Steven Tyler being hit on by a 15 year old: your American Idol discussion thread

[Fifthfiend]

This is creepy in the exact opposite of the direction I expected this season to be creepy.

SO DOES ANYONE ELSE HERE WATCH AMERICAN IDOL. I am kind of enjoying this season wherein the judges of this singing competition will occasionally comment on the singing, on some level other than "I liked it" "I didn't like it" "pitchydawg" and "kill yourself".

On the other hand their exploitation of people's heartbreaking tales of personal tragedy is magnified this year due to what seems like a greater than previous willingness to throw those people off the show, while round after round promoting the emotionally unstable girl who can't sing because they love taping her theatrics. Like I would kind of rather watch Danny Gokey advancing round after round while smirking and clutching his wife's ashes like Paul Bearer than I would seeing the mother with the autistic daughter thrown out in the awful goddamn group round.

The bit about the emotional-freakout girl is especially awful considering that totally excellent White House intern who sang Otis Redding is apparently still on the show but has received no screen time whatsoever.

Thread tag: my most abusive use of them ever?

[Pip Boy]

I honestly don't usually bother to follow American idle past the qualifying rounds, which I watch simply to laugh at the stupid people who miserably fail (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQGQ5qBQTA).

[Drownball-Champ]

I normally don't watch passed the auditions, if I watch it at all. I normally just watch for the crappy people they purposely let through the pre-audition auditions.

[POS Industries]

Danny Gokey advancing round after round while smirking and clutching his wife's ashes like Paul Bearer
In retrospect, this really should have been the title of a thread for the 8th season (WAY TO BLOW IT, MES), and making sure that it is has officially made the list of things I intend to do when I get my hands on a time machine.

Granted, it's not as high on the list as "get rejected by Audrey Hepburn" but it's still solidly on there.

[Fifthfiend]

Yeah I'm actually really disappointed that it took me until two seasons later to come up with Paul Bearer.

...Unless I didn't? I mean I said a whole lot of excellently hateful shit about Danny Gokey, that could totally have been one of those things.

...I think one promising thing so far about this season is that there are some really douchey people making their way up through the competition. Like that one guy who kicked the fat kid off his group-round team, or that one fucking guy from New Jersey who looks like Joe fucking Francis's douchier kid brother. If there's one thing a good Idol season needs I think it's someone you can really good and properly hate.

[Nique]

Pretty sure watching American Idol is against my religion, or at least it feels good to pretend that it is. Nice to know that they got rid of the angry one and the crazy one though. Did they still keep the pretty one?

[Drownball-Champ]

Pretty sure watching American Idol is against my religion, or at least it feels good to pretend that it is. Nice to know that they got rid of the angry one and the crazy one though. Did they still keep the pretty one?

The pretty one? Randy Jackson? Yo dawg they totally kept him around dawg.

I'm going to assume you mean him since Simon was the mean one and Abdul was most likely crazy.

[Fifthfiend]

They replaced the angry one and the crazy one with two boring ones who just like anything, except for anything that's actually any damn good (~too broadway~).

[Nique]

Actually, I was referring to Ryan Seacrest.

Randy Jackson is the black one. Obviously.