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Llkoolaid

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 06:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Does it look like Kim Locke is losing weight to anyone else but me.

Spygirl

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 06:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Lori! Get your butt into chat so I can kick it! :)

Spygirl

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 07:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It isn't just you, Llk, I agree. She looks slimmer. And what a beautiful face she has - thinner or not. Very pretty.

Hermione69

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 07:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
FRUITBAT! Where ya been? I thought about you when Piano Man came on! I was just so glad that Clay didn't do that one because I know how you feel about it, and Uptown Girl!

I enjoyed Clay (surprise!) and Kim L. and Ruben the best. I was rather surprised to hear Josh get as good comments as he did because his version of Piano Man sounded very, very, very country to me. Maybe my ears were deceiving me. Wouldn't be the first time!

I missed Ricky.

I enjoyed Kim C. but I wanted her to sing that song so I was biased. I agreed with Randy about Trenyce-- I thought she oversang it a bit, but I still like her, sticky, flapping fingers and all.

I think Carmen is out of her league. But she is such a pretty little thing and seems to be a sweetheart. I can't help liking her.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 07:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Interesting.. at the end of the show, Kim L was at the bottom of the AOL poll.. and then she pulled up just above Carmen, and now Carmen is in last with 3% while Kim L and Trenyce have 4% and Kim looks to be catching up to Trenyce. She must have really impressed people tonight.. Can't wait to watch it.

Donut

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 07:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i am so glad to hear that Kim L is moving up in the pool. It drives me nuts that she doesnt get votes! I sure hope people come around and vote for her.. For some reason i got thru the lines for the first time ever and voted for her several times.. VOTE FOR KIM L!!!!!
btw, I also noted that she is thinner every week. It worries me. I just hope that she is not on some dangerous starvation diet to try and make herself look more like the typical pop idol type..

Walker

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 08:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
llkoolaid..i think you are right..thats the first thing i said when kim l. came out on stage is that she looks like she's lost weight and she's such a pretty doll too.

Maris

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 08:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I go back to the early days when they were doing the auditions and I clearly remember Simon making a comment about Kimberly L and her not having "the look" to make it. It was clear he was talking about her weight. I always thought that everytime she was at the bottom three it went back to the audience remembering Simon's comments and had nothing to do with her talent.

From early on in the auditions she has consistently demonstrated her talents and it looks like the audience is actually listening to her instead of making a judgement on her personal appearance.

Does anyone else remember that episode where Kimberly and another singer, forget her name but she was heavy as well, were talking about Simon and his attitude about their weight?

Dee

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 08:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My favorite part was when Simon said, "I'm not trying to be negative"... rofl!!!!

Seamonkey

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 08:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think she's lost weight, but tonight she also dressed in a way that really looks great on her.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 08:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think that was sincere, Simon.

Jimmer

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 09:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The reality is that image is part of the performance. If it wasn't part of the performance then we would be listening to American Idol on the radio, instead of watching in it on TV, and no one would worry about getting a good seat at a concert as long as they could hear it. Having said that, Kim L. is getting better and better in every way each week. Her performance tonight was super and she seems to have found a style that really accentuates her best qualities.

Walker

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 09:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
personally i really did'nt think that kim l. sang the song all that great..it was missing something as far as i'm concerned..i was hoping she would have done it more like barbara streisand did it.

Tishala

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 09:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
streisand's version of NY State of Mind is a classic, that's fo sho

Mr Joel said his mother said she knew he'd made it when Babs did his song....heehee

Curious1

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 09:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
man simon's comments to carmen where way brutal and totally out of line IMO, it also just added salt to the wound because randy was over there saying he agreed with simon. I'm all for constructive criticism but how can saying 'you sound like a kid performing awfully for her parents and if you were my kid I'd tell you to SHUT UP'! I agree with Ryan "we should all be grateful simon isn't a parent"!

I do agree with him about Clay though, he does make these weird facial expressions (like he's half asleep or his eyes are about to roll back into his head). He has a great voice and if I don't watch him, I enjoy his voice even more if it's possible to enjoy it more.

I read here where someone said josh admitted to singing piano man because it was country-ish and garth brooks had sang it also. I thought I heard josh say that he thought everyone would expect him to sing "shameless" because it was country-ish and garth brooks had sang it, therefore he picked piano man to show he can mix the country and the pop styles together?

Watching2

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 09:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Curious,

That's what I thought Josh said also. He said something to the effect of, "it's not American POP Idol, not American COUNTRY Idol, just American Idol." And he did pick the song to show he could do something a bit different, yet still make it his style.

Walker

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
curious and watching..you are both right that is exactly what josh said.

