Posted on 01/12/2009 5:57:19 AM PST by silent_jonny
Michael Jackson night and nobody picked:
“Shake You Body Down To The Ground”
I Don’t know what going to happen to yaa, but I do know that I want ya.........
Anyway the dude with the Red classes was good. Red hair 16 year old girl with rock edge is good. Guy on guitar and the one palying keyboard at the end was good. That guy the looks like a mix of Elvis and Flock of seagulls is to 80’s.
ARRGGHH!!
:)
Wow, Allison, Jorge and Jasmine in the bottom three...so that’s where the judges will do their own math to keep them in.
He's not the bad! Madonna's boyfriend totally looks like Richard Ramirez. He was a serial killer in 1980's LA.
I don't watch that show, so I don't know how their system works.
I don't watch it as a rule, but, I have seen some of their eliminations and I think they have where the audience votes, and then the judges pick who leaves.
Jasmine should go home, IMO. She was horrible. Hurt my ears, cats hiding under the bed horrible.
From the limited info they gave, that is the impression I had. Hopefully we are wrong.
I really think Simon is sick of doing AI. British shows don't run nearly as long as they do in the US and I think he wants to kill it.
From what I can gather, they are turning AI more into the same format used for the X Factor. X Factor has 4 judges, special intro for the judges and for elimination they have a sing off for the lowest vote getters with the judges deciding who goes home.
We have been witnessing this sing off business not only at the mansion (top 36) but, also for wold card spots.
I just have a feeling......
Why does AI feel a need to remove the viewers vote results? Has the format worked that badly for them?
First season Kelly Clarkson. They have made a ton of money off her.
Second season. Reuben Studdard. From what I've read THEY pimped him, so if he didn't bring in the money they hoped for, that is their own fault.
Season 3 - Fantaiser. Another one they need to take responsibility for. They are the ones that bashed Jennifer Hudson and pomped for Screechasia.
4. Carrie Underwood, bringing in tons of money for them.
5. Taylor Hicks. They bad mouthed him so bad and never promoted him like they did all their other winners and then wonder why his sales were so poor. His new cd is awesome, I love it and hope he has some great hits with it. Are they still so mad that Daughtry didn't win? Isn't Daughtry bringing in good money for them? Or would Daughtry have been eliminated too early for them to latch onto his money via contracts?
6. Jordan Sparks. Another one they pimped because she was young and they were looking for a pop tart. Didn't matter if she could actually sing well consistently.
Lucky #7 - David Cook, who is sure to bring in tons of money.
So, has the format really been that bad for them, to risk what little credibility they have left by now making viewers votes useless?
Each of their losers, THEY had a hand in creating including Taylor Hicks. Not be cause he is bad, but because they wanted someone else and they never gave him the same promotions or treatment that they have given to all the others, including their favorite niche singers like Fantaiser, Reuben and Jordan.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh....that! Yeah...well....different times different life.
Yeah, I would agree with your assessment. The only thing I would slightly disagree with is Jordin Sparks. She was the best of a very horrible season. Other then Blake Lewis I can’t even remember anyone on that season. Oh wasn’t there a chunky guy with a weird name like Cherokee or Shenandoah or something who we all thought would do well? He sang Nights in White Satin and was cut immediately?
...a life size picture of these two fine people:
Ooohh..there's a prize for the 15,000????
Note to self-->find distracting videos.
Sundance Head. I would agree that was the worst season and Jordan might have been the best, but, that too falls squarely into the judges laps. That's what they get for trying to force a winner by selecting certain types to send to Hollywood.
If they would just let the best singers through and let the system work, the best singers will win. When they tamper with it, is when they get crappy results.
On the whole, I wouldn’t mind giving the judges a little leeway to affect the results. At least early on.
I’ve suggested before that each judge gets one “get out of jail free card” to use, and that each contestant can only benefit from it once. When the “bottom 3” is announced in a given week, one judge may use his/her “get out of jail free card” to make a contestant safe; if that happened to be the lowest vote-getter, than the next-lowest vote-getter would be removed.
After the field is cut down to a reasonable number, the “get out of jail free card” system is no longer in effect. So, after we’re down to, say, 5 or 6 are left, there’d be no more “get out of jail free cards”, even if they haven’t all been used.
From a producer’s standpoint, this would, at the very least, given them some fudge factor as to helping them choose who makes the touring top 10. It also allows them to save a good contestant who just had a bad week. The key would be to have the system limited so that such decisions would be the exceptions, not the rule.
I’m not wild about them changing the judging system after all these years...but I’m certain it’s so no more Tamara Gray’s and Chris Daughtry’s get cut before the end...the judges don’t like it when the one they want to win it all gets booted by America.
I couldn't agree more. Kara is so pointless, in more than one of that word's several meanings.
Your idea wouldn’t be so bad since it would only be allowed 3 times and then its done, no more interference.
If they are going to over ride the voters then why bother letting the public vote in the first place? Because they know that if they remove audience voting, people will lose interest and stop watching.
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