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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Friday, March 25, 2011 - 1:07 pm
New report: Next weeks theme will be songs from Elton John, w/ results show performances from @iamwill + @iamjamiefoxx & Fantasia Barrino (@TasiasWorld) Guess the 80s theme was a smoke screen.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, March 25, 2011 - 1:35 pm
Probably won't watch that show. Can't stand Fantasia or will.i.am. Jamie foxx is ok, though.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, March 25, 2011 - 2:07 pm
Love Will.I.Am. Don't love Fantasia. Eh on Jamie Foxx. But do love Elton John and he's got an incredible song catalog! Is this the first time he's opened it up to Idol? I can't remember...
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, March 25, 2011 - 2:34 pm
Don't love Fantasia is an understatement to me. I could NEVER understand the Fantasia love. I didn' think she sang great, sounded too gravely for me, but then to hear her talk as though she's a toddler on helium bothers me even more.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, March 25, 2011 - 2:43 pm
I wonder whether Jamie and Fantasia will be duetting, as they have done memorably a couple times (BET Awards, Clive Davis pre-Grammy Party) or whether they will be soloing. They have great chemistry together and they're both tremendously exciting live performers. I could live a whole life without seeing Mr John again. The fact that he performed at Limbaugh's 4th wedding was the coup de grace.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 11:47 am
I love Elton John's songs! I never got on the Fantasia love train either.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 11:54 am
<--- Fantasia fan here. I thought she'd have a similar career to Jennifer Hudson's. Still hope that happens for her.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 11:59 am
Fantasia did win a Grammy this year, so she's got a pretty good career. But it's in the R&B realm, which still isn't mainstream. She did get left out of the diva scream-off at the Grammy opening, so skipped the ceremony out of feeling snubbed.
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Holly
Member
07-21-2001
| Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 12:02 pm
I hate the whole "diva" concept. Who started that anyway?
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 12:08 pm
LOL NYH: 'diva scream-off'. 
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Fantasia's music career has actually been far more successful than Ms Hudson's. And yes, she won a Grammy this year and has been nominated, I think, 11 times, so she's doing just great, thanks. One of the problems for Fantasia is that there are so many fine R&B women singing right now and, as Patti Labelle has said, "mainstream" audiences are never going to pay attention to a brown skinned girl with a wide nose as long as they have weaved, light skinned girls singing R&B less well to pay attention to. And Miss Patti should know: what she said about Fantasia is her career in a nutshell.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 1:28 pm
I love Patti Labelle! Now *that's* a diva! Used to like Christina Aguilera, but she's not the diva she thinks she is. She has a powerful voice, but oversings just to show us she can. Meh!
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Maris
Member
03-27-2002
| Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 5:35 pm
Wow Tish, I wonder who the waved light skinned girls singing R&b are. Alicia Keyes????? I doubt it but she fits that profile. I was never a Fantasia fan, I just didn't like that warbly tone in her voice. I loved Jennifer Hudson, loved her on American Idol, voted for her to no avail. I think Jennifer is a better Idol than Fantasia. She has range, versatility and I have to be honest, it really got on my nerves the way they paraded out Fantasika's baby on the show. The show isnt about heartstrings, it is about talent. I am happy Fantasia won but in my mind Jennifer Hudson is a better performer To me, Fantasia is not a favorite not because of a wide nose, heck I don't even remember what her nose looks like
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 5:20 am
For Casey's sake I hope he gets booted soon.
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Kittystj
Member
08-10-2001
| Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 11:07 am
Will they ever bring back Clay?
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Rvon
Member
12-11-2003
| Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 12:19 pm
I agree with you, Maris. I was never a Fantasia fan and, at the time, was not really a Jennifer Hudson fan either......but I do think Jennifer is a much better singer than Fantasia. I don't know who's career is more successful out of these two, but I will take Jennifer any day over Fantasia.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 1:45 pm
Maris said, The show isnt about heartstrings, it is about talent. Um, no, have to disagree with you there. It's about who can pull the most votes. The most talented person doesn't always win. The person who gets the most votes does, and the producers just LOVE to pull those heartstrings. It's all about backstory. I just loved when Katy Perry was a guest host last year and put the smackdown on Kara for talking about someone's great backstory, "This is not a Lifetime movie, sweetheart!" She was right. And yet, they still push the backstory. It is a TV show after all. They have to keep it entertaining. 
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, March 28, 2011 - 7:05 am
I didn't much care for Jennifer Hudson's song last week though...if that is her new release I don't see it taking off. It was a beautiful song and beautifully sung but to me it didn't seem like a "radio song."
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Monday, March 28, 2011 - 7:18 am
My new catch phrase is "Where You At?" That just struck me as so funny!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, March 28, 2011 - 8:53 am
Costa, they had an Elton John theme week a few years ago and it was a train wreck of massive proportions.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, March 28, 2011 - 2:25 pm
LOL Lex. I so don't even remember that! 
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, March 28, 2011 - 2:30 pm
Is that the one where he guest judged and called America a bunch of racists? Lost a lot of respect for Mr. John that day.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 11:16 am
Kinda, sorta Escapee. Elton John mentored them, but didn't guest judge because he had something going on in Las Vegas the night of the show. It was such a train wreck, Simon said something to the effect that somewhere in Las Vegas Elton John is throwing himself off a building. After an AA contestant was voted off that week, Elton John then made those comments.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 11:38 am
Wow. It must've been such a bad show that I immediately erased it from memory. (That, or it was one of the nights I was traveling and totally missed it. That happens every season! I'll miss several of performance shows.)
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 12:34 pm
Costa, I think you blocked it from your memory. Only a couple of contestants had good performances during the first Elton John week. Actually, it was worse than a train wreck. It was a total derailment, toxic gasses were leaked, etc. etc.
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