Son of Simon
02-20-2008, 12:25 AM
Maybe I'm being overly critical here, but on the whole I was very diappointed with the guys tonight.
Half were flat out boring, creepy, or forgettable. At the end of the show I closed my eyes and could have sworn it was the same guy singing 10 out of the 12 songs.
I didn't even bother to remember many of the names, so I'll break this down in order of performance and assign nicknames.
Contestant 1- Who????
He sang a song. He did weird things with his eyes. And that's about all I remembered.
Contestant 2- Chickeze Eze
Okay so I remembered his name. And I remembered his crushed orange velvet blazer. And I recall the song. The only problem is- he's not cool enough to pull off any of it. So...of you go.
Contest 3- Ellen?
At this point the show starts to get hazy for me. Ellen is weird (Colton... I guess?), but in a forgettable way.
Then you have David Cook- aka "Comb-over". He's far and away my least favorite contestant amongst the guys, and the only thing I really remember is how much I hate the "I'm-balding-so-I-better-comb-it-over-and-pretend-I'm-edgy" thing. Sucked.
David Archuleta (I call him Stevie) and Danny Noriega I liked, though both picked bad songs. Noriega may barely make the top 10 (due to American demographics), and Archuleta should go further.
Then you have like 2 or three guys who are COMPLETELY forgettable. I'm going to cheat and look at the names from THR's posts...okay got it:
Luke Menard- Who? What did he sing? Huh?
Jason Yaegar? Umm...can we just call them Who? and What? for short?
Then you got Robbie Carrico, sort of Chris Daughtry "lite". I'm sure he'll get votes- I mean people liked that "More than words" song from Xtreme, or he could sing that crappy Mr. Biggs song...but umm...yeah...boring. Boring with a hair conditioner requirement.
And then Garret something...who sang something...and looked like Richard Marx had a kid with Hotlips from MASH. Sucked.
Now even though Jason whathisface looks like Milli AND Vanilli had a kid...he could easily sing and outperform both of his parents. Overall my favorite performance of the night. Yay! I remembered something!
And finally Michael Johns, Basically a lock for the top 3.
I'm still going to go on record that while his earlier stuff was excellent- this performance was the MOST OVERRATED of the night, and Michael Johns is by far the MOST OVERRATED of the guys. The song had 3 opportunities for big notes, but Johns backed way...way off the other two notes to make sure he hit that last one, but on the whole the song was more for entertainment value than atheletic singing. He'll go far, and I'll just tell people how overrated I think he is.
If I forgot a performer in that mix- please believe that I felt the person must have been THAT forgettable.
Tomorrow- I'm hoping to see bigger, better, more memorable performances from the girls. Initially I'm looking forward to the performances of Alexandrea Lushington, Syesha, and of course my girl Kady Malloy!
Pick better songs ladies- the guys set the bar low IMHO.
-SoS
Half were flat out boring, creepy, or forgettable. At the end of the show I closed my eyes and could have sworn it was the same guy singing 10 out of the 12 songs.
I didn't even bother to remember many of the names, so I'll break this down in order of performance and assign nicknames.
Contestant 1- Who????
He sang a song. He did weird things with his eyes. And that's about all I remembered.
Contestant 2- Chickeze Eze
Okay so I remembered his name. And I remembered his crushed orange velvet blazer. And I recall the song. The only problem is- he's not cool enough to pull off any of it. So...of you go.
Contest 3- Ellen?
At this point the show starts to get hazy for me. Ellen is weird (Colton... I guess?), but in a forgettable way.
Then you have David Cook- aka "Comb-over". He's far and away my least favorite contestant amongst the guys, and the only thing I really remember is how much I hate the "I'm-balding-so-I-better-comb-it-over-and-pretend-I'm-edgy" thing. Sucked.
David Archuleta (I call him Stevie) and Danny Noriega I liked, though both picked bad songs. Noriega may barely make the top 10 (due to American demographics), and Archuleta should go further.
Then you have like 2 or three guys who are COMPLETELY forgettable. I'm going to cheat and look at the names from THR's posts...okay got it:
Luke Menard- Who? What did he sing? Huh?
Jason Yaegar? Umm...can we just call them Who? and What? for short?
Then you got Robbie Carrico, sort of Chris Daughtry "lite". I'm sure he'll get votes- I mean people liked that "More than words" song from Xtreme, or he could sing that crappy Mr. Biggs song...but umm...yeah...boring. Boring with a hair conditioner requirement.
And then Garret something...who sang something...and looked like Richard Marx had a kid with Hotlips from MASH. Sucked.
Now even though Jason whathisface looks like Milli AND Vanilli had a kid...he could easily sing and outperform both of his parents. Overall my favorite performance of the night. Yay! I remembered something!
And finally Michael Johns, Basically a lock for the top 3.
I'm still going to go on record that while his earlier stuff was excellent- this performance was the MOST OVERRATED of the night, and Michael Johns is by far the MOST OVERRATED of the guys. The song had 3 opportunities for big notes, but Johns backed way...way off the other two notes to make sure he hit that last one, but on the whole the song was more for entertainment value than atheletic singing. He'll go far, and I'll just tell people how overrated I think he is.
If I forgot a performer in that mix- please believe that I felt the person must have been THAT forgettable.
Tomorrow- I'm hoping to see bigger, better, more memorable performances from the girls. Initially I'm looking forward to the performances of Alexandrea Lushington, Syesha, and of course my girl Kady Malloy!
Pick better songs ladies- the guys set the bar low IMHO.
-SoS