Chaps with Chops

This is NOT the show for THAT Music. It may be good but the people who watch American Idol want Elton, Aretha, Celine, Whitney, etc. It is what this show is. I am really into alternative, underground music and even I have never heard of those people, so I can guarantee the 12 year olds and grandmothers could care less about them! The producers would never allow something like that!

That "Stevie Wonder" song is not his song...he sang it...it was an original Beatles song. She just chose to do it the Stevie version because to her it seemed easier to sing it that way...and she thought Cowell would like it better...

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Phil Collins needs to be FORBIDDEN from the American Idol song list. Those of us who were actually around in the 80's don't remember the music and think about Phil Collins unless it's his work with Genesis. Solo Phil = anti 80's.

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I find it sad that contestants choose him for 80's themes. They should be rocking some Culture Club instead.

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I agree with you as far as Stevie Wonder songs go. If I hear one more Stevie goat-vibrato rendition with a waveringly loud glory note at the end, I will toss my tv out on the street into the path of an oncoming semi truck.

I'm glad to hear songs I've never heard before on the show, NOT including the bad-poetry-set-to-lame-music songs chosen for the winners. I'd never heard "You Can't Do That" before Amanda sang it, and her version is the first song I've heard this season that I might actually pay to download. Even my mom, who dislikes most Beatles music, agrees with me. She had actually heard the song before, and said Amanda's performance totally turned that song on its head. And not even close to the way KKKristy's did with "Eight Days a Week".

My point is, I'd love to hear indie music on the Idol stage, but that, unfortunately, would not make for good ratings, and worse ratings means less money in the producers' pockets. So, not gonna happen, but at least Amanda can rock my socks, chile.

I'd suggest Mike Patton since he's one of my favorite singers ever, but so little of his work would transfer to Idol unless they were doing a "Scream and do sound effects" theme week. And the times he does show off that he has a really great singing voice is usually a cover of someone else's song (see: "I Started a Joke" or Mondo Cane).

I think Duncan Sheik would be a good pick for Idol. "The Dawn's Request" in particular seems wide open for Idol-style oversinging.

I agree and yet I disagree. While it would be refreshing to see the Idols sing something new once in a while, the mere fact that the songs are so familiar to the masses is what makes this show go 'round.

Besides, if they are going to desecrate music, I prefer it to be stupid stuff like Phil Collins and Celine Dion.

Personally, I'm not happy they let these little kids muck about in the Lennon/McCartney songbook with their grimy little hands. They've gone and made it all nasty.

I agree, anytime someone sings Phil Collins it never works out right. I don't even like to listen to Phil Collins sing his own songs.

for as much as idol may need an infusion of musical choices, it doesn't need this kind of stuff that the masses don't want to, and won't, listen to. there's no need to foist more boring songs on us.

this is a popularity contest, not an artistic one. and if you go by the ratings and the comments being made by rival networks, idol is an extremely successful and popular popularity contest.

what idol certainly doesn't need is performances of laconic andrew bird songs forcing people to reach for the remotes. this stuff would be great if NPR or PBS had a talent contest for their 17 viewers/listeners.

David Archuleta is a girl?! That explains a lot, actually.

Mike Patton's version of the Lionel Richie tune "Easy Like Sunday Morning" could be on Idol. Simon goes grocery shopping with Lionel, so he would love it. The rest of us? Probably not.