After having given us the requisite scare last week, the 100,000 9-14 year-olds who vote in this American Idol thing cast 45 million votes (while somehow forgetting to vote for Adam Lambert) managed to get it right, dumping Matt and leaving us with Adam, Allison, Danny, and Kris.
Everybody’s front runner, Lambert, actually wound up in the bottom two. It’s getting down to the time when the best of the bunch could actually be eliminated by a stroke of voting stupidity, much as Jennifer Hudson and Chris Daughtry were dumped in their respective seasons.
I suppose it doesn’t really matter to me whether Adam leaves the competition early. He’s achieved the visibility he needs to move on and do well in the music business. In fact, if he were to go, it might restore some of my lost interest. The actual competition once again would be meaningful, instead of being a foregone conclusion. But that probably won’t happen, so I probably won’t dwell on it. Maybe. Perhaps.
Matt was the weakest of the pretenders, and he deserved to go. I don’t know why the judges wasted their ridiculous “save” on him. They would have been in a big jam last week were Adam indeed eliminated and they had no capability for saving him. In an earlier post, I told you that judicious use of the judges’ save would be an important strategic consideration. It appears to this Mouse that they used it prematurely.
This week is rock & roll week. Unfortunately, it’s still got a two hour slot, which probably means that we’ll be subjected to two songs from each semi-finalist, most of the aggregation of which will be lame. Nevertheless, it’s rock, so all should do well, and the show might even wind up being entertaining.
It goes without saying that contestants will need to choose the right songs in order to best showcase their individual talent. The so-called judges will be all full of stupid advice centering around “at this stage in the competition…” — except for Paula, that is. She’ll be all full of love for the contestants and full of vapid utterances for the contestants, whom she’ll call “Honey.” I can hardly wait.
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The Redhead says
The Redhead has arrived. Bring on the fun!
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
A new genre, a new mentor, and a new shot at becoming a star. The Mouse is in the house!
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Good evening, Runnin’ Red!
The Redhead says
Hello, there, Sir Mouse!
Sounds like it will be interesting tonight–duets.
The Redhead says
Six songs. Slash. What more can you ask for?
Well, never mind.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Glad you don’t want an answer.
The Redhead says
Wow–Slash looks like he’s doing steroids.
The Redhead says
Adam is singing Zeppelin–man, this I gotta see.
The Redhead says
It’s heavy metal Elvis!
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
He can do it, given his typical hysterics.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
The band is on, so it will work.
The Redhead says
I gotta tell ya, Sir Mouse. I don’t like this.
The Redhead says
Adam looks too much like a poser–really ridiculous.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
I have a feeling that he’s singing this to his boyfriend.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
So, yo. Randy loves him.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
A rock god? Kara is delusional.
The Redhead says
Whoa, Karra is flippin’ out for Adam!!!
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Adam Honey…you’re a whole lotta perfect.
==Paula
The Redhead says
Well, the kiddos do have a tall order to follow, especially now that Simon has said so. Maybe one of them will blow us away.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
So, they’re all in “aggreance” — Adam did well (for a fucking poser).
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Yes, indeed. Adam set the bar for the rest of them.
The Redhead says
Allison should do well–rock is her genre.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Oooh, yeah, Allison doin Joplin.
The Redhead says
Joplin seems a tad obvious but she’s chosen a good tune of hers.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
She needed to drink a pint of bourbon before doing this.
The Redhead says
I’m not sure if she did it on purpose, but she dropped the first few bars from the song and started right into the first verse. Whatever.
She’s doing well at this.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
She looks like a high school girl trying to do Joplin. Wait! She IS a high school girl trying to do Joplin.
The Redhead says
Southern Comfort (was Joplin’s drink).
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
What’s a “babeh”?
The Redhead says
White Rabbit would have been cool.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Randy is keepin it real.
The Redhead says
A little Grace Slick.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Jesus, Paula…give it up!
The Redhead says
Paula is just a tad overstating things as usual.
Allison does have a great set of pipes.
The Redhead says
Awwww, so she was considering Jefferson Airplane!
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Awwwwwww… my heart bleeds for her. Next victim!
The Redhead says
Allison is nervous that she’s in trouble.
The Redhead says
Kitchen break.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Danny is more likely to nail his song than Kris is.
The Redhead says
Yeah, I agree. Kris is not a rocker.
The Redhead says
Man, I hated this song.
The Redhead says
Styx sucked (IMHO).
The Redhead says
This is not Kris’s thing at all.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Are we done yet? Danny was OK.
The Redhead says
Nice job, Danny.
The Redhead says
I agree with Randy about the harmonies.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
I agree with Paula about the hormones.
The Redhead says
I think Danny could take it to the final two if he makes smart choices.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Kris looks like he doesn’t want to be there.
The Redhead says
Haha!
The Redhead says
Hmmm, I didn’t pick up on that. Too busy eating my bagel.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Kris goes home tomorrow.
