They wasted their save on Mac Tonight?!?!?
"A sneak at Matt Giraud in his future occupation."
Simon: "The first piece of bad news... two people go home next week. Second piece of bad news... Next week is Disco Week."
Have two more awesome lines been spoken on American Idol? I wish they could send two people home every week. And as for Disco, is there a more maligned genre of music that will destroy any shred left of these Idols' dignity and integrity?
I say... Bring on Disco Night.
Soporific 7 -- Movie Mega-Cheese*
*Also the title of Mike from MST3K's book about horrible movies, the EXACT kind of movies that are represented tonight.
So they had to do it didn't they? Somehow with the 1-2 punch of Megan and Scott leaving in successive weeks they've sucked the life out of this otherwise mundane season. Do we really need Gokey AND Giraud hanging around? They're practically the same goofball.
8 Singers left. This is when the show gets good. Down to one hour shows. The singing is competent. And the Idol Judges look like idiots for continuously praising Gokey even when he sucks.
Actually the show isn't quite an hour. More like an hour 10 as the Producers have an unnatural obsession with having stupid judge conversations, pointless Seacrest chats with contestants, excessive baby photos and random shots of creepy "Fringe" Dude in the audience.
36 million votes? Which of the 8 remaining singers inspires that kind of loyalty now that our Songbird has Flown away?
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This was an action packed Results show, yet it still felt like it was treading water. These things are so long and pointless. Oh, and on last night's "Law and Order: SVU" they call Seacrest the Devil. Awesome. For a show that spends an awful lot of time thinking up new ways to present rape they're pretty astute writers.
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Singing tonight, Lady Gaga. And next week a duet from Ms. Goo-Goo and Dr. Poopy-pants.
Tonight's Group-synch is a Cheeseriffic "Don't Stop Believin'" Journey sing-a-long. It sounded good which just proves that Journey is indestructible.
Final 9: ITunes Whoring Episode.
We are repeatedly told by Seacrest that this week involves something about I-Tunes, but I can't figure out what. Basically it comes down to that the contestants can pick any famous song they want (as long as it's cleared by the parsimonious producers.) The "Pick Any Song You Want" episode is always good for a few laughs, because we realized how delightfully out of touch each of the Idols are, and how far from being contemporary recording artists they are.
And in the opening video montage I see that Gokey has man-boobs.
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Anoop -- "Caught Up" by Usher
Another deplorable Idol Results show. At least we've got documented evidence of the Idol Producers acting shady and weaselly.
They originally denied lip-syching was going on during the group suck-alongs. Then they were forced to admit it after the insurmountable evidence, namely the Idols' incredible lack of lip-synching skills. For 9 of you, your future is performing at amusement parks, better get practicing.
Final 10: Motown Night
Seacrest's "This... Is..." intro kills about 5 minutes with all the pauses. Then with the judge's intros, Seacrest's re-introduction, meeting Barry Gordy and Smokey Robinson... going to Detroit. Half the show is over and we haven't heard a single song yet.
I feared that Motown Night would be dismal because Idol has dismantled Motown songs every year since Season 1. And I was mostly right. We get tired re-hashes of played out songs and horrible arrangements. Welcome... To.... Americ... an... I...Dull.
This was a pretty dull results show. Here are my RANDOM THOUGHTS:
Damn. They plunked Scott down at the piano for the horrid lip-synched dance number. Boo. Half the reason to watch this show is gone.
Grand Ole Opry Night
I love how Idol shoots itself in the foot in it's mission to create viable pop stars by forcing them into ridiculous genres. Although Grand Ole Opry turns into a de facto country night and not "Songs from established country stars of yesteryear like Hank Williams, Boxcar Willie or Binkly Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers." And really only Sarver and Grace sounded the least bit country. It hurts my head to suffer through Simon and Randy making idiotic comments about "wrong song choice." These buffoons don't know anything about country music, but yet they're paid untold millions to opine on it. At one point Simon says: "There are millions and billions of songs you could have chosen." Oh really? Name one. Yeah, exactly. He couldn't.
