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Top 9 (Downloads Week) - Megan Wants to Give Me Some Good, Good Lovin Cause It's Like Studio 57 Up In Here
Final 10 Results Show: Post-Game Analysis
Another deplorable Idol Results show. At least we've got documented evidence of the Idol Producers acting shady and weaselly.
They originally denied lip-syching was going on during the group suck-alongs. Then they were forced to admit it after the insurmountable evidence, namely the Idols' incredible lack of lip-synching skills. For 9 of you, your future is performing at amusement parks, better get practicing.
Final 10: Motown Night... Paula Finishes Becoming a Dude.
Final 10: Motown Night
Seacrest's "This... Is..." intro kills about 5 minutes with all the pauses. Then with the judge's intros, Seacrest's re-introduction, meeting Barry Gordy and Smokey Robinson... going to Detroit. Half the show is over and we haven't heard a single song yet.
I feared that Motown Night would be dismal because Idol has dismantled Motown songs every year since Season 1. And I was mostly right. We get tired re-hashes of played out songs and horrible arrangements. Welcome... To.... Americ... an... I...Dull.
Motown Week (Top 10): Half Jazz, Half Cabaret, Totally VFTW.
Well it’s Motown week. Time to hear the same damn 10 Motown songs that are sung to death every year. Whoopie! It’s also time for the show to throw Megan under the bus and try to get rid of her. But ever resilient and awesome Megan might have a trick or two up her sleeve tattoo. So let’s see who did well, who sucked ass, and who made me squeal in VFTW delight.
Final 11 Results: Post Game Analysis
This was a pretty dull results show. Here are my RANDOM THOUGHTS:
Damn. They plunked Scott down at the piano for the horrid lip-synched dance number. Boo. Half the reason to watch this show is gone.
Grand Ole Opry Night: "It Left Me Confused... And Kind of Happy."
Grand Ole Opry Night
I love how Idol shoots itself in the foot in it's mission to create viable pop stars by forcing them into ridiculous genres. Although Grand Ole Opry turns into a de facto country night and not "Songs from established country stars of yesteryear like Hank Williams, Boxcar Willie or Binkly Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers." And really only Sarver and Grace sounded the least bit country. It hurts my head to suffer through Simon and Randy making idiotic comments about "wrong song choice." These buffoons don't know anything about country music, but yet they're paid untold millions to opine on it. At one point Simon says: "There are millions and billions of songs you could have chosen." Oh really? Name one. Yeah, exactly. He couldn't.
Randy Travis is here to coach the Idols for country week, and it’s time for everyone to mix it up and perform nothing like they did last week. It’s also time for tons of train wrecks, so I’m all about that. The show never realizes year after year that most of the contestants cannot sing country music well, so they insist on making everyone look foolish. I have no problem with this. Especially since our VFTW songbird hams it up and VFTW backup Adam Lambert is finally realizing his true potential.
Final 13 Results: "Introducing The Anti-Vote For The Worst Rule."
I love when the Producers say they gon't give a crap about VFTW... Oh yeah? I think Idol Producers are #1.
So here's the question of the night from Ryan. What do Jennifer Hudson, Michael Johns and Chris Daughtry have in common? Hmm, let me see. Only one was our Worst, so that's not it. Only two went on to successful music careers. Nope, that can't be it either. I just can't put my finger on it... Oh, right. They all have ginormous tattoos of their names on their backs. I got it, right?
This week the contestants are singing “top downloads”. Meaning they can pick any damn song they want, since apparently people were downloading music in the 1970’s. It’s a stupid theme because it means absolutely nothing, but at the same time it’s a brilliant theme because whenever the show tackles current songs it fails miserably. And when the show fails miserably, VFTW wins! The pre-performance banter is boring, but it was funny to hear Seacrest say, “Last week we lost Michael Sarver” to a crowd of complete silence. Seriously, no one said anything. Wait, who is Michael Sarver again?