It's that time again, American Idol 2010
 

Let's get it started!

PANTS ON THE GROUND.
PANTS ON THE GROUND.
LOOKIN LIKE A FOOL WITH YO PANTS ON THE GROUND!

Yes! It's Idol season once again haha.

Auditions have been the usual so far, I suppose. I have to admit, I miss Paula though. I'm wondering if this season may be the last since Simon will be leaving to do X Factor.

Anyway, I was surprised about how nice Victoria was as a guest judge. She was very down to earth and gave a lot of people compliments on just about anything. It made me want to meet her, lol. On the other hand, I thought Mary J. Blige was really rude...I feel like I lost a little respect for her after tonight.

I cracked up! I've been boycotting this show for awhile (I refused to watch another episode after they kicked off Tamyra Gray--I loved her!) but FB was lit up with status updates about "pants on the ground." I watch it on YT and figured if the rest were half as good, it'd be worth it to watch. It was. :D

Gold in ya mouth, hat turned sideways....*starts breakdancing*:p


Though I'm betting those 2 best friends aren't best friends anymore. That was so sad, but it was no contest. The girl in the blue (Lauren) wouldn't even hug her friend (Carmen) back.

Lauren crossed her arms and pouted, looked like a baby, she also had "Frankenstein head", which was distracting.

Some good singers though. I kind of thought I was over AI, but I'm sucked in again...

umm, so no one is #teamskibowski?

I AM!

I swore up and down that I would not be sucked in this year, but I just can't turn away from the auditions. Therefore I promised myself that I would just watch the auditions. However, as usual, the people suck me in, so now I have to watch Hollywood week, and then of course I will be glued to the TV until May. Ugh!

Honestly, I don't miss Paula at all, even though I thought that there would be something (though I don't know what that "something" would have been) missing. However, Posh was a perfect replacement, and I would love to see her as the permanent replacement instead of Ellen. I felt that she channeled Paula's kindness and encouragment, while still providing some helpful, honest, and accurate feedback. My only complaint was that she just didn't look healthy. Kara is very thin, though healthy IMO, and Victoria was only a fraction of her size!

Anyway, thoughts on the first two nights:
Vonore TN/the bridge jumper: kind of pulling for her! She isn't as cute or charming as Kelly Pickler, but I am such a sucker for the true small town girl who has never been on an aero-plane! She seemed so genuine. I fear that she will be eaten alive in Hollywood week, though, and miss her mamma too much.

Almost killed 3 times guy: at first I was rolling my eyes that they were giving that guy any airtime, but the "cheap re-enactments" that they created were well worth dealing with his obnoxious speech patterns.

Granddaughter of the Portuguese lady with Alzheimers: a sweet kid that you just want to pull for, but with an a-may-zing voice. Can't believe that she had that voice at 16. If she can hold it together during Hollywood week, she should be able to make at least the semi-finals.

Best of the night, though, hands-down, was Pants on the Ground. There is no doubt that he will reappear for the finale, no? Also, if they put that on iTunes, I swear that he could make a million dollars!

I was so surprised with the bridge jumper girl. Her singing voice is so old school country and pretty. She was sweet and funny, and really would make the ultimate American Idol if she can make it through the competition since she has come from being such a small town girl. A lot of people could like and relate to her, and I think she would look amazing if she got a makeover.

I bawled my eyes out when they were showing the backstory of the granddaughter of the Portugese lady with Alzheimers. I'm really really close to my grandma and it makes me feel sad to imagine what it would be like if she had Alzheimers. She had such a great voice too.

What did everyone think of the Guitar Girl? That's one way to get noticed!

Am I the only one who didn't think "Pants on the Ground" was that funny? I might have chuckled for a sec when he tried to breakdance, but that was it.

I think that guitar girl had a great voice, however, the entire time she was singing I was totally distracted by her outfit.

There are times during the auditions where I felt that Randy merely went off of what Simon said as opposed to forming his own opinion. Which was actually pretty frustrating for me to watch.

I didn't at first, but now it's grown on me. :D Just a taste of how popular it is....I paused in the middle of posting this because they did a spot on Larry Platt on the channel 4 news just now. Turns out he had a pretty big role in the Civil Rights movement. They showed old pictures of him at a protest.

Am I the only one who feels this thread is empty without Nittany and Tippie?

Wishing they would come back....

I'm not gone. Just not here every day...

I like BridgeJumper. If for no other reason, then I like her for her authenticity. There's no putting on with her. With Pickler, I always wondered if she was real... I know Bridgejumper is real. She's just like some of the poor, country girls I grew up going to school with. (Poor meaning dirt poor.)

I think it is awesome they are flying her out to Hollywood. I doubt she'll make it very far. Her voice is not commercial enough. And, her look is definitely NOT what Idol wants.

I have no one I just love. And, I want to hurt GuitarGirl for singing in that outfit. Plus, her version was not very good. It was WAY too twangy and yodel-like. You can't sing a country standard like that lookin' like a damn fool.

Oh yeah i was reading about that. Supposedly ATL has a day named after him. He was a big activist during the Civil Rights Movement.

^^Haha Jen, same!

I'm going to miss Idol on Tuesday. :(((( Break isn't officially over til Tuesday because we don't have classes on Monday and we can't have meetings when school isn't in session. So our first meeting back from break is Tuesday at 8. I hope nothing epic happens. But if it does, I suppose I can just catch it on YouTube.