AMERICA VOTED: Well, the Fox and 19 Entertainment executives explaining the transition into the post-Cowell era in this informative oral history are pretty damn proud of the job they've done, but whether you're happy with it may depend on tonight's results.
Goodbye, Haley; it's the Nashville Star final America wanted between Scotty and Lauren, the youngest finals pairing in show history. Scotty's got to be the biggest pre-finals favorite since Taylor Hicks/Katherine McPhee five years ago, and I'm about as interested in the results as I was that year.
What I'm sure of: Totally not watching next Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm not sure of: Who gave better bitch-face at the results -- Haley or J. Lo.?
it's alfred e. scotty's contest to lose next week
ReplyDeletei really liked haley, granted not enough to pick up the phone, but i liked what she did with her voice
and her performances were definitely among the most interesting (unfortunately that may not be saying much)
You're spot on, Adam: Idol has become "Nashville Star, Junior Edition," and it's the least interesting finals in history. Who's going to win? The boring teen girl country singer, or the boring teen boy country singer? They've both been giving essentially the same performance every week. Seriously, the only surprise week to week with Scotty is whether he's going to hold the mike with one hand or two.
ReplyDeleteThe irony is that up to this point, I considered this the most entertaining season of Idol in a while: the shows were less flabby, the filler more creative, the judges funnier, and the contestants were (by Idol standards, at least) pretty diverse. But America voted, and America gets what America apparently wants. Me? I'm yawning. I'm yawning some more. And ... zzzzzzzz
I just can't forgive Scotty for dissing the little chubby kid when he was booted out of his band during Hollywood week. Schmuck.
ReplyDeleteI really blame the judges for this. Had Simon still been there, he would not have allowed Scotty to do the same shtick every week. Either Scotty would have improved, or America would have taken the hint.
ReplyDeleteThe flipside of that is that I really hope they play the clip from the same episode where the tall black dude is looking for another male in his group and he dismissed Scotty like two notes into, "Baby, lock 'dem doors..."
ReplyDeletePfft. I think that Simon's gotten a bit mythologized. He was always perfectly fine with people staying in their boxes when he wanted to be. Remember? The inconsistency on that? Telling one person she was boring for doing the same old thing, while telling someone else to stay in his box and stop the genre-hopping? Don't get me wrong---I don't think that Simon would have liked Scotty, as Simon appears to despise country music. But I would not have been shocked to have seen him root for "stay in your box" with Scotty, because the show wanted him to win.
ReplyDeleteI actually was quite heartily tired of Simon, given the degree to which he had checked out the last couple of years.