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Tag: American Idol
I liked doing the liveblog last night, so I’m doing it again.
I’m going to try a new live-blogging thing tonight, just for kicks. If you’re reading during the show, you should be able to keep watching this page and see the post update without having to reload the page. You can also submit comments at any time, which I can display inline. It seems like a really cool platform, and won’t limit me to 140 characters, like Twitter does. That could be good or bad. ;)
I just realized that I forgot to ever post about last week’s shows. Tuesday I liked Samantha (the girl who came in with her friend, both of them enamored of Simon) and David (the boy who had struggled with paralyzed vocal chords) the best. I don’t remember on Wednesday, honestly. I watched it the next day and didn’t take notes, and don’t remember being particularly blow away by anyone. My continuing gripe this year is that Simon keeps saying “you’re just like everyone else and therefore we don’t want you” but the ones they choose are also just like everyone else. Although, I haven’t really seen any auditions that weren’t either good, but like everyone else, or awful. So maybe there just aren’t any original-sounding people willing to audition anymore.
Anyway, check back here at seven and we’ll try out CoverItLive.
I pretended to be a good grad student tonight and went over to watch a series of lectures on Victorian Britain from the Learning Company with some friends instead of watching American Idol live. So no live-Twittering went on.
Overall, I’d say the show was a bit better tonight than last night. The judges seemed to be having marginally more fun, though I think Simon’s getting even more jaded than usual. Kady Malloy (the girl who can do a Britney Spears impression) is probably one of the better ones through so far, and I liked the cute farmer/cowboy guy. But mostly because he’s cute. Also cute: the newly married couple with the husband who came in to choose his wife’s songs for her. She couldn’t sing terribly well, but he could come on the show and just stand there, and it would make me happy. Because he was hot. But they were also cute together.
I’m really hating how they’re depicting rock singers, though. Every single contestant who leans toward a rock sound turns out to totally suck (yes, even the one they inexplicably let through), which then reinforces the idea that rock singers suck, which they don’t. Are they consciously trying to only let through the most bland pop, boyband, country crossover, and divalicious belters they can find? Or are those the only people willing to try out anymore?
…starts in twenty minutes!
As I said yesterday, I’m going to try live-Twittering the show instead of live-blogging it. I’m faithx5 on Twitter, so feel free to add me if you use it, or you can follow my updates by refreshing this page. Or subscribing to this feed. Or looking at the Twitter badge on my blog’s front page, but I’m not sure it updates automatically.
After the show, I’ll post a recap of the Twitter updates here as well. If this all works out well, I’ll continue doing this throughout the season.
Now fifteen minutes!