Wait! What’s this? Music written within the last 20 years being performed on American Idol tonight? (¡!) Well, we’ll know for certain in a matter of minutes, after Ryan gives an appropriately cheesy intro and the top 9 contestants of season 8 start singing. But the cryptically named (and to this point, unexplained-by-Fox) theme certainly leads me to believe we’ll be hearing Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Anoop Desai, Danny Gokey, Kris Allen, Lil Rounds, Matt Giraud, Megan Joy, and Scott MacIntyre tackle some thoroughly modern ditties. Anyhow, I’ve got to take tons of notes so I can get my TV Watch done in a timely fashion, but by all means, use this PopWatch post to share your thoughts (liiiive!) about what’s happening on the Idol stage.I’ll be back at 9:30 p.m. EDT to escape that Osbournes Reloaded crap and post my initial reaction to the show, and then again in the early morning with my full TV Watch recap.
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I’m on a mission tonight.
Randy: Yo, well, the vocals were good, but, yo, the cool thing about this week is that everyone’s picking different songs, so the vocals were good, but, yo, I’m torn.
Kara: It sounds like a bunch of frat boys dared you to go up on stage and sing Usher.
Who’s the useless judge?
Ok, Anoop wasn’t nearly as bad as the judges made him out to be. I thought he actually rocked the stage pretty well. And according to Vote for the Worst, Megan was supposed to go first tonight, but then they pull a switcheroo and make the Noop Dawg take the historical spot of death? Hmmm …
I am going to try posting this again…
Anoop comments = way off, mean, and nonsensical.
What are the judges thinking? He sounded great.
Megan was TERRIBLE!!!!! Time to go home loser!
Did someone p*ss in the judges’ coffee today? Kara and Simon are acting like straight up Bs!
OK, so Kara was totally wrong about the falsetto. I’ll give you that.
I can’t decide whether Paula’s “I want to see you on a stool” was supposed to translate to “You need to be on the bottom 3 stools next week” or if it’s just Paula being Paula.
Whoever it was in the audience that yelled ‘broken record’ at Kara…my new hero.
Arghhh, I can’t stand Megan anymore. She should be out this week. Definitely.
I LOVE MEGAN! Her best performance yet. GO MEGAN!!!
Danny…playing the pity card with that song choice! But, at least he sang it well.
really? I thought Danny was bad.
WHAT the H*LL!?!
Gokey’s vocals blew. What are they trying to sell us?!?
The last note was soooo flat.
My mind is blown, blown!
Maybe I just hate this season because the judges don’t like anyone I like. I give up, I’m so frustrated.
Everyone was wrong about Gokey. All four judges. It was lackluster, his first chorus was painfully flat, and Rascall Flatts are terrible.
I have defended the judges before today…it stops now.