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[Pippin]

ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#1

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:08pm

that little girl in the bottom 4 of america's got talent is horrible!

yeah, I know. she's only 4. I don't care. She's tone deaf. My 4 year old Cousins can sing better than her.

the poor thing has no business being on that show. actually, the poor things PARENTS have no business whoring out thier daughter the way they are. I mean, I know she's gotten this far because we are taught to encourage young people, but, really: does anyone believe people will pay to see a 4 year old sing in Vegas?

I just feel sorry for her, becuase she is going to get voted off tonight (hopefully), and I feel like it's going to kill her inside. 4 year olds aren't ready for that kind of rejection, and I feel that the higher she has gotten, the bigger the drop is going to be for her.

am I just a bitter non-human, or does anyone else feel the same way?
Kaitlyn singing "I'll be there"

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[NGD2225]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#2

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:11pm

There is NO reason for her to be there AT ALL! She's 4 & she is going to headline Vegas? Give it to someone who can sustain an entire show like Neil or Queen Emily.

[bwayfan9]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#2

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:11pm

she's only 4!!!! Do you know how many four year olds can sing a song and sing on pitch and memorize all the words like she did. If she were 20 and you said she sounded like that I could understand, but she sounds like that and she's only 4! When she is older she will be better than Patti Lupone

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[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#3

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:11pm

I feel exactly the same way (as the original poster). What killed me the most was when someone said, "I love your voice; you've got a great voice." She's four, she doesn't have a 'voice.' Four-year-olds' voices are basically indistinguishable from each other anyway... pull over a random four-year-old on the street and it could sing just as well. She's not talented OR untalented for a four-year-old, she's exactly the same as any other four-year-old.

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[bwayfan9]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#4

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:12pm

I think it is really stupid of the parents to let their 4 year old go on a reality show with the chance to be on the vegas stage

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[singingwendy]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#5

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:58pm

"pull over a random four-year-old on the street and it could sing just as well."


I'm going to disagree with this. For 4 she has a pretty good sense of pitch. It's just that physically at age 4 most kids can't sing in tune more than about five or six pitches. I teach elementary school vocal music The first few years are all about pitch matching and gaining control of the singing voice and training the ears. She's obviously got a potential talent, but I agree, no one will pay to see a 4 year old sing in Vegas.

[Weez]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#6

Posted: 10/2/08 at 7:54am

Well, she's more in tune than my 9 year old niece. But srsly; if this were 'Britain's Got Talent', this would be excusable, because even a 4 year old could cope with a slot at the Royal Variety Show. But Vegas? REALLY? You guys need a... Presidential Variety Show or something, 'cos as things currently stand, this is annoying, impractical, and downright irresponsible. The show isn't 'America's Got Talent', it's 'America's Got Enough Talent To Sustain A Show In Vegas', so it should stop pretending to be as inclusive as it's pretending to be.

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Updated On: 10/2/08 at 07:54 AM

[jasonf]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#7

Posted: 10/2/08 at 8:05am

At least the winner was deserving - I picked him as the winner from the auditions -- by far the best in the competition.

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[StockardFan]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#8

Posted: 10/2/08 at 8:33am

I haven't been watching, but I'm thinking she got that far on the "cute" factor?

And yeah, I would never subject my 4 year old child to that.

KFTC!!!!!

[JohnBoy2]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#9

Posted: 10/2/08 at 8:48am

I don't understand the point of this post, at all. That little girl was eliminated from the competition, 2 weeks ago! She wasn't in the top 5, she was in the top 10, and she absolutely deserved to be there. I hate big, fat cry-baby, and especially hate the fact that he won.

[Borstalboy]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#10

Posted: 10/2/08 at 9:49am

Ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...if you watch drek like America's Got Talent, you shouldn't be allowed to have any opinion about anything ever.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[FindingNamo]

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Posted: 10/2/08 at 9:56am

I understand Kaitlyn is going in as Velma Kelly for matinee performances starting in November.

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[Chevstriss]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#12

Posted: 10/2/08 at 10:15am

1948. 4 yr old on vinyl. Talk about whoring out your kid. But I think it's cool how you can hear the record spinning. Wonder if it was originally done on a 78? this mp3 is pulled off 10" 33.

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Updated On: 10/2/08 at 10:15 AM

[Pippin]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#13

Posted: 10/2/08 at 2:50pm

oh, shut your trap, Borstal

at least these people are talented, and it makes for mostly better tv than the majority of scripted crap on tv these days.

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

[JohnBoy2]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#14

Posted: 10/2/08 at 2:56pm

Ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...if you watch drek like America's Got Talent, you shouldn't be allowed to have any opinion about anything ever.

So which drek should we watched to be allowed an opinion? Gossip Girls? The Hills? American Idol? Lost? Countdown with Keith Olbermann? Hannity and Colmes? The Rachel Maddow Show? The Late Show with David Letterman? The Tonight Show? Today? America's Next Top Model? Grey's Anatomy? Which one? Please, please tell us!
Updated On: 10/2/08 at 02:56 PM

[doodlenyc]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#15

Posted: 10/2/08 at 2:57pm

Well, yes to America's Next Top Model, fer sure!

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[lildogs]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#16

Posted: 10/2/08 at 3:30pm

yeah, get off Top Model! Pick on Bottom Model! There's so much more of them!

[Borstalboy]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#17

Posted: 10/2/08 at 3:32pm

But America DOESN'T have talent!

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[cubanpab]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#18

Posted: 10/2/08 at 3:35pm

i got this bitch in a headlock, i had better pitch as a child... and i was only 3!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkRSJ-Cs6pA

:)

[lildogs]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#19

Posted: 10/2/08 at 3:37pm

But that little girl did suck...cmon, wasn't Mozart writing sonatas at that age? She's going to have to bring it to the waltz if she wants to play Vegas.

Vegas doesn't go for sippy cups and fruit roll-ups!

[JohnBoy2]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#20

Posted: 10/2/08 at 3:41pm

But America DOESN'T have talent!

Nor, it would seem, does anywhere else.

[Weez]

re: ok, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to say this...#21

Posted: 10/2/08 at 5:40pm

America *does* have Piers Morgan though. Please please PLEASE feel free to keep him! No, REALLY! ^_^

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