american idol

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I’ve given up on American Idol, and not because this is Simon Cowell’s final season (and if you ask me, Simon is among the most brilliant minds working in entertainment today). So I didn’t see “Pants on the Ground”, the original song performed on last night’s show by 62-year old civil rights activist General Larry Platt of Atlanta.

But having seen it now… I can’t get it out of my head!!

Here it is: “Pants on the Ground”!

If American Idol had allowed more stuff like this (and bumped up the age limit of contestants) a lot of people would probably still be watching it. Anyways, hat’s off to Larry Platt for a great performance!...

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The seventh season of American Idol begins tonight on Fox.

I still haven’t decided whether or not I’m going to watch this time. Last season was so flat, I can’t even remember who it was who won the thing. The two best seasons to me are still 2 (when it came down to Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard) and 5 (the one that gave us Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry, among others).

But I’ll probably check out the audition stage anyway. So much good comedy to be found from the American cult of celebrity and those who’ll do anything to get theirs…

8:58 p.m. EST: Whatever novelty that there’s been to this show, is gone now. I’m not finding this particularly interesting at all. And there are better things that I can be doing with my time.

Somebody let me know if any talent on part with Aiken or Hicks ...

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I didn’t see it. Had to run down to Wal-Mart to get a few things and I got back about 9:37. I asked Lisa “who got the axe tonight?”

She said it was Chris Sligh.

I wondered last week if American Idol had finally jumped the shark. Tonight, there is no doubt (but there was Gwen Stefani… get it? 🙂

There are two singers left in this season’s competition that I would like to see win this thing. Neither one of them has appeared on-stage with a hairdo that looks like a rooster. That’s all I’m going to say about that. Except at long last, I think it can be said that American Idol is no longer compelling “must see” television.

As for Chris Sligh: I will definitely buy his first album when it comes out....

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Yes you read that right (‘course if you are reading this now then it’s way too late to get there probably): Chris Daughtry and his band performing live at Hamburger Square in downtown Greensboro, in an absolutely free concert.

We tried getting in tonight but the place is absolutely nuts! Probably 20,000 people in there, and they’ve been gathering there since early this morning. Lisa and I opted not to try to get in, but have vowed to see him in concert eventually.

(I have an awesome record of making good on promises to see singing artists in concert, by the way: ask me my story about “Weird Al” Yankovic sometime, if I haven’t already shared it here 🙂

Anyways this whole area is quite proud of Chris Daughtry, so it’s a good thing to memorialize about here anyway, even if we aren’t there....

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A little while ago I got to watch last night’s American Idol (ain’t DVR the greatest gadget ever?). This hasn’t been the best season of Idol. Truth be known, apart from three singers in this year’s bunch, it’s been pretty boring. I’ve wondered – and quite a few times I should note – whether it’s possible that American Idol has, at last, jumped the shark.

Last night’s show might have been it. In case you haven’t heard about it already, this is Ashley:

Starting with Sanjaya Malakar, the camera kept focusing on this girl who was sitting toward the front of the audienc, and she was crying like crazy. It happened so much that I seriously wondered, and even said this to my wife, if she was a “plant”: someone put there by the producers for the show value. I mean, we’re talking about this girl getting ...

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