Being addicted to American Idol is anything but easy. I watch with my teenage children and we argue from the first show of the season to the American Idol finale, when the voters choose the winner.
It used to be worse for me, because first it was American Idol and then '24', so by the end of the night, the adrenalin made me too wired to sleep. This season, I am afraid that American Idol will become more of a chore to watch, than a joy. It could possibly rank a close second to the bottom along with AI's third season, which I call the 'nightmare of Fantasia'.
For the auditions this season, they did not show the viewers too many of the contestants' auditions out of the ones who made it through to Hollywood. However, out of the auditions I saw, there was not one I am crazy about, and it is exactly how it was in American Idol's Season 3, for me. There are many memories of American Idol's Season 3 that I try to erase from my memory, but I cannot.
One statement Simon made to the contestant George Huff really bothered me. It was Motown week and Simon told George he sounded like a backup singer for the Temptations. Anyone who watches American Idol knows that Simon was not paying George a compliment, at least, in his mind. I am a huge fan of Motown music, so I took offense to what Simon said to hm.
Simon also told the two contestants, Fantasia Barrino and Latoya London that he believed they were "in a different league" than their fellow contestants. He uttered this ridiculous statement a week after he told Fantasia that she sang, "like Donald Duck on helium!" Did he think that Latoya sounded like Bugs Bunny? What did he mean? I did not know and did not care because Jennifer Hudson was a league in, and of, herself, as we see now with the fabulous career she built for herself. The voters already booted Jennifer off at this point in the show. I will never understand how Jasmine stayed while Jennifer went home.
The thing about Season 3 that bothered me the most was the conspiracy theories, and the controversy surrounding the voting. There were cries of racism and one person called me color deaf because I was not a Fantasia fan. The simple fact is that I do not care for most of today's music, so I believed that were too many Fantasia-types out there who also could not sing.
I did not buy into the hype about American Idol being a racist show, as Elton John whined about. It is difficult for me to say this because Elton John is my all-time favorite, but remember he also whined about people downloading songs free on the internet. I hate to disagree about this on him, but I already purchased all of his albums, 45's, and cd's, so if I wanted to put them on my computer, which was before ITunes and IPods, why was that a bad thing?
I hope that things will pick up for me as the ninth season rolls along. Unfortunately, there will not be any Adam Lambert's or David Cook's for me this year. I believe I will have to settle for what is left. Add that to Paula Abdul no longer there, and the rumors of Simon leaving, and I wonder if this will be the last season of American Idol altogether.
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