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post #181 of 667
3/4/10 at 12:04pm
Random notes:

There are at least four girls (probably six) who are better than ANY of the guys, and by a long shot.  Not so great that I see myself buying any of their records, though.  But it's so extreme that I suspect this was intentional. (And I do not buy conspiracy theories, as a rule.)

Hanson, did you forget the judges praising Paige's diaper (I called it that too!)?  It was pretty shocking.  Maybe she wants to be the Black Bjork?  (Blork?)

When DiDi performs, I wonder if Megan Joy is a demon who possessed the body of Brooke White.

I actually kinda dig Lacey's anime beehive, but the clown makeup has gotta go.  It's too much.

Isn't Katie the girl who cares for her grandma who only speaks Portuguese?  If I'm remembering correctly, then we should reduce the official number of extra Kissy Languages to 4.

Haley REALLY needs to see a speech therapist.  I don't mean to be cruel to a teenager, but the lisp is so distracting it's hard to pay attention to whether she's hitting the notes.  You just can't sing like that.  You can't.

Mark the time of Ellen's Snuggie joke -- that was her first worthwhile comment of the season.  Hopefully it won't be the last.
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post #182 of 667
3/4/10 at 12:31pm
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Also, "A Change is Gonna Come" is not about "change" like whatever her name said. It's about Change. A big change, an historic change and very much associated with a specific change... ...so a forgettable young white girl singing it without any clue of the depth of the song and singing no differently than whatever other girl did with a generic Miley song is just awful to have to sit through.
 

This is probably one of the most annoying aspects of this show, at least to me.  Far too often contestants (usually the younger ones, but not always) pick songs that they *clearly* don't understand.  Now I know music is art, and art is subjective, and often the meanings of songs are left to the interpretation of the singer.  Heck, often the writer/original artist loves it when someone puts a unique spin or interpretation on their work.

However, there are also songs that are so, I don't know, so irrevocably tied to certain events or people or styles or times in our lives (and son on) that you really, honestly have to understand that before attempting to sing it.  Lily can sing, and that's all she did with A Change is Gonna Come.  She certainly didn't perform it.

As an aside, here's my favourite rendition of the song, outside of the original.  It's from an episode of The West Wing of the same name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcgQb4lBn_8
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post #183 of 667
3/4/10 at 12:32pm
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Hanson, did you forget the judges praising Paige's diaper (I called it that too!)?  It was pretty shocking.  Maybe she wants to be the Black Bjork?  (Blork?)

Yeah, the judges praising Michelle for her fashion sense proves they have no fashion sense.  Then it got confusing when they pointed out Vera Wang was in the audience, because it sort of implied that it was a Vera Wang design, but that couldn't be because the Idol must buy their clothes out of pocket and no freebies, and a Vera Wang dress like that would cost hundreds of dollars.

Then my wife and I got into an argument on whether it's pronounced "wang" or "wong".  I think she actually goes by "wang", but that's probably a corrupted pronunciation, undoubtedly because she or someone in her family got tired of correcting everyone.  Did you know that pretty much every Korean person going by "Lee" is mispronouncing their name?  In Korean it's actually "Ee".  Sometimes they Romanize it to Yi.  The names Park, Paik, Bark, Baik, Pak and Bak are all the same name, just Romanized differently.

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Isn't Katie the girl who cares for her grandma who only speaks Portuguese?  If I'm remembering correctly, then we should reduce the official number of extra Kissy Languages to 4.

  I wish I had remembered that!

And Paige's performance was so unremarkable that I forgot to even write about it!

Josh, I had considered over whether or not to discuss whether or not Lilly had the bones to sing A Change Is Gonna Come.  Adam's rendition in the finals was refracted through the prism of gay rights and really meant something -- but  Lilly didn't have anything to reference, and she really wasn't singing about anything.  That's one of the reasons why I thought it was not a good song for her.
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post #184 of 667
3/4/10 at 12:57pm
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Originally Posted by Aaron Silverman View Post

Hanson, did you forget the judges praising Paige's diaper (I called it that too!)?  It was pretty shocking.  Maybe she wants to be the Black Bjork?  (Blork?)

Actually, it was Michelle who wore the diaper -- Paige wore the bar wench costume.  And judging by the shots of her family from auditions, I believe she Latina and not black.  So she'd be a Latina Bjork, or... Bjortina.

BTW, did you catch her sisters in the audience?  The one of the left was a bit homely, but the one on the right was smoking hot.  I guess Michelle fits somewhere in the middle.
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post #185 of 667
3/4/10 at 1:10pm
What is going on with Kara the judge?  Each show it looks like she put on more and more bronzer.  And what is going on with her hair.  Did she just come off the 1986 scenes on the set of Hot Tub Time Machine?

