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  • Sonic Spring Singing Contest – Week 4

    The Sonic Clashers know their singers!

    Weepy Didi Benami was the far and away favorite to go home last week if you listen to our readers.   The teary-eyed blonde was named on 100% of all ballots cast for The Bottom Two last week.

    Do you know how hard it is to get 100% of people to agree on anything musical, much less picking a name out of multiple artists?  Here’s how hard:  we’ve polled Sonic Clash readers before and some have said The Beatles’ music was just all right, that there were better rock bands in the mid 1960s.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see only 97% agree that the name of our planet is Earth.

    So when Benami went buh-bye fast, I knew the judges wouldn’t even think of saving her.  Nicely done, Clashers!  And tw0-thirds of you added Tim Urban not-Cowboy to The Bottom Two so you really nailed the competition.

    The interesting thing:  of the 33% of you who picked someone other than Didi Benami or Tim Urban in The Bottom Two, no one picked Katie Stevens.   You watched the show “back”.  You know the teenager with the really low register was in the bottom three for the second straight week.

    Don’t forget to PLAY THIS WEEK’S SINGING CONTEST. Your answers MUST be in by the time the results show airs on the East Coast.  The deadline is not your local time, but when the show goes live.  And if you haven’t played yet, this is your last chance to pick The Final Three and The Winner before the point totals drop to their lowest value of 4 points each.

    Sonic Singing Contest Leaderboard

    MT is our overall leader with 7 points!

    Hea Jin is a close second with 6 points

    Yoel, Bridget and Cindy each have 4 points.

    And nipping at their heels are Shantel, Monica and Michelle each with 3 points.   And don’t forget Joe F and his point.  If he gets the Bottom Two and the person going home right this week, he wins 4 points and is right back in the race.

    You could be in the race for a $25 Amazon gift card too. PLAY THIS WEEK’S SINGING CONTEST and show us your judging talent!

  • American Idol Season 9 – Who Makes The Top 9?

    Didi Benami
    Didi Done Did It This Time
    I’ve done pretty well at calling the first two eliminations and soon, they will be harder and harder to call. But I’ll call it here again. I don’t think Miss Didi Benami is going to make it to next week. When contestants don’t look happy performing and it seems as if they aren’t having fun, it doesn’t necessarily inspire people to vote for them. I think that’s what happens to Didi.

    They pulled Ruben Studdard out of the closet they were hiding him in and he performed what seems like a new single. You can tell how much a crowd enjoys a performance by how many times the artist has to ask the crowd to get into it. Studdard must’ve asked the crowd at least three times to clap along with him. Maybe next time he should get on his knees and beg. “Come on y’all!”

    Ryno Seacrest just said that Ruben and Clay Aiken were going on tour together. It’s like if Luther Vandross and Elton John impostors were touring together.

    Onto the contestants …

    Ryno asks Lee Dewyze to stand up. Lee goes on and on about his performance last night, but still looks constipated. How can the guy look constipated every week? Give the brother some fiber. He’s safe.

    Ryno asks Casey to stand up and asks him how he can challenge himself. The first words out of Casey’s mouth were, “I mean …” No Case, we have no idea what you mean because you didn’t say anything yet. He’s safe.

    Aaron Kelly is up and Ryno asks him if he’s ever really been in love. Aaron says that his nether regions were aflutter when he saw Miley Cyrus last week. Ok, he didn’t say that. Ryno told him he was safe anyway.

    Creepy girl and Katie stand up together. Creepy girl isn’t living down her nickname with her wardrobe. Katie is in the bottom three. Simon says that he wishes Katie would’ve taken his advice as if to say that if she did, she wouldn’t be in the bottom three. Don’t worry Simon, she’s not going home.

    Justin Bieber is sitting in the crowd to watch Usher perform. Hey, I just wrote about Bieber-Mania today.

    Usher’s performing OMG, his newest single. It’s only the worst song on his new album. The girl might make Usher say, “Oh my God”, but the song makes me roll my eyes. The guy is simply too talented to put out crap like this. And to make things worse, will.i.am shows up to throw his terrible rhymes into the ether.

    By the time this thing was over, I was hoping that Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas were going to save him.

    Back to the evicting – it’s Didi’s turn. I have a bad feeling about this. I think Ryno could’ve told her to sit down and she would’ve just walked to the other side of the stage to join Katie anyway. Didi is in the bottom three, and all of you participating in the Sonic Spring Singing Contest were all right on the money in picking her, just like George wrote today.

    Ryno tricked Big Mike into thinking he was in the bottom three and in turn, Big Mike picked Ryno up and nearly threw him into the air. Ryno better check his shorts during the next commercial.

    Crystal is also safe. Timothy and Andrew stand up together. Timothy is the smartest person in this competition. He just told America that the reason he smiles is because he’s the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Or something like that. But he’s genuinely likable no matter how badly he sucks the big sloppy dunky one. Andrew is safe and Teflon Timothy is in the bottom three.

    Ryno sends Katie back to safety. It’s Didi vs. Timothy in a “Who is more terrible?” competition.

    Diddy and his group “Dirty Money” are performing tonight for whatever reason. This performance was actually not half bad. But in the 13 years that Diddy has been a recording artist, he still can’t rap worth a damn. And just to think, he was friends with one of the greatest rappers of all time. Just goes to show you that rapping is just as much of a talent as singing is. You can fake it to make it, but skills are skills.

    I just thought about this. We have a Didi and a Diddy on the same show.

    Teflon Timothy does it again. Didi Benami is on her way out, but she’s trying to sing her way back on the show hoping that the judges will save her from doom. It’s actually a really solid performance, but it also shows that her range is pretty weak. If Simon and company bring her back, I’ll eat my hat.

    Simon says he’s not going to save her, saving Didi for another week of unhappy singing and saving me from having to eat my hat. It’s time for Didi to leave right now.

    Photo of Didi Benami shared via Wikipedia

  • Didi Benami’s Brokenhearted Night

    If Sonic Clashers got this one right, look for Tim Urban and Didi Benami to be swiveling in stools after Ryan Seacrest announces they’re in the bottom three.

    And look for the teary contestant (who evokes the name or memory of her freshman college roommate Rebecca Lear more than Danny mentioned his recently deceased wife last year) to go home tonight.

    The Sonic Clash Spring Singing Contest entries are in (but you still have until the results show begins airing on the East Coast tonight to enter this week’s contest).

    Every vote put Didi Benami in the bottom two.   More than half of the voters selected her to go home tonight.   Benami butchered Jimmy Ruffin’s What Becomes of the Brokenhearted last night and may have saved moptopped Tim Urban.   The boy who has nine lives was called out as tonight’s loser on all of the ballots that did not select Benami.

    This week’s biggest surprise?    As the competition tightens, the buzz around marginal contests is beginning to evaporate.   Aaron Kelly and Siobhan Magnus both received “bottom two” votes.  Magnus has all fallen from favor as the winning singer after front-runner Crystal Bowersox played against type last night by dressing up, playing the piano and singing Midnight Train to Georgia.

    Mamasox now has been selected as the contest winner by 50% of Sonic Clash voters.