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Wargod

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 10:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to agree about that. They go in there really thinking they have talent and they just don't! What gets me even more is the fact that they have to have family and friends who know what that they can't sing....so why don't they tell them? I know I can't sing at all, so wouldn't try, but still, I'd want someone to tell me I could't sing if I decided to do that!

Fruitbat

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 10:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I only watched last year at the end. I have a question. After next week do they air just once a week and if so anyone know which day of the week? Or do they do 2 nights for awhile? Fox only lists next weeks schedule.

Hermione69

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 11:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Fruitbat, I think they keep it at two nights. The audience will be involved soon and they have the performance show followed by the audience voting one night and the results/elimination the next. The performance show is usually an hour and the elimination is usually a half-hour.

Denecee

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 11:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
There is no way that Simon, Randy and Paula supervise every audition. I think that they have scouts going down the line who eliminate most and let the ones who have a chance go thru as well as some who don't have a chance(for the ratings). To act so shocked and hurt when told they can't sing is crazy.

Fruitbat

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 11:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I was thinking the same thing. They have some staff weed out the obvious riff raff. The guys with symbols on there a$$ or anything totally off the wall.

The auditions are edited and mixed up but you can tell which ones are just before a break by Paula's reaction. When she is short and rude for her, you know she has been sitting there a long time. She is precious.

Fruitbat

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 11:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Herm.

Tabbyking

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 11:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
fruit, when i first started reading your post, i put the wrong inflection on your sentence that begins "they have some staff weed"... and thought maybe the staff had to smoke a little doobie before they could bring themselves to listen to auditions!

paula is looking more and more like michael jackson...lol

Kady

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 11:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Those twin boys looked familiar to me like maybe I had seen them as guest stars on a tv show.

They are giving us more audition shows this year. Last year I think it was only 2. I am enjoying them very much.

Pamy

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 02:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They looked like little Justins

Jbean

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 04:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
webkitty, actually the adult singer from star search is 28. he is from a nearby town, and his mom was on the front page of the newspaper today, talking about last night's show.

he is too old to do AI :(.
he was really good i thought too. he was the lead singer for a band call 4 jax that did 80's cover songs all the time at a local bar. they are really good too. they are supposed to be back in town sometime in feb, depending on how he does on the show. we shall see.

oh, and the star search thread is over in just regular tv shows.

Luvmom

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 06:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kady,one of the boy twins auditioned last year for the first one.Simon said he was horrible.He said he didn't think so.Simon asked if he thought he was a good singer.He said he didn't think so,he knew so ,or something like that.It was the shorter one of the two.If you have the dvd,He is shown on it.

Kady

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 07:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Luvmom...I just knew I had seen them before. It was driving me nuts!! :)

Fruitbat

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 07:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lovin' ya Tabby. :)

Tabbyking

Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 08:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
back at you, fruit!!

did you all see conan o'brien's show last night with simon on it? it was so funny...at one point, some guy dressed as paula abdul pretended to critique simon--and one of the lines was, "it's like poop telling vomit it stinks!"

Whoami

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 01:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, I just got to watch my tape from last night's show.

Is it just me, or do the "pained expressions" on the judges seem a bit over the top. I mean, some of the cross-eyed type looks Paula was doing right at the camera was too staged, too often, and too pained. I'm thinking they were either told to ham it up on the pained expressions, or they were just so bored, they took it upon themselves to do it.

The "boxer chick" looked staged to me too. Her "I beg to differ" line was much too theatrical. And all of her "lines" in the interview were either badly practiced lines (that she had to think about to remember each line), or she was on something.

I agree, Paula and Michael Jackson are starting to look like clones of each other!

Jbean

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
their faces crack me. some of those peeps i wouldn't know how to react to, either. i mean do they really think they are good singers? i thought i was going to die laughing about "the greatest love of all" guy that just kept on singing after they were speechless and didn't stop him.

i imagine it would get really old having to listen to literally thousands of people sing in one day. but the looks probably are encouraged by the producers as well. i just LOVE this show!

Djgirl5235

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 05:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
There have been many articles on the auditions process over the past few months. There are actually three sets of auditions:

Producers
if you pass with them, you see:
Executive Producers
if you pass with them, you see:

Paula, Simon & Randy.

The producers of the show have made it very clear that it's more about good tv than about finding the next superstar. Given the ages of the contestants, they know that most of the time (note, I did say MOST)these "stars" don't last too long in the spotlight, and they want the show to be memorable. Now, let me ask a question, who have we all been talking about since Tuesday night? Sure, we've brought up Frenchie, and is it JD? But most of us have been talking about Mileux and Edgar... that's what they want us to be talking about right now.

I absolutely love this show, and love the fact that we can sit and laugh and just enjoy it.

