<![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:31:23 EST Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:31:23 EST http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4582022 they need to kick off the skunk hair nurse. she sucks so hard!!!

nightfloat

]]> 33:364517:c4582022 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:31:23 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4578474 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.

mashpeeoc

]]> 33:364517:c4578474 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:12:37 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4571904 @sicksteanein: I think you're right. She's like Streisand or Dion, without the charm.

And that's saying something.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> 33:364517:c4571904 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:29:50 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4570580 Hmmm.... my post disappeared... or did it?

kityglitr

]]> 33:364517:c4570580 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:48:58 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4570318 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.

kityglitr

]]> 33:364517:c4570318 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:40:38 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4569817 @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.

sicksteanein

]]> 33:364517:c4569817 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:23:20 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4569788 @derby: @sicksteanein: @92BuickLeSabre: carly's dominance is more a testament to the weakness of the ladies' field this year than anything else, really.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:364517:c4569788 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:22:33 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4569372 @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.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> 33:364517:c4569372 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:08:40 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4568869 @derby: I'm with you 100%.

sicksteanein

]]> 33:364517:c4568869 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:50:48 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4568855 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.

righteousmaelstrom

]]> 33:364517:c4568855 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:50:25 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4568814 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!"

sicksteanein

]]> 33:364517:c4568814 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:49:00 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4568431 @letterb: I also thought that looked remarkably like Amy Winehouse.

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:364517:c4568431 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:36:21 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4568376 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.

derby

]]> 33:364517:c4568376 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:34:20 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4567947 I think Carly Smithson has a tattoo of Amy Winehouse on her right arm. Just sayin'.

letterb

]]> 33:364517:c4567947 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:19:18 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4566378 @Halfwit:

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

whoneedslight

]]> 33:364517:c4566378 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:22:11 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4566259 @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."

Halfwit

]]> 33:364517:c4566259 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:18:22 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4565946 @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....


whoneedslight

]]> 33:364517:c4565946 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:06:20 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4565331 @Thierry: Amanda always looks so bored when she's performing. And because of that, I just can't connect with her.

El Zilcho!

]]> 33:364517:c4565331 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:42:17 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4564955 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...

Thierry

]]> 33:364517:c4564955 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:26:09 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4564008 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.

extracrispy

]]> 33:364517:c4564008 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:39:07 EST <![CDATA[Paula Steals The Show From Under The Girls' Feet]]> http://idolator.com/364517/paula-steals-the-show-from-under-the-girls-feet#c4563698 Songs I Wish Happened On American Idol During 80's Week:
Danny Noreaga - Dancin' With Myself
"Cutesy" Davey Archuletta - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off
Daughtry 2.0 - Dancin' In The Dark
Michael Johns - In A Big Country/Everlasting Love
Carly Smithson - Joey (I'm Not Angry Anymore)
Kady Malloy - I Know What Boys Like (sung in her britney voice)

I'd also like to suggest that the contestants who have no shot at sticking around for another week -- they know who they are -- have to start going all out and singing songs that have no business being on American Idol. For example, Luke should have done "The Final Countdown" like he was part of a Gob Bluth magic show.







mashpeeoc

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