American Idol 2008

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

American Idol 2008

Man In Black · Anime Mod

"I am your bru-huh-ther / Your best friend for-e heh-ver"....annoyingly catchy song.

No obvious contenders yet. They don't usually begin to stand out until the post Hollywood rounds.

-- Edited by Man In Black at 20:42, 2008-01-28

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

An American Idol attraction where the public can auditio before a live studio audience is set to open at a Disney theme park.
Based on the Fox TV talent contest, guests at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park will also be offered a makeover and tips from a vocal coach.

The stage show will run six to eight times a day with the audience voting for the winner of an evening final.

The attraction in Florida is due to open later this year.

Ratings hit

Details are still being worked out, but it is likely that visitors aged over 14 will be able to do an initial audition for a Disney casting producer.

The judges are likely to be three audience members.

The winners of each day's competition will win a special front-of-the-queue pass at a regional audition for the real American Idol TV show.

"Our goal is to try to recreate the excitement of those 24 people who show up on that American Idol stage," said Disney Parks chairman Jay Rasulo.

"We believe many, many viewers want to know exactly how that feels, and we're going to try to reproduce that feeling for them," he added.

American Idol has been a big ratings hit in the US since it began in 2002.

Im off to Disney then... Not! Anyone see this weeks episode? What about that kid who lived in his car... weird.

Mollison · 500 Club Member

He was good. I just hope that this year they leave the sob stories alone a bit. Last year they seemed to pick the 12 people with hardest lives ever. By the end they were running out of sad stories so it became like, "When I was 12 (wimper) I had a goldfish called Frank (sniff sniff) and one day he hit his head on the side of his tank...(cue tears, sobs and Ryan Seacrest acting like this person had been a missionary in Darfur on some such heroics!). I generally enjoy these shows but it gets a bit much at times. Now I'm off to secure some viewer votes because I stubbed my toe this morning and thus deserve a $1million recording deal...

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Well Here are the Final 24:

Season 7 Top 24 Contestants:

Female :

Asia'h Epperson, age 19
Alaina Whitaker, age 16
Alexandrea Lushington, age 16
Amanda Overmyer, age 23
Amy Jean Davis, age 25
Brooke White, age 24
Carly Smithson, age 24
Joanne Borgella, age 25
Kady Malloy, age 18
Kristy Lee Cook, age 24
Ramiele Malubay, age 20
Syesha Mercado, age 20
Male :

Chikezie Eze, age 22
Colton David Berry, age 17
Danny Noriega, age 18
David Archuleta, age 17
David Cook, age 25
David Hernandez, age 24
Garrett Haley, age 17
Jason Castro, age 20
Jason Yeager, age 28
Luke Menard, age 29
Michael Johns, age 29
Robbie Carrico, age 26

I like the look of that rock chick with the tattoos on her arm for the win myself.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

If the rock chick can do more than Janis Joplin impersonations then she will go far. The rest are always a blur to me until the final 12.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

I think you are getting her confused with this one:

Amanda

I mean this one:

Carly.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Oh you mean the Irish girl who tried out a couple of years back? I didn't see her as a "rock chick" at all (despite singing Heart's Alone) hence me thinking you meant the REAL rock chick.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Yeah the Irish one. My moneys on her for the title. The blokes are all dull. That Danny Noriega is the most annoying with his campness everywhere... I think the American audience will dump him fairly quickly. I don't know how well the Pink Pound works out there so we shall see I suppose.

braxious · 500 Club Member

i kinda like the austrailain lad but the biker chick nurse now she in my top 5

Mollison · 500 Club Member

Amanda is great. I also like Robbie (Kid Rock/Edge lovechild...?)

robbie

Mollison · 500 Club Member

We need to get Daniel Noriega off TV! I'm not a violent person but he actually infurriates me the way no one who I don't actually know has done before! I was pleased to see Jason Yeager go so if next week this overly camp prat gets the boot I can get on with enjoying the rest of the series!

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Is he the one who ruined "Imagine" and was balling his eyes out when the last girl was eliminated last night? If so, I agree - he must go.

Unfortunately, the show is decided by Americans who are inherently susceptible to such wussy antics and they will send him to the Top 12...

Mollison · 500 Club Member

Nah he doesn't annoy me quite so much. Daniel 'Annoy'ega is the older "pretty boy" who is camper than an entire field of pink tents bought from the San Fransisco branch of Millets! I think he actually believes he is Alicia Silverstone in Clueless! Grrrrrr!

NymVette · Movie Producer

These shows are ruining TV, I hardly even watch anything on TV anymore because there is so much of this rubbish on it.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Oooo First shocker from the cast....

