American Idol 2009 - Page 2

Why only cut one room? Just seemed to be unnecessarily dragging things out, and last night's show dragged on enough as it was.

Any excuse to torment Tatiana a little bit more. I want to see her gently tip over into a beautiful, perfect madness. Maybe they'll give her a dead puppy, or tell her that there are hidden cameras everywhere which can record her thoughts.

Didn't Simon hate Sanjaya and say he'd quit if he won? Then why did this guy make it so far. I know it's for the ratings but this one note joke has wasted 20 minutes of airtime with his joke. This guy is just taking a spot for some who wants to be there. Who knows if they missed out on someone good because of jitters.

And I love how the Idol ringer can forget the words and still make it because she had a good audition before. And the other hot chick made it as well.

Boring so far.

The guy started over and stopped halfway through his second try made it through as well.

So there's a Top 36 this year? Cripes. This thing will be forever just getting to the "real" show.

That's been the growing trend for a while now. Gotta fill those time slots!

How does someone who is making fun of the AI make the top 36? And the giggling bitch makes it too. Fucking shameless for the ratings.

How are they doing the top 12? It can't be 6boys/6girls if they are doing 3 a week and mixed company. Have a feeling there will be more men than women unless they stack the Wild Card with almost all women.

First week looks like rough.

Ugh. Two fucking hours of "I don't have good news for you... I have great news! You're coming back!" I fucking hate this show.

I can't believe they decided to kick Jamal (the widower's friend), he was far better than many of the other guys.

Plus having two buddies competing against each other would have made for some great drama.

When the preexisting contract girl forgot her lyrics, it was staged. I'm pretty sure the keyboard guy's memory lapse was staged, too. Every bit of drama on this show is phony. It's a two hour ad for Coke, Ford, and AT&T.

OK, this will be amusing to about *one* of you guys, but I don't care. So I'm watching the pairing off of Kristen McNamara and Jenn Korbee and I recognize Jenn. My first thought is that she looks like someone famous (like the Robert Downey Jr. guy) and it starts driving me crazy. Whoever she looks like, she looks almost *exactly* like them...the shape of the mouth, facial features, expressions, etc.

It's driving my wife and I nuts. Every 10 seconds I'm saying, "who the frick does she look like?". Unable to continue, I pause the show, rewind it to find her name, and make a beeline to Google to see if I can figure this out...maybe someone, somewhere has noticed the similarities as well. I spend a minute looking around for her name, and then have one of those immensely satisfying, "I *KNEW* it!" moments.

It turns out that she doesn't just *look* like somebody famous, she *is* somebody famous...at least in certain circles. I've seen her singing on TV hundreds, if not *thousands* of times. I've listened to a CD of her for countless hours in my car. I've seen her in concert. How could I have not recognized her?

<<Warning>> This is the part that's going to be exceedingly anticlimactic for about 99.9% of you...but I'm doing this for the handful of other people out there who where trying to place her. She's none other than Jennifer Peterson-Hind from Hi-5, a popular children's music show. You know, they sing, they do skits...kid's theater stuff. The kids and I saw them in concert a couple of years ago. It was quite fun, by the way. But alas, it looks like H-5 is no more.

<Sniff> Godspeed, Jenn from Hi-5. I would have loved to see you pull out some Hi-5 costumes for "Children's Music" theme night.



On a positive note, I saw her castmate, Karla Cheatham-Mosley in a bit part as a party guest in Burn After Reading.

I know what you're thinking...who cares, right? To which I say, "May that giggling, shrieking, Tatiana freak-girl enter your life and take a shine to you."

Preexisting contract girl has been disqualified and replaced with Felicia Barton. I wish it was that hot, married chick.

I wonder if Tatiana goes anal on the first date.

That wouldn't shut her up.

Her crying would be definite turn on. One thing I'd love to see is her and that Clown guy from Slipknot in a room together. I think he'd drink her spinal fluid.

Agreed! Long live Hi-5!

For pics of her married-chick hotness, click here http://jenniferpetersonhind.com/#/photos/4520994632

Could somebody tell me if that weird chick Tatiana got through. I dont feel scrolling through all the posts.

Unfortunatly, yes she did.

That'd be me, I do have 3 small kids after all. I actually met her in person, some years ago when Hi-5 was starting to become popular (but only to the point of visiting Malls, not Wiggles level).

I recognized her face when she showed up, however I didn't think it was her because I couldn't recognize her last name (since she's married, and her last name was kind of unique) and because she lost. I didn't imagine they'd be cruel enough to disqualify her against that other girl after having a pseudo famous TV career ... singing. This must be a new low for her.

But thanks for confirming that, it was nagging at me a bit.

And I loved Simon's comment "do you want to keep the very attractive blonde girl or the other one". :-)

And Cheatham-Mosley pops up in random commercials here and there. I guess the high point for the original bunch was their kids show ...

Okay, so now that they're finally down to 36, they're gonna take up two hours letting a group of twelve sing over the next three weeks just to get down to the final 12? Christ almighty.

It's kind of like Zeno's Dichotomy.

Ugh.

I fastforwarded through the episode and it was still painful.

As usual when it comes to American Idol, I agree with Simon through and through. Still not sure where my thoughts are yet on kara, she's like a Randy\Paula hybrid without any of the charm that they posses.. well ok, I do have some thoughts.

Just a horrible horrible episode, for a season that was supposed to be devoted to talent this episode sorely lacked that. I guess it all came down to poor song selection. Poor Ryan couldn't even find a way to positivly spin it after the 4th or 5th bad performance.

Stand outs: Alexis and Gokey (they got my votes anyways). You have to admire a woman that will come out in a black slip and the fuck me lipstick really kept my attention and it turns out she could sing! Wasn't that big of a fan of the song but she sure did sell it to the point where it was memorable (ish).

