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Post by GoldenFleece on Mar 17, 2011 21:06:00 GMT -4
Why wouldn't AI point out celebrities in the audience? They've been doing that for years. Ryan had the camera pan to Kate Hudson in the audience just last night, and her only connection to JLo is that they both like making mediocre romcoms.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2011 21:13:29 GMT -4
Plus, Ryan never mentioned KH's baby daddy, Matt Bellamy of Muse, an actual Grammy winner who was sitting next to AI il supremo Simon Fuller. Oh, well.
As for tonight, I am glad to see JLo 2.0 gone. No surprise that it wasn't an unanimous decision (really, Jennifer?), but she had to go.
Don't be surprised to see Haley depart next week. As for Naima, I would like her to actually sing a song. She doesn't have to flavor every song. She has do this or she'll be following Haley out the door.
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Post by castillo on Mar 17, 2011 21:35:52 GMT -4
Why wouldn't AI point out celebrities in the audience? They've been doing that for years. Ryan had the camera pan to Kate Hudson in the audience just last night, and her only connection to JLo is that they both like making mediocre romcoms. I dont' believe that was just a random showing of celebrities, since JLO the Judge premeried her own music video "On the Floor" with Pitt Bull on the show. That's self promotion. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2011 23:09:23 GMT -4
They always show celebrities in the audience. I don't get the big deal. AI is all about self-promotion, anyway. They make no secret of that. Are you also angry that the Black-eyed Peas performed?
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Post by GoldenFleece on Mar 17, 2011 23:38:22 GMT -4
I haven't had an issue with any of the girls who have been in the Bottom 3 so far, but it makes you wonder what it will take for a guy to even be in danger of being voted off this year. I don't understand the problem? Kara DioGuardi joined Idol to promote her songwriting career. Her new connection to AI put her to the front of the line in getting access to write songs for the albums of singers from AI. She got to write the winner's song a couple years ago because she was a judge, and even though the song she handed in sucked the big one, the Top 2 still both had to sing that piece of crap. The winner was stuck having to perform it on TV and in concerts and defend its worthiness. Honestly, I think that's far worse than the current contestants having to "endure" Ryan giving a shout-out to Pitbull or watch a video of JLo's hit song during results shows. Paula sure was trying to stage a comeback when she was a judge and we had to sit through her "live" performance a couple years ago. JLo is doing the same thing, only with far more success. I see no sign that she views any of the contestants as threats to her career or is only praising people who wouldn't be competition for her on the charts. Top Chef has people with professional cooking experience and is judged by famous chefs with restaurants/books/food lines who get sales boosts for being on TV. Project Runway has contestants with serious design experience and a judge with his own fashion line that's gotten a huge boost since the show made him a household name. America's Next Top Model has probably done more to keep Tyra in the limelight than make any of its winners actual top models. Yet with American Idol, it's an outrage unless the contestants have only sung in the shower or in the church choir and the judges have to be there for the "right" reasons. I don't get it. The whole show is about the most over-the-top, blatant exercise in promotion that prime time TV has probably ever seen; the judges might as well get in on the action. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2011 23:54:21 GMT -4
Take away tween texting?
Seriously, with the exception of Stefano Boybando and Scotty E. Newman, I don't understand the passion behind any of the guys for the tween girls and their moms to vote for. Casey and James are interesting, but that's it. Jacob? Don't get me started.
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Post by GoldenFleece on Mar 18, 2011 18:05:08 GMT -4
The show seems to be pushing him really hard and there hasn't been a gospel-ish sort of singer on AI in a while, especially a male one, and they can't all be George Huff. Paul has earned a big following because of his old band's music, it was on iTunes before it got pulled, and supposedly he's way better with a group, or so his fans say. Plus, he's the closest thing this season to the guy with a guitar, the type of singer who has been winning AI lately.
The guys are different from each other musically more than in any season I can remember. They're all drawing from their own block of fans. On the girls side, there are only so many people who like pageanty/ballad singers and they could split their votes between Thia and Pia and Karen (I don't think the weekly Spanish interludes helped her). Naima and Haley, and Ashthon before them, were kind of all over the place musically from week to week. If you liked Jazzy Naima, Hip-Hop Naima might not be your cup of tea. Maybe Paul has been consistently bad, but it's not like he's changed styles since people started voting for him.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 1:12:50 GMT -4
I found this on a message board regarding the boys v. girls on AI. It sums this up for me:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 12:26:52 GMT -4
Which guys are supposedly being unfairly boosted by teen girl votes? To me this is one of the first years when that isn't happening. I don't see them voting for Casey, he's too weird-looking and his style wouldn't appeal to them. James has the Tourette's tics and is probably too screamy. Jacob is a diva gospel singer. If anything I see the teen votes likely being split between Scotty, Lauren, Thia, Stefano, and possibly Paul. But I'm sure they all have voters ranging in age and sex.
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Post by GoldenFleece on Mar 19, 2011 12:35:16 GMT -4
The vagina voters argument about AI drives me up the wall. Any time a guy does well on AI it must be because hormonal women just can't control themselves, and it's viewed with so much more disdain than when pretty girls who were bad singers were kept around for weeks by someone.
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