I haven’t posted about American Idol since the auditions, but I have been watching every week. While the talent is better this season, the pool of personalities isn’t. The last two seasons had much more interesting people. However, that said, I do like most of the current crop. Most, but not all. So here are my thoughts on how things are going so far…
The Beatles:
What the hell were they thinking doing The Beatles two weeks in a row? The Beatles are probably the most overrated band in the history of music. They have a few songs that are passable, but mostly their stuff is just boring and dated. Unfortunately, some dumb ass at Idol thought it would be a good idea to do their songs two weeks in a row. It wasn’t a good idea. In fact, it was a sucky ass idea. It was hard enough sitting through that crap for one week, but to subject us, and those poor idols to two weeks of it was just ridiculous. I don’t know what the theme is next week, but if it’s something about them sticking their heads in garbage cans and singing opera, it’ll be miles better than these stupid Beatles shows have been.
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The Judges:
Randy Jackson: Randy… The whole thing of you talking like Flavor Flav has his hand up your ass using you like a ventriloquist’s dummy is getting ridiculously old. It doesn’t make you hip, it just makes you annoying. Talk like an intelligent person and people will take you a lot more seriously and not so much like a cartoon character, which is how you’ve been coming off season after season.
Paula Abdul: Should be on the next Celebrity Rehab so she can get off those pain killers or booze or whatever the hell she’s on before she ends up like Jeff Conway or Gary Busey. She’s already about 1/4 of the way there and getting closer every day.
Simon Cowell: Simon is just Simon. He doesn’t really ever change. He tells people how he feels and is completely honest with them about their performances, whether people want to hear it or not. People think he’s an ass, but he’s really doing these performers far more of a favor than Paula is by constantly looking for things to compliment about them.
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The Host:
Ryan Seacrest: Ryan needs to lay off the witty inside banter with Simon, because mostly it just makes everyone uncomfortable. He needs to lay off the Idol Gives Back crap and all the corporate pimping he’s been doing too. He seems like a really good, nice guy, but that stuff gets really annoying at times.
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The Contestants: (The ones that are left.)
Amanda Overmyer: She’s hot, she seems like a cool chick, she can sing (at least the one style she sings) and she has one hell of a great stage presence. She’s a fabulous and exciting performer, which makes up for any other style limitations she may have vocally. I can see her having a great career after Idol.
Kristy Lee Cook: I never cared much for Kristy, nor do I think she’s as hot as some people make her out to be. Amanda, Ramiele and Brooke are all WAY hotter than Kristy, and they can actually deliver quality, memorable performances. Kristy however, has only one one memorable performance. That being, the utterly horrendous and torturous rendition of “8 Days a Week” on week one of the two week Beatles fiasco. I thought Sanjaya was horrible last season doing Stevie Wonder’s “You Really Got Me”, but jesus christ…that was just…*shudder*. I don’t think she’ll be around much longer.
David Archuleta: David is an amazing singer, but his personality needs a lot of work. He’s so quiet and dull and just not even the least bit interesting to watch when he performs. I can see him having a great career on Broadway, but he’s not pop star material, despite what all the screaming teenies seem to think. They’ll get bored of him in another few weeks and move on to someone else. That’s how teenage girls (and even a lot of adult girls) are.
Michael Johns: I don’t know what it is about this guy, but every time I see him, all I can think is, “God what a pussy.” I really don’t know why he makes me feel that way, especially because there have been other idols that have been far worse than him in that regard. I think it really bothers me because I feel like I shouldn’t feel that way about him even though I do. He’s a good singer and a decent performer, but he kinda blew it this week with his latest Beatles inspired suck fest. Better luck next week Michael.
Brooke White: Man, Brooke is just flat out beautiful, and an incredibly sweet person. Unfortunately, as attractive as her sweetness is, it can also get kind of annoying at times. In any case, she’s a great singer and a good performer. I can see her having a fabulous career in adult contemporary, but not as a pop star. She’s just not star material personality-wise. Still, I hope she does really well in the competition.
