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You Tell Us: American Idol
Has American Idol gotten too mean? You weigh in.
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Jan 30, 2007 3:41 PM
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None of the people who audition for this show are forced. Unless they have been living in a cave, they know they will be given a brutally honest evaluation of their talent (or lack thereof). For years we have watched shows like Candid Camera, Punked, Bloopers, etc. and laughed at the people who were made to look like fools. Those people didn't volunteer for it, and no one called those shows cruel. If anything should be changed, perhaps the screening should be more strict, so any untalented people who might be traumatized by criticism would never make it before the panel of judges.
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Feb 2, 2007 6:27 PM
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> Has American Idol gotten too mean? You weigh in.
I actually was thinking the other night that they'd gotten a little kinder. However, I'm just sick of all the weeks of audition hype before the show actually starts. I TIVO it and probably watch 10 minutes of the show. Can't we get on with it??? ONE or maybe even TWO hours of this audition stuff is enough...
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Feb 4, 2007 4:02 PM
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I think American Idol is simply trying to raise the bar …
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Feb 8, 2007 8:52 PM
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Michael Johns who is extremely hot! Good looking. Has a fabulous voice, stage presence ,already looks and sounds like a rock star SHOULD HAVE WON. I will not watch American Idol next year! And I have watched it every year. I am firmly convinced it is rigged and Michael Johns got ripped off!
The only ones I think left that are in anyway capable of winning are David Archiletto, or Jason Castro. We cannot make out half of what David Cook is even singing!He mumbles thru half of his song! It is my feeling HE SHOULD NOT WIN! But things are funny at American Idol!So, Who ever wins is Simon Fullers guess???I hope there are other people out there who agree! GO MICHAEL JOHNS! BE THE NEXT CHRIS DAUGHTERY! urbancowgirl23
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Apr 17, 2008 3:16 PM
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American Idol has always been a huge bore, dominated by a huge boar. It's a waste of tv time.
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Apr 17, 2008 7:43 PM
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The Judges are wishy-washy!
They make me so ANGRY! They tell the contestants one thing to do and when they do it then they say the opposite. For i.e. They will tell them that they need to be more original and when the contestants do JUST THAT then they have something ugly to say like 'you should have kept true to the original' OR 'that's not how the song was meant to be sung'. I mean REALLY! Then they make asinine comments like 'Whitney does the song better' or 'that was not close to how Mariah, Stevie Wonder, etc. does it.' For real?
Forgive me if I am wrong here but 1)Why put the songs in the song book for them (contestants) to pick when you are only going to critique them on how the ARTIST sang it? These people are NOT the ARTISTS! They are TRYING there hardest to get where these ARTISTS are!!! 2) Then they tell them that the ARTISTS sung it better (i.e. Syesha) when she did Whitney's songs. Did she NOT say that she took Whitney and Dolly's version and blended them? For the originality....it was FANTASTIC. Give her kudos for being original just like the ever so talented David Cook!
Of course she didn't SOUND like Whitney. Maybe because she is not,repeat, NOT WHitney. She is who she is (they ALL are) and the show is suppose to be about THEIR talent not the ARTIST who songs they are singing.
The judges need to realize that! Judge these people on THEIR potential and NOT on the merits of those great ARTISTS whose league they are trying to be a part.
It's beginning to feel like, for those people, a DA**** IF YOU DO and DA**** IF YOU DON'T. Give these very talented people a BREAK for being who THEY are and the great artists that THEY CAN/WILL become!!!!!
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Apr 18, 2008 5:11 PM
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Why don't we just vote for the singer that needs to go, instead of the one we would like to stay?
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Apr 29, 2008 7:46 PM
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Every Thursday morning Paula Abdul joins Q100's The Bert Show to gossip about American Idol!!! Every Thursday at 9:30AM!!!!!! Listen at AllTheHitsQ100.com
There are also past interviews with her from past weeks!!! CHECK IT OUT!!!
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May 15, 2008 6:42 AM
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I feel the tv guide channel should not be interviewing Sanjaya...he never knows what he is being asked and this makes the entire 'idol' talk sound idle...
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May 20, 2008 7:23 PM
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