The Shark, She Is Jumped.

[revid]

American Idol was a hot mess on two levels tonight. First, what a bunch of utter BS that only 2 judges spoke after each contestant. And it was either Randy/Kara or Paula/Simon. THAT was the only way they could figure out how to get the show in under an hour? Are you fucking kidding me? Forty-two minutes of show outside of commercials MINUS (2 minutes x 7 songs x 2 more minutes of puff piece) = 14 minutes for judging. In other words, each judge gets 30 secs. How fucking hard is that? And Paula is getting worse and worse. The scripted lines are so obviously memorized beforehand, since they have absolutely NOTHING to do with the performance she (supposedly) just watched. And if I were Anoop, Matt or Kris, I would be pretty pissed off that I didn't hear Simon's opinion, since, let's face it, his is the only one that counts. And they STILL went over time.

I like Quentin Tarantino as much as the next guy, but as a mentor? WTF? Yeah, it was a movie theme, but still. He was teats on a bull tonight.

The other huge problem tonight was...THE PERFORMANCES. It had its moments, but the overall impression was "This was the best they could do?" Oh God, the song choices. Not one but TWO Bryan Adams songs, plus three giant cheesefest songs, one WTF? song (from my dear BSC (batshitcrazy) Adam), but I give props to Kris for picking an out of the way (but Oscar winning) contemporary song. Best song choice of the night.

~Allison--Don't Want to Miss a Thing: She got the reviews tonight of LAST weeks performance. Seriously. She wasn't all that good tonight. But I want her to stay, so I won't complain too much.

~Anoop--Everything I Do: Not bad, but so boring I had to look up what he sang because an hour later I don't recall. And why does he always look scared to death up there?

~Adam--Born to Be Wild: Because you were having such a good time, so was I, baby. Fun, over the top, had that fucking awesome glory note at the end. Loved the androgynous emo look, the pelvic thrusts, the mad running around the stage. Not my favorite of yours, but considering we had six musical Ambiens tonight, thanks for bringing the Dexadrine.

~Matt--Have You Really Ever Loved A Woman: Again,like Anoop, not really memorable to me. Thought he really went off key with some of his runs/trills. He would have been better just singing it straight up.

~Danny--Endless Love: Sorry and_ed, you're not gonna like this. A average performance of a karaoke song. It started out really rough, but did improve as it went on. But why do the judges talk about him like he's so daring and creative and unique? He's done the exact same song every. single. week. No variety, at all.

~Kris--Falling Slowly: Kris gets the prize for best song choice of the night. A beautiful, current song. I wish he had done more with it performance-wise though. It was a little too wobbly and low for his range in the beginning, but got better. He should have taken QT's advice and done it sitting on a stool with a guitar.

~ Lil--The Rose. Crappy choice of song. Crappy performance. Crappy attitude with the judges. Who the hell is voting for her?

Bottom three: Lil (by a mile), Danny, Matt. (But tomorrow will be Lil, Matt, Anoop.)

Lil should go, but it will be Matt or Anoop.



~In other news, there is another Green Day club show tonight at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, and they are filming the show for some purpose. I decided to sit this one out, because my sources tell me there will be a fourth "secret" show at a different, smaller club tomorrow night, so I will be spending a large part of my day scoring tix to that, then hitting the 101 for the 4 hour trek north again.

Sigh, the things we do for our bands.