Gokey was really good but I question if it was more the fact that there was such horrible performances tonight that his good performance really won me over that much more. Interesting side note, at 10:45 (EST) I got a busy singnal in voting for him... but got through the second time.

Disappointments: Roughneck and the hottie Casey... they were my early favorites and sure, the roughneck did alright ... but I agree he could have done a lot better. Casey... man, I just don't know what to say with that. She's so smokin hot but the winks? the song? POLICE!? If she did the Britney "I love rock and roll" that might have worked a lot better... something sultry and teasing...
I'm not going to be sticking around much longer if this shit continues, honestly.

You could have been swayed by his dead wife they(he) keep talking about. I wonder how many times he'll use that card. I'm sure he'll say it live when he has a bad performance.

Man I'm glad I didn't have to sit through that live. Who gives a fuck about their families and their opinions? Lousy performances all round, except for Gokey who seems to be the new Cook Light.

I said from the very first audition show that he would end up the winner, just you wait and see.

Horrible episode and the new judge is pointless, she contributed nothing to the show except talking with her microphone in her mouth and blowing out my subwolfer.

The only amusing thing is when the girls touch Ryan and he gets uncomfortable.

what was the comment one of the female contestants said as she sat down that unnerved Ryan? something like "oh! I sat down on the hard part"

he seemed a little out of it at that point

Didn't Ryan say something about Simon's "organ"? He should just come out already.

I was half watching the show with my wife until they announced that Tatiana was coming up next and I just got up and went into the other room and got on the computer. That stupid bitch has already wasted too much of my life.














Tatiana, not my wife.

Someone at AI is getting fired after last night's episode. It was a total trainwreck. The cameras were off and kept showing shots of the ground, the audio was horrible with many mics not working, the video segments were messed up. And I think I know why. Nigel is gone. Nigel Lythgoe (sp) was cut to save costs and they wanted to "make some changes to the format" that he wasn't keen on. He also does So You Think You Can Dance where he produces and judges and he got FOX to let him sta on SYTYCD when he was forced off Idol. I'm thinking that may have screwed FOX on AI because this season has been blah and last night was horrible.

And Snaieke , Casey OWES us an apology for sucking so bad as now her hotness will be banned forever. Her white boy dancing was so bad I was literally laughing out loud. It was like Elaine from Seinfeld.

And I'll be damned but Tatiana actually sounded pretty good. She shouldn't go on but she wasn't the train wreck I expected. I do hope she gets some money from the show so she can get her teeth whitened.

Tatiana actually gave one of the best performances although that doesn't say much.

She's going all the way to the final 4.

Whereupon she will begin rocking back and forth and cutting herself when she gets voted out.

No way. The girl who sang Aretha Franklin was the best. By far. Tatiana was mediocre and hit a few notes that were steller. But the song was too big for her voice.

I don't know why people continually try to sing Aretha, Stevie, Michael, Whitney, or Celine. Anyone we can reference by only one name means that they will not be able to sing it better or even make it their own.

Also, I can't belive the judges were openly mocking Tatiana. It's one thing to critique her performance or wardrobe. But they basically calling her drama queen fame whore and then expecting her to be like, "Yeah, I am!" So awkward.

Yeah, but she needs to get called on that crap. If she's serious about getting into the business, she'll go nowhere with that attitude, and if she's not, it's still damn annoying.

Well at least she tried to contain herself tonight, that was until the judges seemed disappointed by that and then started enticing/provoking her.

That was a completely painful performance episode with some of the worst song choices ever. Seriously, I do not want shitty ballad after shitty ballad. The girl with the pink in her hair definitely gave the best performance, but it still made me doze off a bit. Let's hope it gets better from here.

God, the whole "... after the break" thing just needs to die already.

Why did they put the guy with the dead wife last when it was obvious he was going though thanks to Paula and Kara gushing over him? It would have been more painful to see her against that oil rigger.

No point in watching next week. Broadway Adam Lambert and 16 year old Jasmine Murray will be top 2. Matt Giraud probably sneaks the 3rd spot.

Tatiana, Casey, Jackie, Stevie are my guesses for the WC round. Maybe Anoop. But they wil stack it with almost all women if the guys nab 6 spots since they will be at 4 after next week and 5 with the blind guy in the 3rd group. Please no Von Smith.

I <3 Adam. I want him to go all the way.

What the hell is the deal with the roughneck? He can't sing worth shit!

Adam Lambert is so very...THEATAH. I've yet to see a tolerable performance from him. I'm really rooting for Kris Allen next week. He's received zero screen time, but he's easily the hottest guy in the top 36, and I'm allowed to be shallow.

And yeah, I have no idea why the roughneck made it. That was a big surprise.

$5 says a year from now we read about Tatiana on Paula's doorstep. Anoop got robbed, he is leagues better than the Roughneck aka Josh Gracin 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Tatiana standing behind the other contestants during Danny's final song was just priceless. She didn't even try to put on a good face and clap along with everyone else, she just stood there like she was at a funeral.

Ooops, typo. I was referring to pink haired girl who did get picked. She sang Aretha too didn't she? In any case, the other Aretha chick wasn't too bad, but wasn't top 3 material.

He made it because Simon said America would like him and thought they should give him a shot. The judges will be very deliberate on who they praise this year as only the top 3 get in each show. They don't want to be luke warm on too many for fear a real crappy one gets through.

The top 2 are easy to spot as all the judges will be for them. But the 3rd one Simon will pick by being nice to them. Why he liked the roughneck is beyond me but I guess he has a good story.

I was disappointed Tatiana didn't collapse onstage in a heap and start screaming, but I guess I'm kind of evil.