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[haileysmom]

Every week I fear Camille is going to have an epiphany during her song, fall in a heap mumbling about how "thangs ah moovin' too fass...in ma laf" and call for Doo to come get her off the stage.

Oh MUH-GOODNESS! Coal Miner's Daughter is totally my fav movie. But, I'll cease and desist this line of talk, lest I get banned from the place.

Poor Camille. Will America show some pity and put her out of her misery. Puh-lease. I implore you all.

America can be such a evil bitch sometimes.

[Queen B]

I know I'm alone here, but I don't like Jennifer and Fantasia. They grate on me. Maybe because their songs were so cliche, and their performances so over the top, but I just. don't. get. them.

No, not alone. I'm here, vocally hating them both. Although I hate Jennifer worse. At least I can see where Fantasia brings some entertainment value. Jennifer, not so much. At all. If the stage swallowed her and her big head tonight, I wouldn't miss her at all.

I think it's fair to put the blame on last night's monstrosity squarely where it belongs: Sir Elton John's beefy shoulder pads. Face it, he knew what he was doing. He knows how difficult it is to cover the range in his songs, and he had know that a bunch of 16-25 y/o's aren't going to be able to do it. Maybe he has some gripe with America (yeah, there'd be a shocker), and this is his giant FU to all of us.

[musichic2000]

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[GoddessMelissa]

I missed the show. My dad started the tape at 7:55 but only got the last couple of minutes because we hadn't changed the time on the VCR.

Disaster averted. Lucky you. Run out and give praise to God.

I watched an Elton John interview where he speaks about writing "Someone saved my life tonight" after turning the gas on his gas stove and sticking his head in the oven. Obviously someone stopped him.
Look out for "If someone saves my life I will kill them with my bare hands" to be released by Sir John in the next few weeks. Watching that crap fest I felt suicidal for Elton John.

Please ban the song "Don't let the sun go down on me" from AI. Way overdone. In the original its not Elton's voice that gets bigger and over the top-its the music and the addition of backround singers giving the song its push. If you ever have a chance to go to a Elton John concert-GO! His shows are great. I should say his shows were great. After last night if he doesn't kill himself, he will be back on drugs.

George-starting to think that he is one of the most intellegent singers ever to enter the competition. He did not pick a song because he liked it but because he could sing it. Awesome pick last night.

Jasmine-Stop with finishing a song, expressing open mouthed suprised complete with hunched shoulders, and blowing a kiss. You are not a figure skater having the best night of her life.

Diane-Pure bad dinner theatre. When she invaded the audience someone should have asked her if she could send the waitress over for drink refills. Then Camille comes out with her tray.

Paula did a nice job judging. Still don't know what she is talking about but I get the vibe that she was honest about not liking a performance.

JPL-"OMG there's a man shooting from the belltower!" He shined those manson lamps brightly last night.

This post has been edited by GoddessMelissa: Apr 7, 2004 @ 11:10 am.

[Nutjob]

I'm still scratching my head over the judges' kudos for Jennifer's performance. Yes, she was on-key and did an ok job, but she oversings every song she performs, IMO.

The worst for me was definitely Camile. Oh, man. I'm not a huge Elton fan, but GYBR is one of his songs that I really like. She butchered it. I mean, not as in the way a butcher cuts up a ham, but in the way that Leatherface butchered his victims. The song was begging for its life, and she was unmerciful. Gah. And what, may I ask, is the deal with her bopping back and forth whenever she sings? It's like the female version of that spraddle-legged thing Justin Guarini used to do. Just awful... she's gotta go.

I feel bad for LaToya, because of just what many of you have already said. She's too bland, and while she's a great singer, I forget about her unless she's actually performing. About mid-way through the show last night, I was trying to think of who was left to perform. I could come up with George, Jennifer, and DiBot's names, but not LaToya.

