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jlhOkay, I'm sick, and this is going to be a tricky entry to write, but I'm so tired of pulling my punches about shit like this and I'm just kinda not in the mood. I will say, that idea of having people call into the results show is going to make it even more painful to watch than it already is. I hate call in shows, and it's only going to irritate Simon.
Speaking of Simon, he was in rare form last night, wasn't he? He was so uninterested in any of the people who left he could barely bring himself to stay in his seat during their singouts.
I'd said before I even saw the performances that on the girls' side Asia'h and one of the blondes were going, mostly because no one was connecting with any of the three of them. I don't know if Katie Lee is really going to last past Beatles week or the week after and make it on the tour (I bet that's why she said she was fine with being 10th, which was a stupid thing to say) because she hasn't done anything to make me care about her, but we'll see about that.
I think everyone knew that Luke would be out, because he continued to suck and has really bizarre stagecraft.
In the beginning of the year in my class I always make a statement about conspiracy theories, in which I note that if the Mafia can't keep people quiet, no one can. So I'm always a little suspicious—conspiracy theories suggest that life is rational, and controlled, rather than random and unexpected. But even more importantly, if the producers fixed American Idol they'd be committing fraud, and I doubt any of them are willing to go to jail over some contestant.
As for Nigel, have you seen So You Think You Can Dance? Do you really think he cares about putting gay people on television? Have you heard what he has to say about Ryan and Simon? (Oh, wait, you don't, since you keep telling me how much you don't care about Rymon—well, let's just say he ships them and leave it at at that.) Nigel basically wants to make money by having a high-rated TV show, and that's sort of it. The kind of lies that Idol tends to tell are exaggerations, like saying that EMI has released the Beatles catalog to them because of the level of talent this year, when it's really that EMI is broke and is releasing the catalog to anyone willing to pay the new reduced rates for it.
Given the reaction that Jacob was having to Danny in his recaps on TWOP, I think what might have happened in the wake of David Hernandez's stripping revelations is that the gay vote moved over to him and away from Danny. It's happened before—when Mandisa's connections to an anti-gay minister came out in the Advocate, she was gone the next week, because a diva needs her gays. Meanwhile the tiny girls-and-grandmothers vote was with David Achuleta. (Chikezie, of course, got the entire black people vote, a group of people who know that he sang a Luther Vandross song, thank you very much Simon, and if I'd been thinking I would have realized when they were the final two that Danny was out.)
Now, I'm not saying I wasn't really surprised—Ali and I shouted when Ryan made the announcement, and there's a reason they left it until last. And those of you who are fans, seriously, I feel your pain; we've all had favorites leave at the semis. I still miss Alexandrea, and I felt horrid for poor Leslie last year.
All that said, what I find most interesting is that as rarely happens on Idol there's only one real diva, Ramiele, in a sea of rock/pop singers. And on the boys side, well, things have been fairly white in the past, but I'm not sure we've had this much rock before. Can any of them stop David Achuleta? Won't it be interesting to watch them try?
Speaking of Simon, he was in rare form last night, wasn't he? He was so uninterested in any of the people who left he could barely bring himself to stay in his seat during their singouts.
I'd said before I even saw the performances that on the girls' side Asia'h and one of the blondes were going, mostly because no one was connecting with any of the three of them. I don't know if Katie Lee is really going to last past Beatles week or the week after and make it on the tour (I bet that's why she said she was fine with being 10th, which was a stupid thing to say) because she hasn't done anything to make me care about her, but we'll see about that.
I think everyone knew that Luke would be out, because he continued to suck and has really bizarre stagecraft.
In the beginning of the year in my class I always make a statement about conspiracy theories, in which I note that if the Mafia can't keep people quiet, no one can. So I'm always a little suspicious—conspiracy theories suggest that life is rational, and controlled, rather than random and unexpected. But even more importantly, if the producers fixed American Idol they'd be committing fraud, and I doubt any of them are willing to go to jail over some contestant.
As for Nigel, have you seen So You Think You Can Dance? Do you really think he cares about putting gay people on television? Have you heard what he has to say about Ryan and Simon? (Oh, wait, you don't, since you keep telling me how much you don't care about Rymon—well, let's just say he ships them and leave it at at that.) Nigel basically wants to make money by having a high-rated TV show, and that's sort of it. The kind of lies that Idol tends to tell are exaggerations, like saying that EMI has released the Beatles catalog to them because of the level of talent this year, when it's really that EMI is broke and is releasing the catalog to anyone willing to pay the new reduced rates for it.
Given the reaction that Jacob was having to Danny in his recaps on TWOP, I think what might have happened in the wake of David Hernandez's stripping revelations is that the gay vote moved over to him and away from Danny. It's happened before—when Mandisa's connections to an anti-gay minister came out in the Advocate, she was gone the next week, because a diva needs her gays. Meanwhile the tiny girls-and-grandmothers vote was with David Achuleta. (Chikezie, of course, got the entire black people vote, a group of people who know that he sang a Luther Vandross song, thank you very much Simon, and if I'd been thinking I would have realized when they were the final two that Danny was out.)
Now, I'm not saying I wasn't really surprised—Ali and I shouted when Ryan made the announcement, and there's a reason they left it until last. And those of you who are fans, seriously, I feel your pain; we've all had favorites leave at the semis. I still miss Alexandrea, and I felt horrid for poor Leslie last year.
All that said, what I find most interesting is that as rarely happens on Idol there's only one real diva, Ramiele, in a sea of rock/pop singers. And on the boys side, well, things have been fairly white in the past, but I'm not sure we've had this much rock before. Can any of them stop David Achuleta? Won't it be interesting to watch them try?
