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Originally Posted by Aaron Silverman
They announced that David C. was doing Baba O'Reilly, and I thought "this could be one of the great Idol performances." Sadly, that arrangement sucked. It was probably the biggest Idol-edit travesty since Innuendo. I wish they'd let these kids sing a whole song (or at least a 4-minute rendition of one) when they get down to the final few.
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Totally agree with you there. To me, one of the biggest problems with the past two weeks is that they're not allowing the contestants to sing longer arrangements or the entire song. Instead, they're forced to sing horrifically bad arrangements that absolutely destroy the spirit of the songs just so they can cram in two songs per person. Maybe the results would have been different if Syesha was allowed to sing most, if not all of Proud Mary. By condensing it to a short, rushed version, it ended up sounding like a confusing mess. Same with Cook and Baba O'Riley. My god, there's a song that pretty much requires performing in its entirety. Every time the contestants sing these pathetically short arrangements, I'm left to say "that's it?"
On another note, Paula was just irritating the hell out of me with her sugar coating of Jason Castro's brutal performances. Come on, he sucked so much there is no way anyone could justify defending those performances, yet there Paula was trying her best to put a misguided spin them. Ugh. Take another valium and lie down already.
The irony this season is that the final 12 were supposedly the most talented group of kids they've ever had, which I would actually agree with. Yet, now that it's down close to the finals, instead of getting better and better, everyone seems to be regressing due to ridiculous limits the producers of the show seem to be putting on them. I wonder it that sort of explains David Cook's look of disdainful boredom.