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And the Idolette With the Least Votes Is…ARGH, MY DVR CUT OFF!

Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:59 pm Posted in American Idol 0 Comments

Was only halfway through Smokey Robinson and Joss Stone’s semi-creepy duet when I noticed that the ep’s stated running time was only 30 minutes…and then BAM, the show ended.

Where’s my drama? Where’s Stevie? WHERE’S MY RESULT???

Dammit. I really don’t want to just look it up online. So anticlimactic! But I suppose I won’t be able to wait until tomorrow.

Dear President Obama,

This is your fault. Yours, and DirecTV. Not at all mine. (OK, maybe a little.)

Signed,

Devastated

The Top 10 Go to Mehtown

Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:52 pm Posted in American Idol 0 Comments

I know, this week’s results show is about to start. So here are my highly abbreviated impressions of the Top 10’s tackling of Motown hits:

1. Smokey’s green eyes are kinda freaking me out.

2. Matt sings “Let’s Get It On.” I’m not exactly sure I agree with Robinson’s assessment that the cover would “floor” Marvin Gaye. In their praise, Kara’s suggestive and Paula’s making sense. What’s going on?

3. Kris the Kutey sings “How Sweet It Is,” and is unsurprisingly adorable if still borderline generic.

4. Scott is wearing salmon pants and a pink shirt, the combination of which, according to my husband, “is like vomit.” He sings “Can’t Hurry Love.” But he can’t sing, and it’s about time everyone realizes that and votes him off so he can go back to dressing himself without TV cameras capturing the result.

5. After Paula whips out a coloring book for Simon, Ryan asks her, “Dare I ask what else you have under this table?” Paula responds, “It’s under my skirt!” And the effects of her magic Coke have kicked in.

6. My Idol girlfriend, Megan, tries “For Once in My Life.” I have to admit: It’s not great. But please keep her on!

7. Anoop sings “Ooh Baby Baby.” Bad. Bad. Bad.

8. Sarver, whom my household has it in for after he skated by last week as Alexis got kicked off, attempts to “take it to church” with “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” Soooo smiley and white bread. Painful. But not as painful as when Simon flat-out tells him he has no chance of winning.

9. Lil sings “Heat Wave” like the show’s short on time. It may not have been too much faster than the song’s original tempo, but it feels super sped-up and doesn’t let her voice sound anything but ordinary. And hey, the judges agree with me!

10. Adam’s going to sing “Tracks of My Tears,” but then some dude in a suit and pompadour takes the stage. Whoa, it’s Lambert! And he’s pretty damn good, totally owns the night by keeping things soft and showing off a perfect falsetto. Kara: “I’ve got six words: One of the best performances of the night!” That’s not six words.

11. Danny and His Glasses sing “Get Ready.” Mercifully he kind of marches around the stage instead of dances, but it’s still only workaday good. Getting a little tired of him.

12. Allison sings “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” like a 40-year-old whisky-drinkin’ R&B diva. Awesome. Plus, Paula has a mustache.

T minus 10 until the protracted results. Look for my wrap-up around, oh, 24 hours from now.

Top 11 Tackle Country Week

Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:36 pm Posted in American Idol 0 Comments

It’s Country Week, which has to be better than Michael Jackson week. Right? Well…

The judges are introduced as they walk onto the stage, a new bit of fanfare I’m not digging this season. Uh, is Kara from the future? What’s with the Mylar dress?

Skeletor is the guest mentor…oh wait, it’s Randy Travis. Anyway, let’s do this thing:

1. The Roughneck goes first, singing a Garth Brooks song that sounds an awful lot like “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” He’s OK; that harmonica player, though, is WAY too excited to be there. Roughneck sasses Simon, which is apparently the new thing to do, and it’s already getting old.

2. Allison sings “Blame It On Your Heart,” a song I’m not ashamed to admit I love. She’s great…no, wait, she’s dope, a word Randy will trot out once more before the end of the show and that I predict is going to be his new go-to critique.

Simon calls Allison precocious, which I don’t see at all; she’d have to look and sound like the 16-year-old she is to earn that description, and she definitely doesn’t look 16. Like a monkey, maybe. But not  16.

