American Idol Annoyances
-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.
Stumble It!