Yup, if there was any one season of anything that has been so underwhelming, it has to be this! Not that underwhelming is a word. But I first heard it used by the INXS brothers on their Rock Star... now there was a good show well worth a watch, and a re-watch with Astro!
This season's AI? Sigh. So very the sad.
And now the finale, with Lee Dewyze and Kristal Bowersox.
I'm rooting for the rocker Dewyze. He's got a good voice, and I like his shy smile. And he simply sings. Doesn't try to mess about with the song too much - and doesn't listen to the idiot Kara whatsherface, and look for 'a moment'! What the heck does that mean?
I miss the other idiot - omg, I can't remember her name! Wait, wait, give me a moment (of my own)... Paula Abdul. At least with her, you expected drivel, and you got it in big, fat juicy slathers. Remember her 'nitche'? You've found your nitche and you own the stage, she'd go. And what about: 'You look beautiful tonight'? Heck yeah, but how did I sound you twat?!
Anyways, no more Paula to bad-mouth, but look who's rushing to fill her little shoes!!!
I dislike Krystal Bowersox intensely. I can't stand the gaps in her teeth. I thought everyone in America didn't leave home before visiting the orthodontist!!!
And I can't stand her diabetes and her baby. Omg, omg, omg. Another single mum to be glorified and deified and whatever! Geez!
And what about her singing? I think she has a weak voice, and ok, she probably does some 'original' stuff with the songs, but nothing to shout about in my book. And I don't buy into her I-love-being-a-mum, and I-miss-my-son-SO-much; and I'm so not into all this crap cos I'm a free-joe and I'm so not conventional like the rest-of-you; and what do you call the contraption she puts her mic into? And like Harry Connick Jr so rightly said: 'Is that a furry animal hanging in your hair?'
And despite being so not-like-us, did she not spend a whole show trying to persuade her 'boy'friend to propose to her? What was up with that? And did you notice that they guy turned up in his pyjamas? He'll be so yesterday if she wins!!!
To win, in my book, you need to rock. And of the entire lot, I thought Lee and the flakey Siobhan rocked. This is a singing competition, and those two could sing. Plus, you need to sing in a special way.
Can you name last year's winner? I can never remember his name. But I remember Adam Lambert. His name trips off my tongue every time I think about last season. What a voice - larger than life. Every note, every twist, every angle... perfect.
But why didn't he win? Because Americans are homophobic. News of his gay-ness filled the net, and trickled out into the voting public's phones, that's why. Save America from him! So they voted for the other guy, whatever his name is.
If you hear his voice on the radio, or in a shopping mall - would you recognise it? If you heard Kelly Clarkson, you'd know; if you hear Carrie Underwood you'd go, 'That's that irritating one who beat Bo Bice again!'; if you hear No Air, you'd know it was Jordin Sparks!
What Do You Want from Me - you just know that's Adam Lambert!
That's how you know a winner!!!
So, I know I am gonna be disappointed tomorrow. Simon Cowell and that silly Kara with the giraffe's lashes will steer the mindless voting phone-ringers towards Krystal with the diabetes and the baby-Sox :(
Sigh.
But I'll be entertained tonight. And tomorrow, I'll be entertained again. There is a unholy dearth of good music on Astro - even given that they have Mtv and Channel V - if your ears can stand the pain, lah.
Yes, you've guessed right, this is an oldy-mouldy here. That's why she's called Grey Doxie Girl :)
Enjoy the show, tonight! It's probably going to be the last one that's barely bearable! Simon Cowell leaves for X Factor or something for America. You can bet that there's where the real talent will turn up. I may not like the man, or always agree with his views (and he can be silly-ly childish, can't he? Sheesh!), but I like the way he tells it like it is. And if it sucks, he'll say so.
Ahhh well, no matter how bad it is, it'll still be better that Academi Fantasia. Ouch! Save me, pleeeeeeez!
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