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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 6:38 am
Alisons, I think you misunderstood what I wrote. I never said anything about only people of X race voting for X contestants. I said that the internet has skewed demographics that don't accurately represent the people actually voting.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 6:43 am
OK, I guess I do not understand. Another point may be that there are no "speed dialers" on AOL to skew the results.
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 7:04 am
I think Scott is doing better than most people expect he would do because his fan base is so diverse. His voice has a quality that crosses musical styles. Also, on the official American Idol board some fan clubs have pushed very hard for their people to vote in the AOL poll, but Scott's fan club The Dawg Pound, have minimized it's importance and pushed for people to just vote where it counts on the phone.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 1:59 pm
AOL has the poll fixed (in other words, Vonzell is back in play: So.. this morning, without Vonzell we had Constantine 34% Carrie 26% Bo 23% Anthony 9% Anwar 5% Scott 4% and now, just before 2pm board/west coast time we have: Carrie 35% Bo 35% Constantine 17% Vonzell 4% Anwar 4% Anthony 4% Scott 2% Tisha, I agree that the demographics are quite different and in general with regional and AA differences as well.. Anyway once again we have the Carrie and Bo fans surging back ahead of Constantine. Alisons, not sure if people are using programs to speed vote online.. that certainly can be done, but probably less easily with AOL in between the isp and the user. I could sit here 24/7 and pump in votes if I were so inclined.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:00 pm
On tonight's show, Constantine is doing "Nights on Broadway" by the Bee Gees, Anwar is doing "September" by Earth Wind and Fire and Carrie is doing "MacArthur Park" by Donna Summer. More updates as I find them. [I don't know "September" I don't think. But I MUST know it because I know EW&F. But somehow I think it's a bad choice as the audience tends to go for songs it already knows quite well. Even though I *might* know it. LOL]
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:12 pm
McArthur Park???? That's like the WORST disco song ever!!!!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:13 pm
... and now I'm going to have that damned verse "someone left the cake out in the rain" going through my head for the next two days!!!
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:15 pm
Tish - great detective work! I know you know "September"... if I could only hum a few bars for you, you'd name that tune in 5 notes. "Do you remember the 21st night of september? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing. As we danced in the night, Remember how the stars stole the night away Ba de ya - say do you remember Ba de ya - dancing in september Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day..."
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:25 pm
Oh OK I do know it. I think Anwar will do it really well.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:25 pm
Someone left the cake out in the rain...... I am betting she will be cooked after that song.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:33 pm
I can't wait to hear Carrie-Okie singing the part about "I recall the yellow cotton dress / Flowing like the waves / On the ground beneath your knees. / Birds like tender babies in your hand / And the old men playing / Chinese Checkers by the trees" LOL. WIll she be able to sing that with a straight face? What weird lyrics. What am I thinking? She worries about NOTES, not lyrics! For those who don't know, MacArthur Park is overrun by junkies now, at least at night. It's a great place to go if you wanna score some crack or heroin late at night. During the day, it's a good place to go watch Latino families have BBQs and soccer matches. If you go to its eastern border on Alvarado street, you can get a fake driver's license or social security card, too. It's like Disney Land turned inside out.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:44 pm
Can someone explain what MacArthur Park (the song lyrics that is) was supposed to mean? Surely it has some deep symbolic meaning doesn't it?
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:47 pm
The MacArthur Park song I am thinking about and I think it is the same one was an endless song sung by Richard harris originally. I think it was just one of those drug induced songs from the sixties like Inagaddadavida (sp) that just went on forever and was about absolutely nothing.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 1:51 pm
Yeah I think it's about an LSD trip. I might be wrong about that though.
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Lori
Member
04-18-2003
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:01 pm
ick...I absolutely hate MacArthur Park.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:02 pm
Well, my brain hurts after Googling MacArthur park, but I found some interesting info: Songfacts In the summer of 1967, songwriter Jimmy Webb ("Up Up and Away") composed a 22-minute cantata that ended with a seven-minute coda called "MacArthur Park." He offered it to Bones Howe, who produced The Association, for possible inclusion on the group's fourth LP. Howe loved it, but the group did not want to give up half the album for Webb's project, so they rejected it. Harris was an actor, not a singer. His performance on this was essentially "acting," as he read the lyrics with a great deal of drama. He recorded this shortly after starring in the movie Camelot. Some of his other films include This Sporting Life, Unforgiven, and Wrestling Earnest Hemmingway. He also played Professor Dumbledore in the first 2 Harry Potter movies. Webb produced this for Richard Harris, crossing the Atlantic Ocean several times in the process. Donna Summer recorded a disco version in 1978 that made it to #1 after it was released as a single. Her version was originally part of a 15-minute "suite." This runs 7:20. At the time, it was still very rare for radio stations to play songs longer than 3 minutes. "Hey Jude" by The Beatles came out shortly before this, and when it became a hit despite running 7:11, stations learned that audiences would stick around if they liked the song. SONGFACTS
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:11 pm
I remember Richard harris on Johnny Carson show talking about it and all he could say about it was that it was longer than Bob Dylan's sad eyed lady of the lowlands which also was a song that was very very long. I remember at the time thinking, It isnt the length that counts!!!!!!!!!!! as is the case in many things in life. harris was drunk at the time.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:21 pm
So true. It's not the length, it's what you do with it. And drinking may or may not help. And bringing this back to tonight's show... since no one knows what the hell the lyrics of this song really mean, it matters not how Carrie interprets them. I swear, I think she could smack this one over the fence. Please don't pelt me with Constantine's old Justin t-shirt for saying that!
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:35 pm
I don't think that I could take it, because it took so long to bake it OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:49 pm
LMAO!!!!!! I seriously can't even remember the Donna Summer's version, only the Richard Harris one. For the life of me, hearing his voice in my head, I can't imagine how it could be a disco song. Bonza I'm so lucky I swallowed my Coke before I read that first line of yours. Hehehehe 
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Willsfan
Member
09-04-2000
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:54 pm
Macarthur Park Spring was never waiting for us, girl It ran one step ahead As we followed in the dance Between the parted pages and were pressed, In love's hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants CHORUS MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down... Someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it And I'll never have that recipe again Oh, no! I recall the yellow cotton dress Foaming like a wave On the ground around your knees The birds, like tender babies in your hands And the old men playing checkers by the trees
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:54 pm
I just cant picture Donna Summer singing I'll never have that recipe again. I just dont remember it. Donna Summer to me was love to love you baby, and I loved that song
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:56 pm
Yeah, I liked that song by Donna, too, Maris.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 4:58 pm
Yeah, I was a huge Donna Summer fan.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 9:06 pm
I loved to hear that song at the discos. We would all dance the whole way thru it ... great times. Classic Donna Summer ... although it's not my favorite Donna Summer song.
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