Whoami

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought Rueben looked a bit slimmer too tonight. It could have been his clothes. But I swear he looked less "thick" in the mid-section!

Cathie

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<<With Clay it is the one half closed eye. I wondered if that was what people meant by lazy eye.>>

Sadiesmom, lazy eye (also called amblyopia) is a condition where the vision is not equal in both eyes, usually one eye with normal vision and the other with poor vision. It can be corrected in young children by glasses and patching the good eye a few hours every day, but if left untreated can result in a permanent vision loss in that eye that cannot be corrected, even with glasses.

Clay appears to me to be squinting quite a bit. I think I remember him wearing glasses in the audition (does anybody have this on tape?) so I wonder if he is adjusting to contact lenses--that adjustment can make you squint a lot in the beginning, especially in bright lights.

Rabbit

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kim L, was best tonight and it is important that she wins. She obviously has a soul which would hinder her in pursuing her backup vocation.

Clay second best. He is confident and I suspect has a good sense of humor.

Rueben, good voice, better than anyone last year but not really a distinctive voice.

Kimberly C, belongs on TV, pretty, energetic, great smile, gracious and poised. Fire Ryan (who I don't mind) and make Kim C the hostess.

Kelly Clarkson, fifth place if she competed this year. Good voice when she sings but often slips into screaming instead. Must have had some rally squad training.

Josh, surprised me, did better at a tough song than I thought he would. Props for Josh tonight.

Ty-whitney, try listening with your eyes closed, she really is a good singer but wont advance much further on this show.

Carmen, ouch, her poorest performance. So bad that her fans will know they have to rally around her so she will probably slide through. If you're going to be bad, be really bad so your fans know you need their help.

Sadiesmom

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah, thank you Cathy, that sounds good.

I think Clay does need some dance lessons.

Maybe he is one of those Southern Baptists (a small subset, is what I mean) that do not believe in dancing. I had a friend like that from Texas, but she was not allowed to listen to music either.

Gadzooks

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did anyone notice that Carmen had lots of facial acne tonight? I think the stress is getting to the poor kid. Even all that heavy pancake makeup didn't cover it. She's cute, but the voice isn't that strong. She'll be gone tonight.

Tishala

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 11:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah I noticed that Gadzooks. Poor thing. She is lovely...and needs to go home.

Realmom

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 12:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Finally, my Billy Joel night of songs. I wish he had been the guest judge (nothing against Smokey Robinson, though). I'm just curious if Billy Joel would have been an honest judge or a fawning judge like some of the others have been. My daughter is in Mexico building houses for Spring Break, so she'll have to watch it later on tape, but she is going to be really happy there really was a Billy Joel song night.

My one disappointment was that some of them didn't sing some of the more obscure Billy Joel songs. I would have loved to hear Lullaby, In the Middle of the Night, Leningrad, Alexa or Say Goodbye to Hollywood. Oh, well--I'm happy with any of his music.

I'd have to say I was pretty much in agreement with Simon tonight, but I usually am.

Kimberly C - I didn't think this was the right song for her. Her voice is too rough sounding for my tastes, but I don't think she was the worst tonight.

Ruben - Ruben is always good, but I don't think he was at his best tonight. He has great vocal control, but the song seem out of his range tonight, losing some words from lack of support. He has stayed with a change in fashion and that is great. I agree, that I'd like to hear him sing something "different" next week.

Kimberly L. - Great look, great song for her. She was fantastic! I haven't voted for weeks because I think my favorites have been safe, but I don't think she has the fan base of some of the others and she deserves to stay. I voted for her quite a few times.

Carmen - This is my pick for this week's boot. And So It Goes is a gorgeous song, but she wasn't phrasing it right. Add to that the vocal yodel and major pitch problems. I don't know if they record music to accompany the style of the contestants or if they have canned music that they have to adapt to, but this was all wrong. Didn't they have an orchestra to sing with last year? My daughter's Concert Choir sang this two years ago and it was gorgeous in 4 parts. She is just out of her league. Was that a strapless dress over a printed t-shirt? Huh?

Joshua - He picked a good song for him because he can pull off the upper registry, but he didn't sound very good until he got up there. It sure sounded country to me...

Trenyce - Good performance, and Baby Grand is one of my favorites. It was the first Billy Joel song my kid played on the piano and is one of those pieces you can really put your soul into. She will never get my vote though.

Clay - He had me going for a moment when I thought he had turned Tell Her About It into a ballad. The change in tempo was just what he needed. He was superb!

I really think the AI contestants read this board. We discuss certain things in depth we would like to see change one week, and the change is made the following week. Or is it just a coincidence...

Monkeyboy

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 12:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
All I have to say is that I HATE HATE HATE "The Piano Man!"

Thank You :)