American Idol 4

[chideltjen]

Thank goodness for message boards. I'm not going to watch it either... but it's because I have homework.

[ZTABullwinkle]

If anyone thought that a half hour was too long, what about tonight?!?!? UGH...

Time to go back to switching channels until L&O is on....

[JupiterTC]

Bo is in the bottom three?!?!

[WhirlwindTNX]

Yes oh yes he is!!!! But I really hope Scott goes home, especially after that look when he was asked to sing.

[tinydancer]

Well, that was a surprise! I was sure Scott was on his way out. However, I really like the song he sang tonight.

I think Nadia's song choice last night did her in.

[texas*princess]

whoa! Bo was in the bottom 3? that's crazy.

So I'm guessing by the posts the bottom 3 were Bo, Scott & Nadia and Nadia got the boot?

[AGDee]

I'm so mad at this show and the people who voted. The bottom two threw me for a loop and I'm totally floored that Scott is still there. TOTALLY FLOORED. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[SSS1365]

Originally posted by texas*princess
whoa! Bo was in the bottom 3? that's crazy.

So I'm guessing by the posts the bottom 3 were Bo, Scott & Nadia and Nadia got the boot?

Yeah, Scott was bottom 3, Bo was bottom 2, and Nadia was sent packing.

I'm SO annoyed by the results. Scott should have been gone, plain and simple. Anthony should have been in the bottom 3. Perhaps Nadia belonged in the bottom 3, but she shouldn't have gone yet! I'm so SICK of all the teenagers who vote 85720538182 times each for people like ANTHONY. And quite frankly, I'm tired of looking at AND hearing Scott.

[mu_agd]

Is it bad that I can't even watch this season anymore? The way the results have turned out have really annoyed me and I just can't watch.

[AXO Alum]

Originally posted by mu_agd
Is it bad that I can't even watch this season anymore? The way the results have turned out have really annoyed me and I just can't watch.

I'm with you -- I mean it has come so far past what it should be. Now it is a popularity contest with which teenager can dial the most votes for Constannoying or Diet Clay (thanks chideltjen) while not caring one bit about talent or marketing ability.

Nadia vs Constannoying? No contest - she may have had a bad song choice, but talent & marketability... she should still be there.

I guess the only good thing about her being gone is that she already had a career in the making. She will def turn out better albums than most of the remaining contestants.

If I could hijack the phone lines, I would have the following for order of leaving:

Constannoying
Diet Clay
Scott
Anwar
Bo

Last two for talent should be Vonzell & Carrie. I like Carrie, but Vonzell is just SO darn cute, and is really making improvements week after week. I wouldn't mind seeing her win this thing

[LeslieAGD]

Originally posted by AXO Alum
I'm with you -- I mean it has come so far past what it should be. Now it is a popularity contest with which teenager can dial the most votes for Constannoying or Diet Clay (thanks chideltjen) while not caring one bit about talent or marketing ability.

Nadia vs Constannoying? No contest - she may have had a bad song choice, but talent & marketability... she should still be there.

I know most of you on this board can't stand Constantine, but you need to at least agree that he's that three really excellent and consistent weeks. I HATED Nadia, but I can see that she has a decent voice. I don't, however, believe she could be more marketable than Constantine (no contest). Do I think that Nadia should have gone before Scott or Anthony? ...No! Do I think Bo should have been in the bottom two before Anthony even made the bottom three? ...No! But unlike some "teenagers," I have been things to do that dial the phone all night. So, I'll complain about the results and how the show's rigged, and it sucks...and then I'll suck it up and watch the following week (like we all do).

[xo_kathy]

You know, I love Bo. I don't think he should have been bottom 2. I would love for him to win it.

All that said, can you really see him in the final, singing those horrible easy- listening pop songs they come up with? Seriously, picture Bo singing "A Moment Like This"! Not that I don't think he COULD sing it, but I wouldn't want him to HAVE to sing them...

[LeslieAGD]

... just thought it was hilarious:

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You're A Woman Who's Lost To Your Song

I woke up this morning overpowered by a love of Scott Savol, a real desire to see him win. His utter lack of grace or class, his quickly disintegrating voice, his hideous face and unsettling demeanor, his ungrateful and hateful lack of social skills…what can I say? I now find these things delightful. That's why tonight's episode was such a roller-coaster of emotion, by turns both terrifying and inspiring.

The Idols perform "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" one more ****ing time, and highlighted, on the main, are Constantine, Bo, and Carrie, although Vonzell and Anwar have a nice duet and the girls come together in a hellishly off harmony. At one point the camera trucks across them upstage, and Scott gives such a delightfully disgusting face that I almost call to vote right then, even though it's Wednesday.

There's a fairly interesting "Day In The Life" segment where we break down their weekly activities. Thursdays, they pick next week's song. Friday, it's interview clips and weekly shopping. Saturday: recording and sometimes actual downtime. (This part was thrillingly narrated by Our Man Scott, who would seem to read at a robust fifth grade level! Good on you, Scott!) Sunday, they film the pimpomercial. Monday's the first band rehearsal. Tuesday is a walkthrough, dress rehearsal, and then live at 5 PST -- Scott explaining here that he doesn't normally wear makeup at home, which should put to rest those "WhiteTrashPlanetLove.com" rumors, and thank Fake Jesus for that! Wednesday, they freak out, then go to the studio to find out if Scott's safe. And he always, always is!

