Don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s this like talent show thing coming on tonight, where a bunch of people audition to sing their way to a recording cont—
Who am I kidding?! Hey America! Idol starts tonight! And while Mike Slezak, King of All Idolistan, is probably someplace sitting in quiet meditation to mentally prepare for his first TV Watch of the show’s sixth season, I am not! I am in a hollerin’ mood!
The producers and judges have already told us that there’s no clear front-runner in this year’s crop of finalists, so that can mean only one of two things: 1) they’re all really boring or 2) they’re all really good. And lucky for us, either of those options suggests that the people who do not make the finals are either 1) really freakin’ bizarre or 2) really, really bad. I will be watching closely, after last season’s trifecta of Rhonetta Jackson, Crystal Parizanski, and Zachary Travis left me wondering if perhaps the producers shouldn’t be administering Wonderlic tests outside the audition room before putting some of these folks on television.
But that’s just me. How many of you PopWatchers out there are psyched to see borderline mentally handicapped individuals butcher Christina Aguilera songs…and how many of you are content to wait until the talent shows up? My goal is, as usual, to engender an us against them mentality here on the blog. Show of hands! Choose sides!
A zit in the center of my buttcheek, where I sit is more exciting than the audition portion of A.I.
I’m going to do something unprecedented and not watch the AI auditions. I have come the the conclusion that there are better things I could be doing with 4 hours of my evening this week. Strangely enough.
I agree with the previous posts, the auditions are by far the worst part of the season, and we’re going to have to suffer a good month of it.
Yet, oddly enough, it’s the highest rated part of the program.
Sorry, Whitney, it looks like we’ve only got one side represented here. I’ll admit, I do enjoy the occasional ear-splitting audition for their schadenfreud-y goodness, but the way they do one after another after another (and tease them before the breaks, and replay them at the beginning of each episode…) has me reaching for the fast forward button on my tivo and counting the days until the real singing starts.
(And don’t get me started on the airtime they give to all the lame “comedians” who are just looking for some attention.)
Wahahahahah – Ed’s zit should get its own show. THAT I would watch, but tonight’s nonsense – no.
I just find it really revolting, in a slo-mo car crash kind of way. So many of the awful contestants just seem mentally ill to me. And that’s not a joke, or entertaining, or worth watching.
There’s such a cruel, ugly tinge to this show.
I’m taking sides.
I find it quite funny. If only Ryan Sequist would die… sighhh.
I’ll wait for the talent to show up. I can’t stand people 1) being degraded by snide comments or 2)being a complete idiot that might actually deserve said comments.
I’m bored already watching a secession of bad singers one after the other and you gotta wonder, ‘who listens to these people’? maybe the producers are overdoing it with the audition weeks. I would rather see the serious singers on screen than all the bad wannabes and the halloween costumes.
nope
Today is “You Tube” TV night on American Idol. Or, “Hey! I can’t whistle, yet sing but I’d be an awesome spokesperson for Wendy’s!”
It is Tuesday, January 16, 2007 and I think I know the American Idol Winner for Season 6… I know it’s just the first night of the show and it’s not even over yet, but I predict that Sarah Krueger (“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”) will end up not only in the top 12, but as the ultimate winner. She will bring “sexyback” to the AI franchise, and she sounds amazing!
It’s always a wonder why people insist upon calling this show the perennial “Talent Show” in America. Yeah, those who end up making it to the finals are vocally talented, but this show is nothing more than an UBERly glorfied Karaoke contest. SHOWING PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN SING OTHER PEOPLE’S SONGS WELL IS NOT TALENT. PERIOD.
This show is more than talent contest – it is a juggernaut that may even be a factor in the Oscar’s with Jennifer Hudson’s smash performance.
I am happy the show with all its warts is back. Check out http://www.musingsofamaniac.com for more Idol chatter.
there used to be a good percentage dedicated towards the bad and the good. now its 95 percent bad.
the only bad audition I thought was funny was the girl who couldn’t remember the words to “kiss” and just kept singing the same parts over and over. like a quicktime audio folder that hasn’t loaded fully and you keep restarting it until you get more and more downloaded. she seemed to be the only one that wasn’t acting bad on purpose.
now the season is officially on: we’ve already got our first jesus-praising crack baby contestant. (maybe jesus will be one of the surprise guest judges this season!)