Sunday, May 11, 2008

American Idol, Season 7

Every season... every single one, the person I like doesn't win. Doesn't matter when or where, but they never win. Usually they don't even make the finals.
Since now I don't care who wins anymore, I figure I should summarize how I felt about this year on American Idol. There were a few contestants that I thought had a chance to actually be good, and they were. Michael Johns was one. The other was the kid living out of his car that didn't make it to Hollywood. He was genuinely talented and had a story that people could get into. The rest of these jokers are so generic that it is laughable. It is like American Idol cut off a session of travelling the country looking for people to be in a band and just decided to let the 32 fight it off to be the top 1. You have your rocker girl, your rocker guy, your diva girl, your diva guy, your cute young girl, your cute young guy, the folksy girl, the folksy guy, and of course you have Michael Johns... but I digress. So it is now down to David, David, and Syesha. David Cook is the one that I am hoping wins because he is the only one that doesn't previously have a relationship with a record company or a reality singing show. Plus he is actually a good singer unlike the other David. I can't stand the fact that he STARTS a song being out of breath. Syesha isn't a bad singer, but I can't stand her for various reasons, most of which were obvious during the early rounds. Also, Brian Dunkleman, season 1 co-host with Seacrest,said that Clay Aiken actually had the most votes for the final in season 2 but they gave the title to Ruben anyway. And it isn't even so much that people don't know the show is somewhat rigged... but it is like professional wrestling. They watch anyway.
So now is just the wait until Archuleta wins the title, and next season starts.

And for the record, my picks to win (not who I thought WOULD win)
2- Clay Aiken (2nd)
3- George Huff (5th)
4- Bo Bice (2nd)
5- Chris Daughtry (4th)
6- Chris Sligh (10th)
7- Michael Johns (8th)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you not have a season one preference? Or was Yellie your fav?

Jason said...

I didn't watch Season 1... didn't know anything about Yelly Clarkson until probably weeks or months later.