3. Kris “Teddy Bear” Allen is going to sing…”And So It Goes?” THIS IS NOT A COUNTRY SONG. Billy Joel wrote and recorded it. Bob Dylan did a cover. Not country. Gotta rewind the DVR; missed the very beginning of TB’s mentor session. OK, Garth Brooks covered it, too. Still not a country  song, but it’s pretty, even with TB’s not-outstanding vocals.

Simon says it “wasn’t over the top” — was he talking to Paula during some of TB’s flourishes?  And what was with that lurid eyebrow raise from Travis after TB finished his practice run? Yikes. Hope he got outta that room before kindly ol’ Randy offered him some Jesus Juice.

4. Lil sings Martina McBride’s “Independence Day” and sounds good to me. Randy once again proves he’s an idiot by saying “it didn’t feel comfortable for me on you.” Uh, maybe because she’s not a country artist? Most entertaining part, though, is when Simon insists on calling her “Little,” as if it’s the name on her birth certificate.

5. Adam matches Kara in a we-come-in-peace spaceman outfit. He mentions to Travis that he’s not doing Johnny Cash’s version of “Ring of Fire,” but one with sitars and an Indian flavor. Travis: “Now you’re scarin’ me.” And then to the camera: “I was speechless. I don’t know what to say about this boy.” Further rags on his nail polish but manages to say that Adam seems like a nice enough kid.

As far as the performance, I start typing that Adam, who has not been a favorite of mine, sounds hella-awesome on the high notes. But then he goes into his falsetto, and…oof. No good. And then he starts wailing!

Kara, Adam’s UFO co-pilot, sums it up politely: “It was strange.” But then Simon, as usual, sums it up best: “I think what Randy [Travis] was trying to say was, “What the hell was that? I think there are a lot of people throwing their televisions out the window right now….indulgent rubbish. Really, really horrific.”

6. More Martina McBride from Scott “Skating on My Disability” MacIntyre. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Please vote him off, people — his voice is just NOT that good. Plus, he looks like he belongs in Madame Tussauds.

On a side note, does Randy really think there will eve be a Bruce Hornsby week? He seems to be sipping from Paula’s cup. Told Scott that he was “looking for hot, crazy, unbelievable vocals from you.” Wrong contestant, dude.

7. Alexis is doing “Jolene.” Yay! Except — boo. The arrangement is bad; the vocals are meh. “I’m just trying to bring my own little flavor to it,” Alexis retorts, which is a great way to spin “I sucked.” Paula says, “I don’t care about pitch problems.” Really? Did my TV switch channels?

And are we doomed to spend the rest of the season hearing Alexis judged based on her level of “dirtiness?” For the love of God, please shut up about that throwaway piece of audition advice already.

8. Danny’s glasses perform “Jesus Take the Wheel.” The beginning is awful, but it’s all in the name of the big-ass power chorus. He mouths “wow” when Paula posits that Carrie Underwood herself (gasp!) would probably buy Danny’s cover of her song. Perhaps not surprising considering dude seems to be wearing a reverse straitjacket.

9. Anoop is singing “Always on My Mind.” I giggle when Travis mentions that Anoop Dawg sang it before and says, “It’s hard to get willy out of your mind.” Whoops, he meant “Willie.”

He sings; it’s “dope.” I can’t believe Simon says something as cheesy as “You just went from zero to hero.” I also can’t believe Anoop wore an argyle hoodie for country week, but whatev.

10. Ah, Megan…I should probably confess that I’ve anointed her my Idol girlfriend. She is singing Patsy Cline’s “Walkin’ After Midnight,” to which the obviously open-minded Travis responds: “Ummm…OK.”

I gotta admit that Megan’s cute little twists and inflections didn’t really work this time, though the vocals are better than the dancing. I also think she pulled a Haley Scarnato and misunderstood the gist of the song — it’s all aching and yearning, and Megan’s delivery was pretty cheery.

But wow — girlfriend had the flu, bad enough to have gone to the hospital. In light of that, Kara’s “You’re a winner!” doesn’t seem so…weird.

11. Matt Timberlake sings more Carrie Underwood, a ballad called “So Small.” Boring! Though, to be fair, not as boring as some of the others tonight.

Kara: “Matt, there ain’t nothin’ small about you!” Er…I’ll just leave it at that.

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