TUESDAY May 8, 2007...Week #9 w/Barry Gibb
Week #9...Final 4:
We said Good-Bye to the alien, Phil Stacey, and Justin Timberlake wantabe, Chris Richardson, last Wednesday. Both men were likeable and very classy in their departures. I will not miss them, but the time had come to say good-bye and we did.
This evening begins the FINAL FOUR...A brief bit of American Idol history may jog your memory and help you recall some previous Final 4 Idol eliminations.
Season 1: Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Nikki McKibbin and #4 (Tamyra Gray!)
Season 2: Ruben Studdard, Clay Aiken, Kimberley Locke, and #4 (Josh Gracin!) In addition, that evening was a "Bee Gee's" theme evening. Hopefully, after tonight, we will have no more.
Season 3: Fantasia Barrino, Diana DeGarmo, Jasmine Trias, and #4 (LaToya London.) (The big surprise that year was Jennifer Hudson finishing #7 when the telephone phone banks in the entire midwest were out for most of the voting period and Jennifer was from that area.)
Season 4: Carrie Underwood, Bo Bice, Vonzell Solomon, and #4 (Anthony Federov.)
Season 5: Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Eliott Yamin, and #4 (Chris Daughtry!)
Season 6: Who will it be? Jordin, Melinda, Blake, LaKisha???
Dial Idol says it will be LaKisha going home with Melinda Doolittle in big trouble and Jordin the top vote getter with Blake, the only male, also safe.
Geo Predictions, whoever they are, (I found a reference to them on the Atlanta Blog Site) had LaKisha in last place in 47/50 states at approximately 10:30 or so...Not good.
Could it be that "race" is finally raising it's ugly head? The least pretty contestant is Melinda on the women's side and she may have looked the best she has looked this season tonight. I don't think "ugly head" has anything to do with it. Blake is really ugly himself and with his hair stylist contortions and highlights and dye jobs, I don't think he should be one of the top vote getters with his "ugly head." Consequently, it is either a "race" or "sex bias" issue with the voting.
On the "sex bias" issue, two out of the three men were voted off last week. This certainly seems to indicate that "sex bias" is not an issue since statistics indicate that most of the voters are women and "sex bias" would be toward the men. (Although I will have to admit that I voted 10,000 times for Haley Scarnato each week because I thought she was the most talented) Also, what sex is Blake? I would say neutral at best. This would be another reason that "sex bias" would not be the reason that Blake is getting votes.
This brings us to "race." When I made my first predictions for this season's Final 3, I included the Fab 3 ladies without regard to their "race." I still predict that "race" is not controlling the vote at this time; however, methinks very much that American Idol (and Simon Cowell especially) will desire my personal favorite, Jordin Sparks, to win the competition. She is young, vivacious, pretty and marketable.
There is a distinct possibility that the voter's are actually sick of Melinda Doolittle's boring same old same old and somehow were tone deaf enough and mentally ill enough to vote for Blake Lewis instead of Melinda or LaKisha, even though Blake was sick to my stomach horrible this evening. However, what I think happened is that Dial Idol had telephone and computer problems and their published results are in error.
#1...Melinda Doolittle...sang first and fifth tonight. Her first song was "Love you Inside and Out" which I hated, but the people who I was watching with, who really like Melinda, loved the performance. Since I am quiet, polite, and reserved, I was respectiveful and did not show my distaste for her halloween Unamerican Idol like look and I could care less if she has a perfect pitch or not. If her pitch is so good, let her sign with the New York Yankees. They really need pitching! Roger Clemons doesn't get there for 3-4 weeks.
Her next song was much better "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"...What I liked best about "Miss Confidence" and she should be one of the certain finalists (with Jordin) for this season's American Idol was that she refused to sing the important lyrics in the song:
"How can a loser ever win?"...HOW CAN SHE???
#2...Blake Lewis...He screwed up one song and then sang a song that no one had ever heard of and will never hear of again. I won't even tell you the name of the second song, but Simon said: "I don't know what that song was. I thought it was completely tuneless. I don't think you had a good night tonight. That was a weird, bizarre choice of song."
As you know, I ignore "Randy the racist" and "horny Paula" because they are of no consequence to the show. Last week they told us that Alien Phil was the greatest performer since Caruso, however Simon told Phil he was in trouble and Randy and Paula couldn't believe that Simon didn't hear what they heard from Phil. Phil was sent home.
