Comments on: Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls’ Feet

By: nightfloat

nightfloat — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:31:23 +0000

they need to kick off the skunk hair nurse. she sucks so hard!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:12:37 +0000

Ok quick question – from wikipedia’ing this season of Am. Id. it looks like the vast majority of the participants have pagent experience. Carly, Robbie (RIP), Kristy, Kady, and Michael were all at one point signed to a label. Davey Archuletta one StarSearch a few years ago, Luke is in some national acapella group, etc. I think the main issue this season is that no one has seemed geniuinely EXCITED to be up there performing this year… well with the exception of Asia (sp?) who seems truely excited to be performing every week. Hopefully next week when the cateogories get a little more tightened up, we’ll see some genuine emotion out of this crop and find someone to cheer for.

Also, I don’t think Davey’s got it wrapped up just yet… Paris Bennett, Melinda Doolittle, Howard Dean and Daughtry were ALL early front runners and lost. He also doesn’t think “Imagine” is a sad song, so… strike two.

By: 92BuickLeSabre

92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:29:50 +0000

@sicksteanein: I think you're right. She's like Streisand or Dion, without the charm.

And that's saying something.

By: kityglitr

kityglitr — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:48:58 +0000

Hmmm…. my post disappeared… or did it?

By: kityglitr

kityglitr — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:40:38 +0000

I’m thinking Amanda already knows she’s off the show (what’s that? It’s all fixed, you say?) and was subdued for that reason. Brooke was smart with her song choice and that will work for her. Carly is a no brainer. But to anyone who does not believe the show is fixed, and fixed big time, just look at Kady. Sure, she sounded great at auditions and the early Hollywood rounds, but she just sounds like crap now. And that fake-y beauty pageant look of surprise (while she was actually smirking at the same time!) when she and the other blonde were waiting to see who would be kicked last week was just horrible. The only personality that girl has is that of a mean attention whore.

By: sicksteanein

sicksteanein — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:23:20 +0000

@92BuickLeSabre: It's the same reason her major label career never took off I imagine. She's like a cold robot. Two weeks ago it looked like she was constantly reminding herself to smile. She'd get this scowl on her face and her circuitry would kick in to produce one of the fakest smiles I've seen. It was creepy.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:22:33 +0000

@derby: @sicksteanein: @92BuickLeSabre: carly's dominance is more a testament to the weakness of the ladies' field this year than anything else, really.

By: 92BuickLeSabre

92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:08:40 +0000

@derby and sicksteanein: You are not alone.

Something is simply missing. I can't put my finger on it; probably because whatever it is isn't there.

By: sicksteanein

sicksteanein — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:50:48 +0000

@derby: I'm with you 100%.

By: righteousmaelstrom

righteousmaelstrom — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:50:25 +0000

If you see Simon’s arm on the top of Paula’s chair at the beginning of the show (and the middle and the end for that matter), it is a dead giveaway that the out-of-it-scale is going to be up there.

By: sicksteanein

sicksteanein — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:49:00 +0000

As an unabashed 80s apologist here, I was kind of bummed to see most of these songs "modernized" in their arrangements.

Just once, I'd like to have had one contestant enter the first session with the band saying: "What the hell is that real drum kit doing here? I want to see some hexagonal pads!"

By: Rob Murphy

Rob Murphy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:36:21 +0000

@letterb: I also thought that looked remarkably like Amy Winehouse.

By: derby

derby — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:34:20 +0000

is it me? i just don’t get carly smithson. it’s me, right? she has a nice voice, but i’m just not feeling it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:19:18 +0000

I think Carly Smithson has a tattoo of Amy Winehouse on her right arm. Just sayin’.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:22:11 +0000

@Halfwit:

Oh, song choice would not matter if the trainwreck was large enough.

By: Halfwit

Halfwit — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:18:22 +0000

@whoneedslight: I believe that they a very restricted list of songs that they're able to perform. It's not just an open "perform an 80s song".

It's kind of the same reason why you never see some misguided hesher trying to do a Tool song or something during the auditions... also how they're able to put togeher those "awesome" montages of trainwrecks singing "You are my sunshine."

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:06:20 +0000

@mashpeeoc:

The Final Countdown with spirit fingers. I like it. I wish one of the destined-to-go performers would really take things up a notch and go out in a blaze of glory. Give something so over the top that it would be talked about for years.
But alas, the contestants seem to lack both the humor or creativity necessary to do something like that. I can still dream though....

By: El Zilcho!

El Zilcho! — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:42:17 +0000

@Thierry: Amanda always looks so bored when she's performing. And because of that, I just can't connect with her.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:26:09 +0000

What was up with Amanda? Being uncomfortable onstage is one thing, but looking at the floor the entire length of the performance AND while the judges are showering you with praise? Either she’s on the run and doesn’t want anyone to see her face, or she was really strung out…

By: extracrispy

extracrispy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:39:07 +0000

I loved, loved, loved Brooke White’s stripped-down, folksy version of “Love is a Battlefield.” But I still think she’s better suited for a coffee house than the American Idol stage.