CI5 Episode 8: Boys Top 9: "Roses Are Red, Clifton Murray is Orange"
It's time for our top nine boys and seven days hasn't been enough to digest Tyler Mullendore's performance from last week. For the first time ever on any Idol show, contestants are able to play instruments, although AI played Sanjaya like a piano last season.
Ben is wearing a very pretty scarf in the front pocket of his jacket that perfectly matches his orange face. VFTW Buddy Tyler has the pimp spot and he's so excited, he's having a seizure. Farley tells the Idols to take risks, like the jacket he's wearing. Zack tells them they need to be different, like sporting a pony-hawk or performing on a skateboard.
Liam "Styles" Chang
Liam's up first and for those who didn't know, He's Asian. He seems to have removed the pink nail polish but all the other feminine attributes are in place. Styles is doing Tal Bachman's She's So High and despite looking like a damn fool, surprises me once again by doing a rock solid job, including on the falsetto part. Jake says his voice is like velvet, as opposed to Rex Goudie's, which is like cyanide. All joking aside, Liam has established himself as a big-time contender. While the comparisons to Sanjaya seem to be loosing relevance, as Liam has more talent (and brains!) in his pinky than Sanjaya has in his entire essence, Liam will need VFTW's support to win this show and in order to get that, he'd be best advised to let CI's tranny hairdresser get to work on him.
Andrew Austin
Canada's own walking dead is next and Andrew, in an attempt to change it up from last week, has put on an extra twenty pounds. He gives us our twentieth performance of a Maroon Five song in the past eight weeks when he does Sunday Morning with his guitar. Andrew shows a faint pulse, which makes this a major improvemnet over last week. Zack No Likey and sees it more as Andrew's in an Eddie Munster-lookalike contest with Ben. Jake congratulates Andrew on being the first contestant ever to play an instrument on Idol, and VFTW would like to congratulate Andrew in advance for being the first contestant who's ever played an instrument on Idol to be eliminated.
Dwight D'Eon
Penis With Hair is doing a tribute to Sanjaya tonight by wearing a red do-rag, and he continues his tribute to VFTW's Lord by singing as attrociously as him. Dwight is doing a song by I Mother Earth and since he can't sing, he just decides to jump around like a jackass instead. Just as the comparisons between Liam and Sanjaya are becoming obsolete, the comparisons between Dwight and Daughtry have ended as it took Daughtry two months to scream himself completely hoarse while Dwight has accomplished this in two.
Clifton Murray
Clifton's next and he's proving to be our most consistent Idol as he sucks as much as he has everytime we've ever heard him. He makes some song by James Morrison (The Doors?) that I've never heard before less memorable than before I heard it. Clifton is a reminder of everything that's wrong with Idol (and the World) by thinking that good looks can cover a complete lack of experience and talent. It's like what Nick Lachey would be if he didn't have his formative 98 Degrees period. Plus, he seems terribly distracted by his blotches. While Clifton is truly the worst, I celebrate that he's not our pick, God forbid we'd keep him around one second longer.
Greg Neufeld
Our favourite two-timer is next and he's not one to look a gift horse in the mouth as Greg has grabbed his guitar and is clutching it as close to his body as possible in order to restrain his wings from flapping. Greg opens the Cake songbook for the second nauseating week in a row as he does Jason Mraz' Geek In The Pink. While he doesn't flap, all birds must fly and once again Greg has some spastic hopping going on in his webs. The judges must've been hypnotized by his hops as they give him the biggest tongue job ever. Greg has become the most overated Idol since Jordan, who hopefully won't be flapping her arms like a bird anytime soon. Farley declares that Greg ...Stays in the pocket like lint. Zack, on the other hand, shows his Worseness by wanting history to repeat itself by continuing to sing Rocket Man like he did last week in an attempt to dumbfound voters. Yes Zack, VFTW wants Greg to make history this Wednesday night too!
Brian Melo
Brian's decided to mix it up tonight by angling his hat one degree to the left. He does Angel and is reminiscient of Robbie Williams, without the charisma or drugs. Brian sounds solid on the verses but for the second week in a row, doesn't deliver on the big notes. Zack (and VFTW) are the only people who've figured this out so far but Brian will be able to hide behind crappier contestants for a couple more weeks until the rest of the World catches on.
Jaydee Bixby
Canada's youngest Elvis impersonator is next and he's changing up his usual schtick by instead doing an imitation of Elvis doing someone else's song, Ray Charles' I Got A Woman. While Jaydee's good at what he does, Bin Laden's good at what he does too. Jaydee's living proof that we can have too much of anything, two weeks in this case. How long can this schtick last? If you believe the judges, a long, long time. Sass thinks he's a young Elvis without the hips, which is like Ron Jeremy without the penis. And in a related comment, Zac found it stiff and cheesy.
Matt Rapley
It's always fun to compare current Idols to past ones. Dwight reminds some of Chris Daughtry. We all hope that Liam and Montana will remind us of Sanjaya. And now Matt is reminding us of one of our VFTW favourites, Corpsey Lebland, by doing a version of Josh Grobin's You Raise Me Up that Casey would find dull. Matt has all the charisma of the golf shirt he's wearing. The judges prove they're deaf as they are fooled enough by the big notes to miss how horrible the quiet parts were. Jake politely advises Matt to turn down the goat vibrato. Farley wants him to take the charisma factor up another level, to the Haley Stacey level.
