A Song For You" : Slowed the song down too much but the best vocals of the night. Right song, wrong arrangement. Should have aped Elliot's superior arrangement. Doesn't have enough charisma to make it out of this round, but vocally pwned every one else.
Alexis Grace -- "I Never Loved a Man" - This wasn't all that. Lacked a recognizable melody but she sounded like she was singing which is more than I can say for some people. Something bluesier with a vocal hook would have been better, but Simon's praise will get her to the next round.
Brent Keith - "Hicktown" - Utterly awful. His voice is reed-thin and he wouldn't have made it out of round one in any other year if it weren't for the two that followed him. He picks a tuneless ditty that no one knows and doesn't even nail it.
Stevie Wright -- "You Belong With Me" - She didn't even sound like she was singing, she did a song that was young, but not at the appropriate vocal range. She was looking for something more like "Since U Been Gone" but ended up in the wrong register of a song whose register she could never hit anyways. Takes a brutal beating from the judges.
Anoop Desai -- "Angel of Mine" - Ugh, really? Angel of Mine? The verses are rather tuneless, but Anoop sings it because he wants to do soulful runs all over the damn place. Has a lot of charisma due to the "I look like a dork" thing, but it's an awful arrangement of the wrong song. He's gotta show he can do something other than 90s R&B at some point, right? He will get wild-carded in any case.
Casey Carlson -- "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" - Her voice is razor thin and she fucks with the arrangement to make her sound like Betty Boop singing it. Terrible. The verses are again, tuneless and boring. People need to learn that you need less verses more chorus because the chorus is where the hooks are. Something like Avril would have again worked here. Casey needs to emphasize that she looks like this:
Michael Sarver - "I Don't Want To Be" - Totally the wrong song. He has absolutely no clue what he's supposed to be because he sings a song that's 10 years too young for him. He's not gonna attract the kiddie vote, he needs to attract the soccer mom vote by picking a relatively safe song with a nice vocal hook, i.e. "Where the Blacktop Ends," perhaps a Bon Jovi song.
Ann Marie Boskovitch -- "Natural Woman" - No no no no. Wrong wrong song. This is too slow, too boring and too obvious. Her voice is thinner than she realizes and has a very young girly quality to it; she needs to do something that emphasizes the girliness in her voice; something like Lisa Loeb's "Stay" or a Jewel tune.
Stephen Fowler -- "Rock With You" - Just bad, and the backup singers were out of tune. He sounded hoarse, and it's a boring song anyways that people don't really remember Michael for.
Tatiana Del Toro -- "Saving All My Love For You" - She was better than the other girls but Idol pretty much turned her into cannon fodder with editing and absolutely brutal judges comments where they pretty much dismissed her passable vocals by emphasizing the total batshit lunacy that she was obviously trying to play down.
Danny Gokay -- "Hero" - Mediocre performance, BUT, Gokey picks a song with a vocal hook so he gets extra points on top of the total pimp points Idol gives him anyways. He therefore soars from "would have made it through" to "guaranteed lock."
Ninja Scooter
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Stevie Wright sounded like someone playing rock band. I still voted for her because she was the best looking.
Ninja Scooter
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Costanza said:
from last night i think wai.
Ninja Scooter
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GodofWine said:
Casey would have had it but she kept making those creepy faces during her performance.
Spectral Glider
Member
Casey was hotter than Stevie. But they both sounded god awful, so it's kind of a wash.
Spectral Glider
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Costanza said:
She kind of has that, "Hi, I'm the girl next door, come on over and fuck me silly" thing going.
The production was so friggen horrible last night. Having family members waiting in the red room, with clearly not enough time to interact, was dumb. The band arrangements are mostly terrible and kinda cringe-woythy. I can't imagine Simon is going to be back for many seasons, he seems really bored.
Gokey, Braddy and Alexis Grace were the best overall I guess. I have to join the VFTW crew and also put Tatiana up there. Her craziness scared me, but I'm warming up to it. She does have a voice somewhere.
Gokey's increasing smugness and the sad story-centric plot that A.I. is pushing is bugging me though. Jamar in the audience looked pissed, and he should be. He seemed so much more interesting than most of the guys IMO.
VoteForTheWorst's forums are hilarious though: http://votefortheworst.com/forum/topic5545.html
Gokey, Braddy and Alexis Grace were the best overall I guess. I have to join the VFTW crew and also put Tatiana up there. Her craziness scared me, but I'm warming up to it. She does have a voice somewhere.
Gokey's increasing smugness and the sad story-centric plot that A.I. is pushing is bugging me though. Jamar in the audience looked pissed, and he should be. He seemed so much more interesting than most of the guys IMO.
VoteForTheWorst's forums are hilarious though: http://votefortheworst.com/forum/topic5545.html
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
This is the last season Simon is contractually bound to American Idol.Jim said:
Spectral Glider
Member
Hey, America got one right.
Spectral Glider
Member
Knew there was going to be one surprise/fuck up. Anoop got screwed.
Spectral Glider
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MIMIC said:
It would be shocking beyond belief if it isn't Danny. And I'd be equally shocked if Anoop isn't a wild card pick by the judges. Michael is so damn average, he doesn't deserve the top 12.
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