Well, music is certainly subjective. If Jasmine tried to so something different to make it her own, I don't think she did a very good job of it. It sounded like that she started a few sustained notes under pitch, but she would correct them a second or two later. As far as judging their pitch, Paula and Randy seem more qualified to judge it than Simon since both of them have been performers. It's easier for them to tell whether they were off pitch-wise or not, but I was a tad shocked to hear Randy tell Jasmine about "supporting more" and the such. Quite honestly, if he was that educated on the mechanics of singing, then he'd have some of his own albums out, instead of just producer credits or being a bass player in a band.

Yeah, but I've known people who can tell you how to sing, but that didn't have the greatest voice themselves. Perhaps that's the camp Randy is in.

RE: Jasmine, tho, I actually agreed with Randy and Paula for once. Basically, Paula told her that she can't actually sing unless she's adding tons of melisma, which is what I've been telling Mom Nutjob about Jasmine since the beginning of the competition. She could probably do with some vocal coaching to help her with that, and then she'll be great.

This post has been edited by Nutjob: Apr 7, 2004 @ 10:59 am.

[Sarcastico]

I have had an epiphany, folks. I KNOW what the problem is re: LaToya vs. Fantasia. We have to do that laboratory procedure that Gene Wilder did in "Young Frankenstein." We need to transfer Fantasia's personality into LaToya, and then send Fantasia back to church. All problems solved.

Last week someone speculated that "Honky Cat" would be a good song for John because it's suited to his half-singing, half-talking style. But even better, he would have been able to change "my redneck ways" to "my redhead ways." Wouldn't that have been just darling? And why didn't I think of that last week?

[chrysanthemum]

I know I'm alone here, but I don't like Jennifer and Fantasia. They grate on me. Maybe because their songs were so cliche, and their performances so over the top, but I just. don't. get. them.

No, not alone. I'm here, vocally hating them both. Although I hate Jennifer worse. At least I can see where Fantasia brings some entertainment value. Jennifer, not so much. At all. If the stage swallowed her and her big head tonight, I wouldn't miss her at all.

Thanks, Queen B. I agree - there is something about them both that makes me dread, let's say, a full length album of their "talents," whereas other singers who are less "pimped" could actually offer more variety. For instance, I cannot see why LaToya doesn't receive as much blatant pimping. Or George. Because let's face it - these are the only four in the competition with actual talent.

[LittleEva]

I'm still scratching my head over the judges' kudos for Jennifer's performance. Yes, she was on-key and did an ok job, but she oversings every song she performs, IMO.

It's a matter of taste I think; my mom hates it when people oversing but I love it; if someone just stands their and sings and that's it, I feel cheated and I feel like falling asleep.

The John who looks like a vampire....I totally get that, either he's a vampire or a clone.

This post has been edited by LittleEva: Apr 7, 2004 @ 11:00 am.

[IzzyB]

Mr. IzzyB said it was "mangle Elton John songs night." And, he said the bit about Elton throwing the TV out the window 20 mins before Simon did! Simon is almost always right. Not nice, but right.

I think "pitchy" is generic and not-so-subtle code for "you sucked really bad."

Whoever comprises the "America Voted" set that keeps keeping the Terrible Tone-Deaf Three alive needs to get over itself and end the misery that is JPL, JSV, and Camille. Because, really, all of them are starting to have this obvious look of "what the hell am I doing here, please can I go home now." And none of them can sign AT ALL. It pisses me off because there were plenty of others who sang so much better who were not picked for the final 32.

If all three of them are on the seal tonight I would love for Simon to announce that they are ALL going home, because they might as well just give record contracts to Fanta, Huffy, and LaToya right now - because that is what will happen no matter who actually wins. Jennifer will become the Omarosa of AI and write a tell-all book and be the spurnned guest-du-jour on Oprah al-la Bob Guiney. Diana will end up on broadway, and Jasmine will just go back to HI and open her own line of custom silk hair flowers at the Jasmine Trias School of Voice Clearing.

[ladymadonna]

LOL! I never really realized what a great vocalist EJ is. I mean, wow, his songs really ARE all over the place. That said, I sang GBYBR to my husband last night after Camille sang it, and he said that I hit all the notes much better than she did. And I'm not even a trained singer.

I'm so glad that George and LaToya did two of my very favorite EJ songs of all time. I had George picked from the very first time I saw him sing, and LaToya is really starting to grow on me, each performance is just better and better.

