Wednesday, May 10, 2006
American Idol: Results from an Alternate Reality
Did you see how shocked Katharine was? As well she should have been, since it took an awful lot of people being on crack to save her with their votes.
At the same time I’m disappointed, and concerned that we’re headed for a “false idol” year, I think it may be better for Chris. He’ll get to record, but perhaps being in fourth place will keep him from being as overproduced as Bo’s first album was. We’ll be ready to buy it when it’s released. I can’t see eagerly awaiting albums from any of the others, or buying at all from Katharine.
And yet I can still appreciate that all four have talent, which really showed in their group medley tonight. Even Katharine, who seems to do better that way, whether because it’s in a group or not under the stress of competition.
Thinking a bit more, it could be that Taylor just sewed it up. The battle of Chris versus Taylor would have been epic, and he was the one who might have beaten the Taylor juggernaut.
Then again, if Clay Elliott keeps ratcheting it up, not only being a great singer, but performing non-boringly, who knows.
Katharine has become the Scott Savol of this season. Imagine Scott having knocked out Bo and made it to the finals. Ugh.
If what I see on the newsgroup is correct, next week’s theme will be one song each selected by the judges, contestant, and Clive Davis. That certainly could be interesting.
It’ll be weird without Chris though. It’s like the fabric of reality just shifted to some weird alternate timeline.