Anyone watching Season 10 of American Idol?
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LOL .. Cookie Girl .. I agree with everything ... except ..
I love Rock and Roll, so I enjoy James .. Scotty, not so much
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I love Rock and Roll, too, Baby, that's my thing! But........oddly, Scotty seems to have Simon's mystical "X" factor, to me. When he sings, it's pitch perfect. And like cookiegal said, before I couldn't imagine a country singer being the AI, but look at Carrie Underwood.
Still, even if he gets kicked off, he's got plenty of people waiting to sign him on their labels.
James Durbin, I think he's got the chops for rock, but I don't like the screaming in every song. I just don't. I don't like it when Pia does it, either. I was thinking, "Oh Pia, she'll win it because she's so pretty and sweet", but I don't think she has the "X" factor - LOL!
The thing is, who among them does? Maybe Stefano, with time. I still think it's Scotty. Plus, he's soooo young - what, 17? He has amazing composure for 17 years old. I think it's far from cockiness (now James, for sure), I think it's nerves and he does a really good job not showing them.
It's odd for me, because country music is not my thing. However, when he performs, it makes me smile. Weird for me, but I enjoy him and I think he must have that little sumthin-sumthin.
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He really makes you smile when he sings, he has an awesome smile that is infectious, but he needs those gravity boots the astronauts used to wear. Just cannot dance to save his soul. He has picked all good songs that play to his strengths, he won't go home for a while but won't be in the top four.
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My daughter is starting to warm up to Scotty. I wish he would really try to stretch with different songs. Songs I wouldn't expect a singer with a deep voice to sing.
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I love Scotty! Does anybody else think he looks a little like Clay Aiken (my first Idol !), or am I completely crazy? lol
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I don't think James is cocky -- if you saw the part about him having Asberger's and understand the disease, it explains his behavior a lot. I get the impression he's acually more on the shy and unconfident side.
I agree that Scotty is really good and will get a contract for sure, but for me he's too boring -- same old thing every song -- he does it really well, but I just don't find him interesting. I thought Carrie was a lot more versatle. But I'm almost always wrong about who gets how far, so read my comments and think the opposite and you'll probably be right!
I'm not overly taken with anyone at the moment, although I still like several of them. Stephano maybe has the most potential for growth and really wowing people. But like I said, I'm usually wrong (although I did think Crystal and Lee would make it to the top last year).
Theme for this week: Motown. Maybe that will force them to stretch a little and get out of their comfort zones. And make for a better show.
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I really do believe that most of the contestants have failed, horribly, in forming any kind of connection with the viewing audience. They pretty much have left us yawning and not really caring about whether or not they go on to next week! We have been left to vote, NOT for who a performance that WOW'd, BUT for one that wasn't so bad....
I think AI really needs to step it up a bit on BOTH the contestant performances AND the judging or this is going to go down in AI history as the most boring season ever!
Note to the judges.... Simon was, at times, really tough BUT he always spoke his mind and challenged the contestants to do better the next week. People, most times, live up to what is expected of them. There has been almost no constructive critisism that would spur any kind of improvement or growth! It feels like the contestants are equally confused, in that everyone has said they are great but, yet, they aren't doing well. I can't help but feel the expectations are low (even though I think is coming from a place of kindness) so these are the performances we are getting.
I sure hope this all turns around soon!
I think Scotty has done so well because, in addition to doing country SO well, he has formed a connection with the audience (even people who are not country fans) by making you care if he goes on or not! I think the others need to take note!
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You're spot-on, seaside. No connections there. I'd rather hear a bad performance but one that I can connect with, than a perfect peformance that is so disconnected.
And just following the instructions to "look the audience in the eye" isn't enough. As much as singing well, they need to sing from their hearts and figure out how to connect with us. And GROW a little!
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Motown ... Oh my lord -- What's the 'Scotty' to do? Motown and Country .. ugly, mixture! Yikes! I agree that Scotty will end up with a singing contract -- regardless, when he gets the axe.
