A big part of the whole American Idol experience these days is to check the predictions board over at Dial Idol after the voting has closed each week, but not so much to see who is getting kicked off, because it’s much too early in the season for those predictions to be accurate. Indeed, the [...]
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Vote For The Worst brings us their Top 5 American Idol myths, and gives us a look at how the audition process really works. The auditions take place over one or two days and everyone gets to see Simon, Paula, and Randy. We see a truthful depiction of each audition. The bad singers are not [...]
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Jacob at Television Without Pity is on fire this week with his American Idol recaps. And with this passage in particular, explaining why Simon has to be “mean”: The fact is that if you, an Idol hopeful, have no business being there, he has no business making you feel like you do. That’s counterproductive for [...]
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See, I was just saying three days ago that the voting on American Idol has nothing to do with the singing. And then, just because the universe likes proving me right, Chris got voted out last night in a “big” “shocking” “twist” “episode”. And while this does prove me right that the singing skill of [...]
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It aggravates me when people talk about American Idol, and how they’re upset that the “best singer” got kicked off early, or that the “best singer” didn’t win, and they always invariably say, “I thought this was supposed to be a singing competition?” And the answer I give (and the more I watch the show [...]
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