| jedweber |
 Posted: May 14, 2008 - 7:39am |
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I think Mr. McMoustache is mayor of Backwater, UTAH not Texas. I wonder if he wears that crazy flag shirt on all special occasions?
Last night's show was so awful that my only entertainment came from some of the crazies we got brief glimpses of. Besides Mayor McMoustache, there was that woman lusting after David Cook (and the "Cougars for Cook" sign, lol) and that smiling, head-bobbing freak standing next to Ryan near the end...
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| marguerlucy |
| Posted: May 14, 2008 - 7:41am |
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It's hilarious to me that Simon calls "Longer" a sappy song, but thinks the Roberta Flack song and "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" are the greatest songs ever. How are they any less sappy? As a fan of bad pop love songs, you have to accept the lot of them, you can't just pick and choose! ;)
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| KD30 |
| Posted: May 14, 2008 - 7:46am |
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I can't see Clive wasting money on any of these sorry contestants...
Fortunately for Clive he doesn't have to worry about that anymore http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20080417/Music.SonyBMG/ . Of course, this is not the 1st time he has been ousted and each time he has been brought back, so eventually this may become his problem, but not for now.
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| crazytom |
| Posted: May 14, 2008 - 8:17am |
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If not Disney, perhaps David has a shot with the Muppets.
Nice wardrobes by Whoresha. Anybody else catch the irony of the opening: "Six months ago, she was a actress in Ford commericals"?
Simon calling "That Asteroid Song" one of the best of all time made me hurl. I don't want to just close my eyes, I want to stick forks in them and chop off my ears whenever I hear that crappy tune. Shame that Mark Rich wasn't in the audience though. Guess he's out campaigning for Clinton.
But the prize of the night goes to Paula. "David. You. Are. Going. To. The. Finals.... oh, that's just my prediction." Right Paula, whatever. We know you've already seen next weeks script.
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| marguerlucy |
| Posted: May 14, 2008 - 8:23am |
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Re: DigginMyIdol's pointing out the "cougars for cook" sign -
This moment was only topped by the shudder the camera JUST caught from DC after - could have been completely unrelated, but it was hilarious timing anyway.
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| TT73 |
| Posted: May 14, 2008 - 8:24am |
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He's in NYC making the rounds of the talk shows. He was on one morning show the other day with his girlfriend. And the host made it a point to say that Jason got a 1340 on his SATs, lol. But I think he seems so much more at ease now than he did on the show. Good for him.
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| itsmetoday |
| Posted: May 14, 2008 - 8:27am |
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Long time lurker here - I just had to ask if anyone caught exactly what Archeletta said when Randy questioned him about singing about "boo" - he mumbled something about being a white guy. Anybody catch it?
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| TT73 |
| Posted: May 14, 2008 - 8:35am |
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Sorry in my post above I thought I had put the comment I was remarking on in quotes. I was referring to Jason Castro and replying to the post about him not being in the audience.
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| albuff3468 |
| Posted: May 14, 2008 - 8:44am |
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David Cook's "First time" was basically taking the Johnny Cash version and then rocking it up. It was still different enough to be his own though.
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| BeckEye |
| Posted: May 14, 2008 - 8:45am |
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Chan, I'm pretty much in agreement with everything you've just said. Although I will say that even though I'm not a fan of Syesha's and I was kind of hoping she would fall off that stupid chair, I think her vocals were actually fairly decent last night. Not as shrieky as shows past, and she did the best she could with that sabotage, er, song the producers gave her.
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Finally the gloriously bad Idol episode that we’ve all been waiting for. All sorts of musical attrocities were committed, including a song sung by penguins and a love song about a giant meteor. Yes!!! I loved it.
Everyone got in the spirit tonight. Simon was on-point all night, including picking the ONLY decent song of the evening for David Cook. Paula was actually sober and coherent, making strong points about the singing and performances, as if her job depended on her, you know, judging the damn show. Seacrest making his unfunny non-jokes and Randy spending the whole evening trying to stroke his own ego. That was some episode. Oh, and Lloyd from “Entourage” was in attendance. Good stuff.
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Tonight was the annual Judge Song choice, Idol song and Producer Nigel’s song choice game.
Remember when the whole home city would come out to celebrate the Final 3 Idols of seasons past? Not so much this time. Cook gets his song choice text while on a TV news show, and only Mayor McMoustache of Archuleta’s hometown of Backwater, Texas decided to make a big deal about his Judge’s song choice while no doubt crowning David the Acting Governor of Texas for the day.
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David Archuleta -
Paula’s Song - “And So It Goes” by Billy Joel
Paula chose this song because David “can handle the melodies.” Well Archuleta takes a vanilla ballad from the Joel-meister and blandifies the hell out of it. He's sucking the joy and energy out of the thing. He squints, he wheezes, he puts me to sleep. David also throws in his now trade-marked lyrical flub and made the whole thing feel ponderously slow. A Looooong 90 seconds of my life that I won’t get back.
