Rand Rambles

**Spoilers ahead**

The downward spiral continues. Say what you want but I don’t think Siobhan should’ve been eliminated tonight. Yeah she screams a lot and her hyena screams last night were a bit too much, but come on, there are other people there which are less exciting than her. At least her weirdness provided something to look forward to.  What happened with a season that the judges mentioned as one where girls would rule? It has become a sausage fest, and well the sausages left are not too exciting. I still wish Alex Lambert would’ve gone through to the top 12, yeah he looked scared pretty much all the time but he was very good. Now it is up to Crystal Bowersox to single-handedly beat the crap out of all those mediocre singers. 

This is the order that Crystal should kick them out:
Big Mike – Let’s get rid of him before he gets hired by Ambien and puts the whole universe to sleep. Spinning piledriver, Crystal.
Aaron Kelly – What is this kid still doing here? David Archuleta was much better and I’m not even a fan of Archie. Triple uppercut, Crystal.
Casey James – He’s pretty talented but I really don’t see the appeal. Punch through his sunken chest, Crystal.
Lee Dewyze – I really like Lee’s voice but he’s starting to bore me and on stage he has the personality of a pickle. Roundhouse kick to the face, Crystal.

Pretty sure this post shows how bored I really am with this season of Idol.

By the way, I wonder if anyone will even go to see this group on tour. I went last year mainly to see Adam and Megan Joy and the year before to see David Cook. This year… Not even Crystal or Siobhan make it worth it. I guess I’ll just enjoy seeing Lady GaGa in July.

Goodbye Siobhan, hopefully we’ll see you somewhere after this.

I’ve been wondering for a weeks now what the hell happened to American Idol. The show is pretty much a mess and I don’t think Paula was that important as to make such an impact in the show by leaving. So, there, Paula has nothing to do with it. Ellen? I don’t think so, even though she doesn’t bring THAT much, she is funny and I wouldn’t consider her responsible for the show being crap. Simon leaving after this season? Meh. I don’t think that would be good enough reason for this season to be trash. It will be reason for next season to be garbage but not this one.

So, what happened? Adam Lambert broke American Idol. He ruined it. From the moment he came as a runner-up last season, Idol was doomed. Why? Because Adam Lambert, love him or hate him, brought the show to new heights of entertainment. One week he would be a badass rocker singing a dirty song like Whole Lotta Love and then the following he would be a mellow, Elvis-like, smooth singer melting old hags’ hearts with Track of my Tears. Every week he would top Twitter trending topics because he just made people talk, he intrigued some who were blind to the fact that he is gay(seriously) and everyone had an opinion, he was everywhere. Still pretty much is.

Now, this season, everything seems bland, everything seems boring. Even performances that in other seasons may have been great, in this season seem like trying to hard and falling short. Idol producers know all this and even though they say that they brought Adam back to help him in sales, they know they needed him to give a spark to a show that is slowly dying. It worked. His performance tonight brought memories of what made last season great, theatrical, manic, out of boundaries, crazy, Adam Lambert. The guy just knows how to entertain and by what he did tonight he can give a run for their money to other actual mentors and performers that have come to Idol.

So, Season 9, stop trying. Let Crystal win, since she is the only one that at the moment has proved that she got what it takes, or give Adam the prize and have him record another album, with a less campy cover art.

(by the way, his album has some great songs and a remix ep was just released. good stuff) – iTunes links

Man, what a difficult season. Difficult to watch I mean. It’s even harder for me since I decided to cut my cable a few weeks ago but wow, this season is BORING. There’s nothing that pulls me every week to watch, even having a way to watch it I just skip through most performances after the first ten seconds because they are just bland. I miss the days when David Cook would take a known song and spin it around making us think: Wow this could be a hit today. I also miss the days when Adam Lambert would make us wonder what type of hairstyle, make-up or song he would be bringing to the show. Love them or hate them, they made the show worth watching. Heck, even Carrie Underwood who just stood there, bland as can be, was a lot better. Don’t get me wrong, I love her, but on Idol, she had no star quality, just a great voice. Only when singing Alone, I was like: Yeah good for you, girl!

