-Warning Apolitical Alert-
I enjoy watching American Idol.
Usually.
I have noticed a number of things that I’ve forgiven before but now are really beginning to chafe me.
Here is my airing of grievances.
Every year, before the hollywood eliminations, we see the severely musically challenged get a chance to perform then sent packing with some choice insults from Simon, usualy the more deluded of the lot pack some heated words on the way out. I would rather see the entire top 10 percent of the actually talented. Then see them whittled down to a final 1 percent who get to go to hollywood. The comically pathetic crap can be lumped together on an American Idol: Worse Than Bad show or series of shows. I am insulted that AI producers show a few Awesome, a few meh, and a few bleh and expect me to think there aren’t more that fit in the first category and the blehs couldn’t be weeded out entirely.
Judges bug me for scolding the contestants for poor song choice. If you don’t want them siging certains songs or certain artists are taboo, I’ve got an idea: try this on. QUIT PUTTING THEM ON THE LIST OF SONGS TO CHOOSE FROM. Tell me if that works.
Ryan ‘we’ll find out, after these messages’ Seacrest stop telling us, the T.V. audience, we’ve only got ourselves to blame when somebody goes home. What? You mean if there were enough votes. NOBODY would go home and NOBODY would be to blame? Wow, I’ve totally misunderstood how the show works, I guess. No, you are a moron, lowest vote getters are goners no matter what.
Paula Abdul. Paulyanna Alcoholic-dul, everyone isn’t awesome. every performance isn’t wonderful. I know that’s probably just the vodka talking but it needs to shut up. Also, this habit you have of telling the really young men you just love them looks really, really bad considering what happened between the sheets…, I mean what happened between you and that kid last year. You come across as needy and well, pathetic. Also Paula, if you ever want to see what an alcoholic looks like, I suggest you take a long hard look in the mirror. Because that blurry looking, middle aged woman halfway wearing your clothes you see there, smart money says, she is one. Let’s see you do a show this season stone-cold-sober.
Randy, name dropping is something the lame make a habit of. We KNOW you work in the music industry. It’s not like you’ve never mentioned it before. Funny though, if Idol didn’t exist, would anyone, anywhere ever drop your name. I doubt it, dog.
Simon, you may be right all the time, but saying so makes you look boorish and rude. That, my limey frend, is a quality we Americans prefer to see from other Americans, not foreigners.
That’s all that’s chafing me at the current time. The whole fake drama on elimination night was annoying before but they seemed to have removed some of it.
Between cats, dogs, and American Idol, who needs Politics!!! IMAO is one more week of useless posts away from being de-linked. Like you even care.
I care.
Uh-oh. Threatened delinkification!
Although when you threaten delinkification, you really should include whom you intend to replace them with. That tactic always works when I call my cable provider/phone company and mention I found a better price for the services they offer.
Hmmm, good point. Should I go for PuppyBlender, Scrappleface, or Michelle Malkin?
PuppyBlender is a link?..
Surf’s Up! Bye!
motopo’ you dont already have those 3 linked? Novice!
I’d recommend a competitor or at least another humor type poli-blog to be dangled as the potential link replacement carrot. If you do delink, make sure to write a long winded disillusioned post to puncuate the removal. Be sure to use the word disinfranchised at least four times.
Hmmm, should we really be discussing this on their site?
She’s done. There’s only room for one jackass on television who’s wealthy, out of touch with reality, screws everything that comes along, fawns on television, and is publicly drunk all the time. And we all know that Ted Kennedy doesn’t like competition.
Ted Kennedy doesn’t like competition
that picture of Paula on the main page? I thought that hat looked familiar. Isn’t that the one TeddyK wore during the Alito hearings?
“Scaliciototio!!!!”
Spacemonkey,
Why don’t you tell us how you REALLY feel? 😎
ok, i’ve gotta disagree here. first, i don’t think AI has jumped the shark. only Paula has. she should be replaced with someone less doped up.
i agree, i’d prefer to see more talented people in the beginning; however, AI will never do that, because they’d lose a lot of viewers who only watch for that crap.
i think they should have the poor songs on the list. because if they’ll choose crappy songs now, they would choose them for their CDs (not for the filler songs, but for the main songs), and we want them to lose so we don’t get mediocre CDs. the exception is Ruben, who won, but Clay sold more CDs. Ruben always picked boring songs on the show, and he should never have won. and do we ever hear about him anymore?
i agree about the “your own fault” thing. if it’s separated by 1 vote, maybe, but come on. Brenna couldn’t have lost by 1 vote. show me the bottom contestant losing by 1 vote, and i’ll let Ryan tell me that it was someone’s fault besides Brenna’s.
i COMPLETELY agree about Randy’s namedropping. it’s not going to make me think he’s a music expert. you know what would convince me better? if he could pick out Kellie’s million pitch problems.
i have to disagree on Simon. saying he’s right all the time makes him even more right. and sexier. and since he’s subjected to working with alkeypaula, you should cut him some slack. he works with a couple of jokers.
Ahhhhhhhhh.************ has just been dedinked.
Scotty, I jealously guard my linkage, and give them away meanly. IMAO ISN’T one of fifty thousand links or even one of fifty. It is in a very elite group, and de-linkage would be a major setback to their prestige. Maybe.
Idol, schmidol. Here’s what I don’t understand;
Simon:
The show is called “American Idol”. So why do they have some foppy brit making the call on what’s good American pop?
Paula:
She was popular… 18 years ago. and I still don’t know why. Who really thought she could sing very well to begin with? Now she doesn’t sing at all (unless it’s with a male contestant & behind closed doors).
Randy:
Where did he come into the picture anyway, dog? Before AI, dog, was he a household name? Does he own a dog?
Us:
There are so many talented performers in this country, so do we really need to fabricate another ego-stroking narcisstic marionette to shower attention on & wait for one of them to complain about not getting invited to record a song for the next “Rock Against Bush” CD?
Who am I kidding? I know I’m going to watch it anyway.
Sarah, You know that the artist in this deal would NEVER be the one choosing songs on their CD. The contracts they signend and the leash held by the Producers are way to tight to allow that. The singer in these deals are just a cog in a much bigger, nastier, ugly machine. See any boy band, Kyle Minogue (especially her early work with Hit Factory), and back even to the dawn of big label pop music.
That is why in the bigger picture I still gravitate to stronger performers and singer songwriters. I especially admire an artist (not just a performer, get the difference I am establishing) who produced or co-produced their tracks.
Sheesh. Am I the only one here old enough to remember RJ in Journey?
What’s a “Journey”?