American Idol sought to inspire us with a night of Alicia Keys (who, we assume, was chosen for this particular theme because she herself has inspired legions of young folks to move to New York’s concrete jungle, hoping to be made brand new). It was maybe one of the weaker themes the Idol hopefuls have [...]
American Idol: Straight Up, Andrew And Katie Got Booted
Oh, sorry, did someone get kicked off of American Idol? We were so distracted by Casey James’ Aniston-esque hair that we failed to notice anything else during the episode. Except for when we noticed Justin Gaston’s “Antonio Banderas-circa-El Mariachi” hair. And then there was Tim Urban’s Bieber-iffic ‘do. It was quite the hair show, for [...]
American Idol: Adam Lambert Wants These Contestants To Amp. It. Up!
On American Idol, the student….has become the master. Adam Lambert was back to school these nerds on how to swagger across the Idol stage to the best of their ability and he proved to be a pretty constructive teacher. At least, he wanted to improve their stage presence, and you can’t fault him for that.
American Idol: The Judges’ Save Rides Again
Hey, you know what’s awesome? When American Idol goes over by two minutes and you don’t get to hear the judges tell a contestant who just “sang for his life” whether or not he earned the Judges’ Save. Did this happen to anyone else? By now we know that despite Michael Lynche (of that favorite [...]
American Idol: Lennon And McCartney And Cowell
“Certain songs shouldn’t be changed.” So sayeth Simon Cowell, referring to the perfect pop created by John Lennon and Paul McCartney that the remaining Idol Nine had to undertake last night. And really, when you hand perfection over to not entirely capable singers, it could easily end up being a train wreck. Fortunately, there were [...]
American Idol: This Is What Becomes Of The Broken-Hearted
Apologies to our readers – we wear our age on our sleeve because we said that the American Idol musical guest on Wednesday would be Diddy. We had no idea it would actually be Diddy-Dirty Money. There is, apparently, a difference. That difference is two additional women, an all-white costume closet, and strobe lights. In [...]
American Idol: Ushering In The R&B
R&B night on American Idol meant Usher in sunglasses, some blah performances, some comebacks, and a fascinating backstage-cam that caught some awkward post-performance moments. In general, no one did as we would have expected last night. Except Tim Urban. It’s just a universally agreed-upon fact at this point that he is the cockroach of this [...]
American Idol: Miles To Go
No surprises here, the bottom two contestants on American Idol on Wednesday were Paige Miles and Tim Urban. Tim seriously has some kind of angel looking out for him because there’s no other explanation for how he keeps squeaking by, ultimately he was safe and it was Paige who was booted from Season Nine and [...]
American Idol: It’s Miley!
Now this is what American Idol was made for – major suckage. There were so many bad performances that this show made dear Lacey Brown’s departure actually look like an error in judgment. The judges were so disappointed in so many of the performances that we’re just going to let them speak for us and [...]
American Idol: Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Two things: Number one, can there just be a moratorium on all things Kesha? Every writer forced to type her name already refuses to add the dollar sign out of spite, so can we also just agree, as a nation, that she’s awful and shouldn’t be allowed to sing anymore too? And also, who is [...]
