Who needs writers, anyway? It's the OFFICIAL AMERICAN IDOL 7 THREAD

Obviously you are not the Starlight Express fan you thought you were.

I am an ALW/ Starlight Express charlatan. :(

hated the Brooke/Evita song because it was WAY too Madonna. I really only loved the last guys Phantom song because it was a surprise.
(Besides Syesha, who was the best.)
But I only started watching this season Idol tonight, so...

What was the big flub I keep hearing about?

Brooke sang one line of her song, forgot the next line, and asked the band to stop. After she started again she didn't miss any other lyrics but you could see this look of complete terror on her face throughout. Not to mention that her performance wasn't very good. But based on the fact that Jason Castro is the only contestant who didn't make the Google Trends list yesterday, I think Brooke might be safe for another week.

yeah, it was kind of a repeat of Brooke's "Every Breath You Take" re-start, except she got way further into the first line than she did last time, and it wasn't just her on piano at the beginning of the song so she had to, like, ask the band to stop and start over.

D. Cook sucked. Smithson was the best, but that might only be because the song kicks so much ass. Castro was an utter embarrassment.

I don't know why I'm addicted to this show.

xposts is it on youtube?!

That song (D. Cook's) sucks! No one can actually sing it and it's super fucking embarrassing. The entire time I was having horrifying Michael Crawford flashbacks and twitchig.

That song is so cheesy and horrible that it ends up being FANTASTIC. "Music of the Night" is like the Showgirls of Broadway.

nm i found it

wow

I will give kudos and thanks for the immense roffles of watching David Cook uncomfortably croon his sexiest voice at Andrew Lloyd Weber, though.

I used to work with a lounge singer who sang "Music Of The Night" so I have a weird attachment to that ridiculous, ridiculous song and I thought Cook did a good job with it, he finally found a song that's compatible with his range and didn't grunge up the arrangement.

I know the low notes are supposed to be all pervy-groaned and stuff but it really, really, REALLY irritated me that he didn't sing them. I blame that more on the song than him, though.

Man, I loved David Cook's performance! Never been much of a fan of his, but I thought he did a really really good job with this song. Best of the night for me.

haha this bottom two is bonkers

I am shocked and delighted that Brooke missed the Bottom 2. Pretty hilarious that probably the two best performances end up in the bottom 2. (Brooke's was one of the most interesting and enjoyable performances, but by no means one of the best).

That was crazy!! But the top is almost definitely the Davids, so the order that the other three leave is almost immaterial at this point, no?

Um - did the president appear on AI tonight - on the heels of his deal or no deal appearance?

I'm really having a hard time with George Dubya Bush all of a sudden popping up on television shows.

this was the best results show

Right, there's no order that 3-6 could leave in that would be surprising or would really mean anything. They're all just cannon fodder at this point.

So dumb. And the Davids suck.

lol Paula

It's true, then, that everybody has stopped caring about this season (including me). For the record, I thought Brooke's second performance was the best of the night, but this was yet another pretty bad week.

less than a month till "so you think you can dance" begins though :)

Basically, unless something drastic happens everyone knows it's David vs David at this point, so why bother watching?

the journey is the reward

If this is a reward, i'd hate to see the punishment.

I'm still holding hope that Brooke might have the chance to do "Hello It's Me".

Jason Castro stays again? He's becoming sort of an embarrassment.

Brooke's elimination was as sad and as dramatic as I expected it to be. Even as a big Brooke White fan, it's not too big a deal for her to go home, she was clearly becoming unraveled. Still though it was sad.

she had a great song (lyrically) to sing out on though, probably my favorite ND song.

I loved Brooke at the beginning, and I won't fault her for being as emotional as she is, but I was getting really tired of seeing it play out on tv every week. She'll make a good first record, but I'm glad I don't have to watch her anymore.

Whoa, Brooke CRIED at the end? holy shit, no one anticipated that! She's like a girlfriend on Seinfeld or something.

Gennice: Oh, yeah, she'll be here....(DROPS HOT DOG) Oh no, my frankfurter, my frankfurter fell (sob sob sob sob). It was really good. I can't believe that I dropped it. (sob sob sob sob)

Jerry: It's okay...it's just a hot dog, (still sobbing) everything is going to be okay.

Gennice: No it (sob) was really good.

seriously. I predicted a crying mess of an ending at the beginning of the hour, and my expectations were exceeded.

Glad she's gone. WHo does Castro have incriminating info on in the AM. Idol executive suite?

i've never voted for idol, but jason castro may be the hottest dude on there in awhile, so maybe all the young dudettes are voting for him.

Jason Castro: Secretly Worse Than Sanjaya

truth bomb

Syesha really got over those tears quickly. I know when I start crying my nose runns and I start hiccuping. Luckily she didn't have that problem! How fortuitous!

:)

This season is like the definition of 'WTF'

this is more rigged than the 1919 World Series. Is Archuleta's mom blowing R. Jackson or something? He's a bit over the top in his praise for Mr. Missing Chromosome.

The elimination of Brooke has caused me to lose slight interest in the show. This is the first time since season 4 in which I have intentionally skipped watching a finals performance show I otherwise could have watched. I mean, the only reason I skipped it was cause I was so busy, but if Brooke were still alive I would have found a way to swing it.

I missed an ep or 2. What was the deal with Jason "wanting" to be voted off (mouthing "don't vote" and stuff)?

Paula's song choice for Archuleta...erm.

There's a very good piece in EW today about what needs to happen to American Idol (and soon) if they want anyone to care after this season. Specifically, providing a way for Randy and Paula to leave the show with their dignity intact. They aren't judges, they're non-sequitur dispensers.

I nominate Sheila E., because she was awesome (and a credible judge to boot) on The Next Great American Band. And if they can't find anyone else for Randy's spot, they could maybe bring along Johnny Goo Goo Rzeznik from that same show too. At least he's more coherent than Randy.

There's a very good piece in EW today about what needs to happen to American Idol (and soon) if they want anyone to care after this season.

Not lost 95% of its good contestants before the top 12?

I think Paula serves her purpose well. Randy, on the other hand, is absolutely pointless. He's not mean enough to be funny, warm enough to be a comforting presence for the contestants, or objective enough to be at all worth listening to.

song spoilerzzzzzz

David C - Simon's choice: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"/free choice: Collective Soul - "The World I know".
Syesha - Randy's choice: Alicia Keys - "If I Ain't Got You"
David A - Paula's choice: Billy Joel - "And So It Goes" (the official Mormon song of AI)

I've decided that the judges are infinitely more tolerable if you pretend that they are in on a conspiracy to get David A out by artificially building up the audience's confidence in his inevitability.

MORE SPOILERS:

OH JESUS CHRIST, GUYS: David A. is singing Dan Fogelberg's "Longer"