Also, she's acting a lot more wacky, it's like she thinks that since Paula's gone she needs to fill the wack quotient.

I didn't like her much before, I really don't like her now.
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post #186 of 667
3/4/10 at 1:46pm
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Originally Posted by Hanson Yoo View Post

Yeah, the judges praising Michelle for her fashion sense proves they have no fashion sense.  Then it got confusing when they pointed out Vera Wang was in the audience, because it sort of implied that it was a Vera Wang design, but that couldn't be because the Idol must buy their clothes out of pocket and no freebies, and a Vera Wang dress like that would cost hundreds of dollars.
 

When Simon pointed her out, he was asking her opinion of the dress.  I found it curious that they never showed her -- maybe she made a nasty face or something.  :)

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Then my wife and I got into an argument on whether it's pronounced "wang" or "wong".  I think she actually goes by "wang", but that's probably a corrupted pronunciation, undoubtedly because she or someone in her family got tired of correcting everyone.  Did you know that pretty much every Korean person going by "Lee" is mispronouncing their name?  In Korean it's actually "Ee".  Sometimes they Romanize it to Yi.  The names Park, Paik, Bark, Baik, Pak and Bak are all the same name, just Romanized differently.

Where was she born?  I think she pronounces it "Wang."  My wife spells it that way but pronounces it "Wong."  Of course, remembering that in Chinese, the inflection of each syllable changes the meaning of the word, it's all a mess!

I didn't know that about the Korean names.  Interesting.
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post #187 of 667
3/4/10 at 6:01pm
Possibly the funniest line on American Idol ever:

Ryan Seacrest: "Let's do this for pooter!" 
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post #188 of 667
3/4/10 at 6:21pm
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Possibly the funniest line on American Idol ever:

Ryan Seacrest: "Let's do this for pooter!" 
I agree! Made suffering thru the first 55 minutes totally worthwhile.
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post #189 of 667
3/4/10 at 6:42pm
Actually, it's Poudre, named after the Poudre river that runs through Fort Collins,CO.
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post #190 of 667
3/4/10 at 6:45pm
Whew!  Didi survived another week.  Buh-bye, Cat whisperer!
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post #191 of 667
3/4/10 at 8:03pm
I was laughing so hard during Haeley's sing out that I was gasping for air.  Not only did she miss every single note, there were four or five moments where she was a half octave off key.  The lyrics were hilariously apropos as well.  That was the single worst performance I have ever heard on Idol.
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post #192 of 667
3/4/10 at 8:52pm
I am happy with three of the four going home tonight.

I would rather have seen
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Todrick
go home than
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John
but, otherwise I think America got it right. 

Gokey didn't do anything for me, though I liked him last year.  He was all up in Seacrest's grill, touching his jacket and talking incessantly about his story and his tour.  I get it, it's a business and he's trying to sell iTunes downloads.  (Do people still sell "records" or even CDs?)  But dude, sing your song and let the show go on.

Am I the only one who thought it was hilarious that they used the Auto Tune for the group song at the top of the show, I suppose to make it sound like the original?
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post #193 of 667
3/4/10 at 9:08pm

I liked the irony of the lyrics, "I got a feeling tonight's gonna be a good night" when four people are going to be voted off.
 

It was a good night to be white!

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post #194 of 667
3/5/10 at 12:58am
What the hell was wrong with Danny Gokey? He was rambling on so fast he sounded like John Moshiita in the old Micro Machines commercials.



I'm just glad that Crystal and Shibahn are still there, particularly Shibahn, she's freakin' cute.
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post #195 of 667
3/5/10 at 4:45am
I didn't even bother to listen to the Gokey performance, I just sped through the recording and got through the results show in about 6 minutes.
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post #196 of 667
3/5/10 at 5:38am
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What the hell was wrong with Danny Gokey? He was rambling on so fast he sounded like John Moshiita in the old Micro Machines commercials.

Cocaine?

dannycokey.jpg

It sounded like he was coked to the gills.  Maybe Hollywood has turned Danny Gokey into Danny Cokey?
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post #197 of 667
3/5/10 at 8:37am
No, but check it out, Hanson.  You see, the tour starts tomorrow, and check it out, we're going to be hitting all the big cities, Hanson.  And Hanson, check it out, I'm going to into the other room, and do something, and when I come back, we'regonnatalksomemorecheckitout.
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post #198 of 667
3/5/10 at 8:59am
  I wonder if Ryan could tell how dilated his pupils were.

ETA: All the SABs and Chops from the blogs and a couple of new ones have been posted to the Season 9 SAB and Chops pages.
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post #199 of 667
3/5/10 at 9:12am
He probably could tell, Gokey was all up in his face like that 'close talker' Elain dated on Seinfeld.
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post #200 of 667
3/5/10 at 10:01am
Little dispute with who went home, and the nearly-dumped will almost certainly go next week.

