American Idol's fans got it half right tonight, sending home Andrew Garcia after a woeful rendition of Elvis' "Hound Dog," Tuesday night. However, they screwed up mightily by sending home Katie Stevens who delivered a strong "Baby, What Ya Want Me To Do," when, instead it should have been the lacklustre Tim Urban getting the boot for his limp and mumbled version of "Can't Help Falling In Love."
Once again, Idol displayed the banality of pubescent young girls who apparently kept Urban in the competition despite his lack of singing talent. Of course, Urban also had the "X" factor working for him, a subversive Blogsite that early this season identified him as the least-talented Idol performer and vowed to "stuff the ballot" to keep him on the show as long as possible, ala Sanjaya Malakar.
Tonight's voting results also demonstrated again why Idol needs to eliminate multi-texting and limit voting to one text per phone number, per show. The only one benefiting from this voting abuse, besides Urban, is AT&T, which keeps racking up the minutes of network usage and revenues.
If Urban goes on to win this competition, no one in the music industry will ever take this show seriously again.
And that's our view from The A&R Room.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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100% correct! I lost total faith in American Idol when Katie Stevens got sent home last night. It was complete bullshit
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! Katie should have stayed on! She deserved it.
ReplyDeleteI can't agree with you more. I thought I was the only person who sees through Tim's ability to stay on the show regardless of his lack of talent. I still don't understand how he made it on the show in the first place. Perhaps American Idol keeps him on for a reason, like any good show there has to be an antagonist...a few martyrs...and a hero. In the end will it be Crystal? or Lee? It's very possible he will be up there in the end against any of these two favorites. We will see!
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