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Maris
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03-28-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My impression about Scott was lowered by that video. His parents were very proud of him and said they did the best they could. Scott was talking about how he didnt get things. He said he didnt get along with his family but loved them, they on the other hand said he had overcome a lot in the last ten years and hit it out of the ball park with every obstacle.

I thought his parents were a lot kinder to him than he was to them.

I think he has a big chip on his shoulder.

Rvon
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12-11-2003

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 6:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think he has a big chip on his shoulder.
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Maris, I have thought this for weeks.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There is only ONE idol that should sing Luther, and it ain't Scott ... (although Tamyra Gray did an excellent job singing that song on Boston Public)

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuben

Bonzacat
Member

07-08-2003

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 6:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Maris, I was waiting for that!

ETA, I Ruben!

Missfebruary
Member

04-04-2005

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 7:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I didn't like this week at all. For a five year period, couldn't some of them have picked better songs?

Bottom 3 for me is Carrie, Bo, and Constantine. I think Anthony and Vonzel performed the best. Judging Scott just on his talent, I like his voice but wasn't impressed with his song choice because (as the judges said) it didn't showcase his voice. However, I liked his performance much better than that of my bottom 3 choices.

I love reading this board because of the witty, insightful posts. I've seen several posts discussing the fact that this year's contestants may well have some of the best technical voices, but they pick lousy songs for the most part and some don't connect with the songs they do choose. I think that hits the nail on the head because these people really do have fabulous voices. I'm just not feeling it this year. But I still watch because I am highly addicted to All My Reality Shows!

Sassynegal
Member

01-21-2005

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 7:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What were the numbers again??


Sassynegal
Member

01-21-2005

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 7:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow, Vonzell and Anthony are my top two and Scott and Constatine are my bottom 2!

What's up with Paula saying it wasn't about vocals - isn't this a singing competition???

Vonzell, Anthony and Carrie all have amazing voices but I think Vonzell has it all for me - singing and performing.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 7:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In many respects, I like this group of contestants better than last season but they aren’t as interesting. I find “attitude” to be a major turn-off and I thought that a lot of last season’s contestants had too much “attitude”.

But these guys are dull performers. Bo always sounds like he’s singing the same song and waving the microphone stand around. Carrie is sweet and pretty and sounds good but she has to be one of the most boring performers – just doesn’t have that infamous “it” to me. Contrary to many other viewers, I think that Constantine does have performing talent – but he’s becoming a caricature. Vonzelle isn’t as strong a singer as they think - I think she is off key. I don’t find Anthony’s performances interesting. Scott doesn’t have a bad voice and he does have some performing ability but the personality and image he is portraying just doesn’t work for me. I admit though that for the first time I felt awfully bad for him tonight after the judge’s comments. I thought they were unfairly critical.

It also doesn’t help that I don’t like hardly any of the song choices with the exception of Scott’s.

What a blah season this is turning out to be.

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 7:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The video clip of Scotts family was unfortunate. It did not read as genuine. Mom was sprinkling some fairy dust but I did not believe much of what she said. Scott is gone this week, at last. I was shocked to see him perform so badly and lousy choice of song too.

I noticed Simon pointedly said to Constantine, "when you left your band....." I saw that as damage control since rumors are circulating that his involvement with a band who just released a CD is against the rules.

The judges were great tonight. Paula and Simon were not the tedious extremes we have come to expect. Good for Simon for giving some balanced reviews and bravo to Paula for doing the same.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 7:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Except for Carrie, I thought they all made horrible choices in songs. I didn't think any of them really shined tonight.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ugh, carrie is butchering and screaming that song. i do like that song, but didn't even recognize it for over half carrie's singing. carrie is a great country western singer, but she didn't do well on this song at all IMO...

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
oh heck, does that mean everyone else is REALLY HORRID?!!!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bo's mom is a hottie.

Muse
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08-09-2001

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, so...it seems to be controversial (some people loving it and others hating it), but I heard the Gavin DeGraw song on the radio this week and thought that Bo should sing it. I also thought he did a really good job with it. :-)

Anthony was okay. I agreed with Simon. Not my thing, but good choice for him.

Besides those two, I didn't really care for any of the performances tonight. Carrie's song was a bad choice -- didn't show off her voice, and I don't think she has enough stage presence to try to pull off a song otherwise. Vonzell was flat during the first part of her song. I wanted to like Scott's performance, but I was cringing when he tried to hit the high notes. Constantine's performance was over the top.

You know, thinking back on it, I really agreed with Simon tonight. The only things I disagreed with were his opinion on Bo's shades (:-)) and his opinion that Scott will go home. I think Scott might make it through another week somehow.

I do agree that the judges did a good job this week.

