I nearly gave myself a nightmare just typing that.Originally Posted by Allie
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I love me some Gaga!
I wonder what people that are offended by Gaga's outfit and moves think about Dancing With the Stars. I've seen some pretty skimpy outfits on there - combined with some pretty provocative moves.
Prime time tv ain't what it used to be.
I live in hot, muggy Alabama where men of all ages have cut the grass without a shirt for most of my life. That just isn't anything new to me.
The young ones cut the grass without a shirt and in shorts (not underwear).
I suspect they are both kinds of hot, but again that is the norm in the hot, muggy Deep South. (They just have to use a lot of sunscreen now with the ozone and skin cancer news.....)
Maybe the contestants who are pushed is because they are better and more is expected of them. I've often seen that in all parts of life, the more you're capable of, the more you're pushed. Whereas, if you are not as good, they let you slide by.
I'm very happy for James.I'm also a little confused, though. Why does Idol need to sponsor anything? If he's been eliminated, then what comittments could he have to the show until the tour begins?
Saw James on Leno last night. He sounded pretty good--but it was hard to tell since they inserted a commercial during his performance.
I never thought badly of James for crying. On the night Stephano went home, I thought it was really sweet that James was crying for his good friend. However, I agree with your underlying point. People have expectations of how other people are supposed to react in certain situations, and if those people don't react "correctly" then folks begin to wonder.
Back during Elizabeth Smart's trial, I read a fascinating article. It said that Smart was giving her testimony in a very composed manner, and that the jury might actually think negatively of her for that. According to the author, most people expect to see victims of rape/abuse sobbing on the witness stand. However, because a case can take quite a while to come to trial, the victim may have undergone counseling and now just wants to put it all behind them. Their lack of emotion can plant seeds of doubt in the minds of the jurors.
Since throughout the season these contestants have been very emotional when others such as Casey and Stephano left, I think people--myself included--expected the remaining three to show the same level of emotion when James left, especially since James in turn had been so emotional over others.
That's my baggage, too. I am an extrovert (ENFP to you Meiers-Briggs fans), and so I get very emotional very easily. I can cry or get angry at the drop of a hat. If I had been on the stage, my first reaction would have been to cry my eyes out as I hugged James, and then once I got to the privacy of my hotel room do a fist pump and say, "Yeah, made it!"I must confess that I said "She looks so smug" when I saw a quick flash of one of the faces of the two women left standing. But that's my baggage because I tend show my emotions more. I did win "Best Facial Expression" in a junior high musical I was in.
That also probably has something to do with the fact that I'm female and Southern. I know my mother always taught me to put others before myself and to always downplay any good fortune that happened to me, so that my behavior wouldn't smack of being "too prideful." I daresay a lot of women, especially older ones, were raised this way.
The reception that an AI contestant gets at a contrived American Idol homecoming festival means nothing to me. I would never base my voting pattern on what kind of a reception a contestant got. I care about their talent, not how many relatives and friends they can persuade to come to see them at some small town event.
Although you are a "good" teacher, as you say, I have to respectfully disagree with your statement there are contestants in the Top 13 who don't deserve our respect. I have never met any of the contestants and do not personally know their families and friends. Catching glimpses of the contestants before and after they sing and seeing 2 minute interviews with them do not leave me capable of judging their character. At any rate, I really don't care whether they are annoying, obsessive, cranky, superior, sweet, kind, loving or stuck up. I only care about their singing and whether it would be worth it to plunk down cash for their album or concert. If I based my purchase decisions on whether a performer was "nice," I would never buy anything, given how many performers have been accused of being jerks, like Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, John Mayer, James Taylor etc etc.,I make these comments now so that no one thinks I am speaking in favor of any one contestant. The truth is, like a good teacher, I have no favorite. Instead, like a human teacher, there have been a couple in the top thirteen that I offer little regard for because they do not deserve my respect. It has nothing to do with talent -- all about personality, kindness, respect for others and themselves, and hard work.
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"Tons of surprises, but it wouldn't be 'American Idol' without it, would it?" Cowell told MTV News. "At the end of the day, I could go out and find 12 great singers, but that's kind of boring. The fact that there's people there who shouldn't be there makes it 'American Idol.' "
I don't think there is a correlation between the size of the crowd and the popularity of the contestant. Catherine McPhee had an enormous following on AI that brought her to the finale with Taylor Hicks. But no one (except maybe 50 to 100 people) showed up at her homecoming at her former high school in LA. Elliott Yamin, on the other hand, drew hundreds, maybe thousands, at his homecoming in Virginia. Elliott lost out to Catherine, who competed with Taylor in the Top 2.
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"Tons of surprises, but it wouldn't be 'American Idol' without it, would it?" Cowell told MTV News. "At the end of the day, I could go out and find 12 great singers, but that's kind of boring. The fact that there's people there who shouldn't be there makes it 'American Idol.' "
I haven't heard that word in over twenty years!! I used to teach at a southern boarding school for girls, and they would repeat that same story about their mothers and grandmothers.
Thanks for the great memories!!
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