GRADE: D
David’s Choice- “Without You” by Chris Brown
Now David embraces the VFTW Crown and runs with it. He chooses a modern-day teeny-pop disposable ditty from Chris “I got to sing with Jordan Sparks before she lost her voice forever” Brown. David shows off his muppet dancing and stage awkwardness while trying to be “cool” singing about “my boo.” There’s nothing as tragically un-hip about a total dweeb like Archuleta trying to be cool. This was Kevin Covais-like Awesome.
GRADE: FAIL -- VFTW AWARD WINNER!!!
Producer’s Dismally Bad Song Choice: “Longer” by Dan Fogelberg
This song takes painfully boring to a new level. David assumes a beatific “I’m singing about The Lord because my Daddy doesn’t let me talk to girls” tone and it’s all downhill from there. David is wearing his Sunday best buttoned-up Mormon on the Make shirt and sings up a storm. David achieves a courageous level of boring tonight. Simon has the guts to rightfully call it “a gooey” song, and lambasts it, while praising David’s competent but unexceptional vocals. I’m not as accepting as Simon.
GRADE: FAIL -- The terrible, cheesy songs didn’t help his Idol mission. Even David’s attempt at modern-day relevance was naive, awkward and laughable.
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Syesha Mercado
Randy’s Song: “If I Ain't Got You” by Alicia Keys
Randy the Bobo sets Syesha up for failure by assigning her this big, belting song with only 90 seconds to get to any kind of emotional pay-off. Syesha falls back on her go-to Whitney runs and smiley vote-mongering. It’s a step back for Syesha, and a boring performance, to boot. The Back-up singers really carried her on this one.
Syesha defends her mediocre performance with: “I’m just being myself, you know?” And yourself is obnoxious, which is the problem.
GRADE: C
Syesha’s Song: “Fever” by Peggy Lee
Syesha goes all Broadway as she seems to be auditioning for the touring cast of “Cabaret.” It takes some of the sexiness out of the whole thing when Syesha is forced to explain the use of the chair, before she sits on and around it for the song. This was a mediocre rendering of a sung sung into redundancy by everyone with a pair of boobs and a voice. Also, I’ve never bought Syesha’s brand of forced sexiness. There’s too much actor-ing in the performance and not enough va-va-vavoom.
Randy says it’s a “burning” Fever. But it’s more like a phlegmy cold.
GRADE: D -- Old-fashioned and unsexy. Nobody wants to see Granny getting down.
Producer’s Dismally Bad Song Choice: Something called “Hit Me Up” apparently from the singing/dancing penguin movie, “Happy Feet.”
Syesha is left out to dry with this dippy-doo Disney-fied joke of a song. Syesha can’t really dance to it, and there’s not a whole lot to sing either. It’s like the Producers are trying to send her home. Syesha is off-key and it’s mostly terrible.
GRADE: FAIL -- Syesha almost gives Archuleta a run for VFTW-worthiness tonight. Almost.
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David Cook
Simon’s Song: “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” by Roberta Flack.
I certainly wasn’t looking forward to this weepy, drivel song when I heard it was foisted upon Cook, but damn, did he extract every ounce of goodness from it. But if a guy can make Lionel Richie’s “Hello” entertaining I guess he can do anything. And yes, I know that was a rip-off. This probably was too, but it doesn’t matter. Cook gives one of those goose-bump causing perormances that is his Idol coronation song..
GRADE: A -- This was excellent, Cook’s raspiness and soaring vocals came together with emotional resonance. Nice time to hit a homerun, dude.
David’s Choice: “Dare To Move You” by a band called Switchfoot, apparently.
Just another drippy Daughtry-Fuel-Nichelback MOR “grunge” ballad that made me wince. This is probably what Cook’s Idol-winning album will sound like. I know this because this is what Daughtry’s Idol album sounds like. But with extra elevator-quality keyboards.
GRADE: C -- Cook sings it fine, but it sounded like Christian Rock to me. Blame Creed for ruining Christion Rock for everyone.
Producer’s Dismally Terrible Song Choice: “That Damned Asteroid Song” by Aerosmith.
Tonight was like a “This Is Your Musical Life” episode for David Cook. First was his pre-Idol edgy, artistic exploration phase of his career. Then his post-Idol suck factory song. And then this was his Closing Credits track to Transformers 4: BumbleBee’s Radical Adventure. It’ll probably be called “Transform My Heart.” And Diane Warren, the epitome of schmaltzy, adult contemporary dreck song-crafting, will have scribbled it down on a napkin before collecting her 185th Grammy.
GRADE: C -- And this was STILL better than anyone else tonight.
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If anybody but David Cook wins this show American Idol should be canceled the next day, because he is so much better than the other two pretenders. Much better. Plus, I want to hear him sing the shitty Idol-Winner Song. That will make me laugh.
--Chan
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