Well, not exactly as of yet but the record industry already has already shown interest in two idol contestants. (David Archuleta and David Hernandez) It is being reported that songwriters should start working on song for those two debut records.
We know both of them have great pipes but doesn’t crap like this ruin the image of the show??? We are not even in the top 6 yet, I would like to give these two time to crack under the pressure first. In that case what about David Cook? This dude can rock and has talent why aren’t we talking about him?
Anyway, based on the polls we have done here on idolme.com David Archuleta has 3 times as votes as all the other contestants combined. Maybe they should just sign him now and cancel the season.
The lack of talent on this season’s show becomes more glaringly apparent as we make our way to the final week.
Unfortunately the producers, the judges, and Fox itself has sold their collective souls for this season’s early monstrous ratings. What served Fox so well in February has come back to bite them in the ass in April.
This competition, In my opinion, is OVER. Forget about the Bald, the Loud, the Posers, the screamers, and the incredibly untalented.
Jordin Sparks is the only singer left in this competition that has Real star quality, likability, and charisma. She has the greatest upside of everyone left. She is going to win. You may disagree, but then you would be wrong. Now that I have gotten that out of the way, let’s look at tonight’s………………….
Opening Act
Phil Stacey opened tonight’s festivities with Keith Urban’s “Where the Blacktop ends.”
To me it sounded like Harry Connick Jr. meets Travis Tritt. The judges, and Phil himself, all agreed that this genre of music is now the “Wheelhouse” for Mr. Stacey.
Maybe I just don’t get it, but I don’t see this guy setting the Contemporary Country Music charts on fire, like say a Carrie Underwood.
I will say that his performance was the second best tonight behind Jordin. But then we are entering into “Winner of the Tallest Midget” contest area. He’ll be safe.
Impressing the Mentor
Jordin chose to do Martina McBride’s “Broken Wing” She, unlike the evenings remaining singers, actually entertained me.
She is beautiful, poised, and deserves the accolades. I have been saying for weeks now that I believe Jordin has been building momentum towards the final and I will reiterate that position now, she will win.
Now we find Out
Tonight we find out the power of VFTW and Howard Stern. I do believe that the “Sanjaya Experience” has now gotten to the point of irritability. Sanjaya has flat lined.
His performance of “Let’s give em Something To Talk About”, was brutally awful. He was off key, flat, and tonight, gave every indication that he may be tone deaf.
I am of the opinion that he deserves to be in the bottom three. But if VFTW saves him this week, I hope that his casualty is our next screamer…I mean singer, Koo Koo Jones.
WHY DOES THIS WOMAN HAVE TO SCREAM EVERY SONG SHE PERFORMS?
Tonight, Ms. Koo Koo chose to do a Carrie Underwood Hit, “Jesus, Take the Wheel.” It was blasphemous. Lisp-Shouting her way through this song was brutally annoying.
Like Simon said, “It’s Like Having Hamburger for Breakfast.”
Time to go back to Flint dear. Bottom Three
This Idiot Poser
This Dumb-ass decides to mysteriously develop a Southern accent, (Which he exhibits before he sings) while Martina mentors him. He supposedly chooses to “Deliberately” give the old Nasal treatment to some song that I didn’t recognize.
It had all of the professional vocal quality of a gurgling open drainpipe. When confronted by Simon with the fact that his performance sounded Nasally, Poser C.R. decreed that it was done on purpose!
Then Realizing that he just got hammered by critique on national TV, this idiot blurts out a half hearted message of sympathy directed towards those involved with the tragedy at Va Tech.
He apparently thinks that this will cover his putrid performance by showing his compassionate side.
He deserves to be booted off the show for this alone!
There’s a reason why Country Stations don’t play Nsync tunes……
Bottom Six
Yeah Tina Turner……
The song that Doo Doo did do, was what she done did?
Just because you back up a singer with a slide guitar and a fiddle, doesn’t make a song country.
She sang a Blues tune under the guise of being a country song. She has been doing this all season long and to tell the truth, it has become tiring. She skirts around the theme of the night by choosing a song that always has a style that fits what she does best, R&B.
And with the way that this years show has been pimping her as the winner, she could choose to sing the National Anthem on Bon Jovi night and they would let her. She may make the final….
Closing this Gem
It was up to Blake to stop tonight’s’ hemmoraging.
