The bald headed guy that has side burns, sings rock and roll songs, and is sometime shown wearing a cowboy hat is Chris.

Does anyone have any least favorites besides me?

Least favorites? One big one, Kellie Pickler.

I'm right with you. We already have a Carrie Underwood and I'm not big on sob stories... no matter how horrid your life has been, AI will not make it any better sweetie.

T'was reading the profiles on Fox... one of the guys is a diabetic. Kevin I believe. And then Stevie is from Fair Oaks, which is right around my area... so I wonder what her bios will show.

I am not too big on that Brenna. All I see from her is drama, drama, drama!! I know that makes good TV, but sometimes its too far.

I don't really like Kellie b/c of her sob story.

It seems like EVERYONE who trys out has some kind of story... like that girl who didn't make the final 12 and proclaimed to the judges "MY LIFE IS OVER! I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO WITH MY SON !!!! IT'S ALL DOWNHILL"

Seriously. Honey, no one has had a perfect life, so AI will NOT make your life perfect.

I just like Kellie's voice & personality... just my opinion though.

Now that I've caught up on this week's AI episodes:

My favorites: Lisa, Paris, and Mandisa for the women. Taylor, Ace (yeah, I know there's going to be a big Con comparison, but I adore him and couldn't stand Con), and Chris for the men.

I don't recognize a good number of the final 24, thanks to the AI Pimp Machine :rolleyes:

hmmm i'm pretty disappointed with t he majority of the female performances so far.....

they are either really good, or sounding really bad.

I LOVED Paris and Mandisa.

Mandisa was a member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

I love Lisa Tucker. She is so talented and so poised for someone so young. She radiates more maturity than some of the older contestants- I can't believe she's only 16!!!

I thought the only good one tonight was Katharine McPhee. Everyone else was just ok for me. I think I'm the only one who doesn't think the 16-year-old is that great; she was so pitchy. I really like Katharine, though.

Katherine is surprisingly good!

My other faves for tonite: Lisa , Paris, and Mandisa.

Brenna was a little extra tonight, with all the posing ..I mean, it wasnt even cute!

Do we have any greeks on the Idol this year? I thought Mandisa put up her pinky finger after her performance..I could have been imagining it?

My picks for advancing (in order of favorites):
1. Katharine
2. Lisa
3. Paris
4. Ayla
5. Mandisa
6. Melissa

I totally feel the same way!! After the last girl performed Simon said there were 4 girls that came out and performed awesome tonight and I totally agree with him. The girls I liked the best were Mandisa, Paris, Lisa, and Katharine.

I can't wait to see the guys tomorrow!! I really do think that the guys group is better then the girls, but I guess we will see tomorrow.

Ok. After seeing the whole show, my top 6 faves are:

(in no order)

Mandisa
Paris
Katharine
Ayla
Melissa
Kelly

I really dislike Lisa. I find her to be a bit assuming. She comes off as being a bit arrogant. There's just something I don't like about her...'

I really liked the way Paris made everyone want to get out of their seat & dance!

I too was a bit disappointed with the majority of the females tonight.

I like Lisa, mostly because she doesn't give off that "Look at me! I'm 16!" vibe Diana DeGarmo did. That was a pretty ballsy song choice.

Katharine does nothing for me. I don't like her voice, I don't get why she's all that great, and I really don't get why she's getting the judge adoration unless it's to protect their real favorites down the road. Give me Mandisa, Lisa or Paris any day.

I felt really bad for Stephanie Scott. That performance was just all kinds of train wreck.

I thought Paris was the best by far last night.

I wanted to slap Brenna b/c that attitude/personality crap she's trying to pull is just annoying as hell and doesn't win her any points.


Overall, the women were disappointing.

Paris' and Mandisa's performance were the only ones I remember from last night. Lisa is good... but has a subtle cockiness to her, I think.

I enjoy Paris more out of the youngins. I understand the Fantasia comparison... but don't agree with it. Paris is much more pleasant to listen to over a long period of time. Sad thing is that they'll try to make her a hip hop artist if she wins. She'd be good as a blues singer.

Hope the boys are better. After the montage of them, I am not holding out for much.

Top 6 girls will probably be:
Mandisa
Paris
Lisa
Ayla
Kellie
Katharine

Stevie... I was disappointed. Did not represent Sacto well. :(

Dear God so far the boys are crap-tastic. And man are they not very appealing image-wise. Somebody please give Bucky a shower, shave and haircut. He looks like they pulled him out of the dumpster out back.

The very vast majority of these guys do not have anything mass-market appeal about them.

Yea I was thinking the same thing :p

Chris rocks my world.

Hmmm t his guy needs to lay off the vabratto... it's starting to annoy me. He sounds like he's singing in extreme cold weather :p

Does Simon like anyone?

Chris was good tonite..

But Elliott makes me melt!!!

*sigh*

I am not into this drunk guy who just sang "Lola".


eta: Bobby

I think Randy was making slight against Constantine when he said that some former contestants thought they were working the room but really weren't.

Anyway, I'm going to turn into a teenage girl and say "I LOVE ME SOME ACE!!!!!!!!!" Hottie McHottie.

My favs:
Elliot
Chris
Taylor
Ace <3

I like Will because he sang my fav song.

I had no idea that Bobby the Don was on Idol;)

I kind of want to marry Taylor and have cute little gray haired babies and we can start a family band and he can play me some harmonica every day.

Also, I like Elliot and the kid who sang "Crazy Little Thing Called Love."

Taylor Hicks, I love you.

I adore Taylor and Chris. The teenaged boys in my house thought Chris rocked, but couldn't stand to be in the room when Taylor was on. Silly boys :)

I LOVE Taylor. Chris was good, too. They were my faves.

I'm going to have to join the Ace heart-throb club. Mmmm mmm mmm. And he sang well too. I really liked that song.
We grew up very close to each other... maybe I saw him somewhere, sometime in Boulder, when we were kids. He is only a few years younger than me. It might have happened!

yes... Ace is very easy on the eyes...

I'm a little too old for the 'heart throb' thing, but Ace really won me over with his song choice!!! Chris and Taylor are definitely my favorite. Unfortunately, the girls aren't very memorable...except Paris.

Last night I really liked:
- Taylor
- Chris
- Elliot
- Ace
- Kevin

And even though he wasn't great vocally, I still like Will, too.

Ace creeped me out...what with the song choice and the Constantine eyes. And I hate his hair.

Ace. Oh man...what a hottie. And he sang one of my favorite songs, too. :)

I also really liked Elliott, Chris, Taylor (though he started weak he ended strong), and I thought Gedeon and Will were fun. Kevin has a nice voice but I've heard that song too much.

Then I had a creepy thought. I am technically old enough to be Kevin's and Will's mother. Eeek!