Wednesday, May 24, 2006
idol5 final final
The main thing that struck me tonight was how rich and interesting the girls sounded and how uninteresting and amateurish the boys sounded. All that crap that Randy laid down at the beginning of the cycle about how wonderful the boys were.... He wanted the boys to be wonderful but they were not. The Emperor's New Boy Singers. The boys were actually off key a lot of the time all season and especially tonight. Even the loud cheering and glamorous clothes couldn't mask that the boys just plain sounded worse than the girls.
I was watching tonight with a friend who hasn't watched most of this season and for the first hour she kept saying how awful everyone sounded, and then the six girls came out in those bright red dresses and sang the pants off everyone else. (Well, okay, Dionne Warwick sang the pants off everyone else, but you know what I mean. And while we're on the subject of Dionne Warwick, what crazy photo and tape recording do you suppose she has in her attic that she looks and sounds so terrific, forty-five years later?!) Didn't you think it was weird to hand out trophies for the most idiotic auditions in a show leading up to honoring someone's good performing? I guess that's part of the less-than-high art that some people loathe about AI. But all in all, it was an interesting experience and I'll definitely do it again. Besides, as my friend pointed out when Prince performed (he who said "never, I'll never contribute my talent to them!"), it is a whole lot of fun to see the holier-than-thou performers sidle up so they can reap some of the popularity and financial benefits of the AI phenomenon (~200,000,000 people watching on one night).
I was watching tonight with a friend who hasn't watched most of this season and for the first hour she kept saying how awful everyone sounded, and then the six girls came out in those bright red dresses and sang the pants off everyone else. (Well, okay, Dionne Warwick sang the pants off everyone else, but you know what I mean. And while we're on the subject of Dionne Warwick, what crazy photo and tape recording do you suppose she has in her attic that she looks and sounds so terrific, forty-five years later?!) Didn't you think it was weird to hand out trophies for the most idiotic auditions in a show leading up to honoring someone's good performing? I guess that's part of the less-than-high art that some people loathe about AI. But all in all, it was an interesting experience and I'll definitely do it again. Besides, as my friend pointed out when Prince performed (he who said "never, I'll never contribute my talent to them!"), it is a whole lot of fun to see the holier-than-thou performers sidle up so they can reap some of the popularity and financial benefits of the AI phenomenon (~200,000,000 people watching on one night).
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