He chose to sing Tug Mcgraw’s kid’s,
“When the Stars turn Blue.”
More and more, week to week, this kid seems to be morphing into a hip hop version of Pat Boone.
He seems to have peaked and shown us all of just what he has left in the tank. He will be safe because of Seacrest’s’ introduction surrounded by hot teenage girls…….
Did all you teenage Girls catch the subliminal messaging aimed at you?
For all red blooded, lustful, male viewers American Idol has NOW become a singing competition. With the opening of Fox’s trap door, the only piece of eye candy available to us Neanderthals has been removed. What little testosterone fueled sex drive I have left, will most certainly miss the presence of Ms. Scarnato.
It is indeed a sad day when this is now the best looking woman on American Idol.
Tonight, J-Lo sat, advised, and cashed a huge check. She needs the work, and what better way to advertise to thirty million viewers that you haven’t died. Here are six minutes of the J-Lo I used to love…..
She’ll always be my “Fly Girl”
The Good
It has become strikingly apparent, at least to me, that these two, Jordin and Blake, should be the final two left standing at season’s end.
Jordin and Blake’s performances continue to emit “Fresh and Young”. They were the class of an otherwise “Stale and Old” night of mediocrity.
Jordin sang, “The Rhythm is Gonna Get You.” She did an excellent job, and seemed to genuinely enjoy performing tonight. In my opinion her performances are still on the ascend. She is playing this like a cold blooded gambler, waiting until the final moment to show her winning hand.
Blake chose J-Lo’s hubby’s “I Need To Know.” It was contemporary, and entertaining. He still looks to be the dark horse on the inside rail waiting to make his move on the leaders.
“The Jaya” makes his move to compete
OK, What do all of you Haters have to say now? He’s Safe for another week…….Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah……..
The Bad
Sexually Harassed in front of 30 Million Viewers.
Even for Simon, this was low. He tells Haley to basically perform without clothes because she can’t sing. In real life Simon gets sued. Yeah, real Life….It is interesting to me how for the last couple of weeks, “Simon the Letch” has enjoyed undressing Scarnato with his eyes and complementing her all in the same motion, but tonight decides to attack her for her style. Haley! Did you say No? I guess it’s her turn to leave. Bottom Three.
Chris should have have been charged with rape for what he did to Santana and Rob Thomas. He butchered one of my favorite songs, “Smooth” and made it painful to listen to. It’s good that he’s nailing Lindsey Lohan, he’ll need a place to crash in a couple of weeks. Bottom three
Phil, did you really feel it necessary to mention that your daughter named her stuffed toy “Simon Cow”? I smell bottom three along with a heaping side of desperation. Oh yes, he also pulverized Santana into mush. Bottom three
The Fugly
The over-promoted duo of “MeeDoo and Kiki” are quickly aging before our very eyes on LIVE TV. The show opened Tonight with these two.
I have grown weary of being told how good they are. They are unremarkable average singers. They may find a niche in the same way that Jennifer Hudson did by way of acting. But honestly, do you think that you’ll be driving down the road one day listening to Mee Doo rocking your world on the car radio? I didn’t think so. These two are being force fed to us by Fox, the Judges, and you Damned Bloggers! They are worn, old, one trick ponies. Diversification is a word that is not in their vocabulary.
The show opened with Mee Doo in a Black dress exposing her sloped shoulders, and accentuating her lack of a visible neck. This was Mee Doo at her Sexy and Sultry best according to the judges.
Yep, sexy and sultry…sort of like her
Sexy and sultry maybe to the Munchkins of Oz, but unless you harbour some strange fetish for dwarfism features in women, it doesn’t translate. She sang the song “Sway.” It sounded like every other song she has sung. The very best part of the performance was when Simon said it Sucked.
Did you happen to notice that the “Oh Gosh, You really like Me, Humble Mee Doo” looked a little pissed?
She’s probably is a major Diva who’s about to crack.
Kiki decided to “Breast Feed”, I mean “Force feed” her cleavage on us all tonight.
She really needed to put a harness on the fun bags tonight. She, like the aforementioned Mee Doo, tried to seduce us with her womanly whiles.
Maybe on the streets of her hometown of Flint Michigan that works, but not so much on national TV. My sincerest hope is that these two will cancel each other out, opening the way for a Jordin/Blake final.
Sanjaya (sanjaya) is a character from the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The name Sanjaya literally means “Victory”.