David Hernandez, a Top 24 contest on American Idol, has a secret nude past. Turns out he was a male stripper which may put his Idol future in jeopardy, according to the AP:

The 24-year-old finalist from Glendale, Ariz., once worked as a stripper at Dick's Cabaret, appearing fully nude and performing lap dances for the club's "mostly male" clientele, club manager Gordy Bryan said Monday.
"He had the look and the type that people like, so he made pretty good money here," Bryan said.

Dick's Cabaret? Wow, what an amazingly subtle name. You might as well call it Penis Bar. Wait, that's perfect. Jesus, it's practically fool-proof. Somebody front me a ton of cash to open a male strip club. I can't promise I won't embezzle the funds, drink all the liquor profits and "accidentally" stock it with female strippers. So, really, you can't lose.

From Superficial.com

braxious · 500 Club Member

well well what ever next...

Mollison · 500 Club Member

I think they should check all the male contestants... Most of them look and act like they'd belong in such an establishment!

Man In Black · Anime Mod

I love how they expect all the potential Idols to be whiter than white when the people they sing the songs of and will rub shoulders with if they win are largely drunkards, junkies and sex addicts!

Mollison · 500 Club Member

Such a valid point MiB. I don't think any star with a top10 hit in the last 30-40years has gone through life (and in some cases death) without a scandle of some kind.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Seriously this is not funny anymore get rid of Paula! All she does it bascially repeat everything Randy 'Pitchy' Jackson says but then she becomes almost as incoherant as The Ultimate Warrior... Seriously. Here is direct quote from what Paula said to one of the contestants this week.

'Aww. You have such a beautiful face, and I...there's such an innocent, pure voice that comes out of you, and I love it when you go from that....You have a lot of col... I'm not gonna say 'colors' you have a lot of texture. The textures of your voice are...[Laughs, along with audience. Randy declares the audience is the new 'dawg pound.' Paula resumes, calling the audience 'mutts,' then reconsiders.] I didn't mean that. I meant 'mutts'...not...never mind. Ramiele, it's all about you. [To the audience.] I love you all. And I love mutts, too. Whatever. Look, I gotta tell you...[to Simon, who declares he is lost] I'm gonna pull you right back in. Ramiele, you deserve to be in the top 12.

Nuts. Epic Fail. Paula... Leave.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

It's called JUI = Judging Under the influence. She's well known for liking a tipple or too and has made a few TV appearances while sauced up. Youtube will show you.

And Randy "Yo Check it our dude, keeping it real, some pitch problems, you worked it out dawg, aiight" Jackson needs a good slap too as you say!

Mollison · 500 Club Member

You forgot "It was just, hmmm... OK man, not great but just, ermm... OK (shrugs and looks to Paula for further "insight").

And his worst (which as far as I'm concerned isn't even a statement of any kind... "Good looking out dawg"... what is that? I mean apart from taking a machete to the throat of the English language!

Mollison · 500 Club Member

On the plus side though I quite enjoyed David Cook's rendition of "Hello". He's the only bloke I could actually listen to so far. The rest are varying standards of karaoke singers.

braxious · 500 Club Member

well we are down to the last 12 now any ideas which total no hoper will get instant fame and drug rehab

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

And here are your last 12:

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The 12 finalists in alphabetical order are: David Archuleta, 17, Jason Castro, 20, David Cook, 25, Kristy Lee Cook, 24, Chikezie Eze, 22, David Hernandez, 24, Michael Johns, 29, Ramiele Malubay, 20, Syesha Mercado, 21, Amanda Overmyer, 23, Carly Smithson, 24, Brooke White, 24.

Juat don't ask me whose who....

Atr least Daniel 'I'm True To Myself' Noriega went out. There is some jusice then.... Dawg.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

That Daniel SO needs a sex change operation if he wants to be true to himself...

Mollison · 500 Club Member

At times I wasn't sure if he wasn't half way through the "gender reassignment" procedure

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Well the first victim is....

Seems his stripping past did indeed catch up with him.

Chacieze's performance was absolutely brilliant along with Carly and David Cook. Final 3 for me.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Er...isn't this a spoiler for tonight's result show?

And if it is - you suck!

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

No... I saw that last night at 10pm.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

How? The results aren't shown over here until tonight. Did you watch or read it online or something?

EDIT - Too late the show has just ended on ITV 2 and it was a spoiler.

Please, in future if you read it in advance keep it to yourself until after it airs over here DM. Thanks.

-- Edited by Man In Black at 23:00, 2008-03-14

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

My bad I apologize I could have sworn that I watched on TV. Anyway he deserved to go, he wasn't that great this week.

Not sure I like this new format of the show with the viewers questions and stuff....

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Well, it was different but the questions were lame.

Better than filling up the show with established artists we Brits have never heard of shilling their latest crap single and showing us they have less talent than the wannabes.