The Redhead says
I’m sure this a better choice than Revolution but it’s just not making it. He shouldn’t have picked a Beatles song that was so well-known.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Yo. Aight, so. For me, like.
The Redhead says
Unless Danny flubs big time or there is an Allison backlash, I agree, Kris is going home this week.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Kris goin’ home.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Paula…you’re so fulla shit.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Simon says it was rather like eating ice for lunch—it will leave nothing to remember it by.
The Redhead says
What an analogy, “eating ice for lunch.” Well, I thought it was a bit more lukewarm than that, tepid.
Bye bye, Kris.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
That’s about right.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
I don’t think simon was referring to the temperature.
The Redhead says
Yikes, why did Danny pick Dream On? What a cliche. Ick.
Adam could totally do that song though.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
You won’t like Danny doing his Stephen Tyler imitation because you don’t like Stephen Tyler. You do seem to have trouble being objective when you start out being polarized.
The Redhead says
Yeah, but the “cold” of the ice in that analogy comes through more powerfully than the “emptiness” of the ice.
IMHO.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Adam would only excel at the screaming part at the end.
The Redhead says
Although I do like the “emptiness of the ice.” Good stuff.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
So, does the “eating … for lunch” part refer to singing, too?
The Redhead says
Oh, I don’t know if I agree about that. I can be objective about the way a song is performed, whether or not I like the song.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Once you don’t like someone, you tend to be less than objective. However, Danny starts with a tabula rasa, I suppose.
The Redhead says
Haha! Danny looks so dorky with those glasses and that hang dog look.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
This sucks!!! I hate Aerosmith!! I hate Danny!!!! OMG!!!
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
j/k
The Redhead says
I think this is better than Kris’s performance but it’s not what I hoped it would be. Danny is lacking his usual high energy and focus.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
til your dreamin come treeeeew
The Redhead says
j/k
??????
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
He did the Stephen Tyler screaming thing well, but that’s all he did well.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
j/k = just kidding
The Redhead says
Wow–Paula is showing it off tonight!
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Paula the cheerleader.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
That’s one of Stephen Tyler’s old t-shirts Paula is wearing.
The Redhead says
Oh, that was cruel, Simon.
“j/k” = just kidding. I like it!
The Redhead says
FTW, Mouse!
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
j/k is old chat room lingo
The Redhead says
Those were the daze.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
They have matching hair now.
The Redhead says
Adam uses energy better than Allison. She relaxes inside her voice too much–it takes more than a good singing voice to put something across.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Her voice is deeper than his.
The Redhead says
Paired up they look good.
The Redhead says
This was a good way to close out the show.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
That was fun.
The Redhead says
This will help her win votes and should keep on her the show for another week.
The Redhead says
Simon agrees with me!
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
In the battle of the duets, Allison and Adam nailed it. Simon agrees with me. He knows what side his bread is buttered on.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Kris bites the dust tomorrow.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
You’ve got the con tomorrow night. I’ll be on the road.
The Mouse Who Ate Xanax says
Good night and good luck!
The Redhead says
Wow–Paula performs tomorrow night! Get ready, Sir Mouse!
That’s right, you won’t be here.
I’ll do the play-by-play. Will miss you!
The Redhead says
Happy trails, Sir Mouse! See you soon.
The Redhead says
It’s Wednesday night and that means Elimination Round!
Runnin’ Red is in the House!
The Redhead says
I’ll do my best to fill Sir Mouse’s shoes (do mice wear shoes?) tonight. Let’s see what’s on tap.
The Redhead says
Yeah, over 64-million votes were registered last night says Ryan.
Here are the Top Four.
And here come de judges.
Paula is all sparkles tonight.
Simon–the mean, I mean the MAN, in black.
The Redhead says
Hi Ho! Randy Jackson is performing.
Heheheh, little joke (very little) from Ryan.
Paula is performing for the very first time on AI!
Whoo Hooo!
The Redhead says
An extremely weird Ford ad.
And now Slash and the Fab Four doing Alice Cooper’s School’s Out (my personal anthem when I was in high school).
Danny is rocking this. Adam seems lukewarm on it. Bring Alice out here–he knows drama (queen).
The Redhead says
Slash is playing a wicked guitar romp.
School’s Out for Summer, babeeeee……
Now Adam is doing the Freddie Mercury thing.
Hey Adam–wrong drag queen!
The Redhead says
Ryan is chattin’ up Slash.
(Actually, Ryan and Adam are meeting for martinis after the show. Winkwink.)
The Redhead says
No Doubt on the show tonight.
And a lot of uncertainty, too!
🙂
The Redhead says
Now we’re discussing who should be here and shouldn’t with the judges.
Simon tells Kris: “We don’t want humble anymore.”
Adam says he liked his (Adam’s) outfit the other night.
Danny says he laughed at the playback of his performance. Last note of “Dream On.” “I made a name for myself.” You did?
Allison: “Simon was asking for it (as to why she talked back to him).”
The Redhead says
Here’s Paula Abdul to perform now.
