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Just a few thoughts:
I didn't think anyone last night was great. Adam was more screechy than usual and the others were just okay.
Adam is a show, everyone else is just karaoke.
Adam far outsells everyone on I-Tunes followed by whats-his-name. And despite dissing Monkeyboy, TPTB know that DWD won't sell any music given his cheap Christian/old lady fans.
In conclusion, the votes don't count, Gokey for the "shock" elimination, but not really shocking since he has little potential to sell records, and that's what TPTB are after.
I suddenly feel bad for injecting my reality into what we are trying to accomplish here......GO GO DWD!
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| Anjanette880 |
| Posted: May 13, 2009 - 8:00am |
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Did anyone else notice that Danny's version of "You are so Beautiful" had a touch of Disney's The Lion King to it? At the end of the song, I thought he was going to take out a lion cub and hold it over the edge of the stage.
Oh, and I think you gave Adam way too good scores. All he does anymore is shriek the songs. When they did the play back I could barely tell the difference between his two songs.
Wouldn't it be great if Adam was voted off and the finals were between Kris and Danny?
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| vikesrule |
| Posted: May 13, 2009 - 8:28am |
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Conspiracy theory: the backup singer during Adam's last song is a worster plant. She was singing so loudly you couldn't even hear Adam, and she was out of tune.
I still think this site should've picked Kris. If he gets to the final, the Adam and Gokey tards will bawl for days.
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| taswaysha01 |
| Posted: May 13, 2009 - 8:47am |
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I agree about Kara. I thought she was good in the beginning, especially with her critique of Bikini Girl. I think she's trying to fit in with the others too much now...she suceeds and comes across equally lame as Randy and Paula.
I had no problem getting through for Danny after 30 minutes. I think I got somewhere from 50 to 100 votes in. I used only one phone.
I guess I'm in the minority, because I liked "You Are So Beautiful" quite a lot. I thought he sang it beautifully, better than Taylor Hicks. The first song was decent. I didn't like it.
I liked Kris lots tonight. I'm glad he didn't change "Apologise". Its nice hearing a song sang how it was friggin' wrote for a change. "Heartless" was a brill choice, I thought. I've been hoping someone would have sang one of Kanye's songs, and was glad when Kris did so.
Adam bored me to tears. I've been expecting either him or Gokey leaving tonight since last week, a la Melinda Doolittle. I hope its Adam. Because I really am bored of his shrieking.
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| CMJABQ |
| Posted: May 13, 2009 - 8:56am |
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i think Adam had to start screeching just to shut up that dumb-ass, out of tune, back up singer. I think that she totally eff'd up his performance.
He might just be going home tonight. Maybe he wants to. Can't blame him.
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| ChaoticFreshness |
| Posted: May 13, 2009 - 9:02am |
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despite me being a near obsessive adam fantard, tone down on the screaming!
jesus christ, it was pissing me off!
knowing he can sing perfectly well without the strange tone in the voice but still hearing him do it every episode of idol is making me want to kill him slightly. >:o
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| Great Bear |
| Posted: May 13, 2009 - 9:03am |
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Definitely the Greatest Season Ever! I went to the Ducks/Red Wings hockey game with my wife, had a good time, then went home and watched 10 minutes of crappy singing on the DVR. I think you could toss Adam, Kris and DWD into a bag and pull one out as the winner, it wouldn't really matter. They are all so bad. However, compressing them to a ten minute show makes it almost tolerable.
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| TheUnwanted |
| Posted: May 13, 2009 - 9:04am |
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I missed Gokey's 1st song, but if "Give up the ghost that's haunting you." is really what he sang, that is just unreal! If this donkey wins the whole thing, I think the media will start talking about all the songs Gokey chose that pointed toward his wife.
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| catgirl99 |
| Posted: May 13, 2009 - 9:13am |
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Adam was awful last night. I suspect he's in trouble for tonight. Maybe he planned it that way. He has always been my favorite - enjoyable to watch and listen to, but last night was just a bunch of out of tune screeching.
Personally I liked Kris' version of "Heartless" the most of all the performances last night. He has a chance to become the AI. Wouldn't that be funny?
I never like Gokey. He sounds the same every performance. Sorry for the website, but I do not want him to win. Contrary to all the over-analyzing I think the AI people would be very happy if he won.
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| TheUnwanted |
| Posted: May 13, 2009 - 9:18am |
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BTW, Sallycoont, that video you posted in post#1 is funny. Thanks.
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Welcome to the Final Three Week. I can't say that I was all that excited for the "Judges pick a crappy song, Idols pick an even crappier song" themed night. And after experiencing it, I am even less excited to suffer through the 18 hours of the Idol Final next week. Since the judges all but anointed Adam the champion this week any thrills for the Finals have been killed. I'll still watch, hoping for a Tatiana/Normund duet... and some VFTW moments when the Idols get out-sung by their older, more famous and more desperate duet-partners. Simon practically begged us to vote for Adam. But then again, the Idol winners have been a foregone conclusion ever since Clay Aiken nearly uprooted Ruben as the people's champion, no small feat uprooting the Velvet Teddy Bear after inertia sets in.
At least Kara and Paula were off their meds tonight, as they both were mostly incoherent and pandering, in their own ways.
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To start the show Ryan references the Adam Lambert VS. Delusional Girl video. I saw a video online where some chick bum-rushed you. We'll talk about that later."
I saw a video online featuring Gokey that Ryan suspiciously does NOT mention. (Hint: It's on our front page.)
Danny Gokey -- "Dance Little Sister" by The Artist Formerly Known as Terence Trent D'arby.
