Another ratings whore is piggy backing onto an established success. This time it's Howard (not Anna Nicole's) Stern trying to hop on the American Idol bandwagon by calling on his listeners to vote for Sanjaya. Sirius satellite radio has six million subscribers but who knows how many of them listen to him.
"We're corrupting the entire thing," Mr. Stern said the day after Sanjaya made the top nine finalists. "All of us are routing American Idol. It's so great. The No. 1 show in television and it's getting ruined."
There is something psychologically damaged about someone who takes such perverse glee in "corrupting" and ruining something that others have worked hard to achieve and gazillions clearly enjoy. Yeah, "it's so great." Was this guy dropped on his head when he was a baby?
For this, he wins my "Douche Bag Of The Year" award.
After a fantastic performance by Gwen Stefani last week, we said good-bye to Chris Sligh. I'd like to think it was his academic adventures at Bob Jones University catching up with him, but I think it was just his crappy singing. Maybe kharma. Maybe both. But at least I finally got one right. Chris Sligh said he considered quitting the show two weeks before viewers sent him packing because he never wanted to win. Whatev.
Uncle Fester and Legs-o-lina were also in the bottom three — Pony Hawk was not, I repeat, not in the bottom three. I said it several weeks ago...Sanjaya is going to make it down to 7 or 8. Perhaps with the push from Douche Bag Of The Year, Sanjaya may make it down to 5 or 6. I think by then the votes will be concentrated enough to overcome this effort. Then again, he could become a cultural phenomenon and everyone could start voting for him altogether and he could win. You heard it here first.
After Taylor Hicks came up with the Soul Patrol, the thing to do is form a fan club. Here's the latest...Blake Lewis started the "Blaker Girls" with a logo of a sexy chick in profile a la what you see on the mud flaps of 18 wheelers (a mini skirt has been added). Are you straight, Blake? Say it ain't so! Or do you just frequent truck stops? Oooo, I can be so naughty. >;)
The Blaker Girls and/or Blake were ingenious enough to send Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck t-shirts emblazoned with the logo. Both are Blake fans and they each wore them proudly on The View — a marketer's wet dream. National coverage for the cost of two shirts? I am in awe.
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Now for this week's show:
The Final 9
Jordin Sparks (pictured) — Excellent. She's back and could be the one to beat. She's building every week.
Blake Lewis — Great rendition of "Mack The Knife" and some of his funky dancing.
Phil Stacey — Looked like an undertaker. His song was DOA.
Melinda Doolittle — Really good once again with a theater-style showing.
Chris Richardson — Okay. Not his best, not his worst.
Gina Glocksen — She did really well. Nice voice; I enjoyed the change in song choice. I picked her as my top performer last week.
Sanjaya Malakar — Same as last week...vocals weren't too bad. Pacing off when he went into the audience. The girls will love the song choice, "Dancing Cheek To Cheek." After Simon said he was taking a different approach and declared the performance, "Incredible," Sanjaya was quick to retort with, "Welcome to the universe of Sanjaya." That played on Simon's comment last week that Sanjaya was in his own universe.
Haley Scarnato — Va va voom! Legs-o-lina has cleavage-o-rama! Nothing like a padded bra and low cut slinky dress. She had a lot of fun with the song and fantastic showmanship. Very good.
LaKisha Jones — It was a mess. Patchy pace and pitch in the beginning. Redeemed a bit with occassional long strong notes.
Funny playful banter when Simon referred to Randy and Paula as "squiddly and diddly."
My Predictions For This Week
• Best — Jordin Sparks
• Worst — Phil Stacey
• Out — Phil Stacey
Past Results
• Out 3/28/7 — Chris Sligh
• Out 3/21/7 — Stephanie Edwards
• Out 3/14/7 — Brandon Rogers
• Out 3/8/7 — Jared C., Sundance H., Antonella B., Sabrina S.
• Out 3/1/7 — Nick P., A.J. Tabaldo, Alaina A., Leslie H.
• Out 2/22/7 — Rudy C., Paul K., Amy K., Nicole T.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
TV Wednesday: American Idol
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3 comments:
I saw on an entertainment show that Sanjaya was getting votes because of a well-hit website telling everyone to vote for the worst.
And "look out" here comes a rant:
Rrrr! I wish Haley would go! She definitely has great legs but she definitely lacks passion. It annoys me that she is resorting to using her looks to succeed. If she had the passion and talent, she could achieve her goal.
My favs are Melinda, Blake, Lakisha, and Jordin.
I liked Chris as a cowboy in the commercial they did last week. I thought this week's commercial Haley would be washing the car like Paris (you know she wanted to).
Mary
Don't be pickin' on my Haley! ;)
OMG Mary, Chris was so smokin' hot as that cowboy last week. WOOF!
But that's not what I wanted to comment on. Hopefully you're right in your prediction that the legitimate votes now being divided among all the other contestents will eventually combine to outnumber whatever bogus campaigns are out there trying to keep Sanjaya on the show. I agree with you that Howard Stern is deeply disturbed in taking such delight in ruining a show that is the livelyhood of dozens of people who work on the show and the possible careers it could launch for these unknowns. It makes him seem so desperate for attention--or rather, ratings.
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