--Las show with Simon. I don't really know if this show will continue on past this season. Simon is kinda the key to the show but also as you look through the talent that made it through this year...it was really a bunch of wannabe's. I'm not saying I dislike Crystal or Lee (cause I like them both) I'm just saying that usually you see a lot of people grow as musicians and it seemed like so many of them dropped the ball this year. Also I think America as voters were almost voting blindly this year as a lot of good people got dropped right away and a lot of miserable people stayed.
--Kris Allen's new song should probably be called "lullaby" because I'm pretty sure I dozed off twice in the middle of it. After this is when I decided to use the fast forward option more literally.
--Eek. Sorry, I just jumped behind my chair. It's been a while since I seen Sabian, or Chibbian or Shivabon's (or how ever the hell you spell her name) ridiculous vampire grill. Seriously, I would probably have to wear a clove of garlic if I ever met this girl just to make myself feel safe.
--I really wish Andrew Garcia got a better chance to shine on this how. I've stumbled upon some Youtube stuff he did with all the other randoms in there and gotta say they(he) is really good. Sucks he kinda got the shaft on this show.
--Was it just me or did it seem like as soon as Dane Cook made it out there he immediately regretted the decision to do this spot. What was it really anyway? He sang (horribly) some lines that Simon has used in the past...made three one-liner jokes about Simon being mean....then had a bunch of ridiculous past failures come out where in which one tried to steal the show and the AI production company had to cut away to commercial right away. Hey Dane Cook! There is a reason why AI only let those people be on the "recorded" part of their show...it's so when they spontaneously do something stupid they can cut and edit it up for t.v.
--So Paula Abdul is here....in a dress that looks like she is on her way to the prom after the show is over. At first she looked pretty....I don't know....held up....until she started talking. Now I realize she was just reading (because let's be honest...no way in a million years is she writing these jokes herself) but how many and more specifically which drugs is she on right now. I'm telling you I was making $1 bets with myself on how long it would be before she tripped and fell off the stage. It just got worse and worse too. The jokes were awful as well. "There's a baby in the back with a Simon haircut and hunny....it's your turn to feed him." Wah wah wah wah.........Ugh. I didn't know if I was gonna throw up from her jokes or if she was gonna throw up from all the body shots she was doing with Casey behind stage before she went on.
--All the past idols except David Cook on the stage. Made me think of two things. 1) What could David Cook possibly be doing that he couldn't make it for this. It was a big deal and I'm sure they had it planned months ago. So you can't tell me he is on the road or in Europe or something like that. Seriously? Carrie Underwood who is a bigger star than anyone else to come out of this show and she is here....and performed. Where are you? That brings me to my second thought 2) Is it safe to say that Carrie Underwood by far, the absolute best Idol to come out of this show. You can make the argument that the hobbit from Season 1 should get the top rank because she had more #1's maybe but lets' size them up. Kelly Clarkson-Baggins had a 3 year head start and they have sold close to the same amount of records. Yet Carrie has done it in a much harder genre to sell in I think. She is also successfully crossed over two genres (Pop and Country). Not to mention (which may or may not be the most important fact)....she is so damn hot. I mean, insanely hot. I stare at her and I just wonder, "How does a girl become this hot? " Like it's some sort of puzzle or something. I keep looking to the backpage to find the answer. None of the mysteries of Lost, spanned across all six seasons, can compare to the comprehension that I don't posses of why she is so hot. I guess she sings good to.
--I'd like to tell you a little story. Before my late grandma passed she was starting to lose it in her old age. One of her little quirks was that she swore up and down that Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson were the same person. "You never see them anywhere together!" she used to scream at my mom. After Janet's first performance tonight...I'm starting to think that old granny was right. I got goose bumps from how much she sounded like Michael on that song. It was single-handedly the second creepiest moment in the show (the first being a close up of shbibanahangnagnnn's face, mouth agape, teeth looking like they are ready to much on the bark of a tree to stay sharp). It was honestly like Micheal was singing through her from beyond....whoooooooooooooooooo
--Finally...the results. As I said before I liked both of them. But Crystal is by far....better than Lee. Give Lee six-months...a year to work on his nervousness and maybe he will be unbelievable but I am making a prediction now. Crystal will out sell Lee 2-1 in record sales when you match their first albums together.
--Sidenote: What's up with the U2 song being his first song release? Have they ever done this before? Let the winner release a Cover Song for their first song? I'm really confused. I always though they had a song written for them and they both had to sing it on the final show. Why U2? Look I personally hate their guts but I do respect the stranglehold they have on half of our nation as well as over in Europe. Not anyone can sing that song...I can't. You have to really do something special with it for it to work. Lee's version sounds awfully like some guy singing it at Karaoke Friday's at the Rockin Gators. I don't know. Maybe it's just me.
All in all. This season kinda sucked though I am glad I was introduced to Bowersox and Lee Dewyze. Bowersox just has it. I know a few people around here that just have it and when you watch them sing it's just like...nothing else matters for that 3 and a half minutes. That's kinda what I got from Bowersox although I could never really tell unless I saw her live.
That's all I got.
Anthony
