After 4 months, a few very minor scandals, the most awful contestant ever (and everyone and their mom trying to take credit for his success), and only one minor shock elimination, we have our American idol finale, a finale that not even one person in our pool saw coming. Kind of a dull season, reminds me of what the NBA is going through right now. It has compelling teams, but not good enough to win. This year’s idol had some compelling personalities; unfortunately they were not the people who could sing!
Tonight: 3 Songs each, their own choice, one repeat performance (again making me wonder why Melinda and Jordin did repeat performances last week), and the IDOL SINGLE, from the songwriter contest.
The Tale of the Tape
Jordin Sparks: Age 17 from Glendale AZ. Has no formal singing training. (Insert joke here.) Daughter of former NY Giant Cornerback Phillipi Sparks. High Point of Season: First time singing “I Who Have Nothing”. Really started to set herself apart from the pack at that point. Worst Moment: “Hey Baby”. Intensely bad performance and her clothes were best described as “interesting”. Hard to find interesting facts, all her answers in her interview are very vanilla, but she’s 17. Her fanclub is “Let the Sparks Fly”. (Ouch, that’s bad.)
Blake Lewis: Age 25 from Bothell WA. Has formal singing training. Best known for his beatboxing, but that was only a small part of his original audition. (They only showed that.) High Point of season: Probably “You Give Love a Bad Name” simply for how original it was and that it worked. Low Point of Season: Bee Gees night, just a mess and the judges really gave it to him for it. Hard to find interesting facts too, all his answers are sarcastic, Chris Sligh is his favorite American Idol, there hardest obstacles in his life were “the hardest obstacles in his life”, etc. His fanclub is “The Blake Lewis fanclub” (original!), but he also has CAKE, the Chris/Blake fanclub as well.
I’ll predict tomorrow after I see how they do. I’ll also resend the winning scenarios one more time then
i doubt I will blog live tonight. It depends how the dog feels, i need to get her from the vet after some minor surgery. Between in pain dog and baby wanting to eat it might be difficult to see the show much less be on the net.
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Grrr, didn't catch it till 8:30 so I'll have to wait for Youtube, but at this point, eh. Jordin did have a better night vocally than Blake. I was afraid she'd sing "I who have nothing" again and glad she didn't; kinda gettin sick of it.
There was a moment when I thought Jordin could possibly take it all this season. Hmmm, hard to tell. Still can't get over Melinda being ousted.
What did you all think of the winning song? Nothing earth shattering, pretty enough tune, simple words. Eh, I find it hard to believe industry people were glued to their tv waiting on bated breath to hear the winning song and sign up the next songwriter!
- SN
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