IDOL IMMUNITY, BACK UP FOR GRABS: We'll talk about the results on the other side of the fold, but I can note non-spoilery that Idol Immunity is back this season but with a slightly-helpful twist: the to-be-eliminated singer now gets to choose what song to sing while the judges deliberate, and is not stuck with the song performed poorly enough the first time to merit elimination. That said ...
Lacey Brown is gone from Idol, with Tim Urban and Paige Miles having joined her in the bottom three. Not a real loss -- I don't believe I enjoyed any of her performances, and her not outlasting Tim doesn't trouble me.
Also, damnit, I miss the sucky group-sings. What up with that?
Maybe it was a requirement of getting a hold of the Rolling Stones catalog: "We'll let you use our songs, but not for some craptastic group performance."
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed 2 of 3 musical performances on an Idol results show: David Cook and Orianthi but definitely NOT Ke$ha.
Tim leaving would have been equally deserved, but I'm fine with this result. Unfortunate that Paige was in the bottom three. Does not bold well for her.
I was so looking forward to the epic fail of a Rolling Stones group sing. David Cook singing Jumpin Jack Flash is better than this show deserves. As for Ke$ha... man, she's appalling. I do not get why people bother listening to her at all. I'm sure y'all have seen this link, 12 Ways to make a Ke$ha, which about sums it up. (I don't think it's been linked via ALOTT5MA, but apologies if it's already appeared here...)
ReplyDeleteBREAKING! The Cape Cod Times discusses Siobhan's tattoos:
ReplyDelete"Inked on Magnus' right shoulder is an image from the cover of Gorey's legendary book "The Gashlycrumb Tinies."
"The late author and illustrator spent his last 15 years in Yarmouthport, where the Edward Gorey House is located.
Magnus' tattoo features a skeleton character holding an umbrella, which may come off as a little dark and creepy to those uninitiated with Gorey's style. But Magnus proudly displays her tat on stage....
"The author was one of her mom's favorites, Magnus told Shirley Halperin of the Los Angeles Times' "Idol Tracker" blog last week.
"He (Gorey) lived close to us, so I grew up being very familiar with his work," Magnus told Halperin. The tattoo artist who inked Magnus declined to be interviewed.
"Magnus also sports two other tattoos. Written in Swahili on her left wrist is a phrase that means "I find hope," which is from a song by Hanson, her favorite band, Magnus told Halperin.
"A third tattoo, a heart with an X through it on her wrist, is a reference to the band Hole."
Hole on one hand and Hanson on the other? Siobhan, you're a fun little mystery.
ReplyDeleteI've never been as big of a fan of the group sings as you, Adam, but I hate the lip-synched group sings. If it's a choice between no group sing or lip-synched group sing, I would vote "No" a hundred times. Using the text message function on my AT&T phone, if need be.
ReplyDeleteI don't like them because they're good -- they're not. I like them because they're cheesy and wrong.
ReplyDeleteI know. But the lip-synching, I thought, killed whatever fun there was in the group performances. Just an opinion! [tm Simon Cowell]
ReplyDeleteReally, for me, Lacey leaving first upholds my theorem that the "chick with the fake red hair goes home first." And, really, I'm not going to miss her.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm with Adam on the group-sings. They're part of the show (aside from being cheesy). I think they had too many acts last night and cut it (which also explains why Ryan skipped Lacey's previous-night-overview).
Ke$sha is not worth further comment.
From what I can tell, David Cook was asked at the last minute to come on to replace the group sing. My suspicion? They don't feel comfortable having this group do the group sing live, and they've gotten a lot of heat for having the group sings be lip-synched. It could also be that they didn't want to piss off the Rolling Stones. In any event, I don't think that they cut the group sing because they had three guest artists. I think that they had three guest artists as part of a deliberate decision to cut the group sing.
ReplyDeleteDan Fienberg had my favorite comment, about the flower in Lacey's hair (which looked like a bird's nest to me) suddenly coming to life and eating her head.
ReplyDeleteI loved that comment in Feinberg's recap too.
ReplyDeleteHappy to see Lacey and her creepy faux-baby voice hit the road. I was definitely nervous when they brought it down to Lacey and The Outlaw Casey James. I want TOCJ in the final four or five.
I'm wondering how long Tim Urban can last. As long as he's gone before my favorites I don't really mind how long he sticks around, but it must annoy the people who can sing but got booted (Lilly, Alex Lambert) and those who think they can sing but got booted (Lacey) that he is still there.
In semi-related news, Ke$ha sang perhaps the worst song I've ever heard.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, Jacob referred to Siobhan's friends as her "Gashlycrumb Tinies tattoo people," a few weeks back. Damn, he's good.
ReplyDeleteI am not a big fan of tattoos (just personally - I have no objection to other people having them, but I don't tend to admire them on people either). but a Gashlycrumb Tinies tattoo? Way cool.
ReplyDelete"S is for Siobhan who sang for smug Simon,
T is for Tim, who should have stuck to mimin'."
I thought Lacey was, if not the right person to go, one of the right people to go. I thought her vocal was really bad and her whole demeanor was kind of creepy -- super-staged and artificial. Erin is right about the faux-baby voice.
ReplyDeleteI don't know. It's pretty awful, but then again, it has pretty heavy competition from Britney's Womanizer. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteSo far, this Idol season has been very good to my ipod. All four of Crystal's performances, plus Let It Be by Kris Allen and Jumpin' Jack Flash by David Cook. All quite nice acquisitions.