{"id":1430,"date":"2010-01-12T23:09:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2010-01-12T23:09:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:09:34","slug":"american-idol-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2010\/01\/12\/american-idol-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honestly, I quit watching during the last season, and wasn’t planning to watch this season.\u00a0 I think Idol\u00a0 jumped the shark a few seasons back.\u00a0 But I’m intrigued to see how Ellen does as judge this year.\u00a0 Paula is… well… Paula. As encouraging as she could be, I was pretty tired of her “Kittens! Sunshine! WOO!” palm-clap thing.\u00a0 I’ll be typing while watching, all stream-of-consciousness style, so forgive the spelling errors, LOLspeak<\/a>, and excessive use of the ellipsis<\/a> plz…\u00a0 So here we go.<\/p>\n

9000 fans, in Fenway park, in the cold and rain.\u00a0 Yea, that’s good for the voice. \/sarcasm.\u00a0 Oh hey! we’re not even past the opening credits and I’ve already seen the first\u00a0 “Oh HAIL NOE!” … A dude in a mint green super tight tee, with pink fairy wings and a tiara. Please tell me this was his 15 seconds of fame and we won’t have to endure him later. Oh well, on with the show.<\/p>\n

Dude.\u00a0 First contestant – it always sux to b the first…\u00a0 but dude…\u00a0 just because you can sing in front of a video game, doesn’t mean you should. Plz go home now.<\/p>\n

hey AI producers – wtg exploiting the down syndrome brothers to get contestant 2 a sob story.\u00a0 She has a decent voice… a little shaky, but decent…\u00a0 u cud have let her stand on her own…<\/p>\n

Oh Noes! Pat Ford… Plz just stop. You are a trainwreck. First plz don’t dance anymore… and oh my word…\u00a0 He’s singing Britney’s Womanizer!\u00a0 Oh plz…\u00a0 just end this… Oh, and he’s picking a fight with Simon…\u00a0 surefire way to get camera time.\u00a0 Dude! if Randy tells him to “stop singing forever” then yea…\u00a0 this guy is BAD.<\/p>\n

Jazz Chick is good… and a whole series of decent voiced females continue the parade.\u00a0 Dude.\u00a0 AI doesn’t sell enough commericials in their 5 minute spots…\u00a0 so their now selling ads during the show? Nice little Ford ad down there guys… Ugh.<\/p>\n

Mobster dude has a decent voice… and we haven’t put any guys through yet, so… he’ll make it.<\/p>\n

Hippie Derek…\u00a0 no. make it stop. I’m fast-forwarding.\u00a0 Oh! and Derek touches off the loser parade…\u00a0 Weep, weep, sob, sob.<\/p>\n

Ooo… Anime chick… who wants to bet she’s here to get the camera time to hype her fashion line…\u00a0 I mean, costume changes in the holding room…\u00a0 yea… oh! and as soon as she opens her mouth its sooo obvious that’s exactly what this is… and yea, pick a fight a with Simon to get more face time on camera.\u00a0 *sigh* I’m so over this.<\/p>\n

But there is hope… Seems to be a group of guys messing around with harmonies in the holding room who all sound really good.\u00a0 WTG guys!<\/p>\n

Andrew really doesn’t have the personality for this show.\u00a0 He’s sporting some serious BC’s.\u00a0 He starts off bad by being pissy with Seacrest, the camera man, Simon…\u00a0 everyone…\u00a0 oh! OW!!! His singing… no…\u00a0 and now he’s fighting with Kara… Bad move.\u00a0 Like Simon says, he’s very sulky, aggressive, etc… and yea..\u00a0 and like Posh says, he doesn’t have the goods to back it up. LOL! Kara says he needs a spanking and this show just veered into the gutter.\u00a0 Poor guy, he seems utterly shell-shocked at the girls’ reaction.<\/p>\n

Oh good grief…\u00a0 Boston is full of Music Colleges…\u00a0 that means ALOT of sucky, uber-affected voices all of whom genuinely think they can sing, cuz they go to music school! WOO! Ugh.<\/p>\n

Ashley is pretty good out of the gate…\u00a0 Ha. Kara tells her she’s got a look that is very “commercial”.\u00a0 That’s Kara-ese for “U R Hawt. U will sell records with ur bewbies.”\u00a0 But she’s got the voice to back it up, so she’s through.<\/p>\n

The drummer who broke both wrists… I have a feeling this will end badly.\u00a0 The judges rag on him for his retro look… wow…\u00a0 pleasantly surprised with this guy…\u00a0 Tyler – he’s got a nice voice, and gets 4 yeses.<\/p>\n

So, Day 2.\u00a0 The waitress with alot of confidence who is self-taught by singing along with Mariah Carey… Yea… this isn’t going to end well.\u00a0 Aaaand….\u00a0 it doesn’t.\u00a0 Uh, Buh-bye!<\/p>\n

Speedboat dude has the voice, and wow… one of the better ones I’ve heard so far. How does Randy think that wasn’t good? Was he listening to the same audition? Whateva.\u00a0 He’s through.<\/p>\n

16 yr old Katie is amazing… even without the backstory of the gramma with Alzheimers… She’s got a voice that stands on it own.<\/p>\n

Joshua has the hard job of following Katie.\u00a0 He’s a little flat in places, and really, dude, pick a note.\u00a0 Randy tries to give him assertiveness lessons by having him yell at Simon, who isn’t doing anything yet.\u00a0 They put him through, but he won’t make it through Hollywierd Hell Week.<\/p>\n

Seacrest shows us a bit of the behind-the-scenes action.\u00a0 And to illustrate how intimidating all that sound equipment, crew, & lighting can be, we are treated to a series of really bad singing, including the William Hung Wanna-Be.<\/p>\n

And… It’s cancer boy’s turn.\u00a0 They’ve been hyping him all episode, so you know he’s got a voice and will make it.\u00a0 He’s got a nice sound, very mellow.\u00a0 Simon loves it, you can tell by his smile.\u00a0 Victoria takes a page out of Kara’s book and judges him based on his “nice face, girls will love you.”\u00a0 Of course he’s through.<\/p>\n

oh no. the Micheal Jackson wanna-be. Costumes are generally an indication of an attention whore with a really bad voice.\u00a0 Simon nails this one, “You sing like a 3 yr old girl, you dress like Latoya Jackson…” Yea, just no. Buh-bye dude.<\/p>\n

The son of Nigerian immigrants, Bosa, is pretty ok.\u00a0 That’s a country song, and he put a nice twist on it.\u00a0 Randy is the deciding vote, and Bosa is through.\u00a0 He needs to work on his attitude, he was a little shaky.\u00a0 Not sure if he will make it through Hell week though.<\/p>\n

This last girl had me a little worried, cuz she was almost in tears before she even started…\u00a0\u00a0 But she has a really nice voice.\u00a0 She’s a little shaky because she’s so nervous. She needs some confidence if she’s to survive Hollywood.<\/p>\n

So that’s a wrap.\u00a0 32 people from the Boston auditions have tickets to Hollywood, and thankfully we never saw the mint fairy thing from the opening credits.\u00a0 Tomorrow night AI goes to Atlanta with – looks like – Mary J Blige?\u00a0 Should be fun, see you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honestly, I quit watching during the last season, and wasn’t planning to watch this season.\u00a0 I think Idol\u00a0 jumped the shark a few seasons back.\u00a0 But I’m intrigued to see …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-idol","category-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}