In the bio video when Gokey gets the word he's being forced to sing this unknown TAFKATTD the local DJ asks him, "How do you feel about singing that?" "I don't know, retorts the razor-wit Danny. After being dealt this doozy of a song I'd be feeling pretty screwed. It was minor hit for Terence, reaching #30 on the charts before most Idol Voting-tards were born. (Thanks Wikipedia.)
I laughed out loud as the opening line of the song is: "Give up the ghost that's haunting you." Nice job song-picking, Paula. It plays right into our VFTW wheel-house by simultaneously reminding the Gokey-Heads about Gokey's dead wife and also boring the living crap out of the rest of us. Gokey is in full-on shout mode from the start, and only lets up to do a vocal scat-sing break down with an awful saxophone player that's even more out of tune than Gokey was.
And his awful non-dancing is always good for a laugh.
GRADE: D -- Not bad enough for VFTW contender-ship.
Second Song: "You Are So Beautiful" as sung by Taylor Hicks doing his Joe Cocker impression.
Gokey the schmaltz king is immediately drawn to the dreariest, hoakiest song available. One bar in and I want to puke. He's so over the top and earnest and wearing tight pants. He's just pandering hard for the old lady vote. Each of the three Finalists know where their bread is buttered and are trying to out Easy Listenin' his opponents.
To give him credit, he found a song that he sounds good on and also reminds us of his dead wife.
Randy is so blown away he goes full 'tard repeating everything in triplets. "You can really, really, really sing" and "Mad, mad, mad vocals."
Paula says the song allowed Gokey to "do your magic to it" as I throw up again.
Simon calls it a "Vocal Master Class" and I throw up a third time, showing my solidarity with Randy.
FINAL GRADE: FAIL -- With the two dismal performances, added to his primal scream from last week, Gokey should be gone. So that means he's a lock for the Final Two.
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Kris Allen -- "Apologize" by One Republic.
From Wikipedia:
"Apologize" is the most legally downloaded song in US digital history with sales of over 4.3 million digital downloads in the US alone." And: "Apologize" was the biggest radio airplay hit in the history of Top 40 radio in North America, racking up 10,331 spins in one week. The song held the number one position for five months..."
I just have to say sometimes it's a blessing to be old and out of touch if it means I never have to hear this dreck again, let alone 10,000 times in one week.
Kris is trying too hard on this tuneless, drippy song. His performance is affected but he's not bad. This is the kind of song the Evil Idol Record Producers would want him to sing. Or rather, they don't give a crap what Kris sings as long as he sells 5 million copies of it.
The fun begins when Kara moans about how Kris played piano and how she really wanted him to play acoustic guitar. Say what? Kara is a big moron for wasting her breath griping over which instrument he should be playing. Simon calls her out on her crap by suggesting that she should've told Kris how she wanted him to sing it. Kara gets pissy and defensive and comes back with "like you've ever arranged a song before." I could almost see her clawing at Simon's eyes. Paula needs to be restrained.
Paula says Kris "hit a bum note, and unfortunately it was really loud." Because it's okay to hit a bum note if it's really quiet. Either way, Paula's an idiot because the song sounded fine to me. Just boring and generic, which isn't Kris' fault.
GRADE: C+
Second Song: "Heartless" a Kanye West song as covered by The Fray. Well played, Mr. Allen.
Of course Allen is playing acoustic guitar on this song, which explains why he didn't do it on Kara's choice. Kris does a good job of re-doing a weepy modern rock version of a badly sung rap song. Kris definitely wins the Reality TV Strategist of 2009 for his gambit. It's always a good thing when the Idol out-sings the original version. Once again Kris Allen crooked-sings like the dickens. He's affected and mumbling, and makes funny strained faces, and he's not bad. My only gripe is how Kris hits the big chorus and yet the song still doesn't go anywhere.
Of course Kara loses her mind, because she wanted Kris to go Jason Mraz acoustic on HER song. But she's a nitwit. At least Kris picked a contemporary hit for two different artists, unlike Gokey who picked a dreary song that was 35 years old.
GRADE: B --- Simon all but declares Kris as the 2009 Runner-up to Adam Lambert, so he did a good job.
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Adam Lambert - "One" by U2.
Adam starts off with the Easy Listening version of the song which was pretty good... but he must've started his Idol Acceptance speech one minute too soon, as he launches into pained shrieks in the second half of the song, and the performance falls apart. He's still miles ahead of Kris and Gokey in terms of stage presence and dramatics, but he was especially shrill on this one.
GRADE: B -- Adam gets to sing the best song of the night, and does both a weepy, dreary ballad AND an over-the-top shriek-fest all in one minute-45 second span.
Second Song: "Cryin'"... One of the "great old songs" by Aerosmith
Oh, yeah, this was Adam throwing down the gauntlet on the Gokester. He said, "bitch, this is how you do Aerosmith right."
Adam finally queens out on the song, with his sneering and prancing, but I think the sheer awfulness of the song overwhelms him. It begins as a bit of a mess with the background singer trying to out-shout Lambert in a completely different key, then Adam takes it from there and screeches and squeals through the rest of the song.
GRADE: C -- Definitely not one of his best, but he gives his fans what they want. And then Simon begs for some more votes. Bonus points for Lambert for going for the humble "Kris and Danny are really talented, anything can happen" line. He's lying, but he sounded earnest saying it.
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And that was that. Three pretty good singers wasting their talents on mostly dreary songs. Yep, that about sums up Idol Season 8 for me.
So, what did you think?
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