Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AI6 10
Does anyone seriously expect that any of the ten people who sang tonight can be rehearsed and/or trained and/or beaten into shape enough to produce anything we'd want to buy even out of a cardboard on-sale box? The songs tonight were boring or silly and the outfits were early-seventies ugly. Sanjaya's hair was so ridiculous that your average pre-teen would be embarrassed (I hope) although his singing wasn't the worst of the bunch so, heaven help us, he'll undoubtedly be back to frighten us again (and make Venomous Kate have to boycott chocolate for at least another week). Simon keeps saying that singing is the point of this exercise, which is a tad disingenuous and only partly true, since entertainers can be honed in the studio if the package merits the work. Whatever, I think Lakisha is too boring (though she can be jazzed up when she get a contract), Haley is gorgeous but way too hair-falls and bland, Melinda seems way too sweet to be real and I still think she's a ringer, Sligh loses breath and voice on many lines, Sanjaya is just plain awful, Blake is described as 'nice' by some but seems almost non-existent to me because he's so bland, Richardson disappears into vacuity to me, Phil can sing when he slows down and concentrates but can he do it more than once?, Jordin has punch and a good voice but isn't interesting, and Gina has oomph but only two dimensions. Tell me where I'm wrong.
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| posted by jau at 11:31 PM
jau — at 2:34 PM, March 28, 2007:
| posted by jau at 11:31 PM
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jau — at 2:34 PM, March 28, 2007:
See, I'm blissfully ignorant of that year because last year was my first, so maybe I'm wrong and the producers prefer bland-bordering-on-dreadful performers. (I have a friend who adores Clay, which baffles me no end.)
Yes, about Melinda, it seems to me she knows so much more than anyone about singing - and she was apparently a "real" backup singer. Plus, if they could find one as good as her, why not pack it with everyone that good?! THEN it would be a singing contest!
Yes, about Melinda, it seems to me she knows so much more than anyone about singing - and she was apparently a "real" backup singer. Plus, if they could find one as good as her, why not pack it with everyone that good?! THEN it would be a singing contest!
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Excuse my ignorance, when you say Melinda is a ringer, do you mean she's a real professional singer who has been placed in the show?
Otherwise I thought all the girls were OK and all the guys bland.
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