I'll say this again, and again, as many times as necessary: Go Home, Hobbit Boy. Gah!

Jennifer did wonderfully, Circle of Life isn't the best song of the catalogue, but, she treated it well.

JS4.........<sigh> He's tried so hard. There is something so different and ...cool.... about him. I really like him. But he needs to go home.

I really can't stand Fantasia. I just really can't. I don't like the sound of her voice, her style, her walk, ANYTHING about her. And WHAT the hell was she doing when Seacrest was giving out her number? He's like....blah blah idols 0............. OOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE (while twisting her mouth in an incredibly bizarre fashion). Ryan sort of looked at her like " Are you retarded? Do it again!" And she did. GAH!

When Jasmine sang my hubby turned to me and said: "Is she trying to be Crystal Gayle or something?" I can't decide about her. She's not bad. She's just not that good.


Diana DiSmarmo(tm someone clever thank you :) Take Hobbit Boy with you and get OFF of my screen! The Tiffany-hopping-around-the-mall-crowd thing has been DONE to death! Hate, hate hate, HATE.

[spacecitymarc]

Listen Lady:

I don't think Elton was overly impressed with George though. He said he wasn't prepared during the rehearsal.

Maybe I heard this wrong, but I thought the line was about George having the least preparation, which I interpreted to mean that EJ thought he was more or less good to go right from the start. But I'll have to defer to the tape before I set that in stone.

Diana's sick so she runs out into the audience to touch and expectorate on everybody, huh?

Dammit, philmphile, I was just going to comment on that. Wasn't Jasmine's performance also given a pass because she was sick? What's going on in that house? First vermin, then illness... oh my God, are we working up to the ten plagues of Egypt? Happy Passover, everybody! And somebody get some lamb's blood on the lintel before La Toya dies! She's the first-born, folks!

[chalky]

John Stevens will forever haunt me in my nightmares and dreams. When he comes on, I want to turn away or bury my head in a pillow, but his suckiness is hypnotic. I never have seen skin so translucent or eyes so icy blue and vacant...that boy is straight up CREEPY.

You know its not like it can be helped that he is so fair. Granted, I am sensitive because I make John look like he has a tan, but its not something that can be helped(the vacant eyes maybe).

Maybe I have just fielded too many " wow you look sick!" comments and " gee are you a goth?" The boy can't help the color of his skin.

Well, if it makes you feel any betterPandaX , I don't judge him on the color of his skin. Hell, I don't even give a rat's ass on the content of his character. It's the meh-ness of his singing that pisses me off.

[Manifold]

That was fun. Except not.

Shack, they are totally shouting out at you and stealing your material. Send 'em a cease and desist letter.

Fantasia - I liked her performance. I don't like the "yeahs." Didn't really care for the dress either.

Jon - I used to really like him, but last night he sucked and then after receiving all that criticism, he totally checked out. Did you see that blank stare? Kinda creepy.

Jasmine - I thought her performance was sweet and I didn't agree with Randy and Paula. I thought she started off well and then screwed up a bit at the end because her voice doesn't have that kind of power. But not bad.

John - Ouch. Again. Was he gonna cry at the end? I was so hoping for it. He just went all blank stare too. He just wants to go home.

Camille - What's with the flailing arm? She wants to go home too.

George - I'm not a George fan. I'm ambivalent about his voice and while he gives good performances, I can't stand him. He's overly exuberant all the damn time and he has that goofy smile. I don't care how far he gets as long as he doesn't win.

Diana - Has she ever done a slower song? As far as I can recall they're all upbeat and dancy and full of "Come on!"

Latoya - Love her! I kinda wished she still had the long fake hair because I love fake hair on girls!

Jennifer - Her melodramatic voice suited this melodramatic song perfectly. I even forgave her for not quite hitting that last note. Her hair looked a little off.

I really want John to go home tonight. He's a one-trick pony who has had two of its knees clubbed. Let's put him out of his, and our, misery now! And then next week get rid of Camille.

What the hell is with the judges giving assessments before the last contestant has performed? It's silly.

[musichic2000]

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