Rissa

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 06:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
>>>Producers
if you pass with them, you see:
Executive Producers
if you pass with them, you see:

Paula, Simon & Randy. >>>

Oh man, well now I feel sorta sorry for all those off-tune, would-be crooners!! The above explains(potentially) a lot.... If I thought my singing *wasn't bad*, spent a dozen hours in a line-up getting hyped up by thousands of others and their energy, then was approved by the prod., went into another select line and am then approved by the ex. prod..... I just might be convinced that I was actually talented too. Then you FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY get in front of *THE THREE* and they laugh at you? Ya, probably explains a lot of the angry reactions.

Wcv63

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 08:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw Simon on Letterman the other night (good interview btw....Simon was wearing a gigolo shirt, too funny) and he said that the screeners try to include a cross-section in the ones they let through; the really good, the okay middle of the road, and the really bad.

If the twins are split up I wonder how their voices will fare? I don't think they'll make the cut to the final 32 (yes I heard 32...don't know why, when last time they had 30).

I kinda liked the military guy and think he really played up the military persona in order to get auditioned...I think his image will morph and I hope he makes it through. Simon actually identified himself as RAF (Royal Air Force) when telling the guy "at ease. Interesting.

Flowergirl

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 05:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
HELP!!! does anyone have a tape of the first two shows I can buy. I was out of town and I didn't set the vcr right, boo hoo.

Jedisan

Monday, January 27, 2003 - 10:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Did anyone see the half time show (of the Superbowl) where SNL did a short version of the Weekend Update.

When they were announcing the cast - all of them were American Idol spoofs.
Traci Morgan did that guy with the safety pin shirt (?) it was hilarious. Also, Rachel did the boxing girl, complete with the "I beg to diffa!"

Also, I just read on Drudge, that the Marine who tried out, and made it to the first round, is scheduled to go on active duty IMMEDIATELY, but they are giving him an extension while he is still on AI.

If he makes it through, we should keep voting him through, just so he does not have to go be in this crappy war.

Serate

Monday, January 27, 2003 - 02:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
First of all I want to say I'm not attacking anybody or their beliefs, and I do NOT believe War at this moment is necessary. That said....

"Also, I just read on Drudge, that the Marine who tried out, and made it to the first round, is scheduled to go on active duty IMMEDIATELY, but they are giving him an extension while he is still on AI."

I think this is WRONG. Why should he get an out and others with family obligations which to me should be considered more important still have to go? I guess what bother's me most is people who sign up for the military as a job. Their job is to learn how to defend and to defend their country when needed. Then they don't want to do their job when it gets dangerous. Unless this Marine is one of those people who was to get out of the service this year and a hold was put on his release [which I think is wrong], he should do his job as he was hired to do, and defend his country. Personally I feel only those who are drafted [which there are no draftees at the moment] and those who were denied their freedom of choice to leave the military when their contract ended are the ones who should not be shipped out.

Just my opinion and I don't mean to offend anybody.

Fruitbat

Monday, January 27, 2003 - 04:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Seems strange to me too.

Car54

Monday, January 27, 2003 - 04:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but when were the first round of auditions filmed?
I did not watch the first one, just started watching last week, so I don't know how far ahead they did the premims.

The situation in Iraq has been heating up in the past 2 months..did he try out earlier and it is now just airing?

Also, it is not unprecedented for the military to have people who serve by participating in PR related activities... recruiting, entertainment, etc.

Seems like the military can't win on this one tho. If he gets a delay, some will find that wrong, if they make him go, others will be upset for him missing his big chance. No way to make everyone happy on this touchy a subject.

Maris

Monday, January 27, 2003 - 04:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If you look back to the old shows from the fifties and early sixties (the groucho marx show, whats my line, etc) it was very common for military personnel to be on these shows. It is great p.r. for the armed forces. If this guy has a shot of going all the way, he will do more p.r. wise for the army in terms of recruitment. He is serving a purpose. The armed forces is not just people in the trenches. There are people who run run the radio stations, who meet with the press and yes....those who compete on game shows.

I am sure that as a career military man he will unfortunately find himself in some conflict somehwere in the globe. In the meantime, he gets a week or two in LA. Why not.

Car54

Monday, January 27, 2003 - 04:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maris, that is what I was thinking. I think President Reagan did his service that way if I recall. (Appearing in public relations promos)

Fruitbat

Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 04:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
PR makes sense. I was at a loss for a reason.

Djgirl5235

Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 04:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Car - the auditions were held around October/November, so yes, they are just now showing them, and the final 32 are getting ready to wow us next week!

Seamonkey

Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 06:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Guess I posted in the general AI thread, but two different LA stations said that per the Marine Corps, there have been no special dispensations for this Marine and that his unit has always been scheduled to remain at Camp Pendleton..

Car54

Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 06:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks DJ and Seamonkey! The producers are so desperate for males they are probably really grateful to have this guy...he was one of the "not horrible" ones, and he had a nice prescence...don't think he is a real competitor, but who knows?

The cheeseball local fox tabloid part of the news here is giving this story air time too.

Maris

Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 10:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/28/tv.idol.marines.reut/index.html

cant believe people are making a thing of this.