He’s the Bad singer with the Best hair and the cutest smile. He is mocked by late night talk show hosts, and the target of anti-American Idol websites He has received less than flattering endorsements from The King of All Media, Howard Stern, and has had the backing of the much publicised website Vote for The Worst. Com. His Google search hits have eclisped even those from earlier this season of Antonella Barba’s Bj scandal.
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 1,340,000 for Sanjaya Malakar. (0.07 seconds)
But Sanjaya Malakar has survived yet another round of American Idol, prompting an angry and passionate debate over whether America’s most watched TV show has lost what little street cred it had, or unwittingly created another (”Hung-ian”) “D”List superstar.
Over the past three weeks, Sanjay has reduced a 13 year-old girl to tears on national television, inspired a man, (Matt) and a woman, (”J”), to supposedly go on a hunger strike until he is removed from the show. And even after all of this, he somehow continually smiles through vicious comments from Idol judges, delivered in as many ways as he has hair styles and clunker notes. For example, this judging comment made by Simon last Tuesday, “Sanjaya, I don’t think it matters anymore what we say … I think you are in your own universe and if people like you, good luck,” said Cowell.
“Take No Prisoners”
Sanjaya (sanjaya) is a character from the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The name Sanjaya literally means “Victory”.
Does Sanjay’s march to the Idol crown, appear to Hardcore Idol fans, as resembling Civil War General Sherman’s’ march towards the ocean, and the Burning of Atlanta?
Has Malakars mission now become a “Scorched Earth” journey to win at all costs?
It was reported that moments before Sanjaya was to take the stage last Tuesday night, he was confronted by his mother who was pleading with the singer that he couldn’t go out to perform with his hair looking the way that it did. Sanjays reply to his mother…. “Don’t worry Mom, I know what I’m doing.”
Now I can’t confirm that he actually said this, but I have suspected for a couple of weeks that Sanjay has finally realized that by being outrageous, by reinventing himself every week, he can survive this competition.
He has become unique by embracing his “Badness.”
He is surviving by being something that the others have yet to be, Entertaining.
Many would decry that Sanjaya winning the Idol Title this year would end the show.
I say, that if Malakar won, the show would grow even stronger in the years to follow because of the media overkill that would result.
If Sanjay won, people would be discussing American Idol long after the May finale. And don’t think that Fox doesn’t realize this. Remember when Idol was being promoted before this years shows began? Fox teased us with blurbs of how “This Year there will be more Surprises than Ever Before.” Could the biggest surprise this season be Sanjaya, WINNING?
“The horribly bearded Sundance Head was booted from “American Idol” last night — and today he admits there’s one cocky SOB left in the bunch.”
The rejected singer was on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM morning show, where he said one of the guys remaining on the show — whose name he wouldn’t mention — thinks he already has the competition in the bag.
Blake Lewis: The most pop-friendly contestant, he might sneak through and win it all. And he’ll beatbox his acceptance speech.
Beatboxing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beatboxing is the vocal percussion of hip hop culture and music. It is primarily concerned with the art of reproducing drum sounds using one’s voice, mouth, and nasal cavity. It can also involve singing, vocal imitation of turntable scratching, the simulation of horns, strings, and other musical instruments, and the replication of a vast array of sound effects.
The term beatboxing most likely refers to early drum machines which came with pre-programmed musical patterns.
History of Beatboxing
The technique and the art of replicating percussion sounds with one’s voice is thought to be conceived in India several thousands years ago, and the Chinese developed Kouji which was one kind of Vocal percussion Performing arts. The formers had litte relation with Hip Hop, and are not related to modern western beat boxing. This kind of sound-simulating techinique is called humming and chanting. Beatboxing is currently experiencing a second wind, thanks in part to the likes of artists like Rahzel and Kenny Muhammad, that has carried the artform across the world. In 2002, the documentary Breath Control: The History of the Human Beatbox premiered. It is a history of the art form that includes interviews with Doug E. Fresh, Emanon, Biz Markie, Marie Daulne of Zap Mama, and others. The same year even saw the emergence of a beatbox clothing label, mic(ism)® - sported and supported by beatboxers worldwide®.
