apparently, some people have decided to starve themselves while sanjaya is still in ai. wow. that's uhm weird crazy wow.
So until the day that Sanjya is no longer American Idol, I will be going on a hunger strike. This means I will refuse to eat anything until American Idol voters wise up, and stop voting Sanjya through each week.well, that and an endless exchange in some blogs about him. like this one. and this one. and yeah, this one, too.
as i predicted (hahaha!), sanjaya malakar sailed through to the top 10 of this season. and on his path to american idol glory lay one more dream, shattered to bits. goodbye stephanie, i hardly knew ye.
my bottom 3: sanjaya, phil and stephanie
ai's bottom 2: chris and stephanie
at least i got the stephanie part. boohoo. chris looked scared though. what happened to his fanbase? they didn't like his mellow performance? but simon said it was probably his best so far.
p & r picked me up for dinner, so i missed the live show. i just finished watching it and i just feel bad that they don't even allow the booted contestant to sing his/her swan song. and they also do not ask for the judges' reaction anymore. why? probably because as early as top 24, the line "this is a singing competition" has been overused that the producers have probably decided to retire the line.
and sanjaya? unless you put on a decent performance in the coming weeks, you will always be in my bottom 3.
hahaha! i am liveblogging the american idol!
my title refers to one of the judges' descriptions of chris sligh's (aka jack osbourne) out-of-this-world rendition of the classic 'endless love'. randy said it was kinda coldplay-ish speed of sound-ish and paul said chris should stop trying to fit and hip. hahaha. agree, agree. spot-on observations. can we eliminate him now?
earlier, melinda doolittle (my nasty friends call her carding, the other half of the reycards duet. if you're not filipino, sorry, can't explain it right now) did 'home' and she's quite good. she brought tears to paula's eyes. what is she on tonight? (paula, not melinda)
and oh, i don't remember the first guy's name. jared? okay. boring. he's the back-up singer, like melinda. sang can't hurry love. so unoriginal. wow. here's another one who can leave tomorrow. okay, so his name is brandon. jared left last week. hahaha. silly me.
wtf? pronunciate? is that even a word, ms. diana ross? 'you must pronunciate,' she told gina glocksen (aka pink wanna-be). she's singing 'love child' and she seems okay. i really liked her last week when she did evanescence's 'sober.' pitcy and boring, says randy. paula feels that melinda "is much better than you did tonight" and talked about enunciation. "not terrible, not fantastic, a little bit forgettable," says simon.
sanjaya malakar. hahaha. dude's singing ain't no mountain high enough, i think. another wtf moment. the fact that sanjaya's still here's just wrong. aj should still be here. or sundance. and i don't even like sundance. damn. i wonder how sanjaya's doing it. i read somewhere (one of the theories while he made it to the top 12. the votes were "outsourced" daw. hahaha. can the people working in call centers in india call the 1-866 numbers? can someone find out please?)
goodbye sanjaya. bring jared and chris sligh with you. sanjaya's currently channeling his inner diana. he's definitely gonna get a beating from the judges. "i don't even know what to say," sabi ni randy. thank god for the back-up singers. hahaha. hair's rockin. who cares randy? his smile doesn't warm my heart paula. his smile is scary. seriously. plastic. hahaha. yes simon, i can hear diana ross wailing from her beverly hills manse. hahaha. courageous sanjaya. goodness, america, put this kid out of his misery or he'll be scarred for life.
hayley's next. oh gee. another forgettable act, i'm sure. i'd trade this girl over sabrina sloan anytime of the day. sabrina was robbed. she's the fourth person whom i am not too much invested in. hahaha. i wish ai had an eliminate-4-week. hmmmm. she's actually sounding okay tonight. a bit subdued. and then she started wailing and flailing. oh girl, i thought you were doin good. back on my hate list. lol. okay, not-so-liked list. get your act together and i'll probably, probably change my mind.
what's with these people forgetting their lyrics? people! week 2 during the hollywood round, contestants get eliminated quickly. damn. "the audience doesn't know..." sabi ni paula. we're hot stupid, miss abdul. we fucking know. shmuck! please don't underestimate us.
phil stacy (aka lex luthor), the military guy. i'm gonna make you love me. kinda like it. he gave the song a fresh perspective. i've heard the song a number of times, and all of those times, women singers sang the song. okay, you're still gonna be here next week lex. pretty good, yeah. vocals were crystal-clear. hahaha. he shouts daw when he tries to hit the high notes. just like we pinoys love it. hahaha. admit it. when pinoy singers make birit and they shout till kingdom come and we cheer.
lakisha's up next. yay! her momma calls lakisha kiki. funny. ang galing ni kiki. that didn't sound right. lol. she's singing god bless the child. she's really big, and wearing that white gown didn't help at all. i'm still waiting (unless the judges said it during the auditions, i was in manila and was not able to watch all) for the jusges to tell her to lose weight because she doesn't look like an Idol. the same way they told j-hud to lose some weight a couple of seasons back.
controlled. kiki showed her control over her booming voice and delivered a felt performance. girl's really got it.
blake's 'you keep me hanging on' is fresh. first time i hear such version and such treatment. this guy's going to be here for a long time. blake versus chris richardson versus kiki versus melinda. final four. lol. unless they divide the vote and cancel each other out. chris and blake will cancel the screaming fangirls' vote, kiki and melinda will cancel the black vote. who's gonna win it all? uh-oh. sanjaya!
kuya dick, aka stephanie edwards forgot some of her lyrics too. completely outsung bu kiki and melinda. hmmm. poor third. among them black ladies. hehehe.
last one. jt-look alike, chris richardson. simon says it's dreadful and terrible. i didn't get to see most of it since i was chatting with friends. hahaha. excuses.
last one: jordin. hahaha. omg moment. was chatting with my hs friend, and told her that jordin's singing our graduation song. that i didn't know diana ross sang it. hahaha. ang sama ko. nde ko alam. alam ko na sa land before time yun, but i didn't realize diana sang it. sorry po. lol. yeah, this was our high school graduation song. hindi farewell. nyahahaha. lol.
okay, so my top 5 is complete. (paula is not familiar with the song? huwaat?) jordin, kiki, melinda, blake and chris. ang agang mag top 5. lol.
okay, okay. not another guilty post.
aj tabaldo is out of american idol competition, and i am a bit guilty about it. for the record, i am apologizing to mr. tabaldo for not voting for him and not supporting his dream.
tuesday night we watched him. he was good, "nearly very good" even, according to simon cowell. i saw in him the confidence of a good singer and the flexibility. he tackled a nina simone song for crying out loud, and he soared. one of my co-workers admitted voting for about a hundred times and feared that aj was not getting enough votes since all her calls were getting through. my roomie said he voted about 20 times. he asked me if i voted, and i said no. "ang damot mo naman," he quipped.
i was not being "madamot," in fact, i was confident that he was sailing through the next round because he was good and he really delivered and this was, still, a singing competition. there were people (yes, sanjaya, i am looking, no, scratch that, STARING at you) who didn't perform at par last tuesday who deserved the boot. i'm not writing this rant because aj's pinoy or fil-am or mutt with filipino blood. i'm writing this because i honestly believe that he should be in the top 12. or top 14 even. he's steps ahead of sway penala (who, like aj now, got the boot during the second week of competitions).
i usually get attached to the contestants of ai when there are only 12 of them left but since i saw aj deliver an above average performance last week, i thought he was going to make it and that pinoys will have a new sensation. it's been so long since jasmine trias united the pinoys in voting.
oh well. sorry, aj. maybe next year?
