Final Four: Post Game Analysis

So I've completely tuned out of Idol this year as every idiot they passed through were horrible and I didn't like a single one. I tuned in last week and I can see why I tuned out of Idol this season. This week was worse and I regretted watching it. Gokey sounded horrible and I could feel my ears bleed from that awful scream. Adam just sounded like a douche and his singing is beyond bad. He isn't a rocker god and Kara was a moron for referring to him as such. Allison sounded like a man but oh well she wasn't half bad. Kris was forgettable and I thought for sure he'd be the one leaving last night. I think Paula's dance routine was amazing and her new song is a bit catchy but totally overly computerized but oh well... Yeah so what she lipped her way through it? Don't most people these days do it? Gwen wow Gwen get a new line of work, stay at home with your babies because singing isn't her cup of tea. She sounded horrible and her push ups were lame... get a life. Daughtry... wow what a douchebag. He's still butt hurt about being kicked off Idol and he still can't sing. Who ever buys a ticket for Idols Live is really wasting money on a concert that will only bring lack luster performances.

blake lewis and chris rich were the finer things of AI6 what happened to AI7? C'mon bring the sexy back!

But when you're up on stage you DO have to perform and put on a show. Otherwise, if you're just standing in front of a mike singing, I'd just as soon stay home and listen to the CD instead of shelling out bucks for a concert. OTOH, if you can't sing & perform at the same time and have to lip sync - well, then don't bother.

I think too much emphasis is being put on the visuals at the expense of the music. From what I see of these performances, it seems to me that much of the time, the music is almost irrelevant. Stefani's performance last night was a perfect example.
Aside from that, most of the choreography is fairly pathetic to look at any way and looks totally manufactured and processed rather than looking like the performers are really into what they're doing.
It just seems to me to be a lot of wretched excess covering up mediocre music. Paula Abdul's "music" career is the perfect example.

You'll have to forgive me. I'm just an old fart from an earlier time when rock musicians and singers knew how to give an exciting performance without all the excess. There are plenty of performers today who can as well.

Gokey rhymes with karaoke.

Both suck.

The absolutely best part of last night's show was that I didn't have to watch it. We live on the West Coast, and when I told my wife the results she agreed that watching Law and Order was a better use of our time. I think that she has even agreed to bag the rest of the season. What has become the worst season of AI ever, with the worst "talent" could quickly become the best, because I won't have to watch it.

NO DOUBT was awesome back in the day, before Gwen got the dance queen thing going. Now she just looks like a poser in an outfit that my teenager would wear and all out of breath. The drummer's TUTU was cool! Lipstick was a little much!

Adam's fierceness is part of what makes him awesome! Did anyone else catch when he said he loved his outfit!

Lately, elimination night has been more exciting then the actual perfomances and last night proved to be no different.

Besides the all time ultimate fail of Grokey-Grossy's scream, the performances were just plain Bleh...But, Idol hit a new low when they allowed Pilly Paula to get off her seat and move around on the Idol stage...Oh, that was dancing?! Huh, I thought dancing was moving with the music not looking like you are so high the simple little kicks your brittle old body is still allowing you to do was considered actual dancing....

I wish the male dancers would have done us all a favor and moved apart when she did a gay swan dive into the "waiting hands" of the SO overpaid dancers. (Benji was there and I want to cry because he has sunk so low!) But I LOL until the cows came home when I read that Chan agrees she was thinking she was a wittle birdy high(like always)up in the sky. I bet she said WEEEE on the way down....To bad her tape didn't get caught and stopped and we got to hear what Pilly Paula REALLY sounded like.

I love the song Just a Girl and No Doubt so even though Gwen sounded out of breath and more often then not, she was off key, I can't bash her for at least proving ONE person sung live this year on Idol. And the push ups, Chan, were to signify that girls can do what guys can do...But it was a pretty lame act because she only did four and her face scrunched up in consentration...

With the replay of Daughtry going home was a first for me. And a second when I rewinded to watch his face drop and his eyes bulge. Why I have missed that before is saddening. I like humor way to much not to know that that existed.

To conclude this long rant of my agreement of how much Idol sucks (like it is said here billions of times) I was happy to see Ms. Piggy..Uh, I mean Allison go home. That just set up the perfect chance for Grossy- Grokey to come back in the finals, pick that song with that scream to try and redeem himself, and then to prove he still hasnt got it...Scream like that everyday Grossy. You're wife might come back from the dead and slap your face so she can rest in peace...

If I am correct, Season 3 had 3 women as finalists. If this show follows a script, then the 3 men finalists was predicted weeks ago when Simon said a male would win this season. And yes, it seems that they are setting this up as the Evangelist vs. the Gay......that's kind of sad. I don't think those politics work with music stars. Then again, the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly with Adam Lambert on the cover neglect to mention the Canadian Idol who not only stated that he was gay, but he also discussed his relationship on the air. I guess Americans are not as accepting as Canadians. Will we see Blue States vs. Red States again? Is it mere coincidence that a great number of Allison supporters are now flocking to Adam and Kris because they see Danny as the spoiler, especially with his Scream On? I see another pattern developing. When Chris Daughtry was eliminated during Season 5, people blamed Katherine McPhee, and voters split their votes between Elliott and Taylor. Elliott went home and Taylor ultimately won because he had a large fan base. Now, I see voters splitting their votes between Adam and Kris with Adam having a larger fan base. So that means that if this follows Season 5's script, then Adam wins and Danny comes in second place as the writers got the viewers to hate Danny at this point, and Kris just won't have the fan base to beat Danny. Am I onto something?

I think perhaps if Allison had sang as well on the performance night as she did after being eliminated, she might still be on the show.

Probably wouldn't have made a difference, but I did think she was noticeably better.

I don't watch the results nights, but I wish I saw Allison punch DWD. I bet he thought it's because she ~likes~ him.
I just wanted to say I agree about Allison and Adam's duet- I didn't think it was phenomenal. I just thought the two of them were cute.

I think being from Arkansas probably helped Kris stay in one more week. That way they have three different destinations, rather than two (Adam and Allison) both in southern California. Plus, we've already seen Allison sing in the mattress store...I don't think they really wanted to re-visit that one.

“I really don’t want to go there. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.” Jerry, Boston Legal, 4/14/08

"Ambition is the last refuge of failure." -- Oscar Wilde

"I'm just an old fart from an earlier time when rock musicians and singers knew how to give an exciting performance without all the excess."

Van-- you & me both. Janis, Jefferson Airplane, Santana and more all rocked the old Fillmore West and Winterland without all the "dancing" crap that goes on today. It's all a big cover for lack of talent and music ability. You're right, too, about plenty of musicians out there turning out excellent performances without all the histrionics.

Felt sorry for Paula still trying to be a kid and rock out when she's waaayy past her prime. Her voice must be totally shot to cover it up so heavily with the auto-tuning thingie or whatever that is.

Daughtry is still the same screechy douche and arrogant a-hole. Go away, please.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace--
Jimi Hendrix