American Idol 4

Posted by thefunnystone on June 1st, 2005 at 9:00 PM
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As American Idol 4 started up, VFTW realized we were in for some big fun. In the semi-final rounds, we picked Constantine Maroulis and Janay Castine as our VFTW candidates. Constantine was the worst kind of faux rocker, he was less convincing as a rocker than even Ryan Seacrest would be. Janay was nicknamed Janaybot by VFTW for her robotic arm movements. They both offered up some truly awful moments, especially when Janay decided to tackle "Hit Em Up Style". Janay advanced for 3 weeks before being sent packing, all the while Idol fans wondered how the hell she stayed in so long. Constantine sucked his way into the finals. Once the top 12 came along, VFTW supported Mikalah Gordon, as her fun personality started to grate on the judges. Her vocals weakened and she began to get worse by the week, lasting until the top 11. We went back to Constantine for the top 10, but ket our eyes on Scott Savol. Word was t hen released that Scott had thrown a phone at his baby mama, and the tagboard was soon flooded with requests that we switch to Scott. We did, and the rest is history. Scott began to survive week after week while more talented contestants like Nadia Turner fell by the wayside. Each week, newspaper headlines wondered "Why the hell is Scott still around?" and the website picked up more supporters each week. Just before the final 6 performances, the website was getting tens of thousands of hits a day, and VFTW was bigger than ever. Scott butchered his song from the current decade, "Dance With My Father", and most people expected it to be his last. The next day's results show brought about one of the biggest shocks in Idol history- Scott was in the top 3 and ex-VFTWer Constantine was sent home. Constantine had become a favorite to win, and America was flabbergasted. VFTW then started getting over 100,000 hits a day and even more people jumped aboard. Then, the inevitable happened . Whether it was caused by an overload of traffic or foul play, the VFTW website went down a few hours before Scott was to give his final 5 performance. Scott was eliminated the next day. No one knows whether VFTWers were confused by the site's absence so they stopped voting, or whether even VFTW couldn't beat out the top 4 fanbases. But suddenly Scott was gone and VFTW shed a single tear. We tried to help the doomed Anthony Fedorov in the top 4, but he was also sent home. Lastly, we supported Carrie Underwood for the last 2 weeks. The obvious week link among the talented Bo Bice and Vonzell Solomon, Carrie was the oblivious Oklahoman that had the stage presence of a marionette. Carrie edged out the heavily favored Bo in the finale to win the title of American Idol, and many wonder to this day if the VFTW votes were what caused her to edge out Bo for the win. __________________________ 








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					I don't know about that, someone must like Underwood.  

After all, her album, "Some Hearts," was the fastest selling country debut album in history.  She's earned one American Music Award, five Billboard Music Awards, and two Grammy Awards.

I never really liked her music (I wasn't a big fan of Bo either), but she has a lot of fans.  I doubt VFTW had a significant impact on her victory.
				

				

					
				

			

				




		
		
			 
		







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I believe it was a mistake to support Carrie in the end.

The ideal VFTW pick should be either:

Technically bad singer (which she's wasn't) or

Entertaining (which she's definitely wasn't) or

Someone the producers didn't want to see winning (which she absolutely and utterly wasn't).


I guess the ultimate pick would be Bo. He is a good singer and not VFTW entertaining, but I'm sure that would have pissed off many people in the production who wanted to make money out of a country star (which they did). 



				

				

					
				

			

				




		
		
			 
		







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One of the producers said a while back that Carrie led in votes by a big margin every single week- i think it was said she and Kelly Clarkson are the only ones who have done that.


Of course, one would not have known that without being able to see the vote-totals considering the pimpage that Bo Bice got in the last few weeks.  HE should have the VFTW pick- remember when he came out in flip-flops!?  That horrible over-rated "In a Dream" where that put that Jesus lighting behind his head.  He had like no range and half the time, he looked like Charles Manson.  It would have been a disaster for the show if Bo Lice had won because everything he did would have tanked.