American Idol Season 6

phoenixx · #1 01-10-2007, 02:12 AM

Just starting the official thread for this season. Wooooo! Next Tuesday bay-bee, the best part begins! AUDITIONS! lol

cristina1 · #2 01-10-2007, 09:33 AM

And House is delayed another three weeks for it! Waaahhhh!

I am upset about House, but I do like watching the auditions for AI so hopefully it will balance out.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #3 01-10-2007, 09:35 AM

Cheater. You KNOW I start the thread on that Tuesday.

**theworm**[$] · #4 01-10-2007, 09:53 AM

Why can't AI and House cohabitat?

cristina1 · #5 01-10-2007, 10:23 AM

They do once the auditions are over.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #6 01-10-2007, 10:55 AM

audition shows are two hours and suck up the whole Fox primetime slot.

**theworm**[$] · #7 01-10-2007, 10:59 AM

I know that the auditions are funny - but I get bored after a while. I usually don't watch regularly until they get down to the final 16 or 18 or whatever it is.
I like my House!!!

cristina1 · #8 01-10-2007, 11:56 AM

Me, too, Wormie, and we went long enough without it.

**amykhar** · #9 01-10-2007, 12:24 PM

I'm not too crazy about the auditions either. To me, a lot of the hopefuls represent the worst of what America has to offer behavior wise.

cristina1 · #10 01-10-2007, 12:48 PM

A lot of them are just looking for their 15 minutes.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #11 01-10-2007, 01:42 PM

I like the deluded ones.

frazzledspice · #12 01-10-2007, 01:51 PM

I'm a little disillusioned with American Idol. We've heard four sample tracks from Katherine McPhee's Clive Davis CD.

I can't imagine how any serious musician would want to be Davis-ized after listening to these four tracks.

In one she sounded like Britney Spears in a song with lyrics more suited to a 17 year-old than someone in her twenties.

In two she sounded like Beyonce.

In one she sounded like Missy Elliott.

Well, she's not a teenybopper pop star. She's not a hip-hopper. She's not Beyonce.

So far, what we've heard of the CD seems to be everything except what she is--someone who loves Broadway and the old standards and excels in those types of songs.

Elliott Yamin (another one of my favorites) was wise not to let himself be squeezed into a particular pigeonhole.

On the other hand, Davis seemed to do a pretty good job with Kellie Pickler. I saw her on Leno. She looked really cute and relaxed and comfortable with a lively country song that had an undemanding vocal range of an octave or so.....I still think she is more of a comedienne than a singer, and I see she has a situation comedy pilot opportunity.

phoenixx · #13 01-10-2007, 01:55 PM

Quote:

pippadaisy said

Cheater. You KNOW I start the thread on that Tuesday.

Neener. I couldn't wait - I had been watching the previews all night.

**hadassahchana**[$] · #14 02-01-2007, 12:36 PM

Pippa and Leslie why havne't you guys posted about Courtney Love possibly being hired to replace Paula? I nearly wet myself, I thought I was on a parody site. But no, when I checked, I was still on the ABC news site.

Courtney Love replacing Paula because of P.s substance abuse problems....

**amykhar** · #15 02-01-2007, 01:04 PM

Not going to happen says the producer: http://poponthepop.blogspot.com/2007...ing-paula.html

**hadassahchana**[$] · #16 02-01-2007, 01:48 PM

Whew! That's a relief. But dang, it was funny.

phoenixx · #17 02-01-2007, 02:12 PM

did yall see panther guy??? holy crap.

**hadassahchana**[$] · #18 02-01-2007, 02:52 PM

WAsn't he a scream? Yikes!

The girl in the red cowboy hat takes the weird prize for me. And there were so many candidates, but wowza.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #19 02-01-2007, 06:06 PM

One of the good/bad points of my blog gig is that I see a lot of these stories before they hit most places. And have already seen them discounted. I'm starting to get a decent feel for the things that are going to be proved false. I'm rarely surprised anymore. And I'm tired of looking at naked boobies.

**hadassahchana**[$] · #20 02-01-2007, 07:20 PM

Naked boobies?

On your blog?

And even though it's not true, how cool would it have been to write to Harold Bloom and say,"Irony is not either dead!"?

**pippadaisy**[$] · #21 02-01-2007, 07:42 PM

EVERYONE is going without a bra. and if you need publicity? You wear a black top with no bra and go to paparazzi-laden places to have pics taken of your latest boob job.

**Joubert**[$] · #22 02-02-2007, 10:38 PM

Things I Like So Far This Year:
-- Ryan Seacrest is actually becoming a good television host.
-- Randy has not run out of tired phrases and has added some.

-- Nice to see Olivia Newton-John after her battle with breast cancer.
-- About friggin' time someone gave Carole Bayer Sager some credit.
-- We're finally seeing security -- that's cool.

Things I Don't Like This Year:
-- Too much emphasis on the whack jobs rather than the merely bad.
-- Too much emphasis on crying.
-- Too many staged moments.
-- Letting singers from previous years' Hollywood week back in. You had your shot -- move on.

Question for the group: if you've sung back up for Christina (like one guy did) or other famous stars, don't you have enough juice with someone to get your own audition in front of an A&R person? Why would you go to American Idol when you can have one of Christina's people put in a word at the music company?