David Cook: David was cruising along, dangling in there by his last few pubes, but in the last couple of weeks he’s really stepped up his performances and is doing really good now. Unfortunately, he sounds like just another Seattle bred, father hating, coffee drinking, emo schmuck. He needs to mix it up some and not get locked into that lame sound that’s been copied by countless bands and beaten into the heads of the mindless masses since the 90′s. David is rock star material. He just needs to find his own way and not copy established styles and sounds.
Carly Smithson: Carly is an amazing singer and has gorgeous eyes. She needs to lay off the lame ass tattoos though, because every one she gets makes her less hot and less appealing. Tonight she revealed a “7″ she just got on her ring finger on her right hand. Why the hell would an attractive girl mess herself up with stupid tattoos? It makes no sense. Then tonight she was wearing this god awful red top with no sleeves and stupid flower things all around the neck…and stretch pants looking pants. What the hell was that? It looked like she mugged a grandma for her clothes at a retirement home dance. Whoever dressed her tonight ought to have their head examined. Could she be a pop star? Sure, I guess so. She’s kinda in that “iffy” category, despite her amazing singing ability, but I think she’s got what it takes as long as she stays away from those stupid tatoos.
Jason Castro: Jesus christ…Cheech and Chong would never hang out with this guy. He’d smoke up all their weed and then after Cheech and Chong dropped some acid, they see his dreads swinging around like a bunch of medusa snakes or something and claw their own faces off. Ok, I got a little out of it there. I’m better now. Jason is a really likable guy. He seems super nice, and perpetually stoned. Whether he gets stoned all the time or not I don’t know, but he sure seems to have that kind of a personality. Anyway, he’s a decent singer, a decent performer, and I could see him having a career traveling around and playing gigs at Starbucks. As a pop star though, I’m not seein’ it.
Syesha Mercado: Honestly, this girl annoyed the hell out of me, and still kinda does. Week after week she’d come out with that frizzy ass hair looking like she’d been electrocuted in a hurricane and warble out some mediocre drivel that somehow got her into the top 12. Well tonight when she came out to warble out her drivel, she was looking seriously hot! She was rockin’ that dress and showing off her amazing breasts. Not only that, but she had her hair straightened and styled as well. She looked absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, it didn’t improve her singing any. I don’t think she’ll be around for more than a couple more weeks.
Chikezie: This guy has really stepped up the fun factor in his performances in the last few weeks. He almost seems like he’s re-inventing himself from an “Isaac from The Love Boat” wannabe into a black Taylor Hicks. It’s actually working for him too. I used to be really bored when he’d perform, but in the last couple of weeks, I’m actually enjoying watching him quite a bit. But is he pop star material? No. Certainly no more than Taylor Hicks was, and when was the last time you heard anything about him? He even lost his record deal. That’s how crappy he did. Sucks too because he was a nice guy.
Ramiele Malubay: Oh my god she’s yummy. I mean yummy yummy yummy. But how is she on stage? Actually, pretty boring. It’s sad too because she’s a total sweetheart and actually can sing the hell out of a song. For such a small girl, she’s got a serious set of pipes. That doesn’t do you much good though if you’re boring on stage. She really needs to step up her stage presence if she wants to stay in this competition, because right now she’s being WAY overshadowed by the likes of Amanda Overmyer and David Cook. Come on Ramiele, I know you can do it! Step it up girl!
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That’s it for now. Maybe when it gets down to the top six I’ll do another post about it.
(Current Mood: blah
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Actually, IHOP has good food. I just thought it was funny. 
Imagine cleaning up the poo though… Ah screw it. I don’t clean up our dog’s poo, why would I bother cleaning up after a dinosaur? Hell, I’d just let it pile up so it would keep the sun from coming through the living room window and shining on my damn TV while I’m trying to watch it.
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