In any case, I thought it was noteworthy to mention that Paula was on her best behavior tonight even though she was incoherent in her comments, she seemed sober and as always, still horny, even though I have surmised that Blake is of neutral sex or unisex, he did wear long pants of his own design tonight. After his first song, Paula said "Your beatboxing, you showed good musicianship." (???) Simon: "I'll give you unique. This is a matter of personal taste but I thought it was absolutely terrible." (Simon looks peeved.)
#3...LaKisha Jones...She sang "Stayin' Alive" possibly the most famous Bee Gees song in the world. She tried to slow it down and make it a bit funky. Simon blasted her by telling her that there would be no kisses tonight and "You're back to shouting. The performance verged on the scary. Not great tonight so far." My opinion is that she had a chance to sing balads, her favorites, and she chose to sing a famous dance tune and she slowed it down...As Ron Jones, the famous comedian says: "You can't fix stupid." Her next song was better, but she had to sing it in a higher voice and her voice was a bit worn out from all the singing and practicing. Better job, and much better than Blake's toilet job, but probably not good enough to keep her around based on some of the voting results I have seen. I dialed her number many times to try to keep her in for one more week and never got a busy signal one time...Not a good sign.
#4...Jordin Sparks...She sang "To Love Somebody" and I thought it was the performance of the night. She also was the final performance of the evening and chose a song from Barbra Streisand's hit list "A Woman to Love" that the judges were not loving as much as we at home did.
Jordin was by far the best of the evening for me and I suspect she is the top vote getter again, but I am prejudice...For those of you in Vermont, Jordin has a black daddy and a white mama...I will let you guess where my prejudice lies. Jordin is my favorite!!! My favorite sport is football and her daddy was a professional football player for the Jets and the Cowboys. I was in Vietnam the year that the Jets won the Superbowl and I was a Jets fan back then, but he did not play for the Jets. I wonder if any of this matters?
Based on performance, Blake should not even come back tomorrow night to say Good-Bye; however, I think LaKisha is probably going home unless we have a Final 4 Suprise!
(Doubtful...I really think tonight's show was so boring that many people did not take the time to vote at all).
I voted for Haley Scarnato!
We said Good-Bye to the alien, Phil Stacey, and Justin Timberlake wantabe, Chris Richardson, last Wednesday. Both men were likeable and very classy in their departures. I will not miss them, but the time had come to say good-bye and we did.
This evening begins the FINAL FOUR...A brief bit of American Idol history may jog your memory and help you recall some previous Final 4 Idol eliminations.
Season 1: Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Nikki McKibbin and #4 (Tamyra Gray!)
Season 2: Ruben Studdard, Clay Aiken, Kimberley Locke, and #4 (Josh Gracin!) In addition, that evening was a "Bee Gee's" theme evening. Hopefully, after tonight, we will have no more.
Season 3: Fantasia Barrino, Diana DeGarmo, Jasmine Trias, and #4 (LaToya London.) (The big surprise that year was Jennifer Hudson finishing #7 when the telephone phone banks in the entire midwest were out for most of the voting period and Jennifer was from that area.)
Season 4: Carrie Underwood, Bo Bice, Vonzell Solomon, and #4 (Anthony Federov.)
Season 5: Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Eliott Yamin, and #4 (Chris Daughtry!)
Season 6: Who will it be? Jordin, Melinda, Blake, LaKisha???
Dial Idol says it will be LaKisha going home with Melinda Doolittle in big trouble and Jordin the top vote getter with Blake, the only male, also safe.
Geo Predictions, whoever they are, (I found a reference to them on the Atlanta Blog Site) had LaKisha in last place in 47/50 states at approximately 10:30 or so...Not good.
Could it be that "race" is finally raising it's ugly head? The least pretty contestant is Melinda on the women's side and she may have looked the best she has looked this season tonight. I don't think "ugly head" has anything to do with it. Blake is really ugly himself and with his hair stylist contortions and highlights and dye jobs, I don't think he should be one of the top vote getters with his "ugly head." Consequently, it is either a "race" or "sex bias" issue with the voting.
On the "sex bias" issue, two out of the three men were voted off last week. This certainly seems to indicate that "sex bias" is not an issue since statistics indicate that most of the voters are women and "sex bias" would be toward the men. (Although I will have to admit that I voted 10,000 times for Haley Scarnato each week because I thought she was the most talented) Also, what sex is Blake? I would say neutral at best. This would be another reason that "sex bias" would not be the reason that Blake is getting votes.
