American Idol: How Do You Pronounce Anticlimactic?
American Idol
Title: "The Top 4 Contestants Compete"
First Aired: 5/8/07
Well, the age-old question has been answered: Yes, it is indeed possible for something to both suck and blow at the same time. Last night's Idol episode proved it!
Just when we thought we were getting to the "real" competition, the final four showdown that we've all been waiting on, American Idol laid an egg! With guest coach Barry Gibb (of BeeGees fame) running the show, the contestants were the worst they've been in months.
So, how could this long-awaited showdown have been such a disaster? The answer's simple:
You have to be a coke-sniffing, falsetto-voiced disco king with no lips to sing BeeGees songs. It's as simple as that. Nobody sings like those guys. Nobody even tries! So, why on Earth did Idol producers decide to save this corpse's music for one of the most important weeks of the season? I have no idea. This is the reason some people hate this show. You just can't trust it!
After last week's round of amazing performances, the judges weren't happy with anything they saw last night. Melinda Doolittle was said to have reverted to her background singing ways, Lakisha Jones was called "a little scary," Blake Lewis was called "absolutely terrible," and even Jordin Sparks (who they all agreed performed the best) was called "pageanty."
Now, the real tragedy here is that one of these four great contestants is going to get kicked off the show tonight because of the ridiculous grab bag of songs they were forced to sing. "You Should Be Dancing"? "Staying Alive"? Good God! These songs haven't even been kitschy for, like, a decade.
It was only apt that a day that began with Paris Hilton writing a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to ask for legal pardon would end with white-guy extraordinaire Blake Lewis beat-boxing his way through a freaking BeeGees song. Oy vey. Welcome to the monkey house of American pop culture, eh? At least we're all in this together.
Seriously, though, the only highlight of last night's show was Paula referring to herself as "succinct". Now that's funny! Oh yeah, Simon also said that both Blake and Lakisha are in trouble tonight. So there's that.
Fearless Predictions for Tonight's Results Show: Barry Gibb provides a whole new generation with his own special brand of falsetto nightmares. Paula Abdul describes herself as "sober." Blake Lewis gets ki-ki-ki-ki-kicked off the show. Wiggy-wack.
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Totally agree that last night was as boring as AI can get. I'm getting so tired of Lakisha slowing down every song she sings. I'm getting tired of Blakes beat-boxing and Melinda's histrionics and trying to prove how technically great a singer she is. And Jordin is beginning to sound like Mariah Carey and that's scarey. Bring back Sanjaya. I still think his rendition of "you Really Got Me" was the highlight of the season.
Posted by: Alan Gee | May 09, 2007 at 07:12 AM
I agree as well. The show has had many dud weeks. Subjecting these singers to random styles is a little nutty and definately not entertaining. J. Sparks first performance was so great. Melinda's second was OK. The rest both "sucked and blew".
Posted by: Larry | May 09, 2007 at 05:24 PM
Melinda Doolittle deserve to win season 6, but it is better this way. She did sign a contract with MPCA and will released her first album June of 2008 and more news to come. She did take her times and did alot this years. Christmas tour with Michael W. Smith, Breakfast of Martin Luther King JN, She doing the ice cream Tour Dreyer's, St-Jude dream home Campaign in Nashville February 22,2008 and she just released her first song on i tunes My funny Valentine. She is a great singer and i am support her 100%
Posted by: Louise | February 19, 2008 at 07:55 AM