Washington Post writes up Idol
The whole thing is hilarious. Here’s the beginning:
We Watch … So You Don’t Have To
Absolutely everyone had forecast a big win for silver-haired goofball Taylor Hicks over Katharine McPhee before their final “American Idol” performances last night.
Even judges Mopsy, Flopsy and Tipsy.
Still, the show must go on, as they say.
“It’s now or never, baby — you’ve got to lay it all on the line tonight!” Mopsy says, pulling out the very best from his bag of five gag-inducing cliches.
Tipsy hopes Taylor and Katharine are “in good voice.” Flopsy says he “would suggest the contestants pray the other one forgets the words.”
This week, the two finalists are forced to revisit two songs they’ve already sung during the competition, after which they’d be subjected to traditional made-for-”Idol” treacle tunes created just for them.
Katharine chooses the two songs she’d sung while sitting on the floor of the stage, which were also her best performances.
After “Black Horse and Cherry Tree,” Mopsy whines that it was not “super-exciting” because he’d heard it before. Yes, Mopsy, that was the point.
(Thanks, Shawn!)
May 24th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Most funny. Thank you. LOVED the bits about having heard the songs before.
May 24th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
All I can figure is that the person who writes the singles is screwing someone with a lot of power. Awful, awful, AWFUL songs and, if you’ve got Joe Cocker Lite, why would you want to strip all of those elements out of the single? If you didn’t know who was singing, the song has no other qualities that would make one buy it.
Sure, the AI hardcore will pick it up, so it’ll be profitable, but it really seems like the producers are settling. If they’d actually come up with, you know, a GOOD song that was actually tailored to each singer in its production, they could make big sacks full of money, which I thought was pretty much the goal of the entire exercise.
May 25th, 2006 at 8:26 am
Your Welcome Aug - I was crying in my office reading this!
January 16th, 2008 at 2:26 am
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