American Idol Season 8

[dark_phoenix]

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^i've seen that interview (pretty much, i've seen all the interviews and videos nga about ni anoop ... )...i don't care what simon says...

and i'm aware --- and i mean super aware that starting for the last three weeks since the caught up perf, i know it will be anoop's time to go...the judges don't like him (obviously...he gives a very good perf yet they give him lukewarm comments..if uban (to mention gokey) gani bisan mediocre ra, they tend to overpraise..and i think allison doesn't really deserve those overpraising last week...dili ko mailad sa mga judges ... )) esp. the producers (of AI)....

[chad_tukes]

fixed naman ng AI.

[dark_phoenix]

^yeah. ..............

[JENY198]

Before anything else, listen to Susan Boyle's version of "Cry Me A River" now posted on YouTube. That is not a run-of-the-mill voice!

And I would even dare say that she sang better than Patti LuPone, who sang in the Original London Cast recording.

To say her voice was no better than a typical Broadway or West End actor is to trivialize the whole Susan Boyle episode (or should I say saga, as this whole thing plays out in the coming weeks).

First, she was the very anti-thesis of a lot of good-looking people who only think they have talent, people who show up in auditions mouthing off about how good they are, and curse the judges when they are given the thumbs down.

Second, Susan Boyle is exactly why they have shows like "Britain's Got Talent" or "American Idol." Simon Cowell has said it time and again: these shows are for people who would never ever otherwise have had even an iota of a chance of getting into the business. Think Clay Aiken, or Jennifer Hudson, or many of the American Idol contestants who have now gone on to become successful recording artists. Had Susan Boyle walked into a talent agent's office, dili gyud siya tagdon. She wouldn't even have been able to sing a single note before being turned down.

Then there was the reaction of audience and judges alike before and after she sang. They expected a train wreck, but she bowled them over totally. They expected a train wreck because bati siyag nawong ug gurang. Then she sang the first bar and people were on their feet and cheering like crazy. Yes, she shattered their expectations, that expectation being that someone like her had no right to possess a voice like that, and that she had no right to realize her lofty dream of being a professional singer as good as Elaine Paige (notice how members of the audience rolled their eyes when she said she wanted to be like the great musical actress). Audience and judges judged her on her appearance, and as Amanda Holden said, they were all taught a lesson that night.

Her choice of song, "I Dreamed A Dream" from Les Miserables was especially touching. She may just as well have been singing out her own life story. There she was, an unemployed 47-year old, never been kissed by her own admission, who'd spent a large part of her life caring for aging parents and who now finds that most of her life is already behind her; that (as the song goes) her dreams had been "made and used and wasted." The last part of the song is particularly poignant:

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seems
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Members of my own family were moved to tears when they watched Susan Boyle sing. Her song choice had a lot to do with it. If she had sung something sunny and upbeat like "My Favorite Things" (egad), people's reactions would have been totally different.

Okay, going back to AI now. Go Adam Lambert!

I got curious about who this Susan Boyle is...pag tan aw nako karon sa you tube, kay wow...truly amazing. Her you tube views has reached to 6 million plus... it really is something new and different, knowing nga people tend to favor singers who is young and has good looks. Susan changed that view IMHO. Naa sad unta ingon ana diri sa Pinas no.

[JENY198]

Basin matangtang na jud si Anoop next week. Sayang sad, impressive ra ba kaayo to iyang audition. He came in wearing a short lang then Simon criticize it. But when he sang his piece, hahaha! 3 yes's...Sayang lang wa niya na maintain. He really can sing, it's just that someone in that contest is more charismatic and talented than him (Read: Adam Lambert and Kris Allen).

[Tarmac]

When the contest started out, pro- Danny Gokey man ko. Pero after pila na ka weeks sa contest, murag mao man gihapon iyang kinantahan bisan unsang kantaha. Hehehe.

Para nako Kris Allen can outsing Gokey, pero dili lang gyud siya consistent. And for some reason the dead wife thing has earned Gokey a lot of sympathy and solidified it into a fan base.

[chad_tukes]

o mao ra gyud mag sigeg syagit. lolx.

[dark_phoenix]

nalingaw jd ko ni megan dri...

[Tarmac]

nalingaw jd ko ni megan dri...

Non-appearance man to.

[legal_cd]

this is the best season so far