Why does American Idol hate us so much? For the last 8 seasons we have made the show the #1 show of the season, and we are continuing to do so for the 9th one even though they have chosen to dislike us for some reason. First they let Paula Abdul leave the show instead of Kara DioGuardi and replaced her with Ellen DeGeneres who has proven to be a dud thus far. Then they let Simon Cowell quit the show after this season. OK, so that just effects the judging part of the show. What about what they have to judge? This year’s crop of singers is the worst group yet. They might be the best looking, but they are also the most boring. Last week’s Rolling Stones show was not painful, it was just extremely lackluster. So how is the show going to pep it up tonight’s episode on Fox when the 11 finalists put us to sleep with Billboard #1 hits…they are going to have Miley Cyrus mentor them. And to make it worse Disney’s newest fake couple Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas are going to perform on tomorrow night’s result show and so will this week’s mentor Miley Cyrus.
So once again I ask, American Idol what did we do to you to make you hate us so much???
Finally after months of waiting, tonight at 8p the Top 12 perform songs from The Rolling Stones on Fox’s American Idol. They are Bottom Row L-R: Lacey Brown, Katie Stevens and Lee Dewyze. Middle Row L-R: Tim Urban, Andrew Garcia, Crystal Bowersox and Paige Miles. Top Row L-R: Casey James, Aaron Kelly, Didi Benami, Siobhan Magnus and Michael Lynche. CR: Michael Becker, just in case you still don’t know who they are. At this point in the competition it looks like Crystal Bowersox is the one to beat, but she could get boring fast if she sings the same type of song week after week. Really when it comes down to it, this is the worst group of singers to make it this far which makes me wonder if Paula Abdul was the one who really saw who had the potential of being the next Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood. So far Ellen DeGeneres has proven to be dud by just telling the singers what they should sing and they were really good. On a positive note at least she hasn’t been as cheesy as she was when she judged on So You Think You Can Dance. Kara DioGuardi has gotten a little better, but she is still unwatchable. Randy Jackson is the same old dog. And Simon Cowell has one foot out the door and another body part with his fiancee’…his heart, get your mind out of my normal gutter! Am I the only who thinks this season was over as soon as we heard Pants on the Ground? It was like William Hung all over again.
Yesterday on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the writers reworked last week’s American Idol’s Top 20 group number to Black Eyed Peas I’ve Got A Feeling and turned into a song for the devil. I so wish that was real because that is the best group number I have ever seen on the show. Seriously how brilliant was that video and how awesome was it how they matched up to their song to what they were originally singing?
Tune into Fox at 8p to find out who will become American Idol’s Top 12 and then tune into Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC at 12:06a to see him interview Nicole Richie.
BTW one more Idol/Kimmel note, yesterday on the show they also pointed how Randy Jackson repeats everything Simon Cowell says. I guess Randy is trying to mimic Simon so that when he is gone next season we won’t miss him, dog.
Simon Cowell was on The Tonight Show and Jay Leno asked him about his wedding plans. The American Idol Judge was very coy about all the details, but the one telling thing from this interview is how much he loves Mezhgan Hussainy. How nice was it to see the toughy be all mushy over her! Wonder if he will fell the same way when she files for divorce and gets half of his billions? I joke, I think they will last.
BTW who else is bummed that when Simon brought his finacee’ out on to stage with him, he didn’t do what Tom Cruise did on Oprah Winfrey and jumped up and down on the couch? Such a missed opportunity because it started out the same way.
Yesterday American Idol announced their best looking 24 in American Idol history and above you can watch their first of many photoshoots. Starting next Tuesday at 8p on Fox we get to hear the Top 12 girls perform for the first time then on Wednesday it is the boys turn and finally a week from tonight we send four of them home making the Top 24 the Top 20. So what will their first theme night be next week? Well the Top 24 boys and girls will sing a Top 10 hit from the Hot 100 chart. Hopefully they will stay current or Simon will call them old fashioned. On that note can you believe the white haired girl is only 20? She looks older than me. Hopefully someone will dye her hair before Tuesday and make her look younger. You can still be edgy without looking like this year’s Taylor Hicks. Remember him?
BTW the other big thing about next week’s performances we will get to truly see if Ellen DeGeneres was a worthy decision to replace Paula Abdul or will she make cheesy one liners like she did when she was a judge on So You Think You Can Dance…