From http://www.acappellanews.com/
February 17, 2007
Blake Lewis - second a cappella singer makes American Idol finals
Blake began singing in a youth choir but says he was really inspired to sing professionally after going to an M-Pact concert. Well we always knew that some of the best singers are drawn to the many benefits of singing in an a cappella group! Not one but two American Idol finalists sang in an a cappella group as Blake Lewis sang for five years with the former pop group Kickshaw. Based in Seattle Kickshaw earned a reputation for explosive a cappella and could rock the house like few others could. When Blake left the group he began a career as a beatboxer and had great success becoming National Beatbox Champion using the moniker Bshorty.
The Pacific Northwest has always been a hotbed of great a cappella and Blake, Rudy Cardenas and the members of M-Pact are all great friends.
Quite an accomplishment for a cappella singers and already some in the media are paying attention to that fact.
Attention please. Would you all please stand and offer a moment of silence for those Idols who so valiantly gave up their performing lives this evening…….Thank you.
The evenings festivities began with the much feared, and much dreaded, “Group Performance.
The “Kids” gave a stirring Brady-like rendition of “Three Dog Night’s”, Joy to the World.
It simultaneously baffles and boggles the mind as to just who this part of the show appeals to, and is geared towards.
The Four that were eliminated included a
A crooner
Ryan’s Make Believe Girl Friend
And a Filipino kid
A shout out to My Lord and Savior for keeping Princess Antonella in the competition.
Amen Brotha!!
“NEW HEADLIGHTS”
And finally, the highlight of the evening for me, the unveiling of Kellie Pickler’s brand new TaTa’S. She definitely has spent her money wisely. They looked magnificent!!
It also appears that she had her nose touched up.
I mean, except for the Dolly Parton wig, her bod was Rockin.”
Now for those of you doubting this, look at the above picture from last year, and compare it to the Melons she was yielding tonight.
What did you think Seacrest meant when he asked her if shoes were the only “New” things that she spent her money on?
“Don’t Cry Simon”
For me, the highlight of Tuesday evenings”Live” two hour premiere, was the confrontation which took place after the performance of Chris Sligh. After Sligh’s cover of Christian recording artists Mute Math’s “Typical” the fireworks commenced.
The primary combatants included Sligh, Simon, and Seacrest.
After the customary Randy and Paula niceties, it was Simon’s turn. He began his comments with his usual drivel about being torn because he likes Sligh. He goes on to make a comment that His performance reminded him of a “college gig”. What He meant by his comment was never really explained. Seacrest then entered the fray by pursuing Simon’s “College Gig” comment, chiding Cowell to respond back at Seacrest calling him “Sweetheart”, and he “Should just do his Linking job? Seacrest then shot back in his most Heterosexual rant to date, warning Cowell never to call him Sweetheart again. He followed up with the statement that “He didn’t want kind of relationship”! Me thinks that Ryan protests too much.
Then the banter between Chris and Simon hit defcon 5, and Chris became my new “SuperHero.”
In his response to Simon, Sligh made the following statement that will live in Idol infamy, “What I have to say is just because I don’t sing El Divo or Teletubbies.” These two ventures being direct properties of Cowells. Simon was visibly shaken and pissed off for the first time that I can remember.
He was left speechless.
His only comment after Sligh’s remarks was a left-handed insult comparing Chris’s weight with an obscure reference to the Teletubbies, and the statement, “You’ve Made This Uncomfortable.” I swear, I thought Simon was going to cry!
Chris has an incredibly bright future. He also has an abundance of natural talent. He has a publicly acknowledged faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He has a wonderful wife in Sarah, whom he professes his love towards daily. He has insecurities of self that anyone reading this can relate to.
His fears are normal, his life presently is not.
One can only imagine the level of anxiety, excitement, and expectation that the future holds for Him as he journeys along the road of his own personal “Pilgrims Progress.”
The following quotes were taken from the personal/public blog (Theological Digressions) of A.I. final 24 contestant Chris Sligh from the following dates. 7/29/07, 10/21/06, 1/4/07
I attempting to give a little insight into what drives this early Idol favorite forward towards his final destination of faith, fame, and life.
theologicaldigressions
These are the theological digressions and essays on a life
by Chris Sligh
“I am first and foremost a Christ-follower. I am also a rock star. I don’t feel the two are diametrically opposed. If you do…I feel bad for you.”
