American Idol Review

I have watched every episode except one this year, but I have not really commented on the show thus far.

Here are my thoughts on this years show:

Paula Abdul needs to go away. Quickly.
Paula Abdul needs a hearing aid. Yikes.
Paula Abdul needs to learn how to just tell people that they were terrible.
Paula Abdul might need some counseling or treatment. Nothing else can explain some of her behavior during and after some of the performances this year.

Randy Jackson needs to eliminate the whole "Dogpound" routine. It's lame.
Randy Jackson needs to speak after Paula sometimes.
Randy Jackson needs to speak after Simon sometimes.

Simon Cowell needs to be more forthcoming when he actually has a compliment to give.

Ryan Seacrest needs to never again say "Seacrest, out!"
Ryan Seacrest needs to not try and comfort the competitors onstage. Let them leave to cry about it.

The competition has been less exciting this year.
The competitors are not as talented as they were made out to be.
The competitors sing to the camera way too much. There is a live audience there as well.


Thoughts about last night's show:

Vonzelle was great.

Bo was excellent. The sunglasses were killing me. I love that he does what he wants and doesn't care what anyone thinks.

As much as I hate to admit it, Anthony Federov probably did sing his best performance of the competition. He should stay one more round, even though I want him to go so badly. Overall, his week-to-week performances have been terrible and he should have been eliminated weeks ago.

Constantine followed with Nickelback's "This Is How You Remind Me", which is not my favorite song, but I was giving him a chance to rock with it. He didn't. First off, the pace of the song was a bit slow. So Constantine couldn't rock to it and he couldn't croon to it. That in between place is where a vocalist gets screwed. But let's not place the blame on the musicians just yet. Constantine sounded terribly off from the start. He never found any sort of groove. He kept repeatedly doing that kick toward the camera motion and the jerk the mic stand back and forth. His performance was less than memorable and his vocals were terrible. This was quite possible the worst performance in recent memory. Constantine should pack his bags and hit the road tonight.

Scott sings "Dance With My Father" which came across as a little bit weird. He did an okay job, but I still can't stand to look at him when he sings. He never looks too comfortable and he always seems about ready to pull a gun out of his pants and shoot someone. This wasn't his worst performance to date, but it definitely wasn't his best (does he have one good one?). Thanks to Constantine, it wasn't the worst of the night so I guess he might stay.

If America would take into account all the other terrible performances we have endured this year, they would quickly realize that the majority of them have been courtesy of Anthony and Scott. If they voted the way I think they should, here's the bottom three: Constantine, Anthony and Scott. Scott should go home, but I think Constantine might tonight.