Tyler Mullendore
CTV finally submits to VFTW's growing power by giving our buddy tonight's pimp spot. And Tyler's getting all pumped up by continuously punching himself in the face before the commercial break. He begins a John Hiatt song on a stool, just like the one he sits on at the bar. Tyler hasn't been able to smoke a joint since the commercial and it takes only a few moments for him to stand up and give us violent head twitches until he finally breaks his neck. And again, he proves that the difference between Tyler and Taylor is one letter, a pair of shades and an eight ball of speed. The judges love it as Sass says she's coming to his concert, and Tyler tells her that backstage passes and rolling papers are on him.
Final Rant
Our boys are turning out to be quite consistent...consistently mediocre. Liam looks like he's here to stay and the hairstylists haven't even gotten a hold of him yet. Brian seems to have actually seen this show before and should be able to fake his way through to the finals. At some point, Jaydee's going to run out of Elvis songs to do but that shouldn't happen in the next two weeks. And with VFTW's support and his magic herbs, Tyler's going nowhere. As for the rest, Dwight has about one song left in his voice. Andrew's starting to look more and more like Gina Glocksen's arms. Clifton proves that if the devil is red, the Anti-Christ is orange. And Matt is the number one reason Canada is viewed as a lame country. And that leaves Greg, who's improved enough to last three weeks instead of two. But VFTW is squarley focused in on and has put its millions of dollars and votes behind Tyler Mullendore, as even if he doesn't win, we'll always have a good hook up in Lake Ainsle, Nova Scotia.
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If you want to know what Jaydee will sing next week, take your pick:
Opening Production Number:
1. Trouble/Guitar Man
2. That’s All Right
3. Baby, What You Want Me To Do
4. Medley:
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
All Shook Up
6. Can’t Help Falling in Love
7. Jailhouse Rock
8. Don’t Be Cruel
9. Blue Suede Shoes
10. Love Me Tender
11. Baby What You Want Me To Do – Impromptu jam.
Gospel Production Number:
12. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
13. Where Could I Go But To The Lord
14. Up Above My Head
15. Saved
16. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
17. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
18. Trying To Get To You
19. Tiger Man
20. When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
21. One Night
22. Memories
Guitar Man Production Number:
23. Nothingville
24. Guitar Man
25. Let Yourself Go
26. Guitar Man
27. Big Boss Man
28. It Hurts Me
29. Guitar Man
30. Little Egypt
31. Trouble
32. Guitar Man
Finale:
33. If I Can Dream
That's the track listing from the 1968 Comeback Special that Jaydee is performing, (among Elvis performances in general) one song at a time, week by week.
I'm beginning to think Jaydee is a BIG FAT FAKE! Is his voice a put on too? He's done four Elvis songs so far, does the world need 2 Elvis's? There can only be one King.
I suspect Tyler was drunk but not stoned this evening so not as spastic, but boy is he not coordinated. He really cannot dance, and that neck/hair flicking thing he does makes my head hurt just watching him.
Clifton's voice breaking thru that mauling of a crap song was a pisser.
PWEWB looked like Marky Mark and sounded like he was singing Swahili or something. WTF was he singing? I couldn't understand a word of it. Who the hell needs another swaggering bald midget who thinks he's it and a bit? The quota is full, goodbye.
Liam hunches over like an old lady, for the entire song. I find that incredibly distracting, to the point where I yell at the screen 'STAND UP STRAIGHT YOU GIT' and don't pay attention to his bleating. He managed to behave even camper this week. And he was pretty meh, IMHO. Most were meh, Brian and Doormatt especially. Does anyone else have the compulsion to knock those really ugly hats off of Brian's chrome dome? I know I do.
VFTW - Tyler yet again, for sheer strangeness. I wish they'd make him sing disco.
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Memo to self:
1. Clean coffee off computer monitor.
2. Never read STP's recaps during coffee break.
Awesome recap. First time I've ever seen Bin Laden and Ron Jeremy mentioned in the same paragraph.
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I'm beginning to think Jaydee is a BIG FAT FAKE! Is his voice a put on too? He's done four Elvis songs so far, does the world need 2 Elvis's? There can only be one King.
In the 30 years since Elvis' death, many people have claimed to have seen the king in fast food restaurants all over the US. I have a feeling many will make the same claim about Jaydee in Canada.
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He really is an idiot.
STP..You outdid yourself this week. Awesome review!!
So true!
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Naomi: Let It Whip
Naomi Whips The Competition
And looking at her baby, looks like Naomi really does like White Snake!
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Smoke as much as me and you'd be shocked the associations you come up with.
Thanks!
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Wouldn't it be great if Jaydee followed the Elvis example to the extreme and gets fatter and more drugged out as the show progresses until he chokes on a fried peanut butter sandwich?
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Stupid double post. Sorry.
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I'd agree Tyler looked more drunk than stoned. I'd say he was 70% drunk and 30% stoned, and that's the way we roll up here, Mate! The Aussies I know don't do drugs because they're too busy drinking!
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WOW ! Tyler is a fucking train wreck !
I love em! Excellent pick dude
He's ripe picking for us worsters.
All i can say is " Giver Buddy , Giver "
Rocket.