We quickly review: A-Fed and Anwar came out of nowhere, Nadia made up her song, Vonzell made banal into awesome, Carrie was great, and Bo and Con were carried by impressive light shows and exciting music. Scott had the most overwrought instrumentation of all, like he needed it, and then was justified in calling me a chump for not having the "guts" to half-*** it to the Final Eight on a wave of cognitive dissonance and white trash solidarity. I am a chump. Not even a criminal record!

Then: HORRORS! You guessed it. The bottom three each get to sing their favorite past songs, so Scott sings "Against All Odds." He does a bunch of slippery vocoder fake runs, and Paula lurches around cheering until Simon physically restrains her. Scott keeps stabbing his finger at himself and then up at God, who's totally like his special friend. His voice sounds completely shot and his vibrato goes painfully sharp at the end; we've been blessed with another tasteless Scott Savol performance, completely lacking in subtlety or work ethic. I'm so completely grateful.

Carrie and Anwar are safe, then Bo is in the bottom three. He talks a mess about how he couldn't care less about what happens, and I lose even more respect for him even as I agree with his point. He sings "Remedy" and it's fun. The remaining Idols dance around like assholes, totally "rocking out," particularly Constantine with his nasty-a*s greasy ponytail. Bo gives Scott a dap and hug, like a total wuss. I mean, that's way more than Scott has ever given a fellow contestant on the Seal.

Simon explains that Constantine was "astonishing" last night because all of the ingredients: a totally stylized gimmick song, the disgusting perverted performance, the sticking out of the tongue, were all really ill-advised and stupid, but he managed to pull it off. I hate to agree with all of this, but I do, actually. Then Constantine won't shut the f*ck up and let Ryan do his job, interrupting him more than Bo did, and finally lets Ryan tell him he's safe.

Neither Vonzell nor A-Fed will be in the bottom three this week, but if they were, they would sing "I Have Nothing" and "Every Time You Go Away," respectively. Nadia, who's totally going home tonight, then performs "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," wearing a perfectly Nadia dress. Several times the vibrato gets a little less controlled than usual, but it's still as beautiful as the first time, and about halfway through, the cheers snap her out of it and she goes into the Whole Nadia Thing and it's nice. Then Bo and Nadia embrace while Scott ignores them both. Yeah, buddy.

Nadia proudly resists admitting she feels dumb for being "artsy-fartsy" to the exclusion of giving people anything to hold onto. It's fairly adorable when she starts laughing about how "unfortunately maybe that's not working anymore." Bo and Nadia take a step back so Scott, safe, can breeze by them like they don't even exist, and you know what, for somebody with his almost supernatural gift and ostentatious relationship with Fake Jesus, they practically don't.

Randy is disgusted, Paula actually knows that Bo is fine and basically says so, but Ryan still has to make with the suspense. Paula ruins everything. Bo is safe, and hugs Nadia, who gives a little speech and then starts crying immediately, so her eye makeup starts melting and drizzling into her eyes, and finally Ryan gives her his necktie so she won't have to deal with losing, crying, and being blinded all at once. Then she says goodbye to us and jokes around with the other Idols, who at this point look a bit more destroyed than she. Except Scott, of course.

Well, that's this week. Next week, though, I'm rooting for Scott the whole time. You hear me, Scott? It's all about you, baby. And as Judd, Nikko, Mikalah, Jessica, Lindsey, and Nadia can attest, I am a good, good friend to have. I only hope I can do for you what I've done for them, buddy.

[chideltjen]

I caught the last 20 minutes of the show. Probably all I needed. But 19E needs to work on being more subtle. (HA! YEAH RIGHT!)

Even if I hadn't looked at the board an hour earlier, you could still tell that Nadia was getting the boot tonight. Even after last night. In the last 20 minutes, the last of the bottom three were all sitting in a row. Nadia already had the microphone to sing out, was sitting on the end... Ryan didn't even go over what the judges had to say last night... he talked about Vonzell and then about Diet Clay... yadda yadda... then without warning... Nadia you are in the bottom three. She even looked surprised.

Then in the bottom 2, the judges were tongue-bathing Bo. Um hello... there is another person standing next to him. Do the judges say anything to her... no.

Not that I really care. I wasn't too attached to Nadia. Scott needs to go home... fast. He's like a male-Carmen. Just won't go away.

Marketability-wise... It may be harder to market or even work with Constantine. He's older and has been around the block a few times. He probably wouldn't want to fit into 19E's little box of pop stars just because that's how his personality works. That's why I think he would be hard to market... because any ideas 19 has for him will be very difficult for him to take on and accept.

Then who should win? Carrie... because she seems clueless enough. She'll mold into anything. Hell, she does now. Next week she'll be back in her country box because the judges told her to be.

[AchtungBaby80]

Dude, Bo did not need to be in the bottom 3.

Why, oh why, will Scott not get voted off? He has no talent, no personality, no nothing.

I was surprised at last night's show, to say the least.