Monday, March 9, 2009

SHOWIN' HOW FUNKY STRONG IS YOUR FIGHT; IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO'S WRONG OR RIGHT: We're live at 9pm EDT as we start the countdown from thirteen to one. For the first stretch, as we're running through the field, we're only going to post a handful of comments; afterwards, it'll be more open season with me, Kim, Isaac and Our Special Guests. Click on in:




e.t.a. 11pm: Thanks for everyone who participated; if you couldn't make it, it's there for your reading pleasure. Dan Fienberg's season preview is here, and Alan Sepinwall has one too, both of whom think I'm daft in having such high expectations for Allison Iraheta. Your predictions, comments and musings remain welcome.

See, related, Ann Powers, "American Idol Needs To Open The Closet Door", noting that Michael Jackson is "the ideal subject for what's turning out to be a rather strange season. At the heart of his troubled legacy are the anxieties 'Idol' also confronts, however mildly -- America's troubling history of racial divides and assimilation, and the sexual repression and need for release that is a basic subject of pop music itself."

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