Peacock re: American Idol

[fantine33]

Note to others, if you haven't yet answered the QOD, and are planning on it, please do so before reading this, in case it ends up giving something away (although I'll try not to).

Decided to take this out of the QOD thread, because I'm making entirely too much scrolling necessary when I do the answers.

It's funny you knew the answer for kind of the opposite reason that I remember it. My active dislike contestant, which was torture for me each week, was the eventual winner, so I'll bet he was your favourite, huh?

Anyway, my question is this: I haven't decided if I'm watching this year (who am I kidding, I'll see somebody I like in the audition shows and it will compel me to watch), because I thought last season was a real dud, at least compared to the previous.

Was this season just a dud, or was last season an exceptional one and I just got lucky with that being my first exposure?

[Simon Coward]

Anyway, my question is this: I haven't decided if I'm watching this year (who am I kidding, I'll see somebody I like in the audition shows and it will compel me to watch), because I thought last season was a real dud, at least compared to the previous.

Was this season just a dud, or was last season an exceptional one and I just got lucky with that being my first exposure?

Who declared you the arbiter of taste? Just watch the show and be like all the rest of the people all over the world who I have brainwashed into planning their lives around my yearly spectacle. Don't make me send Paula to find you and threaten to have a crying fit if you won't watch...

Oh, and I find your QoD contest to be dreadful and boring. You need more train wrecks and outrageous moments to make it popular...

[peacock2121]

I had dueling favorites that season - I loved to look at Ace and was sure he had no chance of winning, which is why I wanted him gone before Bucky. Ace is the kind of guy I was always attracted to and who was never attracted to me. He is also the type that I stay attracted to until they open their mouth and talk about anything of real meaning.

I did and do love Taylor. I went to the Idols tour that year and also went to see Taylor in concert when he came to Poughkeepsie. He is such a showman. I love watching him move, I love how he gest into the music, I love how he loves all the music and can move to it all. I love the words of his songs - he is a love song kinda guy.

Last season was kind boring to me. There were no real showman or showwomen. No one stuck out for me. Was it Lakisha (the big girl who did the Dreamgirls song) was a one note kinda girl - There were really good technical singers and no one had me clapping when they were done.

Fantasia had me clapping, I loved when Carrie Underwood sang country, everytime Rueben sang I hoped he lived another day.

I will watch again. I will pick a fave from the beginning and probably be disappointed.

I did like the 'pig faced' guy his year - although he never grew in the competition.

[fantine33]

Who declared you the arbiter of taste? Just watch the show and be like all the rest of the people all over the world who I have brainwashed into planning their lives around my yearly spectacle. Don't make me send Paula to find you and threaten to have a crying fit if you won't watch...

Oh, and I find your QoD contest to be dreadful and boring. You need more train wrecks and outrageous moments to make it popular...

You don't find it 'utterly appalling'? I'm crushed. How very cabaret of you.

[Ritterskoop]

I thought Melinda Doolittle last year was the best singer they've had in six years, though there have been several others I liked a lot, especially Elliott Yamin and Kimberley Locke, who might've won in another group.

[fantine33]

I did and do love Taylor. I went to the Idols tour that year and also went to see Taylor in concert when he came to Poughkeepsie. He is such a showman. I love watching him move, I love how he gest into the music, I love how he loves all the music and can move to it all. I love the words of his songs - he is a love song kinda guy.

Funny how perceptions vary. All of the things you loved about him, I despised. To me he was a phony, fake poseur. It was the point of no return when he cheated the theme on Songs Currently on the Charts night. Being equal opportunity, I hated it when all the girls did dueling Shirley Bassey on British Invasion night this last season. Shirley Bassey is not British Invasion!

I thought Melinda Doolittle last year was the best singer they've had in six years, though there have been several others I liked a lot, especially Elliott Yamin and Kimberley Locke, who might've won in another group.

I thought Melinda was very good and I liked what she could do with phrasing. Her My Funny Valentine might be my second favourite performance, behind Mandisa's Dinah Washington the previous season. Of course I only have two season's worth to judge.

I was kind of turned off of Melinda when she said that she had her own personal vocal coach and stylist (who should have been fired), even for the audition! She seemed a bit too calculated, plus I think a lot of the singers as of late are really too professional to suit the spirit of the show.

It might be Peacock said, nobody was really a showman and stuck out. My favourite was Sanjaya. Not because he was the best, but because around the week he did the Kinks, you could tell he just decided 'eff it all, I'm going to just be outrageous and see how much I can get away with'. I loved it when he did Bathwater, that's a hard song to sing, he stuck to the true theme (doing Donna Summer and the Police on Gwen Stefani night is a copout) and had fun.

As I said before, I've only seen the last two seasons. I have seen bits and pieces of Season One on the American Idol Rewind show. It's funny to see how amateurish, cheap looking and 'hey, kids, let's put on a show!' it was compared to how slick and gargantuan it is now, just a few years later.

[Ritterskoop]

Being equal opportunity, I hated it when all the girls did dueling Shirley Bassey on British Invasion night this last season. Shirley Bassey is not British Invasion!

I think here was the show's problem with British Invasion: there were gobs of artists that did songs appropriate for guys to sing, but not nearly as many for the girls. Just because of the era, and what kinds of groups were successful. So when they made the list, they had to stretch some. It's not the singers' fault; they have to choose from a list.