Oh baby, it's on! And not only is it American Cocaine Idol, but it's featuring the music of the Beatles! It could be really awesome, or one of the crappy singers could forever ruin these songs!
The first up was Syesha, and who cares. But she was followed by Chikezie. Remember last week when I said that Chikezie was a nice guy, but that he would lose? Well, I still think he'll lose, but last night he was great with a weird bluegrassy version of She's a Woman. Very surprising and risky, but it very much paid off. (Alternately, Kristy Lee Cook, who continues to have good teeth, also made a surprising, risky move, and SUCKED.)
Carly Smithson was quite good, and benefits from the fact that Come Together is one of my favorite Beatles songs. Amanda Overmyer should really have sung Helter Skelter and then murdered Ryan Seacrest with a meat cleaver. (I mean, no, she shouldn't have done that. But I wouldn't have been shocked if she had. She freaks me right the heck out.)
And presenting: the Mormons. I had been a little reticent to jump on the Brooke White bandwagon, despite the fact that she's been really good. Well, I'm now firmly ensconsced in the Brooke camp. As for Little Davey Archuleta, the fact that he completely forgot the words and sounded terrible won't assuage anyone from voting for him. I honestly don't understand the infatuation people seem to have with him, other than the fact that people mistake him for a cuddly stuffed animal. Even my wife, who votes for him every week, said last night that she'd never buy his albums.
Anyway, the bottom two will be: Kristy Lee Cook and... either Michael Johns or Jason Castro. I'm going to go out on a limb, however, and say that Kristy won't be leaving us for one more week. (Though I'll be stunned if she survives next week.) Kristy needs to learn an essential truth of American Idol: you can make up for a lot of bad singing if you're good looking enough--and yet, yesterday, she didn't play either the good singer card OR the hot girl card. Just the good teeth one.
As for long-range predictions: if we follow AI tradition, a guy will win this year (they've been alternating). However, right now that would look like either David Archuleta or maybe David Cook. I hope it's neither. Anyway, my top four: those two, plus Brooke White and Carly Smithson.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Brooke White and Carly Smithson, totally. David Cook, totally. But I'm saying Michael Johns for the fourth. Come on -- you can let me have one of four, can't you?
Michael Johns has, at this point, absolutely no differentiating characteristics. You can like him all you like, but he'll never be popular enough to win.
Think about the people who are big: Carly and Amanda are the rockers, Archuleta is the cuddly little guy with the big voice, Brooke is the multi-talented, instrument-playing cute one, Jason's the guitar-playing dredlock guy. When people think of Michael, he has no label--he has no specific associations in the minds of his fans. Which is absolute death in AI. (I mean, look at Sanjaya--he got as far as he did not because of talent, but personality. Michael doesn't have that.) (Well, I mean, I'm sure he has personality. We just haven't seen it.)
There are a lot of contenders this year that I think are great. I like both David Cook & David Archeleta. Jason is hit & miss for me, but his hair is distracting. Brooke is OK. I think she's good, but at this point I think Simon is probably still fantasizing about corrupting her. Her image is so "middle aged" or something.
I so completely agree with you about Amanda. I think they are trying to soften her look a little, but she's still really odd, and I don't like her sound at all. Carly is a better rocker, but she doesn't come across as quite completely genuine to me.
Michael John's could give any of the past AI "hearthrobs" a run for their money. Remember Ace? Ugh. I think he has a decent voice, I don't think he will be a winner because other than his good looks and a decently good voice, there's nothing remarkable about him.
Sanjaya got where he got because of votefortheworst.com...
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