Yes, there are some highlights this season. Crystal Powderbox, ahem, Bowersox is great. She just is, she has a great style, really cool voice and is different from what has come out of Idol. Lee Dewyze has a really good voice, but he is as bland as an unsalted eggplant. Siobhan has been one of my favorites since the beginning but mainly because of her weirdness and kickass name, yeah, she has a good voice but I’m kinda getting tired of her, she need to step it up and by the way, Siobhan, dear, please talk a bit faster. As my friend Matthew stated this week, sheeeee taaaaaalks soooooo slooooowww. And then we have Tim Urban, yeah the boy is cute, whatever, but come on people that makes him just a tiny little step up from Sanjaya and Jaya had the hair to carry him through. Something positive about Tim? He seems pretty well spoken, I’m pretty sure he could do well in a show where singing talent is not totally required, you hear me Disney? Give the boy a job on High School Musical 12. And by the way, his smile creeps me out, too static I guess. Then we have Katie Stevens who up until now has made me want to throw stuff at my TV but this week she wasn’t too bad, her stylist need to be fired though she ain’t Susan Boyle. Andrew Garcia? In Hollywood week I was like Wow, dude is great; but then he became as average as a betta fish. Aaron Kelly, don’t even get me started, he’s tiny, I don’t know, get rid of him already. Casey James has a cool voice and plays guitar but something stops me from rooting for him, maybe the goldilocks or the sunken chest that he exposed to Kara, don’t know dude, lift some weights. Who did I forget? Oh yeah, Big Mike, maybe because every time I think of him I yawn and fall asleep for exactly two minutes and forty-three  seconds, which somehow is making this season of Idol more bearable.

All this made Idol history. Why? Because this week for the first time the crapfest that is Dancing With The Stars cut into Idol’s ratings, not for long but they did. So, what is Idol to do? Switch it up, so they become water cooler talk again, since everyone has just been talking about Kate Gosselin‘s amazing dancing routines and Pamela Anderson’s boobs. This week I tweeted that Big Mike and Aaron Kelly were gonna be in the bottom two, they were and Big Snooze got the lowest number of votes so, he was eliminated. Or was he? No, the judges SAVED HIM! Are you serious? I guess they wanted that to create buzz, it just made me take another nap. All this means is that next week, two contestants will be eliminated and there will be no SAVE. That can pose a problem. Why?

Here is why… Adam Lambert will be next week’s mentor. I really like Adam, his style, his music and loved him on Idol, pretty sure he has been one of the best contestants in all seasons. But as a mentor? Seems a bit desperate, not from him, but from the producers of Idol, bringing him over Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood which are more well established and have a bunch of hit songs is a very interesting choice. BUZZ… that’s all they want. This show I am gonna watch since I am a fan, I know he will bring a different perspective as a former contestant which this group needs because it seems that they even forgot they were competing. Makes me wonder… Adam’s biggest experience is in shows, theatre, etc. Could it be possible that is a Broadway theme? I read somewhere that he will be mentoring them in Vegas, could it be possible that it will be a Vegas theme? Elvis theme? Little White Chapel Theme where all of them sing shotgun wedding songs? I don’t know but if it really is something close to show songs, some of the biggest “contenders” this season may have a little bit of trouble. Anyway, a few weeks ago I tweeted that the show needed some Adam Lambert and I’m glad they brought him back.

So what’s gonna happen? Will they just decide to cancel the season after next week? We can only hope. But it will not happen. Just give the prize to Crystal and get it over with Idol.

I know, I know, some of them are more into red than fuchsia, but still, it’s a little crazy for me that through 6 different seasons that hair color has prevailed. I mean, it’s not a totally normal hair color like, black, brown or blonde. But all that red makes me wonder… Why?

• Does it have something to do with the producers decisions?
• Is there a mastermind behind all this hair dye?
• Is this a result of some frivolous plan to make everyone in the universe want to have their hair this color?
• Is this part of the marketing put in place for Coca-Cola? Red cups, red hair?

I don’t know I may be getting carried away but who knows, maybe one day one of them will break the secret code and open up to the public and spill the beans. Until that moment we will have to live knowing that as long as Idol lives there is a high chance of seeing more ladies with this unusually strong hair color. Anyway, the way I see it, Idol may not have too many years left, X-Factor will take over, in my opinion. So we may know sooner rather than later.

WHY?

The more I listen to this week’s performances the more I realize that some of these people are really good singers that had a below average night. It’s not surprising on Idol for the first week to be semi-disastrous. Some contestants that have barely made it through the top 24, went through and in one case ended in the top 6, Anoop Desai for example, who had to be brought back by the judges as a wildcard.

Yesterday was the first elimination and I’m not entirely happy about how it turned out, I think there were people that deserved to go home more than who did, at least on the guys side. But , this is American Idol, and at the end of the day, the voters decide, unless the producers shovel someone down our throats and we fall for it.

If the judges have a wildcard round this season, which I haven’t heard about yet and haven’t seen it on the Idol calendar I wouldn’t be surprised if they bring Tyler Grady, but it’s very early to tell since not a lot of them have been eliminated yet. I like that guy, yeah I know, his chin is humongous and distracting at times, but I think he has a cool voice and I like how he performs, give him a bottle of Jack, throw him in a sewer for an hour and he can be the male Ke$ha.

At this point in the competition, with one week down, my favorites are the following.

Do you have any favorites yet? Sound off in the comments!