1.When Paula says that my performance was nice, she really means it - she's NOT just saying it out of pity because Randy and Simon ripped me to shreds

2.Simon doesn't really think I'm "ghastly", he's just joking around, I'm sure

3.People chose not to vote for me because I picked the wrong song, not because I have no discerible talent

4. I'll be back for the wildcard show, just you wait!

5.I'm glad I got cut - I don't need this show anyway!

6.I'll be a big star someday

Why does Stuart Smalley's, "I"m good enough, I'm smart enough, and, dog gone it, people like me," keep running through my mind.

It's a compliment when Simon compares me to Clay!

Newsboy caps are cool!

This skirt totally covers my hoo-hoo!

America has good taste!

If I like the song, then it's not "the wrong song".

"I am a metrosexual." --Matthew Rogers

"If my voting number is 1-866-IDOLS-02, and I hold up two fingers while Ryan gives out the digits, more people will vote for me."

"Heck, I made it through the auditions -- I'm golden!"

"That's ok. You can hear it on my cd."

"I'm spunky and original. I've got it made."

"I didn't make it through just because Simon flirts with me backstage."

"America will vote for me solely because I represent Middle-American Christian values, cause wholesomeness is what America really wants - just look at the Olsen Twins."

"I can totally win this thing without changing my look or learning how to dance" -- Briana Garcia Ramirez-Rial.

"After I sign this contract, I can tell Simon Fuller to go to hell, make my own decisions, totally call the shots, and direct the path of my career," Justin Guarini

"After I sign this contract, I can tell Simon Fuller to go to hell, make my own decisions, totally call the shots, and direct the path of my career," Tamyra Gray

"Everything will be fine as soon as my CD gets released," Tamyra Gray

"Everything will be fine as soon as my CD gets released," Justin Guarini

"If I keep showing up season after season after season, eventually the judges will realize how FABULOUS I am and they will put me through." ~Enshreeque

"They just lost the best thing that ever happened to this show, and now it will suck without me and NOBODY will watch it." ~Gtoe Washington IIIIIIII and Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiira

"This t-shirt will look AWESOME under this cocktail dress." ~Carmen

As a side note, does anyone remember that kid who thought that 'ghastly' was a compliment and Simon had to explain that it was a bad thing? That was one of my favourite moments.

TOPIC:

"I sounded better than *NSync!" ~Noel Roman

"Throwing water on Simon is sure to win me a spot in Hollywood." ~CrazyKid

"They don't know who I am!!!" ~Juanita Barber

"They must want some Pop/Trailer Trash/Actual Singer Idol or something." - GAppendix Washington III, K. Biv and V is for Victory!

"My voice...I've never heard anything like it!" - K. Biv. (Too bad those are her actual words. Amazing.)

"Simon just doesn't like young girls"

"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" is a great song! It's sure to get me to the finals!

80s fashion is cool! It's sure to get me into the finals!

"Affected" means "effective"!

When Simon says I don't look like an American idol, he just means that I don't look like Kelly or Ruben. I mean, he wouldn't call me ugly or anything!

When the judges; especially Pauler, repeatedly tell me after every performance how beautiful I am, they're really telling me that I am the best singer to every grace this stage.

I should audition for this show every year, even if I always get told no. I'll get through eventually.

Simon is so critical because he believes in me.

Paula really means that I will be a superstar, no matter what.

Singing loud is the same thing as singing well.

I don't need to package myself: the judges will appreciate my full range of singing abilities and respect me for it.

If I dance around enough, America will not notice that I really can't sing this song.

If I sing a ballad, I need to wear a tuxedo/ball gown, sit on a stool/stand firmly in front of the mic stand, and stick my arms out towards the audience and heaven. That way America knows I really feel the song. And don't forget the glitter. Have to have glitter.

If I fight with Simon, America will respect me, just like Paula and Randy.

A.J.? Is that you?

"My unique and original tone and range are sure to get me flying high!"

After rejection...

"My unique and original tone and range are the sort that never get appreciated by the mainstream because of what they're force-fed through this show. They only said it was horrible because they did 'get' it, you know? Ha! They'll laugh last!"

"Ranting and bitching and screaming and complaining and just not taking things well or in stride will change the fact that I got the boot or didn't make it past the auditions at all."

"I definitely have the voice to sing Whitney!"

"I'll bring something unique and incredible to this big sweeping Celine Dion ballad!"

"Hey, I can definitely outshine everyone else who ever sang I Have Nothing! No one else will be able to compare."

That anyone other than Celine Dion will ever get away with that shit.

Winning is everything.

I can rock out like Constantine.

When Randy says 'How ya doing dawg? Ya feelin' aiiight?" he is not going to be critical of my performance.

Songs with prophetic 'elimination lyrics' are not cursed! < 'You Can't Win', Charles Grigsby >

America doesn't like jazz.

My BFF wouldn't do anything to embarrass me. Like put up those pictures on the Internet.

White girls can absolutely sing Chaka.

Depature interview: "You haven't seen the last of me."

After the Idol tour ends: "I'm sorting through my offers. My CD will be dropping in six months."

Six months after that, and no CD appears: "Come check out the first single on Myspace. I'm still getting my music together and deciding which label to sign with."

A guest on the TV Guide channel as the next season begins: "I've been working on some great things, lined up some producers. I'm not sure of an exact date, but you haven't seen the last of me."

Sounds like coach-speak for an awful sports team: "We're gonna try real hard, these guys are a lot of fun, we've had some great practices, we're improving every day..."

I think this one happened during the Memphis auditions:

....I'm no good, but all my friends told me to audition. All right, I'll sing in front of Randy, Simon and Paula, listen to them tell me how horrible I sound, then return to being a backup singer....

If after I sing on the TOP 24 show and Simon says I have no chance on being on the top 12 because there are better singers around me I should start saying how he was wrong about past idols-forgetting that he was actually one of the people who put these people onto the show- (the one who won the oscar for dream girls ) and it will get more votes for me!

Simon is the one responsible for putting people through or voting them off from the semifinals and onward! (Sadly enough, I actually know people who believe this and have the same line of thought Antonella had. Idiots.)

These forgettable unseen people could've won the whole thing!

It's the contestants' fault that they're still around even though they suck!

The top 24/12 are all there because they're good singers! If someone didn't make it, they sucked!

At the auditions, they only let through the best, meaning everyone else there, in that sea of thousands, sucked horribly enough that they didn't get let through!

Everyone has a fair shot at auditioning!

We all get to audition for the judges/be on T.V. (I had to keep correcting people on that notion when I came back from the auditions. It was obnoxious.)

The worst one ALWAYS goes home each week! I'm safe! (Again, something people I know at work fail to grasp - I have to keep teling them that, no, Sanjaya WON'T go home yet over that assy performance, because he has a pretty large voting bloc. Do they listen? No. I weep.)

This is a singing competition!

This is the best top 12 ever!


Next week, I'm going to blow their socks off!


The voting process is fair. All of us deserve to be here, and we were picked to be in the top 24 because of our talent, not our looks or our marketability.

Squatting on stage makes me look like a serious, authentic singer and not like I need to go poopy!

I have a shot at winning AI7! (any contestant who is not David Archuleta)

Hauling out the chi-chis or wearing hoochie shorts will keep me in the competition! (this myth tends to work half the time)

I know I'm a good singer, my family told me so. They wouldn't lie to me, they're my family!

1 million votes = 1 million fans = 1 million who will buy my CD!

(Yeah, David H., I'm talkin' to you!)