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  • American Idol Season 8 – Will The Save Be Used?

    Let’s get it on.

    Ryno comes on and says that Miley Cyrus is performing tonight. I’m guessing Jamie Foxx is nowhere to be found.

    Also, Jennifer Hudson is performing tonight, which should be really good.

    The group song is performing Maniac from Flashdance. Where are the leg warmers? Adam has to be wearing them. Nope, and a special moment was lost.

    Anoop almost bailed on the stairs.

    Zac Effron is in the audience wearing a beanie for no good reason whatsoever. He has nothing on the Jonas Brothers.

    Ryno asks Allison to stand up and she is safe.

    Jennifer Hudson with her Oscar
    Jennifer Hudson with her Oscar
    Adam is up next and he seems halfway interested knowing that there’s no way in hell that he’s going home. He is safe as well.

    Anoop’s upside ya’ head is in the bottom three again. That might be his new home since he’s been there so often.

    Jennifer Hudson is on stage singing If This Isn’t Love. I commend Danny Goakey for having the courage to sing on stage and holding it together for his deceased wife. But this is also real courage here. That’s a strong woman right there.

    It was also a very nice song. The album isn’t fantastic, but she sings everything well on it. It’s just not too inspired, unlike most of her great work in her young career.

    Paula says she’s surprised that Anoop is in the bottom three and when asked if Anoop deserves to be in the final three, Simon said, “Yes.”

    Kris and Lil are next. Simon says that Kris was brilliant last night. Ryno says one of them is in the bottom three and one of them is safe. Lil is not the safe person. She joins Anoop.

    Matt and Danny are up next. Danny is safe and Matt joins his friends in the bottom three.

    Out of Anoop, Lil, and Matt, the one who is sent back is Anoop.

    Miley playing keyboard
    Miley playing keyboard
    Miley Cyrus is out to sing The Climb.

    While Miley might not be a good singer, I think the girl has talent. She has such great comedic timing for a young actress and she’s such a goof ball, unafraid to act the fool. I’ve been able to watch her Hannah Montana TV show a few times with the kids and it’s such a fun show. She just does the music stuff to show people that she can, but her future is in TV or movies. I hate to compare her to Lindsay Lohan, but I always thought Lohan was such a great physical comedic actress. I think Miley might be able to do what Lohan couldn’t because of all her screw-ups. Ok, I’m done tooting her horn. I just needed to do something while she was singing so I didn’t have to pay attention to it.

    The judges have two weeks to use the save. Simon says that he’d think about using it on one of the two and that person might be surprised.

    Matt is a goner. It’s easy for me to say that it’s a mistake for Matt to be gone, but really, it’s his own fault. He’s been so inconsistent. But now he’s singing for his American Idol life.

    The crowd is calling for the save to be used. While they were deciding, Paula’s boobs nearly ate Simon’s face. I think that helped Simon make the decision to save Matt, though he said he didn’t think Matt had a chance to win the competition. Then why use the save?

    Simon says that next week, two people will go home. He also warned us that it’s disco week.

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  • Adam Lambert Might Be Gay: So…???

    True fact. I am not watching this season of “American Idol”. There are two reasons for that. The first is that I’m out on Tuesday nights at trivia, an activity that I find much more exciting than watching a group of overentitled kids mangle popular music. The second is that since I started watching in Season 5, each ensuing year has kept me less and less interested. Now if you were to ask me, I’d say that the talent pool has gotten shallower-whereas there were 5 or 6 contestants that I thought were legitimately talented in Season 5, I lost interest last year when Carly Smithson was voted out. Nothing against David Cook or David Archuleta, but I like my singers to have a little bit of personality in their music, not to be vocally talented ciphers.

    So, apparently this year, there’s this kid called Adam Lambert that’s the front-runner among all contestants this year. In my main man GG’s “American Idol” posts on Wednesday nights, he intimates that the race is Lambert’s to lose. Or is it?

    Recently, photos have cropped up showing Lambert making out with another dude. Shock! Horror! There’s the possibility that a guy who sings might be shhhhh…gay!! The question then becomes, is America ready for a gay “American Idol”? Well, there are a couple of things about the whole story that bother me. Allow me to ramble:

    1) With Friends Like That, Who Needs Enemies- Who’s the jackass that revealed the pictures to the media? Man, if you get even a little bit of notoriety, someone always finds something that will come around and bite you in the ass. The person that revealed those pictures is not only obviously jealous, but is cut from the same cloth as the idiot who sold those photos of Michael Phelps smoking out of a bong. A kid in his twenties with money smoking weed. OMG. That NEVER happens.

