<p>   Me again. Yes, I know what you&;#39;re thinking. "Oh crap. Here comes that little you-know-what that is always ruining our cruel and hateful fun". </p><p>I have returned... ("JAWS" music plays)</p><p>I am not slamming the article. Hmm... it doesn&;#39;t have me "Jumping out of my chair", though.</p><p>In case you didn&;#39;t notice, I love AI. In fact, while I am typing this, I am snacking on the "Take The Cake" icecream from it. =) </p><p>So, I shall shorten this message with this..</p><p>GET OFF OF THE COMPUTER, GET ON A STAGE, AND LETS HERE YOU SING.</p><p>Have fun!!! :~) </p>

You guys are horrible.  You know, yeah there are alot of bad singers that make there way thru.  But as far as one of the comments.  That you know people that could sing circles around Chris Daughtry.  Some how I think not.  There have been a few good singers from all of this.  Carrie Underwood, Kellie Clarkson, Chris Daughtry.  And I think you all are completly full of it.  Of course the people that did not make it are going to say whatver you want them to say.  Anyone knows that.  You all are so wonderful let me tell you.  You have so much talent that you have to start some stupid website to dog other people on.  Thing is, you will never in your whole life have half the money, fame or fortune that SOME of these American Idol&;#39;s do.  So, you know what.  Dog the show, makes fools out of yourselves.  But the show is here to stay.  And more importantly, the contestants who do do well, are still going to be famous and have a life.  You are still going to be sitting at home running your stupid site to put down the ones who are bad.  So have fun with it, and please do tell me if anyone ever really gives a crap what you think.

Finally, someone who makes some sense on here. Amen to you!!! Chris Daughtry is amazing! Plus, I actually liked Kellie Pickler last season. I was shocked that she was a VFTW pick!

Daughtry is amazing...amazingly shitty.

You both suck.

And before you start mouthing off, let&;#39;s see you spell HEAR correctly.<div><br /></div><div>Idiot.</div>

This web site is a bogus as American Idol.  AI is nothing more than a Clive Davis "Focus Group" like he&;#39;s had since before most of you idiots were born.  In the 70s, Davis used to send his recordings to Dallas to a focus group that sent them to people to be judged as a hit or not.   Talent didn&;#39;t matter, it was whether or not the one song they sent from Davis was judged by a group of people.  True talent died in the music industry long before the bean counters like Fox took over.  Simon Cowell is a British egomaniac who would not know real talent if it was sitting on his face.  Paula Abdul was a weak star of sorts, a fair dancer and a terrible singer.  She&;#39;s having fun pretending being a superstar while she&;#39;s handpicking contestants to sleep with.  When will she get caught with one of the females?  It won&;#39;t be long.   Randy Jackson is the only one of the three with any musical talent yet he is overshawdowed by the other two jerkoffs.  The popularity of American Idol is nothing more than an illusion created by a music mogul who knows the real secret to American culture:  "no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."  Clive makes millions and millions more, total zero Simon makes millions and his ego grows, Paula gets laid, Randy gets disrespected and the show goes on.  And the old sick greedmonger, Rupert Murdoch, gets richer letting these people scam the public.  But the worst part is that America falls for it.  Like George Bush, American Idol is making Americans look like fools....and it is justified.

<p>Ok on a similar note of how the auditions portrayed differently on television than what actually happens, I have another question. I&;#39;ve noticed on recent episodes where the contestants compete, that when they do the quick recap of everyone singing at the end of the show, you know, like they show a 10 second clip of every contestant - those clips are often NOT from the same performance of the song; you can tell sometimes by observing subtle differences.</p><p>THe first time I noticed was when Blake Lewis sang 311&;#39;s All Mixed up. When they showed his recap at the end of the show, his little beat-box riff seemed a bit off from what I remember, so I rewound (thanks Tivo) and, sure enough, it was a completely different performance, because at the same part of the song he did something completely different. </p><p>Another quite obvious one was just this past week - when Melinda Doolittle sang that song from Oliver - when they showed her singing the last sentence "As long as he....neeeds...meeee" in the recap, they show her doing a rather goofy looking finger-pointing hand at the audience while singing this last phrase, but in her actual performance earlier in the show, her hands had done something completely different. If you are able to watch these shows again on Tivo or something somehow, go back and look and you&;#39;ll see what I&;#39;m talking about. </p><p>Why is this important? Well this just leads me to wonder, if the contestants are actually getting to do multiple takes of these performances, how do things like Brandon Rogers forgetting his lyrics on national TV happen when they get more than one chance to perform the song? </p><p> So can anyone explain this - why there seem to be multiple performances that they can take footage from? And why, if there are, people are still shown totally messing up? Do only the contestants that the producers like get a do-over or something? Any comments or explanations are appreciated. </p>

I believe they hold a dress rehearsal the day before the live show.

<p>First, while it was an enjoyable read, my reaction was pretty much "DUH".</p><p>Seriously...this is a TV show. You&;#39;d have to be an idiot not to realize that this stuff is heavily edited. My wife and I actually spend many of the earlier shows discussing exactly *how* we think it was edited...when something was taped, what we probably didn&;#39;t see, etc. </p><p>I&;#39;ve always been curious about the process and some of this answered a few of my questions. Unfortunatley, while I wouldn&;#39;t be at all surprised if nearly everything you wrote were true, much of it is rather poorly sourced and hardly "proof." </p><p> Of course, even if everything is 100% true...so what? </p><p> Finally....the only real exception I have is your assertion that "We all have friends that can sing circles around Katharine McPhee and Chris Daughtry" I spent my entire 20&;#39;s making a (piss-poor) living in professional musical theatre...small regional stuff and I never really made it, but I&;#39;ve known hundreds of professionals and have had a number of friends who have been on Broadway multiple times. I&;#39;ve met and worked with literally hundreds of (mostly) talented singers. While I might agree that Chris Daughtry is highly overrated, there have been a number of performers on AI, like McPhee, Clarkson and more recently Melinda Doolitle who are not nearly as common as you seem to believe. </p><p>At least be open to the fact that there are others out there -- who aren&;#39;t completely deaf and/or living in a hole -- who do see something special in a number of the ones who make it to the finals. </p>

Well then I obviously have a chance at being the next american idol too. I should audition. lol