James a little cocky, agreed. He needs to keep his eye on the ball -- ! Casey, need to stop the screaming, and worry about controlling his Asberger's.
Hoping .. the Judges get their stuff together, and get honest with the contestants.
Vicki Sam
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Sea - I totally agree about the judges. It's just like with children; if you don't ask any better of them you probably won't get it.
NatureGrrl - you're right. I forgot about his Asperger's, and I'm very familiar with the disease. We always thought my son's best friend had it, so we know how to work with his quirkiness. I don't think James quite knows what's appropriate and gets carried away with the moment. I dread it when/if he gets kicked off.
Glad to hear it's Motown week - now THIS week Karen's outfit would have been smashing! And maybe finally we'll hear this singers out of their comfort zone. Vicki Sam - I can actually hear Scotty doing Motown - think of all those singers with the real deep voices back then. It will either be funny or surprisingly good, I don't know.
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heart .. You are RIGHT .. deep voice, yes I can see that. Hoping he can shave a little of his country twang - off his vocals.. LOL
I am curious what Naima will try and sing on key this week? Oh, that was mean.
Vicki Sam
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Oh, please don't let it be Aretha!
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Vicki, Casey doesn't have Asperger's -- James does. There seems to be a lot of confusion over that. That's why I don't think James is cocky, but is exhibiting some of the awkwardness he deals with. I think he'll deal with getting kicked off OK -- he doesn't seem to lose control of his emotions, he just seems to either not be able to express them or expresses them totally. Well, having said that, maybe he will be a mess if he gets kicked off.
Hopefully it'll be fun to see and hear the song choice!
Mean or not, it will be interesting to see if Naima can sing on key. The judges, as part of their too-lenient mode, were even being somewhat forgiving about all the pitchiness they heard (and I agree, there was a lot last week) by saying the singers couldn't hear themselves well because of the set up on stage. Sure, OK, maybe... but shouldn't you know how to sing the notes anyway??
Now, if the judges, contestants, and producers would just come read all of our comments, they'd know how to fix the show!
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Heart, especially don't let it be "Respect!"
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There are some songs that are just SO powerful and so associated with an artist that, if you choose that song, you better have the chops to JUST hit it out of the park or go home! "Respect" is one... If Naima picks that, I think she is DONE!
Although, I believed the same to be true about Melissa Etheridge's "I'm The Only One". I didn't feel Lauren did it any justice at all and she's still here! So.... what do I know?
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It's a very mysterious and unorganized season.
I cant tell who will make it to top 3.
awb....First time i saw Scotty I thought the same thing Clay Aiken. They have facial similarities.
For me David Cook season 7 had such a connection with the audience and with his own singing.
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Hi all, new to your Idol discussion but not to BC.org. I have been watching AI since it's inception 10 yrs ago. I love it!!! I've never missed a show. Right now my favorites are James Durbin (I'm a big rock fan), Scotty McQueery (sp?) and Lauren Alaina. I think Lauren is a little more versatile in what she can sing than Scotty, she proved that when she auditioned and sang an Aerosmith song. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the season plays out. I don't find Pia to be the one to beat, she has a great voice as does Thia but they have boring stage presence (in my opinion). Pia brings back memories of Katherine McPhee, who has a magnificent voice but hasn't sold many CD's. Casey and Jacob also both really good singers but there uniqueness may not appeal to the general public.
Anyway I can't wait till Wednesday night!
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Renee....I am soooo happy you are here.
As much as i became a complainer about AI its still the show i would never miss or stop watching.
Maybe this week they all gonna be better and connect to the audience.
I really missed that part of the show. Connection.
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Welcome, mimi1964!
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OK...y'all are going to think I have too much time on my hands but there were a number of Motown country recordings! If Scotty has google he should be fine.