Chris Sligh
Life’s Pursuits, fame, Faith, and Meaning
“For some, that pursuit is money and fame and fortune. For some, the pursuit is just pure joy or hedonism. For some, the pursuit is God because that’s what we feel is truth. In doing all of these things, we all hope that we have the right answer to the question. A lot of times, the question we have is wrong in the first place, so of course the answer is wrong…but that’s neither here nor there. In my experience, which is somewhat vast (though obviously not all-inclusive), I have found that Christians many times are the worst about feeling the need to have the answers. Perhaps it is because we are taught from the beginning that we have the answers to life’s biggest questions, so we inherently need to feel as though we have said answers.”
“I guess we all have this inherent need to have the answers. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would ever actually claim to have the answers, but I think that all of us in our right minds still have thoughts of needing to know the answers to the questions of life. We have to be absolutely sure that we’re not living our lives in pursuit of something stupid or false when we could be pursuing what is the best thing for us.”
“It doesn’t “make sense” to believe in something that we can’t see or touch or hear or feel. But it makes sense that this world could not have just happened by chance. It makes sense that if someone did create the world, it would have to be a higher being, and if there is a Higher Being, then it is only natural that I should want to be with my Creator. If God is that Creator, then how do I get to Him? Is it by being good? Well, it makes sense that I could never be good enough because my bad certainly outweighs whatever good I can do. But when I hear the story that Jesus lived a perfect life and died, came back to life and all I have to do is believe that and I can spend eternity with my Creator…well that makes sense to me. Are there holes in what makes sense and what simply takes faith? Heck, yes! But no matter what you believe in, there are holes between logic and faith; it’s a simple fact of life. At least that makes more sense to me than simply trying to make my good outweigh my bad.”
“The point of all this is that we as Christians must understand the frailty of our faith. We should never be arrogant about the fact that we have the answers - or that we think we have the answers. Our goal should be to admit that, though we don’t have all the answers, we do believe that the answers we have come to are correct and make the most sense.”
The Boy within the Man
“I have recently been chiding myself. Over the last few years, I have worked very, very hard to become a better musician. I have studied songwriting and written, and written, and written some more, to better my songwriting. I have worked very hard on my instrumental skills. I have worked even harder at becoming a rock front man and becoming a better singer.”
“I guess I’m just trying to figure out when I’m going to grow up. I still find so much joy in the things that make me a kid, and at the same time find myself frustrated by the fact that I find joy in those things. I find myself still looking to people who are few years older than them and always looking to them as the “adults” in my life. I always think that by the time I get to where they are, I will feel like an adult. But every New Year brings a disappointment with where I am in life.”
And on top of it all, the thing that makes me feel most like a child is the thing that I love the most: music. I know that eventually I’ll have to give up music, if I haven’t found some success by some time in my life, but I still have this silly optimism and the ability to daydream while my head tells me that pessimism is the adult response to my current status in the music industry.”
“I’m happy.
Sure there is some disappointment and there are some regrets, but I find myself happy with the fact that I still love life, I have a beautiful wife, Sarah, who loves me, I have a church of people who love me and I love in return; and I get to do something that makes me feel like a kid. So the question remains: when do we grow up? I hope it’s not for a long time. But I’m sure most people in my life hope it’s soon. But we can’t all get what we want, can we? We’ll see who wins out.”(American Idol?)
(I have a pretty good feeling it’s going to be me)
After listening to Chris’s music I also have a pretty good feeling it’s going to be Chris.
Do you have a Favorite? Is there a “Flavor” in this Bag that just shouts out to you, “PICK ME”!? Last night, Big Brother Fox, gave us who they decided are the most talented 24 from the pool of 172.
We were not shown the selection process that was used. We were not allowed to see any actual auditions beyond 30 seconds. We were not allowed to get to know any of the contestants beyond 30 second back story film clips. We were not allowed the opportunity to hear all of the 40 who made the “Infamous Valentines Day Chair Massacre Cut Down to the Final 24″, episode.
Without me posting the names of the final 24, could anyone reading this right now look up at the group and be able to give me the names of half of the Finalists?
The bloom is off the Rose. Idol has become more of a merchandising infomercial than a show that we can relate to in a “Walter Middy, Everyman”, kind of way.
The Dream that American Idol originally propagated was, anyone can enter, anyone could win. That dream is officially DEAD. We don’t get to choose, we ultimately don’t decide. That’s already been done. American Idol has cannibalized itself, making it just another bad game show decided by executives in three piece suits.
Simon was visibly shaken and pissed off for the first time that I can remember. 
