Mary's LJ

I swear I am NEVER watching this show again after next week.


Wow. What was that? I don't know exactly what I expected, but what ever it was, it wasn't that. Everyone, including my beloved Adam was off. And the judges and the judging was a semi-trailer load of WTFery.

Once again, Danny was way over-praised. His second song was better than the first, but he had horrible phrasing on both, and sang about 20 words of lyrics total on the second. At least he left out the harp and wisely avoided the falsetto note at the end. But Simon said it was a vocal masterclass? No, Simon. It was barely passable cruise ship singing.

Kris's first song was OK, but the judging was unbelievable. Kara picks the damn song, then bashes him for it? At least Simon was willing to throw away the script for 2 seconds and call her out on it. His second song was the best of the night, frankly. (Sorry, Adam sweetie.) Kris Allen covering Kanye West? But it worked. And once again Simon (and Randy) deviated from the "Sorry, thanks for playing" script to tell him he might have a chance to be there next week.

Adam, oh Adam. I have a feeling that I will FLOVE the studio version of "One," but it was too damn truncated for me to feel it. I think you really should have left out the glory noting, and I caught a biffed note or two as well. Dammit, you're supposed to be perfect at all times. Didn't you get the memo? And "Cryin'" too, sounded just too short. One HUGE problem was the sound mix. For half the song he was being drowned out by the damn back-up singer. Again, another one where I have a suspicion I'll prefer the studio version. There was more WTF judging from Simon. He said not one word about the performance, not one. He basically told everyone to vote for Adam. That was his critique. Which, OK, I want everyone to vote for Adam too, but jeez. There's already enough of an ABA (anyone but Adam) backlash out there.

The judges were out of control, and not in an amusing or entertaining way. When Ryan Seacrest has to remind them that the show is about the contestants, and not them, you KNOW you've gone off the rails. It was unprofessional and pathetic. And speaking of unprofessional,the show still went over time. They used to each do 3 songs, now they can't even manage two.

So TPTB want their Adam/Danny finale, and they'll probably get it. But Danny should be the one to go home after tonight. Kris's consolation prize will be that he'll sell more records than Danny.

Honestly, this is the first and LAST time I will ever allow myself to get invested in a contestant on this GawdForsaken show. I need my life back thankyouverymuch. I have GREEN DAY to occupy that part of my fandom brain now taken up by This Awful, Awful Show.



In happier thoughts:

The New Green Day album is really, really, really phenomenal. Really. I mean it. Tix on sale tomorrow for the San Jose and Seattle shows. YES!

I need to write this down quickly before it flies away.

So, Thursday afternoon I'm sitting around the house in my sweatpants being unproductive: surfing LJ, TWoP, reading a magazine, watching stuff on my TiVo, with no plans to do anything more exertion-al.

Now, normally I read my email through a client, downloading them all when I feel like it, but that day I happened to have gmail open in a tab for some reason and I noticed I had a new mail, so I clicked on it.

Hey Mary !

Green Day will be performing a gig at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco,
California (375 Eleventh St. San Francisco, CA 94103) TONIGHT (Thursday,
April 9th, 2009.) Doors: 9pm Show: 10pm

Head over to www.idiotclub.com to see how you can get your name on the
Will Call list to purchase your tickets. The clock is ticking....

Enjoy!!

--Idiot Club

This was at 2:21pm.

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From this NYTimes review. See that upraised arm in the lower left corner? My chin was perched on her shoulder. That's how close I was.

What a week. Between going to LA to see Adam Lambert on AI and going to SF to see Green Day, I've put 850 miles on my car. Adam was free (heh, it was only one song), and Green Day might be the best $20 I've ever spent. (Still waiting for Gale Harold to show up on my doorstep.)

Thanks for reading all that. :-)