I must say I really like Siobhan, she's so quirky that she's really distinctive and stands out, but she sure can belt a note!  But at the same time, given that this is AI, she won't win this.  Curious that this season there are as many as 3 girls who aren't exactly mainstream.  Have there ever been this many iconoclasts?

In contrast the boys are utterly uninspiring.  I'd agree with Aaron's earlier comment that at least 4 girls are better than all the boys.

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Where was she born?  I think she pronounces it "Wang."  My wife spells it that way but pronounces it "Wong."  Of course, remembering that in Chinese, the inflection of each syllable changes the meaning of the word, it's all a mess!


It isn't just that: whilst there is a single written Chinese script, there are many ways to speak it, being all the various dialects, with Mandarin now being considered the "standard" way and all the others being 'mere' dialects. So assuming your wife's name is "king" in Chinese, it could be Wong, Wang, Ong, and probably a few other variations.  And even then, the Romanisation of Chinese names was done differently depending on where you were.

Hanson, does Korean also have different dialects, to the extent they can be mutually unintelligible (which is the case for Chinese), or are regional differences merely accents and everyone understands each other?
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post #201 of 667
3/5/10 at 10:28am
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Hanson, does Korean also have different dialects, to the extent they can be mutually unintelligible (which is the case for Chinese), or are regional differences merely accents and everyone understands each other?

Korea is a pretty tiny country, and as far as I know, there are regional accents, but there is one standard dialect.  Don't quote me, I'm technically 1st generation, but I left Korea when I was 4.

But there is one Korean dialect that's unintelligible to most Koreans that's spoken by 130 million people -- it's called "Japanese".
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post #202 of 667
3/5/10 at 1:34pm
Apparently, there was a Tim Urban who was on The Apprentice when it moved to LA, and he has a blog where he discussing his disappoint/anger that there is another more famous Tim Urban out there.  I'm sure it's mostly tongue in cheek, but I guess this is what it's like to be on the F List.

http://timurban.blogspot.com/
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post #203 of 667
3/9/10 at 12:59pm
Just checking in prepping for the big contest ... I think Cinnabon is a helluva singer and she should go a long way in the competition - quirky with a huge voice. I'm look forward to her performances each week - hopefully she won't disappoint tonight.

The black country singer girl's farewell performance came about a month too late and was painful to listen to - the worst goodbye EVAR!
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post #204 of 667
3/9/10 at 1:06pm
Oh no, it was the BEST.  For all the reasons you described.
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post #205 of 667
3/9/10 at 5:23pm
Holy cow!!!  I didn't watch it, cuz I don't care about who goes at this point...but, I had to check out Haeley's goodbye with "The Climb".  Man, I thought Miley couldn't sing but this girl CRUSHES this song.  Breathy, lispy, off-key...you name it.  So wonderfully awful!
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post #206 of 667
3/9/10 at 9:54pm
I thought all the girls except Katie actually sang well tonight.  Siobhan and Crystal were tops for me though.  Katie and Katelyn will be going home. 
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post #207 of 667
3/9/10 at 10:39pm
I think we'll lose the last non-white female (whatever her name is) tomorrow night and Katelyn too ... the Carol King tune sealed her fate.
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post #208 of 667
3/10/10 at 4:24am
No blog today, there will be a blog for all contestants tomorrow. 
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post #209 of 667
3/10/10 at 5:26am
Katie Stevens - bad tone throughout the song performance.  Would not be confident for Thursday's show.

Siobhan Magnus - what, didn't she sound old-fashioned?  heh.  Still not all that interested in the tenor of her vocals, but it was a good performance, nonetheless.

Lacey Brown - so cutesy, too cutesy.

Katelyn Epperly - kinda boring, lounge-singer-esque.  She's in trouble this week.

Didi Benami - as long as she doesn't press her vocals, she's gota nice lilt to her voice, but it limits her in the songs she can sing well.

Paige Miles - bored me to tears.  She's road kill this week.

Crystal Bowersox - good display of range mixed in with some soul, best performance of the night.

Lily Scott - sounded a little flat, and her weird vocal inflections were more distracting on this song.
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post #210 of 667
3/10/10 at 8:48am
The thing that stood out for me this episode was the fact that virtually every girl sang a softer, stripped-down song, with the band barely noticeable.  Perhaps so they could hear themselves?  Not only are they limited to floor monitors, but those monitors aren't even on the freaking floor!  They are *below* the stage, towed upwards slightly.  I don't think I need to tell anyone on the HTF what speakers half-obscurred by a solid wall (essentially) sound like.
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