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supermom262

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I have been in a 2 day seminar, took a couple of new listings and just got time to post.
Whatever you say, Sanjaya stood tall on the stage despite everything. His song choice was vetoed and ended up singing a bad choice. He had picked "Mercedes Benz" and Ford wouldn't approve it. I would have much preferred him singing that. Many people have been speculating about Simon demanding him off, saying that show had become SanjIdol, that they wouldn't release the actual votes because there might have been a different finish last night and it wouldn't have been Lakisha either. What was said was Chris was the one, they moved Blake over because people were so upset that the VT comments - eye rolling thing, that the only damage control was keeping him, saying Blake was in the bottom 3. If Chris went, reporters would ask him what he thought about Simon's dismissal, eye rolling and dissin! Simon had to do further damage control by making a statement about the incident. There was a cut to Nigel, who had a look of genuine shock:dunno: I know you might think this is crazy, but this is what people are talking about with the manipulation of the show. The Dial Idol has been right 50% of the time, it isn't the REAL tabulation, but measures busy signals with large margins of error.
Regardless, it is best he went out now instead of later. I think the Idol Boards went on overload last night, the FANJAYA'S against the world! LOL!

Phil finally got his due! He did sing great! Melinda was outstanding and Jordin sparkled! BTW: the song Jordin sang, she took second place with an another singing competition. I think people need to realize the younger contestants who haven't had a lot of singing experience or familiarity with songs, or the stage, have to work much harder than the seasoned, older idol contestants. For some of them, it's the first time seeing the song!

I hope I can stay up for GA tonight - I'm tired!
 

supermom262

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Nov 5, 2006
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I have been in a 2 day seminar, took a couple of new listings and just got time to post.
Whatever you say, Sanjaya stood tall on the stage despite everything. His song choice was vetoed and ended up singing a bad choice. He had picked "Mercedes Benz" and Ford wouldn't approve it. I would have much preferred him singing that. Many people have been speculating about Simon demanding him off, saying that show had become SanjIdol, that they wouldn't release the actual votes because there might have been a different finish last night and it wouldn't have been Lakisha either. What was said was Chris was the one, they moved Blake over because people were so upset that the VT comments - eye rolling thing, that the only damage control was keeping him, saying Blake was in the bottom 3. If Chris went, reporters would ask him what he thought about Simon's dismissal, eye rolling and dissin! Simon had to do further damage control by making a statement about the incident. There was a cut to Nigel, who had a look of genuine shock:dunno: I know you might think this is crazy, but this is what people are talking about with the manipulation of the show. The Dial Idol has been right 50% of the time, it isn't the REAL tabulation, but measures busy signals with large margins of error.
Regardless, it is best he went out now instead of later. I think the Idol Boards went on overload last night, the FANJAYA'S against the world! LOL!

Phil finally got his due! He did sing great! Melinda was outstanding and Jordin sparkled! BTW: the song Jordin sang, she took second place with an another singing competition. I think people need to realize the younger contestants who haven't had a lot of singing experience or familiarity with songs, or the stage, have to work much harder than the seasoned, older idol contestants. For some of them, it's the first time seeing the song!

I hope I can stay up for GA tonight - I'm tired!

Lucky for me that we don't have to vote for our favorite character!:funn:
 

supermom262

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On The Scene: 'Idol' Top 7 Results Night

Apr 19, 2007, 04:46 PM | by Adam B. Vary

Categories: American Idol

Idol_l_2 I entered CBS Television City Stage 36 last night to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" mashed up with Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" ? and immediately I knew it could only mean one thing. That's right, Corey the Warm-Up Comic was back! Ah, Corey, how I've, er, grown to stop caring about your repetitive, tightly scripted, get-audience-members-
to-dance-hip-hop-badly and then coyly-ask-prepubescents-
if-they're-single shtick. Fortunately, I barely had time to pay attention to it given all the juicy off-camera goings-on last night.

Let's start, actually, at the end: Sanjaya's swan song. It's provoked me to share with you PopWatchers an internal debate I've been having over the past month: Is the kid really that awful? Based on the studio audience's explosion of cheers and applause when Ryan announced Sanjy was going home, you'd think the soft-voiced 17-year-old was a puppy-smothering dictator being sent into exile. And before you protest that those cheers were for LaKisha surviving to see another week, I've been to just about every single results show this season, and I can tell you that not once before has the audience applauded after Ryan delivered the final verdict, let alone leapt to their feet in jubilation. (And it wasn't just LaKisha's posse that was standing last night, either.) I mean, Sanjaya may be the least talented singer among the Top 7, but he's by no means even close to the worst performer Idol's ever seen.

Part of what's got me so riled is what happened the moment after Sanjy, Kiki, and Blake (pictured, left to right) were named to the bottom three, and Ryan cut to commercial. To put it bluntly, Sanjy ? who had continually impressed me with his unwavering pearly-white-grinned pluck in the face of so much media guff ? pretty much dissolved right then and there, immediately convinced that he was going home. It was as if the weight of everything that'd come before finally pushed past that smile, and it was just a bit heartbreaking (and guilt-inducing) to watch unfold.

Thank goodness for Mama Doolittle, who wrapped poor Sanjy in her embrace and gently wiped away his tears. For the record, though, the best hugger of the Top 7 is Chris; the dude pretty much swallowed the rail thin Sanjy in his arms just before they came back from the ad-break. At which point Kiki lost her composure a bit too, smearing her make-up, which Mindy Doo then dutifully fixed with a well placed under-eye thumb-wipe. That's why you saw Blake doing the same to Kiki at the end of the show, by the way. Girlfriend's got to keep her face together, you know, especially since the stage manager had to physically separate Sanjy from her at the end so the cameras could get the shot of Sanjy watching his Idol "journey" with Ryan. Ah, TV, you relentless machine, never letting a moment of genuine feeling getting in the way of your manufactured sentiment. How we love you so.

But enough of tears. Before Sanjy had collapsed into Mindy Doo's arms, she had a score to settle with a certain Idol exec producer for that unconscionab(ly hilarious) stunt, making her choose which group of three was safe. Seriously, I really wish you all could've been there to see the look on Mindy's face as she raced down from the stage and started smacking Nigel Lythgoe with impunity. She may be nice, she may be modest, but you do not want to cross Mindy Doo ? those were some fierce daggers shooting out of her eyes, and Lawd help anyone in their path.......



From EW.com
 

Lady D

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Anybody catching American Idol tonight? Wondering who that man was that just sang a few minutes ago? Don't recognize him. BTW, Melinda is safe. Simon stated he thinks it will come down to between Melinda and Jordan in the end.
 

Jdarg

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Anybody catching American Idol tonight? Wondering who that man was that just sang a few minutes ago? Don't recognize him. BTW, Melinda is safe. Simon stated he thinks it will come down to between Melinda and Jordan in the end.


Not me!!:rotfl:

Rapunzel did her best to sell me on the fund raising and all that- but I implored her to let me just hate the show in peace.:lol:

Carry on -- y'all have fun!
 

Rudyjohn

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I NEVER in a MILLION years would have ever dreamed that Jeff Beck would make an appearance on American Idol. I about fell out of my chair. Kelley Clarkson was awesome with the guitar legend. :clap_1:
 
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