I’m so excited!
A Laker Girl!
A choregrapher!
A pop singer!
A top selling recording artist.
Song: I’m Just Hear for the Music.
Let’s watch.
The Redhead says
She’s got that electrontica sound going when she sings (on tape).
She’s got a pack of male dancers around her and she’s pushing their faces into and out of various places.
Uh oh. The track is skipping.
I’m Just Here for the Music.
(I’m aware of my poor spelling above, Sir Mouse. Please don’t hate me.)
Back to the show.
She’s gone. Inhalers await backstage.
The Redhead says
Madonna may be able to continue live performance for a while longer but I don’t see it in Paula’s future.
The Redhead says
We are back.
Ryan is talking with Paula about “gracing the stage.”
Now we go to the real performers–Gwen and No Doubt.
“I’m just a girl…” Gwen is rocking and sounds great.
The Redhead says
Wow–I just caught a look at the drummer’s hair. Spiked is an understatement.
I’m greatly afeared.
The Redhead says
Gwen is running all over the stage. She is in good shape and is obviously singing live.
Now she’s doing pushups. Yeah, she’s in good shape.
She’s got the gals in the audience singing along now.
She’s just took a running jump into the audience. A pretty shakey landing. I was a bit nervous there for a moment.
The Redhead says
She’s still singing but is breathing a bit harder now. I guess so after that workout!
Still, she’s got nothing on Jagger.
The Redhead says
Hey Gwen–your green bra strap is showing!
Now, we’re talking with Ryan. New album soon, tour, blah blah blah.
Tour kicks off in Vegas next week. Overwhelming response.
Yadayada.
The Redhead says
You’ll notice we’ve not had any eliminations yet. No “bottom two.” The clock is ticking. Let’s move it along, please!
The Redhead says
Okay, they had to wait for Paula to take a shower. She’s back at the table now.
Ryan: A lot at stake this week…
Now we watch a film about former idol winners and wanna-bees as they arrive in their hometowns.
Parades, mobs, crying children…
and that’s just for the road crew!
The Redhead says
Okay, here are the Top Four.
The crowd roars.
The lights dim.
Ryan runs down the various judicial opinions of the various contenders.
“Ice for lunch” Kris looks nervous.
After the vote, Kris is safe.
Okay……we’re shaking things up a little. Sir Mouse and I did not predict this outcome.
The Redhead says
Let us discuss as we head to a commercial break, shall we?
Hmmmm, well, now that voters have saved Kris, the most obvious loser of the week, anything could pretty much happen. If I were voting, I would eject Danny at this point. But that may be too obvious.
Still, I will wager that Danny is gone. Kris has the good looks the girls like and I did not factor that in last night. Danny has no such looks.
Bye bye, Danny boy.
The Redhead says
Side note:
Allison looked shocked when Kris got the save. I would imagine she is now a tad nervous. Don’t worry, kid. You’ve got another week at least.
The Redhead says
We are now blasting back to Season 5 and Chris Daughtry who found out he was going home, a nonwinner. Remember the outrage?
The Redhead says
Whatever happened to the winner, Katherine McPhee, I wonder?
The Redhead says
I believe that was my first year of “idoling” with the Turkey. Of course, this is my first year with the Mouse 🙂
The Redhead says
Okay, Daughtry is performing with his band. A very lackluster song and performance. You’ve heard this tune a hundred times under various titles.
Yawn.
The Redhead says
Okay, Ryan is presenting the former Idol with a plat album.
Whoo hooooo!
Let’s keep it movin’.
The Redhead says
I’ve been looking at the various seasons of AI. My first with the Turkey was Season Six.
Happy Anniversary, Turkey!
The Redhead says
Let’s get this show on the road!
Finally!
Okay, let’s get ready to bid Danny farewell.
Ryan will first name the second person who is in the Top 3:
Adam.
Adam is safe.
Huge sigh of relief here.
Ahhhhhh….
The Redhead says
Dannydannydannydannydanny–
is safe!
The Redhead says
Well, it’s another case of justifce not served.
It’s really pathetic that she goes home instead of Kris or Danny.
Buck up, Red (s)–
that’s sucky showbiz.
The Redhead says
Another case of “justice” not served, too!
The Redhead says
She’s taking it like a pro. You can see that she’s sad but she is handling it well.
That’s right, Allison–hold that red head up high!
Don’t cry, cry, baby.
That’s what Karia is doing. Aw, Allison has gone over to Keera and is hugging her.
I’m gettin all verklempt.
The Redhead says
Well, I think we’re going to see Adam take this now. I just can’t believe that Kris or Danny can win this.
Then again, this same iddie kiddies voted Allison–a real singer–off the show.
It’ a tough business, Sir Mouse.
The Redhead says
Well, Sir Mouse, it is time for me to make my exit (stage left, of course). Hope all is well and that you return safely!
See you soon!
The Redhead says
Hello there!
Thought I’d share the latest “Simon Sez:”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30690732/