Re: American Idol Top 5, May 2/3: British Week
 

Ugly people write songs. Pretty people sing them.

Re: American Idol Top 5, May 2/3: British Week
 

:thumbsup:

I fricking loved Joshua Ledet's rendition of that Bee Gees song. That was an "Idol moment"

IMO, he deserves to make it to the final 2 based on that performance alone.


Ahhhh shucks, sucks about Skylar. I wasn't a big fan of her at the start, but what won me over was how much confidance and swagger she had on stage in recent weeks. She's going to be fine after the show. I think she's a lock to get a record deal.


:thumbsup: Nice to see Carrie Underwood again. I just bought her new album Blown Away and it's great. I really like how loyal she is to the show and whenever they have asked her to come back, she does come.

Re: American Idol Top 5, May 2/3: British Week
 

There is no way Hollie should still be in this competition. Maybe this is why:

Jennifer Lopez to Hollie:

Re: American Idol Top 5, May 2/3: British Week
 

They say that to all the top 40 contestants who get the boot on the next cut. :)

Re: American Idol Top 5, May 2/3: British Week
 

Are you implying AI is somehow fixing the competition?

I'm constantly amused that people think their taste must be shared by everyone else. Here's the simple fact. No matter how much anyone dislikes Hollie (compared to the rest of the contestants), more people voted for her than Skylar. It's that simple. There's no need to create conspiracy theories.

Case in point... I don't vote, but if I did, I'd vote for Hollie over Skylar. And Jennifer Lopez has nothing to do with why.

Re: American Idol Top 5, May 2/3: British Week
 

American Idol doesn't need to fix the competition. It's irrelevant who wins to the bottom line since the show is making shitloads of money. The winner gets a one million dollar recording contract. Compare that to what they're paying the judges -- wasn't Simon Cowell pulling in twenty million a season? -- and it's quite obvious that they don't need to produce successful recording artists.

Re: American Idol Top 5, May 2/3: British Week
 

Simon may have even been making more than $20MM/season. But he did care about the "street cred" of the show. The ratings have dropped a lot from the heyday. I think Simon felt if the winners weren't successful, it'd lessen the sparkle of the show. It's one of the reasons he was exasperated with Taylor Hicks winning. He knew Taylor had zero chance of being a successful recording artist. On the other hand, he was a Carrie Underwood fan from go. He was WAY stronger on her than I was and he was right.

I think at least part of the decline with AI is people just don't feel they're watching the discovery of the next recording star. I was watching a commercial the other day with Jordin Sparks and it occurs to me she doesn't often get mentioned amongst the successful AI winners. But her recording career has done OK and she's starring in the upcoming movie Sparkle (Whitney Houston's last movie). These successes (Jennifer Hudson, etc.) do contribute to the star quality of the show.