American Idol is really going all out trying to get me to watch this season. I remember back when the show first started and some guys from a board I used to post out started votefortheworst.com. Born from a group of people (*cough*) who enjoy spoiling reality shows in general and Survivor in particular, the board was created for the sole purpose of screwing with American Idol. Perhaps their biggest accomplishment was keeping Sanjaya around for so long. Some people believe this site was responsible for Idol’s format change to add a judges save component to override the tomfoolery when necessary. You know, just in case a whole bunch of people keep voting for the Sanjayalike contestants like this year’s Jermaine and Heejun. Heejun was clearly on the show for the comedy aspect making jokes about P.Diddy Puffy Daddy Sean Jean being drunk at the mentor session. And hey, clearly there is nothing funny about P.Diddy Puffy Daddy Sean Jean. The judges didn’t seem particularly fond of Heejun.Anyway…VFTW is back at it this season and is pretty gleeful that they managed to get Jessica Sanchez in the bottom three (allegedly). Idol hasn’t had a really successful winner since Carrie Underwood in season five and they are tired of letting America get it wrong. Which brings us to last night. Two big production things occurred behind the scenes this week. First of all, it’s VERY clear that Idol wants Jessica Sanchez to win this year. She’s pretty and young and has a good voice. She’s marketable to the teen/young adult market. But how to make that happen? Keeping reading for the production manipulations…
Well, first of all, the judges have got to use their save or the season won’t end on the right date. And what better way to freak everyone out than to use it on their favorite claiming she was voted off. But they didn’t stop there. They ACTUALLY CALLED HARVEY LEVIN AT TMZ and told him that they were going to have a judges save so that everyone would tune in to watch. Was this really a good idea? There And use it they did. Jessica Sanchez was clearly mortified when, before she got three notes out of her song, all three judges bumrushed the stage. J-Lo begins repeatedly screaming at her to go sit down and Randy lectures the audience to VOTE FOR THE BEST! Jessica was horrified and poor Holly, who should have gone home last night, was praying for the floor to open up and swallow her. It was a ridiculous blunder that exposed the whole show as a fraud. It makes me wonder if, despite every talk show discussing Idol this morning in a windfall of free advertising, the whole thing backfired. Instead of maintaining the usual facade, which would have caused kids all over the country to vote more religiously for Jessica, they were straight up told that Jessica, Joshua and Elise were the ones they should be voting for. Is this going to cause a backlash against those contestants and leave us with Atlanta local Phillip in the finals with Colton? Probably. Way to go, Idol.
I'm Canadian and I've long considered America to be a prejudice country despite how much they preach to the contrary. For Americans to (in essense) vote Jessica Sanchez as the worst singer of the remaining contestants scares me. Wake up and open your eyes. Better yet it might work better for you guys to close your eyes and open your ears.
What scares me is Josh Ledet is clearly the best singer and preformer on idol this season and because AI pulled that dumb fiasco last night and she she and pooed pooed all over Jessica, Josh cud be left out in the cold. Louisiana is not gonna let that happen! But how do u stop a rigged show? SMH! No matter what Josh will get a contract win or lose. Record executives and producers are drooling over him already. I hope he is waaay more successful than whomever wins! He will end up being another Jennifer Holiday.
Phillip Phillips is actually from leesburg GA where I live we are much further south than Atlanta it's an almost four hour drive. We are pulling for him because lately we have had great locals making it big in music.
Sorry! You're right of course. I don't really live in "Atlanta" either (though I'm not four hours away). We just tend to want to claim Georgians who are doing well. I've loved the stories on y'all collecting money to pay for Phillip's parents to fly out every week. I wish him the best!
Jennifer Holiday is excellent and was in the original Dreamgirls on Broadway. You might mean to compare Josh to Jennifer Hudson. She was voted off AI then won Oscar for appearing in movie Dreamgirls I hope Josh wins.
Thanks. There businesses supporting him all over townWe also claim fame to buster posey of baseball fame. And Albany GA.which is basically the same town is birthplace of ray Charles. Enough history lesson tonight ..lol