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Final 10 Results Show: Post-Game Analysis
Final 10: Motown Night... Paula Finishes Becoming a Dude.
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.
Final 11 Results: Post Game Analysis
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: "It Left Me Confused... And Kind of Happy."
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.
Final 13 Results: "Introducing The Anti-Vote For The Worst Rule."
I love when the Producers say they gon't give a crap about VFTW... Oh yeah? I think Idol Producers are #1.
So here's the question of the night from Ryan. What do Jennifer Hudson, Michael Johns and Chris Daughtry have in common? Hmm, let me see. Only one was our Worst, so that's not it. Only two went on to successful music careers. Nope, that can't be it either. I just can't put my finger on it... Oh, right. They all have ginormous tattoos of their names on their backs. I got it, right?
Final 13 Sing: "Caw! Caw!"
Howdy Everyone,
How is everyone doing today? It's good to be in the Finals. After endless bad singing and confusion about the stupid Wild Card rules, it's time for VotefortheWorst to reassert our muscle. Yes, it's Voting Time. I was hoping Michael Jackson night was going to be a huge train wreck, but despite only a couple duds, most of the performances were competent, well sung and nacho cheesy made with REAL American (Idol) Cheez, of course.
Wild Card Night: "I'm Ready to Sing For You, America!"
Who would've thought that taking boring, crappy singers who nobody wanted to hear sing again, and make them sing again would make for such a boring, crappy show? I mean what idiots would schedule this shit, shoot it, record it and put it on TV? Sure, they always have the trump card in the fact that we're the idiots that WATCH this crap on a Thursday night when there are other FAR more entertaining shows on TV (Like Season Finale of BURN NOTICE... which was awesome. And weird Valentine's episode of THE OFFICE, which was oddly not awesome.)
Not even the swan song of everyone's favorite Diva of Crazy, Tatiana and Anoop's reprise of "Prerogative" could save this show from being flung on the dung heap of boring and pointless Idol episodes.
Semi-Finals Results #3: Post-Game Analysis.
She's BaaaaacK! It's clear we're not the only ones enamored of Tatiana. She breaks down. She cries, she thanks everyone in the world. She breaks down again. She's wearing a horrifying polka-dot outfit. YES! The giggling one is back on the show, for at least one more awesome performance. And IF she makes it through to the Finals (we're talking snowballs and hell here) we'll vote the crap out of her.
Oh, and a bunch of other stuff happened tonight, too.
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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.