#312 - idol again, girls top 12

hmm, so i'm trying this new thing called "having a social life." it's difficult. so much easier to sit home in quiet and blog all night, but i think the "having a life" is probably the better path to take right? anyway, that's why there haven't been a lot of blog posts lately, but american idol is on again, and even though i've been getting more and more anti-idol show by show since the end of season 7, criticizing the contestants is still a fun thing to do after watching the show. so here we go:

first week, top 12 girls, they keep saying things like "this is the best group of girls we've ever had," which just means that they're trying to hype up something that really isn't there. so i'm not expecting much. this year i really haven't gotten to invested into anything idol yet this season. the auditions were all pretty crappy i thought (perhaps just 2 or 3 that i really remembered) and i don't care about any of the contestants yet so i figured i'd just wait until the actual voting to dive into "caring about it." so here are my thoughts on the contestants:

1. paige miles - i don't remember her at all from the auditions. so she has a big voice but she's a mess with it, trying to do too many things, i don't like that. this is very NOT my preference so... pass. but at least she's kinda funny, i guess she can stick around for that "pee" comment.

2. ashley rodriguez - ooh, okay, she's hot. i don't really care what she sounds like, i'd put her through just for hotness. sounds like she has a stylistic voice... meaning, maybe there's something there, but it's gonna take a studio full of techs to get it sounding good. pass... but i'd like to see her one more week.

3. janell wheeler - ooh, another really pretty one. her "american boy" is one of the 2 or 3 auditions that i actually remembered, so i really like her, but i don't know what she sang tonight... that was WAY not good. but i really want her to go through to next week based on that "american boy" performance that they showed in her clip.

4. lilly scott - weirdo. she looks like a street performer. oh, she sounds like a street performer. like someone standing on the corner with a hat... and that's not a good thing. what does "fixing a hole" even mean? pass.

5. katelyn epperly - oh, okay, SHE looks like a street performer... i mean a street "performer." haha, okay yeah she can sing pretty well, but i hated it. okay, maybe not "hated," but i don't care to listen to anything like that again... therefore pass.

6. haeley vaughn - this is the second girl that i remembered from auditions, i really liked her first carrie underwood country audition, but after that i just thought her voice was screechy and annoying... and that's the version i heard tonight. she gotta pull it back a little bit. also, what the heck was she doing to the melody in that song? i actually thought it might be a cool choice of song, if she just sang the melody straight (playing with the tempo and style were great choices though). still, she interests me, so i'd like to see her go through.

7. lacey brown - holy crap i so wished they had picked this girl instead of that hideous megan joy last season. that being said, i thought she sucked. but beyond that i really liked this performance because everytime i hear this song i think of this:

xena rocks.

but as for this girl and her performance.... pass.

8. michelle delamor - wow, no one should sing alicia keys. i'm sure she's got an okay voice, but no one cares because she doesn't sing as good as alicia keys. an easy pass.

9. didi benami - she seems kinda different, and i like the sweet looking, singer-songwriter types (like brooke white, who wasn't all that great a singer, but she just interested me). i kinda didn't like her song choice, but it definately fit her voice. i'd like her to go through... with caution, because i can hear just a little bit of megan joy in her voice (like all her vowel distortions and glottal stops in the middle of words, haha).

10. siobahn magnus - what an awesome name! not an awesome singer. i think she's probably got some more potential than the other girls for sure, and i almost like her choice of song (it was just at the brink of working... but never got there, kinda dreary). still, she interests me too, so i'd like to see her go on.

11. crystal bowersox - this girl i think i like... i really don't like the harmonica, but i like her voice and i think i'd really like to listen to her sing more songs, therefore, i would actually vote for her! amazing, that's the first vote i would actually cast so far, and it's on the penultimate contestant. but... she looks dirty...

12. katie stevens - from the auditions it seemed like she had a voice kinda like katherine mcphee (who i really liked), but as it turns out, she's just a poor man's version... i'm sure she'll probably do pretty well just because she's got vocal chops, but i really didn't like this performance. pass.

wow, so take a look at that, i'm real critical this year. i only gave one vote out and passed on almost all of them. so, for the very first week here's my rank:

1. crystal bowersox
2. janell wheeler
3. didi denami
4. siobhan magnus
5. katie stevens
6. haeley vaughn

after that i really don't care, haha. but if these six make it to the [real] top 12 i'd be okay.

so that was kinda disappointing... let's hope the guys can do much better tomorrow night. i've got high hopes for andrew garcia... not much anyone else, but we'll see...