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Post by Tara on Mar 17, 2005 15:54:07 GMT -5
I've been watching American Idol for the past few years (except for last year, I wasn't watching it that much). I find it funny in the begining when the judges go around the country looking for people to sing. Remember the girl who got an attitude? the one with the water-bottle? If anyone has been watching recently.... I just wanted to express that Mackaylah Gordon needs to go. You see, the entire time there was something I didn't like about her, but something I did like. I guess I liked the fact that she was young and it would be cool for someone younger to become an American Idol. However, when she ended up performing Barbara Streisand's (sp?) song, she looked devastated that the judges weren't happy about it. It struck me because my mom would say that she reminded her of Streisand. After that, it was then that I knew what I didn't like about her. She seemed to me, a total fake and I'm standing by Simon whenever he says something about her, b/c that's when he is right with his critique. But I finally figured out that she seems to have a chance in acting. I like a good actress. I'll tell you who I've been voting for that I think is much better, who I think is real and can be herself.... Nadia Turner (the girl with the afro most of the time). I like the way she dresses and her general charisma and of course her singing. ;D The other day she was dressed like a goddess and I thought it was cool and the other night, Randy said that the show finally started with her. Anyway, that's my little piece. I was happy to see Mackaylah got to be on the bottom three last night. Good job America! ...Thoughts?
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Post by Amalcas on Mar 17, 2005 16:55:02 GMT -5
I don't, actually, watch that much TV. Maybe an hour in intermittent spans over a week (half of which is generally playback from a recording). Here's to cultural deprivantion!
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Post by dianaholberg on Mar 17, 2005 20:26:21 GMT -5
Not much TV over here either... and everything I watch is recorded because I HATE commercials.
Idol seems like a pretty decent show though... I saw it a few times in the first two seasons, so at least I know who you're talking about when you say Simon and Randy. But I have no idea who Mackaylah Gordon and Nadia Turner are...
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Post by Tigress on Mar 17, 2005 22:17:29 GMT -5
I hate reality tv...'cept for the Osbournes. lol
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Post by Tara on Mar 18, 2005 8:57:17 GMT -5
Hey American Idol and House are the only shows I watch. lol
Osbournes? Ugh Sometimes it's funny, but I find it boring most of the time.
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Post by littlepea on Mar 18, 2005 9:38:38 GMT -5
this show started in the UK, didn't it? Simon is a legend, but i didn't really watch the shows myself. there was Pop Idol and Fame Academy, both of them did the same sort of thing, and most of the winners in these shows were scottish ;D first there was Dariush, then David Sneddon, and one or two more i think ... i guess we're just very talented people
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Post by Tara on Mar 18, 2005 12:54:14 GMT -5
Yes littlepea, I did hear about Pop Idol in the UK. I've never seen one. Knowing the U.S. we'd probably never get the chance to see things from overseas. (Except there are probably one or two channels that have things )
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Post by littlepea on Mar 19, 2005 19:23:49 GMT -5
one of them was by the bbc, the other by channel 4. pop idol was on channel 4, i'm pretty sure (on one of channel 4's cable channels you could see all of the failed auditions throughout the day, not just the highlights that they showed on terrestial channel 4 in the evenings).
some of my friends used to watch it and if i was ever round at their houses they'd sometimes be watching pop idol, but i never got into it much myself.
i believe channel 4 also created the show Big Brother ... so judge the british commercial media from that.
interestingly, bbc never show advertisements (hence there are no ad-breaks in their shows). as well as being very handy for the british viewers (ad-breaks really piss me off) this also means that bbc programs shown on channels which do use ad-breaks don't fit very nicely into their schedules - haha! ;D
do any of you ever watch BBC America? any adverts on that?
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Post by Tara on Apr 28, 2005 15:19:22 GMT -5
I know you guys could care less and all, but I'm gonna talk anyway. I mean, if littlepea can do it with Scottish football (soccer), why can't I? ;D So anyway, this year's American Idol sucked BIG TIME. We're down to the last 5. And I am ashamed of my fellow citizens. How the heck can you have Scott Sable(is that his name?) and Anthony Federov still lingering around? And how the hell did Nadia leave the competition so early? And to make it worse, Constantine (who is hot as hell:cheesy:.... ) was voted off last night. I understand on Tuesday he did a crappy job, but overall, he's a good singer. People make mistakes. And Nikko... he was voted off once, but when Mario quit American Idol, he was back and kickin' for a few more weeks. Why he was voted off? If Scott becomes the next American Idol then I'm not watching agian....
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Post by littlepea on Apr 28, 2005 16:40:52 GMT -5
I know you guys could care less and all, but I'm gonna talk anyway. I mean, if littlepea can do it with Scottish football (soccer), why can't I? ;D cos scottish football is amazingly exciting and interesting - we even made up an adjective for it, "wantankerous" ;d;d;d (sounds a bit like "wanker") the big joke is that we all know scottish football's rubbish (even to actual "soccer" fans) but we still love it i've heard the phrase "i could care less" quite a lot recently, though didn't it used to be "i couldn't care less" (which actually makes more sense)?
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Post by Tara on Apr 29, 2005 7:44:28 GMT -5
Yeah true...
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Post by LaLoba on May 4, 2005 14:28:12 GMT -5
Anthony needs to go home tonight.
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Post by PhantomsPandora on May 4, 2005 15:44:58 GMT -5
I confess I don't watch the show, but yeah, Constantine, what a looker..something about a dude with long hair..I dunno quite what...
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Post by Tara on May 4, 2005 17:14:20 GMT -5
So you think Bo Bice is hot too Pandora? LaLoba, I totally agree with you. I really hope he does go home tonight. I think the reason he's stayed so long is because he's kinda like... Clay and it's like people are trying to revive clay through Anthony...but uh...it ain't gonna work that way. Oh yeah, and what do you guys think of Cingular trying to sell DVDs of past seasons of American Idol? I'm debating on whether it's really worth the money to buy it. I mean....it's nice to see people looking like fools and all, but I... I don't know. :shrug
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Post by PhantomsPandora on May 4, 2005 19:54:51 GMT -5
Heh, is that his name? i just saw him on a tv show recently, nice hair. Hmm well I'll admit I never quite have caught on to the American Idol thing(though I've watched a few of each season's beginning episodes just to laugh my head off), but I'd probably have the first season just to watch Kelly Clarkson. They're going to have to work with the show a bit, imho, if the mess goes down with what they're showing on abc tonight about it. maybe they'll have to drop Paula, I don't know.
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