Highlighter
Member

09-03-2003

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
On Indiana time, and just finished watching tivo, so it's at least an hour after AI finished here......and I"m *still* having trouble getting through to the one I'm voting for. You can bet I'll be calling ABC about this if he's booted tomorrow! Grrrrrr.

Thoughts in Brief:
Carrie was drowned out again by her backup. That's a conspiracy all by itself-the methods they are going to to keep Carrie in the competition.

Bo-not at all impressed during the song, but it sounded better in the 3-second review at the end. ?!

Vonzell-Whew, that girl blew me away again. She went from being so "vanilla" at the beginning to being WOW. And she's so darned cute. I'm beginning to even think she coulda gone quite the distance in last year's competition....when they *wanted* a diva to win. I don't think she stands a chance this year, because I think the competition will be steered towards a new genre (or is it gendre? ;)

Constantine-blech. And he had been impressing me lately.

Anthony-such a cutie, but darn, boy, don't *sit* during your songs! He loses vocal power, which is what makes his voice sound so awesome. Once he stood up and put some air behind his sound, it really flew. I would have purchased that song tonight, despite the slow beginning.

Scott-that guy gives me good chills when I don't have to watch him! Voice of an angel. I would buy Xian music from that voice. It sounds like it was made for singing spiritual music.

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think that this week Anthony was the only one to actually sing the song well. The rest of them were all "eh".

Carrie did sound like she was off - almost like she couldn't quite keep up with the speed of the song (a lot of words for someone bad at lyrics) and consequently was not paying enough attention to pitch.

Bo - I swear to God everything he does sounds the same. This week it sounded the same in ugly clothes.

Vonzell - Simon was right, she was off. She really had trouble with the lower notes. Not a great song for her, IMO.

Anthony - I thought he did well with his song - since this is an unfair world, he will probably leave this week.

Constantine - Love the guy, he can lose the rock band schtick any time now. He didn't sound any more off than any of the others (how could you tell anyway with that song?) but Randy managed to insult him and his fan base by being completely dismissive.

Scott - If he does go, who will the "vote for the worst" people vote for??

Well let's just write tonight off and hope for a kinder theme next week.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bo's mom might be a hottie, but his dad is Kenny Rogers.

Highlighter
Member

09-03-2003

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How is the voting going for other contestants? The one I am voting for-after 1.5 hours-I am still getting busy signals about a quarter of the time. I can't believe that many people are voting that much this early in the season...... I think it's a scandal in the making!

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i'm so glad i'm at home alone right now. i just saw Anthony's family and now i'm crying. his parents are so sweet. sheesh. i'm not even a fan of his, just think he's a sweet guy i guess.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee, he sure is! and he looked good too!

Watching2
Member

07-07-2001

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My major gripe tonight is (and I'm no big Constantine fan!) is that Randy made the comment about being a SINGING competition and not just performance, yet he raves about Bo who basically does the same thing, but hey, he's the favorite! That's been my gripe about Bo. Give me Bo and a band and yeah, I'll go out and boogie to them, but going by JUST VOICE, he is nowhere near some of the others who have already left. It's all about IMAGE with Bo! Lots of carrying the mic stand, growling the words, yelling the words.. flipping the hair... uh yeah.. but this isn't ROCK IDOL, is it? If you're going to criticize one person about vocals, be fair and criticize the other who does the same thing. I didn't like Constantines performance either, btw!

I hope Anthony did well enough to keep him in this week and that sharp comment to Scott about packing his bags won't keep him instead. Anthony did a good job, although I admit the beginning was weak, but I just love his tenor voice.

I'd also like to know how someone gets so many more votes than another when you can't get through to place a vote?!! With the experience I had voting (worse tonight than other nights, but I still can't get through until the 2nd hour) the person I vote for should be safe and so should another I vote for! I just want to know how all those OTHER VOTES get through when I get busy signals, etc., when I try to vote?!!!

Puzzled
Member

08-27-2001

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree that this is a very dull bunch. They just keep doing the same old stuff, like Bo and the mike stand, and it's getting old.

Vonzell is the only one that has/shows "personality." Well, Scott has "personality," but it's a downer.

Anthony had so many bad weeks, but I think he's the only one getting better each week now.

LOL at Paula--you missed a few notes, but never mind. ???? Gee, I could sing opera if the notes didn't matter.

Highlighter
Member

09-03-2003

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
To me, tonight was more a bang-the-drum-for-the-fan-base than about the individual singing. How many times did a judge say "oh, you stunk, but you have a Great Fan Base that Loves You and Votes for You" (and will buy any garbage you put out there....), along with the requisite fans screeching in the background. Ugh. It's completely lost any pretense of being a singing competition anymore.

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 8:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I vote with a land line but also text message. Text messages all get through.