    2) The Clay Aiken Effect- I wasn’t yet an “Idol” watcher when Aiken finished second, but, come on. Seriously. Clay Aiken coming out was news? Really? The people who were surprised that Aiken was gay are probably the same people who were stunned when George Michael got busted with the cop in the restroom. So, let’s make a far-reaching assumption and presume that most Americans are smart. I know, it’s difficult. The guy (Lambert) wears makeup. He was a theater kid. Stereotypes be damned and everything, but how much more obvious can the guy get? So there’s the possibility that Lambert could kick down the closet door that Aiken cracked open. (although we still have yet to see an openly gay male music star that wasn’t yet established when he came out).

    3) Who cares?-If Adam Lambert’s sexuality makes a difference as far as whether you vote for the kid on “American Idol” or not, you probably shouldn’t be reading this blog. Not only am I gay, but several of the folks who’ve written for this site in the past are gay as well. If that fact makes even the slightest difference in how you feel about me, whether it’s as a writer or as a person, not only are you way behind the times and a hopeless case, but, again, you probably shouldn’t be reading this blog. The media loves to make a big deal out of things like this when, particularly in regards to America’s youth-people who are growing up with a much more open-minded attitude about things that shouldn’t be a big deal-it doesn’t really matter.

    Bottom line-if indeed the kid is gay (and I would imagine that a picture of you with your tongue down some dude’s throat is fairly indisputable truth), it shouldn’t affect his placing on “American Idol” at all. You’re voting for vocal talent, not sexual orientation. Fuck you, Bill O’ Reilly. This will be one of the few times on this site that I allow myself to get on any kind of soapbox. The kid could have a midget fetish, and what would it matter as long as he’s talented?

    vh1.com wrote a very cool article on the possibility that Lambert might be gay, although comparing the dude to Barack Obama is a wee bit of a stretch.

  • American Idol Season 8 – Please End The Show On Time Tonight

    After last night’s debacle where anyone who wasn’t watching live and was DVRing the show missed Adam Lambert’s performance, they better have something good up their sleeve tonight.

    Ryno Seacrest put a YouTube video of the performance up on his blog, but of course, it was taken down. Even Ryno Seacrest can’t put one over on the YouTube police.

    (By the way, it’s getting really hard to put one over the YouTube police these days.)

    Kellie Pickler and Kid Rock
    Kellie Pickler and Kid Rock
    Seacrest is out already promising performances from Flo Rida and Kellie Pickler. Remember how I said they better have something good up their sleeve tonight? Well, it’s already a fail. Next you’re going to tell me that Allison is leaving tonight. She better not be.

    After all the timing issues they had last night, they decided to bring out Frankie Avalon to sing. Three performances tonight?

    On Ryno’s Twitter page, he posted this comment:

    Frankie avalon almost didn’t go on because he had an allergic reaction…paramedics were called. Close call but we love him!

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    Looks like Frankie was ok. You couldn’t tell anything was wrong when he was on stage.

    For some reason, the group song is Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head. Only Adam really seemed at home singing that song. I’m guessing he knows it by heart.

    Ryan asks Adam, Anoop, and Kris to stand up.

    Randall says that Adam was the bomb last night. Kara and Paula loved him as well. Adam is safe. Kris is safe and Anoop is in the bottom three.

    Flo Rida is on stage performing something resembling music. I understood why Kanye West was singing horribly on this show a few weeks ago. He’s a superstar and probably brought some extra eye balls. I didn’t quite get Lady Gaga, only because she’s not a superstar yet. She was just opening up for the New Kids On The Block during their concert run earlier last summer. I absolutely don’t get why Flo Rida is on my TV. This ain’t 106 & Park. And my name ain’t AJ. Thankfully I was able to fast forward through most of that.

    Someone needs to steroid test that dude too.

    Danny and Matt are safe. Scottie Mac is next. And he’s in the bottom three. The last person in the bottom three is between Allison and Lil. Lil is in the bottom three.

    At least you can give America credit for getting the bottom three right this week.

    Simon says there’s one contestant in the bottom three who they’d think about saving.

    Kellie comes out and sings a nice little ditty. Is it me or is she trying very hard to look like Carrie Underwood?

    Lil Rounds is safe. Either Scottie Mac or Anoop Doggy Dog is going home tonight.

    Anoop is safe and Scottie Mac has to sing for his American Idol life.

    I highly doubt that he’s going to be saved, but you have to give the guy credit. He wasn’t only liked because he was the feel good story of the season. He was liked because he had a great sense of humor about everything and showed a ton of humility and class on that stage when some of those contestants take themselves way too seriously.

    Simon says two of the judges think he should stay and two think he can go. I’m going to guess that Paula and my wife Kara want him to stay. Simon tells him it’s the end of the road for him.

    How can you not like that guy? Even though I won’t miss him as a performer, I’ll miss him as a guy to root for.

    Carrie Underwood sings him back to home sweet home.

    Seacrest out!

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