Wednesday, April 4, 2007
AI6 9
American classical songs are often fantastic combinations of tuneful melodies and interesting lyrics. Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers, Hart, etc., etc. And indeed some of the songs the idolaters (heh) sang last night are wonderful songs. But you'd be hard-pressed to prove it by how most of them sounded.
--Even the usually fantastic Lakisha sounded pretty bad - she was sharp and off key through most of it. What was with that? Do they all need gimmickry to sound okay?
--Phil really does have a terrific voice so the trick with him is to listen without looking - probably not a good characteristic for someone in an American Idol contest.
--Haley scared me with that really really bright green dress that made her boobs all crinkly and drained her color so she looked like an aging movie star (except for her endless legs, of course).
--Jordin and Gina continue to sound like real singers and performers to me, people whose albums I'd actually consider buying and who can put a song over in ways that aren't cookie cutter copies of Aguilera and Spears and the rest. (Read the Anchoress's paragraphs on Jordin and Gina for a longer and better statement of why I like Gina, especially, so much.) I'd love it if one of them were to win the whole kit and kaboodle.
--The other boys (Chris, Sanjaya and Blake) are soooooo uninteresting that I'm not going to say anything about them.
--Melinda did her customarily super rendition but I'm increasingly irritated because I truly don't think she belongs there. She's not an amateur. And I'm sure contracts are pencilled in, just waiting. (At the end of Ann Althouse's column, "Joan" puts it even more succinctly, saying she thinks Melinda's nice-girl-who's-amazed-at-everyone's-reaction is a fake. I'm not sure she's wrong!) And don't hate me, but I think Sanjaya is more in the spirit of the competition than Melinda - how's that for sacrilege?! A.I. is partly about crowning a terrific singer but it's also about who viewers like to see perform.
Anyway, as for who will get eliminated tonight, I'm going to say Lakisha, believe it or not. It's probably not a good choice - Haley would make more sense - but that's my prediction.
--Even the usually fantastic Lakisha sounded pretty bad - she was sharp and off key through most of it. What was with that? Do they all need gimmickry to sound okay?
--Phil really does have a terrific voice so the trick with him is to listen without looking - probably not a good characteristic for someone in an American Idol contest.
--Haley scared me with that really really bright green dress that made her boobs all crinkly and drained her color so she looked like an aging movie star (except for her endless legs, of course).
--Jordin and Gina continue to sound like real singers and performers to me, people whose albums I'd actually consider buying and who can put a song over in ways that aren't cookie cutter copies of Aguilera and Spears and the rest. (Read the Anchoress's paragraphs on Jordin and Gina for a longer and better statement of why I like Gina, especially, so much.) I'd love it if one of them were to win the whole kit and kaboodle.
--The other boys (Chris, Sanjaya and Blake) are soooooo uninteresting that I'm not going to say anything about them.
--Melinda did her customarily super rendition but I'm increasingly irritated because I truly don't think she belongs there. She's not an amateur. And I'm sure contracts are pencilled in, just waiting. (At the end of Ann Althouse's column, "Joan" puts it even more succinctly, saying she thinks Melinda's nice-girl-who's-amazed-at-everyone's-reaction is a fake. I'm not sure she's wrong!) And don't hate me, but I think Sanjaya is more in the spirit of the competition than Melinda - how's that for sacrilege?! A.I. is partly about crowning a terrific singer but it's also about who viewers like to see perform.
Anyway, as for who will get eliminated tonight, I'm going to say Lakisha, believe it or not. It's probably not a good choice - Haley would make more sense - but that's my prediction.
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