Overall I think this group is better than any I've seen recently, I'm not quite sure what a lot of you are complaining about (unless you need charisma or personality to enjoy one's artistic talents...) In terms of quality of voice and tone, this group is far beyond what we've seen in previous seasons. Legitimate recordable vocal talents, that's not really shit you can work on. They may be more raw and unpolished, but the skills that you are born with are there for many of them. May not be hitting the notes they should be, but they seem more real to me, which makes this year much more interesting to me. Not to mention, we got people ripping it up on guitar, finally someone had the balls to bring some real fucking guitar playing to American Idol. Props to that. There are a legitimate 5 or 6 girls who have true great tone in their voices, and about 4 or 5 guys...and they fucking play guitar too, I don't care about it only being a "vocal competition"...
You can debate the AI issue all you want, but bottom line this season, "THERE IS NOT A STAR IN THE BUNCH".....
lol you guys must be US weekly reading TMZ watching people. Who cares about finding the next "star"? Do you guys fawn and drool over stars? Show me someone who can sing, play the guitar, and be who they are...rather than some cookie cutter mold of a "pop star"...
Oh the good ole days of American idol.....when the contestants had real star quality.
"yo, dog...allright...so here's the thing, right? The judging is just pitchy, man. It's all over the place...up it's down, "be original", "too indulgent", "you're too young" ["duh- didn't you frekin' know that when you picked me??"], "you're not young enough"..."
"it's like, duuuude, we judges can't make up our fuckin minds what we like. Or maybe we already have so we'll just "dog" the ones we don't until the viewers vote 'em out..."
"but yo, do your thing and be you."
Compared to the crap that came out of Paula Abdul's pie whole Ellen sounds like a genius. The only thing I'm confused about is why Kara and Simon are so cuddly, Ryan said Kara was up against Simon but she was sitting in front of her mic Simon was not so I'd have to say Simon was up against Kara. Does anyone else find him creepy.
Compared to the crap that came out of Paula Abdul's pie whole Ellen sounds like a genius. Simon was up against Kara. Does anyone else find him creepy.
there is definitely more talent on this season than any 2 seasons combined, what are you guys looking at? I think the judges are on crack though they seem to be critiquing just to "critique" and are running circles around themselves. By the way kirkwood, did you listen to what kara said last night about the show changing because there are now artists as opposed to "pop stars" this season?
Of course it's a gamble.But I agree the judges are contradicting themselves. I think it just depends on if the re-working of a song actually sounds good or not. If not, they get scolded for changing the melody. If it does work they get praised to high heaven. It's a gamble.
Of course it's a gamble.
But is it a contradiction?
I don't get it, X.