Mollison · 500 Club Member

Well that guy who made the semi's last year who performed on the result show a few weeks back (the beat-boxer)... His song didn't even chart in The States! And their chart has 200 spots on it!

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Blake something...He actually made it to the final. God knows how....

Mollison · 500 Club Member

He's like a poor, homeless, bankrupt mans "Trousersnake"!

Mollison · 500 Club Member

I like david cook. But the judges are ignorant. He recited "Billy Jean" (the Chris Cornell version) verbatim. And they call him so original, intelligent etc. David Cook is good and will make a half decent artist if he doesn't bow to Pop, but Chris Cornell he aint! I'd have expected more from Randy, but all three judges ignorance was quite shocking considering they're supposed to be in tune with "what's current". Grrrr!

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

So last week Amanda went:

This week:

Spoiler: In a bit of a shocker? Chikeize is now departed:

Man In Black · Anime Mod

I'm not surprised she went last week as she refused to break out of her "rock chick" mould. If she had shown she could be a bit more versatile she would have stayed but I think the way she answered back and said "this is what I do" probably put a lot of voters off.

I didn't recognise half of the songs from last night but I would vote off that girl who did "God Bless America" purely for blatantly playing the patriotic card to stay in the competition.

Mollison · 500 Club Member

I agree, but I said to my better half that America would never vote off someone who sang a song about how great America is. I just hope she steers clear of such cheap tactics in future.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

I'm not bothered that Cheezy has gone but any of the bottom three this week deserved to go. I didn't know their songs and they are all fairly bland performers and singers. In fact, they keep saying this year is the best for talent but I think it's been the blandest, cookie cutter year yet....

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

It's been a while and lot has happened. My favorite the irish wassherface has gone. So David the older is now the clear favorite to win. Unless those uscruopuolos yanks who have vote for the crappiest contstant thing give the dreadlocked guy the win.

Anyway in a more exciting update, Paula has managed to screw the entire series up and possibly uncover a fixing / scipting scandal... Read below from the BBC

American Idol judge Paula Abdul has left people scratching their heads after giving feedback on two songs to a contestant who had only performed once.

In a change from the norm, the judges made notes and passed on feedback after everyone had given one performance.

But when Abdul came to discuss Idol hopeful Jason Castro, she referred to having heard "two songs" from him.

The star said she was confused by her notes as the changes to the judging were made at the last minute.

"Oh gosh, we've never had to write these things down... fast enough," Abdul said, shuffling through her pieces of paper.

"Jason, first song, I loved hearing your lower register, which we never really hear, um... the second song, I felt like your usual charm wasn't - it was missing for me. It kind of left me a little empty.

"The two songs made me feel like you're not fighting hard enough to get into the top four," she said, before being told by fellow judge Randy Jackson that only one song had been performed.

'Strangest show ever'

After realising her blunder, Abdul said: "Oh my god, I thought you sang twice!"

Host Ryan Seacrest tried to smooth over the situation by saying, "You're seeing the future, baby!", before cutting her off and asking another judge, Simon Cowell, for his comments.

The remaining five contestants in the talent show then all performed a second song for the Neil Diamond-themed night.

"This was officially the strangest show we've ever done," Cowell said at the end of the programme.

The incident has prompted fans to speculate on the programme's messageboards if the show was scripted or fixed.

A spokesman for the Fox TV channel declined to comment.

Now I know they probably listen in on rehersals and thats where she made her notes from, but surely now they need to get rid of her once and for all.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

More likely Paula is back on the booze...

Kind of surprised the tattooed girl was booted off but she had evil eyes when she sang. I don't like the blonde girl whose left - she seems to get all sulky when they say something negative and tries to get sympathy.

And the dreadlocked guy needs to go.

braxious · 500 Club Member

its not what paula is on it what randy take with all the silly " Your the bomb" and Dogggg.

hope they get rid of dreadlocked guy he needs to go.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Now Brooke has dearly departed (Loving the straight hair she looked smokin' hot). I have a caption competition for you to keep you going this week.

I draw your attention in particular to Jason and David.....(The two in the middle)

Man In Black · Anime Mod

I like the coloured girl with straight hair. Suits her better than that usual frizzy piled high look of hers.

Jason: "Need help singing a bit higher? Here - try this!"

or

Other David: "I've got him, you steal his wallet"

or

Brooke: "I can't wait to see which one of you suckers is going home tonight!"

braxious · 500 Club Member

caption

Jason - so that's what success feels like

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Finally some justice then....

Spoiler: Is now gone. I'm reckoning the final will be the battle of the Davids... Hopefully Cook will win.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Yes, I see an all male final too. Shame cos Syesha is quite attractive....