NEW IDOL THREAD -BROADWAY SONGS — Page 8

can i say this episode was traumatizing? my poor ears couldn't take anymore so i switched to Gilmore Girls. the only performances i liked were Carrie and Constantine.

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AI TOP 5:
CARRIE (who I think its the most plastic and pathetic emotionless performer of them all and dont understand all the LOVE for her, has a pretty good voice)
VONZEL
NADIA
BO
CONSTINTINE

GOING HOME THIS WEEK: Well, since he should have gone home last week, SCOTT needs to get the hell off of this show now - HES AWFUL! I'd follow that up with Anwar, then Nico, then Anthony! Leaving the Top 5!

I enjoy watching American Idol, but seriously, these performances this evening, would just heighten the image that all Broadway is made of is old-sounding music (i.e. the Roger's and Hammertstein classics). When you have a show like American Idol made up of a bunch of wannabe pop singers, why would any of them decide to choose and screw wonderful Broadway classics. Honestly, someone needs to help them with the song selection. With the styles that the performers claim to envelope, why not choose more modern pieces? Oh well, it's over now!

WHEW!

Phantom05

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I have resisted the urge to read this thread since I had to videotape and just now got to watch...

My verdict is: no wonder there's a massive public who doesn't like musicals -- this was all old stuff sung in painful ways. ugh. Almost made *me* not love musicals. (too late to really turn that tide...)

Pippin is one of my all time favourites, so I'm usually pretty defensive about various interpretations of it. Given that fact, I am somewhat surprised that I liked Bo's different twist on "Corner of the Sky". I quite enjoyed it. Refreshingly different. (with a few lyrics that were different?!)

I note Nadia and Vonzell did better than the others, but I was bored by pretty much everyone else. (How can I be bored with musicals!?) Can we vote 2 people off this week? I choose Scott (*yikes*) and Anthony (poor song choice weirdly executed)

Great article about tonight's show in USA Today already online:
Then Anthony Federov tried to Climb Every Mountain and fell off the cliff...

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I know I shouldn't rise to the bait but I must:

1) These songs are part of Music History. To think that anyone who is hoping to have a career as a professional musician DOESN'T know "Climb Every Mountain" or "Hello Young Lovers" is appalling to say the least. I guess the dire predictions of art education in our schools are absolutely correct.

2) These judges are idiots. Yes, Simon, a song from the 1950's is "Old Fashioned." However, YOUR production company told her to sing a song from a "Classic Musical." Putting a wildy inappropriate backing arrangement just makes it worse.

3) Vocalists should be able to sing in a variety of styles. Excusing an abymsmal performance because "It's a Show Tune" is embarrassing.

4) During the course of the evening, these milestones of the American Theatre were dismissed as bad, boring, pathetic, awful...might I say that the LEAST Successful of these songs is still much more popular than "A Moment Like This" which is the most successful AI song, all but forgotten 4 years after it's release.

And Paula Abdul needs some sort of medication.

I think that last season would of been a better group to do showtunes with. I personally loved Fantasia's "Summertime." Jennifer Hudson had a very Broadway style voice, and I remember Latoya doing really well when she sang "Somewhere" from WSS for the movie night last year.

While I don't agree with what the author of the USA Today article seemed to be saying about musicals in general, that article was absolutely hilarious in its recaps of the performance and commentaries about Paula Abdul (who's wigs are becoming a bit too obvious)

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In case anyone still cares.....

Bottom 3 were:

Vonzell (?!)-- She sang People -- 3rd fewest votes
Scott -- Impossible Dream
Nikko -- One Hand, One heart -- voted off

Vonzell was one of the better 3. Anthony wasn't voted off and Scott wasn't voted off. There is no justice.

I'm really upset that scott wasn't voted off. Nico had one off night, scott hasn't had any GOOD nights!

Wow, I was really sad I had missed the episode, but after reading what y'all had to say --> I'm really glad I drank wine, watched "Lost," and cleaned my apartment instead.

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This just goes to prove my point - When forved to choose between "Lost" and any other show, choose "Lost." And wine, always choose wine. If forced to watch Idol, drink wine. Lots of it.

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