This brings us to "race." When I made my first predictions for this season's Final 3, I included the Fab 3 ladies without regard to their "race." I still predict that "race" is not controlling the vote at this time; however, methinks very much that American Idol (and Simon Cowell especially) will desire my personal favorite, Jordin Sparks, to win the competition. She is young, vivacious, pretty and marketable.
There is a distinct possibility that the voter's are actually sick of Melinda Doolittle's boring same old same old and somehow were tone deaf enough and mentally ill enough to vote for Blake Lewis instead of Melinda or LaKisha, even though Blake was sick to my stomach horrible this evening. However, what I think happened is that Dial Idol had telephone and computer problems and their published results are in error.
#1...Melinda Doolittle...sang first and fifth tonight. Her first song was "Love you Inside and Out" which I hated, but the people who I was watching with, who really like Melinda, loved the performance. Since I am quiet, polite, and reserved, I was respectiveful and did not show my distaste for her halloween Unamerican Idol like look and I could care less if she has a perfect pitch or not. If her pitch is so good, let her sign with the New York Yankees. They really need pitching! Roger Clemons doesn't get there for 3-4 weeks.
Her next song was much better "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"...What I liked best about "Miss Confidence" and she should be one of the certain finalists (with Jordin) for this season's American Idol was that she refused to sing the important lyrics in the song:
"How can a loser ever win?"...HOW CAN SHE???
#2...Blake Lewis...He screwed up one song and then sang a song that no one had ever heard of and will never hear of again. I won't even tell you the name of the second song, but Simon said: "I don't know what that song was. I thought it was completely tuneless. I don't think you had a good night tonight. That was a weird, bizarre choice of song."
As you know, I ignore "Randy the racist" and "horny Paula" because they are of no consequence to the show. Last week they told us that Alien Phil was the greatest performer since Caruso, however Simon told Phil he was in trouble and Randy and Paula couldn't believe that Simon didn't hear what they heard from Phil. Phil was sent home.
In any case, I thought it was noteworthy to mention that Paula was on her best behavior tonight even though she was incoherent in her comments, she seemed sober and as always, still horny, even though I have surmised that Blake is of neutral sex or unisex, he did wear long pants of his own design tonight. After his first song, Paula said "Your beatboxing, you showed good musicianship." (???) Simon: "I'll give you unique. This is a matter of personal taste but I thought it was absolutely terrible." (Simon looks peeved.)
#3...LaKisha Jones...She sang "Stayin' Alive" possibly the most famous Bee Gees song in the world. She tried to slow it down and make it a bit funky. Simon blasted her by telling her that there would be no kisses tonight and "You're back to shouting. The performance verged on the scary. Not great tonight so far." My opinion is that she had a chance to sing balads, her favorites, and she chose to sing a famous dance tune and she slowed it down...As Ron Jones, the famous comedian says: "You can't fix stupid." Her next song was better, but she had to sing it in a higher voice and her voice was a bit worn out from all the singing and practicing. Better job, and much better than Blake's toilet job, but probably not good enough to keep her around based on some of the voting results I have seen. I dialed her number many times to try to keep her in for one more week and never got a busy signal one time...Not a good sign.
#4...Jordin Sparks...She sang "To Love Somebody" and I thought it was the performance of the night. She also was the final performance of the evening and chose a song from Barbra Streisand's hit list "A Woman to Love" that the judges were not loving as much as we at home did.
Jordin was by far the best of the evening for me and I suspect she is the top vote getter again, but I am prejudice...For those of you in Vermont, Jordin has a black daddy and a white mama...I will let you guess where my prejudice lies. Jordin is my favorite!!! My favorite sport is football and her daddy was a professional football player for the Jets and the Cowboys. I was in Vietnam the year that the Jets won the Superbowl and I was a Jets fan back then, but he did not play for the Jets. I wonder if any of this matters?
Based on performance, Blake should not even come back tomorrow night to say Good-Bye; however, I think LaKisha is probably going home unless we have a Final 4 Suprise!
(Doubtful...I really think tonight's show was so boring that many people did not take the time to vote at all).
I voted for Haley Scarnato!
posted by Roger | 11:20 PM
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