Thread: American Idol - Season 7

Before you flame me, I have to admit that watching American Idol is a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't watch any other TV shows (i.e. Lost, Grey's Anatomy, etc) due to my work schedule, so this is the only thing I can catch almost every week. I start watching the auditions which are funny as hell, then I sucked into Hollywood Week and on from there.

My favorites for Season 7 are Brooke White and Carly Smithson, though I like Brooke the best. She's just so sweet and picks good songs week after week. Carly was in the bottom 3 last week so I hope she doesn't get booted. They are down to the Top 10 now starting tonight.

Does anyone else like American Idol or have any favorites?

Haha. That's so funny. I was thinking about starting a thread just like this, and opening up in the exact same way.

I know a bunch of people who don't watch American Idol have (ironically) a lot of crap that they are just itching to say about it, but I like watching it because I like talent and seeing people grow into their talents over time.

That being said, I'm really disappointed in Ramiele. I think that she's pound for pound (no size pun intended) the best singer up there. She just has a tendency to pick horrible songs. She started off really strong, and I don't know wtf happened to her over the past few weeks.

Syesha's really good, and David's probably the best guy up there (but he's just so Goofy! Lol. I can't really picture him as a superstar. ). I think Carly is good too. As far as the rest, I just dunno. There's a lot of talent up there, but not very many of them actually blow me away, as much as some of the past seasons' contestants have.

Yeah I only ever watch programmes like these (Pop idol, X factor, Britain's got talent ect) Just for the comedy part at the beginning of the show, I sometimes watch them when it gets to the serious part.

Although I did like watching dancing on ice.

I do occasionally catch American Idol on ITV2 over here. Cat Deeley feels out of place in it though

Cat Deeley presents American Idol now? I think I may have to investigate. It's been way too long since SMTV Live.

I vaguely watch talent programmes for the auditions at the start. X Factor remains the best for provoking a response from the auditionees (the thing with the fat girl in the home-made dress was painfully obvious but humorously so), but American Idol comes close.

Simon Cowell clearly knows his business, but knows when to work for entertainment value rather than actual talent-spotting. Which makes it work quite nicely.

Originally Posted by Siиdяed

Simon Cowell clearly knows his business, but knows when to work for entertainment value rather than actual talent-spotting. Which makes it work quite nicely.

Yeah the thing with Simon is that he is honest.

One of the main reasons I hate these shows is because a judge can't say anything bad incase they get booed, which makes only good comments which causes them to not actually judge---despite that's what they are supposed to do.

However Simon is different, he will say the bad things about a person however gets treated like a bad guy. I have a lot of respect for him in this sense.

The thing about Simon is that he likes to "plays the part," just as often as he is honest. He will take a performance that may not be perfect, and drag it into the ground as the worst thing he's ever heard in his life and sling insult after insult at it. He likes to "show off" just as much as he likes to critique.

Mmmm...there is more than a little bit of a phony-ness to him.

You can't deny that he acts to provoke a reaction at times. The judges clearly know all these little details about the contestants (dad dying, weird habits, whatever) and work to play them up, because ultimately it is a show for our entertainment and we want to see people either looking like freaks or like charity cases so we can feel all sympathetic and so on.

I respect him in that he's good at creating entertainment, but not always that he's genuine.