Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Overheard In Our House, AI Edition
What I said in reaction to Kellie “the Hideous Pickle” Pickler being voted off American Idol:
“Oh my God, Sarah must be having an orgasm!”
Yeah, it was time.
I never wrote my AI post from last night, though mostly that amounted to ”what Dean said.”
I was unusually impressed with Taylor, as for once he gave some reason for his fan base to exist and keep him in it even when he’s awful.
I was unusually impressed with Katharine, though we still aren’t keen on Her Plasticity. Listening to the MP3 afterward made it more impressive. Watching the video afterward with no sound made her seem even more ridiculous than when there’s the singing to distract you.
Elliot did what Elliot does best, maybe more so than normal, but ultimately the song bored me no matter how well performed.
Paris was better on MP3 afterward than I credited her at the time, despite her song choice.
Chris was just perfect. Good choice of artist and apparently this time nobody minded the choice of a more obscure song. At least, I’d never heard of it. He not only had the voice, but he meant it.
Kellie was the particular blight on the evening, between song choice and performance. Unchained Melody is just too big, too famous, and too Not Country for her. For me it goes further, much the way Taylor did on Queen night.
When Taylor sucked doing Crazy Little Thing Called Love - which should have been a fine choice for him - one of the things that bothered me was that it’s a popular sing-along song for me. There are two dangers there. Once is changing it, and the other is being open for negative comparison to me. Since I thought Taylor sounded no better than I would singing that song, I considered it an awful performance.
Which led me to muse about the odd fact that one of my favorite songs to sing along with is Bridge Over Troubled Water, which led me to think a Simon & Garfunkel theme week might be entertaining.
Which brings us to this week, when Kellie did Unchained Melody, which I also particularly like to sing along with, though it’s more in the “difficult to do well” realm of Bridge Over Troubled Water than, say, Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Thus is offended me similarly to the way Taylor offended me a couple weeks back.
Anyway, only five to go. Wow! So that’s… four more weeks? Wow. Go Chris!