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Zachsmom
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 1:26 pm
Well, if HE baked it, that explains why the recipe is lost..
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Max
Member
08-12-2000
| Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 1:32 pm
According to the song's author, Jimmy Webb. . . JIMMY WEBB: "I always think that whatever is art, need not and should not be explained, as someone once said. "But I'll tell you: MacArthur Park is clearly about a love affair ending, and the person singing it is using the cake and the rain as a metaphor for that. OK, it may be far out there, and a bit incomprehensible, but that is what I was trying to get at. I suppose the whole thing was that I wrote the song at a time in the late 1960s when surrealistic lyrics were the order of the day. It was written around about the same time as Strawberry Fields, so it probably seems a bigger deal now than it was back then. Still, the lyrics never stopped Richard Harris, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and any number of trash garage bands from doing it - and who else can say that about one of their songs"? link where I found this
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 2:22 pm
You know what Jimmy Webb is saying without really saying, right? GOOD drugs in the 60's!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 2:27 pm
LOL!!! ya all are killing me!
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 3:18 pm
i must have blocked that song out, because i dont' remember her singing it. lol. must've been too deep for me. 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 4:51 pm
Too bad Carrie wasn't a Cyndi Lauper fan, it would have been much for fun discussing "She Bop". 
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 6:45 pm
To think that I thought AI was a singing competition. I had no clue it was a Republican conspiracy involving talk show host Sean Hannity, as well as the crimes of Watergate which happened back in the 1970s. Silly silly Lexie... Lexie really rolls her eyes...
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 7:55 pm
LOL! wow, a political debate over AI, who-da thunk it? not me. i don't know who sean hannity is, and i doubt carrie does either. LOL
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Buggles
Member
09-07-2002
| Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 8:59 pm
Agreed, Carrie doesnt even know who Matt Lauer is apparently (from Leno)
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Meli456
Member
05-01-2003
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 12:48 am
At least we've managed two seasons without a service member in the top 12 or another "Proud to be an American" single. It would have made for a much more interesting season and probably a few eyerolling injuries. We're a nation at war. Over half of us are against the war and the rest don't know enough about it to be against it. Heaven forbid our beautiful little minds be diverted from our infotainment. No wonder some people don't even know that we're still in Iraq. Stuff like that effects people when they choose to expose themselves and its not as if anyone here went off topic. Where's American Idol, Michael Jackson, Terri Schiavo, or the Pope when you need them?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 4:15 am
Anyway.....I think both Carrie and Bo will have great careers. Coming in 2nd hasn't hurt Clay at all.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 6:39 am
Lexie sits next to Texannie...
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 6:54 am
come on, I've got chips and salsa too!
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 7:16 am
yay carrie and bo! 
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 9:20 am
Anyway, I would have been quite proud to see a servicemember in the top 12 if they were talented enough and were stationed on shore here (yes, we still have servicemembers here in the states), and if someone could have sung a patriotic song with emotion and talent, it would have brought a tear to my eyes. I am against this war and my heart breaks almost everyday when I see the name of someone that was stationed here that has been hurt or killed. But I still enjoy watching a talent program on tv <c>
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 3:53 pm
My view on members of the service performing on AI, is that I dont have a big problem with it until they use their position and milk it for all they can. The guy last year, was it? I couldnt wait for him to be gone. There is no question he was pandering to the television audience and he wasnt all that talented in my view. It gives them an unfair advantage because there is an element of the audience that is going to fall for that american hero stuff and not even listen to the voice.
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Moderator
Moderator
06-30-2002
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 4:01 pm
You may notice that a few posts have disappeared. Let's remember that this thread is about AI, a talent contest on TV, and IS NOT in the News and Views section. Thank you. (c)
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 4:57 pm
well, josh has two or three hits out on the country station. i don't particularly like his voice, even though i like some country songs a lot, but he is doing pretty well since AI. i don't think HE used his military position as much as simon kept on about it at first... i liked josh's 'family-man' persona a lot, though, so i wish him well.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 5:02 pm
That was his name? I thought he used his position. I clearly remember him saluting oh and what about standing at ease while he waited for the judges opinions. He played it, listen I dont hold it against him at least it kept him home and safe.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 5:33 pm
I think all the contestants "milk" whatever they have--or the producers do. Remember how Fantasia milked her single motherhood so she could get votes and lured unsuspecting teens into dropping out of school, getting pregnant, and not going into hiding? Or how John Stevens milked his sex appeal with his constant pelvic thrusts? How Jennifer Hudson went after the thyroid crowd with her bulging eyes routine? How about the way Ruben parlayed the large number of Americans who love the number 205 into vote upon vote upon vote? The way Carmen used her hip slapping and shaky voice to lure people who love slapping sheep into supporting her? Or the way Justin received the votes of Simpsons fans with his uncanny resemblance to Sideshow Bob? It's out of control. I hope they put a stop to it. And soon.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 5:40 pm
Tish, I will never forgive you for making me dredge up the visual of Carmen's hip-slapping. I was free of it afer all this time, and now.... 
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 6:09 pm
ROFL, Tish, you are such a card ... 
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 6:33 pm
which is why I say no more two year olds sitting in the audience or being paraded on stage. I got tired of Fantasia's kid too.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 6:40 pm
the military stance you don't get rid of. my husband has been retired from 22 years in the military for 20 years and he still stands at attention and walks as if he has a 2x4 up his derriere. my kids calls it 'his presidential walk' and we all try and mimic it....so i can't blame a guy for that, whether he is current or past military. it's like my nun walk. you just never get rid of it... and simon did play it up a lot until he decided he didn't like josh (which was quite a while after a lot of us decided we weren't so hot on josh's singing) and then ragged on josh once he realized josh wasn't all that great for idol purposes. while i don't think josh could have won AI, i will never disrespect someone who is in the military at this difficult time.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 6:41 pm
and to add to the post above mine: no more 22-year-olds sitting on paula's lap or being paraded through verizon wireless stores.
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