While the famed Detroit-based Motown Records label he founded is most associated with the 1960s Motown sound, Berry Gordy is also an avid country fan. His most notable expressions of this enjoyment are the five country record labels he operated as subsidiaries of Motown. He also has shown his country side in music he has loved, written, produced, and had recorded by Motown artists.
The roots of Gordy's affinity for country predate his record label days and are nestled in unconscious emotions that even he doesn't fully understand. In his 1994 autobiography, To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown, he both embraces and feels a need to defend being emotionally stirred by country.
Talking of the 1950s when he was serving in the military in Korea, he says, "The only American song I can remember hearing became my favorite--'Mom and Dad's Waltz,' a country song by Lefty Frizzell. Yeah--Lefty Frizzell. So what! I was scared and lonely and this simple music spoke to my homesick heart."
The simple music no doubt also touched the heart of Gordy's father, who like so many ancestors of contemporary black Americans, grew up in the rural South amid the banjo- fiddle- and harmonica-playing black Southerners who contributed so much to country music's early development.
Perhaps the elder Gordy culturally disseminated that country tradition to his son (who was born in Detroit in 1929, so far from country's roots). For as young Gordy evolved into a prolific songwriter and producer and founded his first record company in 1959, his country soul began to find expression in a myriad of ways.
It is expressed in a number of songs Gordy has written and first came to significant public light on one of the early records he produced. The record is performed by Eddie Holland (of the hit Motown writing team Holland-Dozier-Holland) and was released in 1958 on Mercury Records. Its B side is a country song called "Little Miss Ruby," credited as originating from the soundtrack of the movie Country Music Holiday. Gordy's country side again came to light in a big way in 1961 when his subsidiary label Miracle began focusing on country songs. Then, in February 1963, after releasing four R&B records, the Motown subsidiary label Melody (sometimes printed Mel-O-Dy) also changed its focus to country.
This refocused label's first country record was by an act called Chuck a Luck and featured the single, "Sugar Cane Curtain," on its A side and "Dingbat Diller" on its B side. The label would go on to release 13 more country records by Jack Haney and Nikiter Armstrong, Howard Crockett, Gene Henslee, Bruce Channel, Dorsey Burnette, Dee Mullins and the Hillsiders. None of the releases was much of a commercial success, however, so the label folded after its April 1965 release.
But intent on becoming a country powerhouse, Gordy in 1974 again started a country record subsidiary of Motown. This one was called Melodyland Records and snagged the legendary Pat Boone as the first among the 15 artists who released 30 singles and two albums between October 1974 and March 1976. Melodyland's debut record featured Boone singing "Candy Lips" on the A side and "Young Girl" on the B side; Boone would go on to also record for the next two Motown country labels.
Melodyland's office was in the same Nashville building as Atlantic Records, and that proximity provided the opportunity for the label's greatest coup--the launching of the career of country star T. G. Sheppard.
Sheppard had been trying unsuccessfully for years to become established as a singer and had nearly given up. But then he came across a song called "Devil in the Bottle" that he wholeheartedly believed in and knew he could turn into a hit. He pitched the song to nearly every record label in Nashville and got turned down 14 times, including once after the song was already a hit.
But Sheppard tells writer Tom Roland that as he was pitching the song to Atlantic, Melodyland executives heard it through the wall and stopped him on his way out, saying, "Wait a minute; that's a hit." Indeed, after Melodyland released it in November 1974 as the label's second record, "Devil in the Bottle" not only was a hit, but a smash hit, reaching the top of the Billboard country chart in February 1975.
Four months later Melodyland's second Sheppard release, "Tryin' to Beat the Morning Home," also shot to the top of the chart and Melodyland had established itself as a country label to be respected. It had two more top 10 hits with Sheppard: "Motels and Memories" and "Show Me a Man." -
I feel like I sound mean continuing to say this, BUT.......what is the appeal of Scotty? I actually don't mind country music and I think he has a great country voice. That being said, watching during the audition rounds, he was really very cocky. He couldn't pick a group bc he thought he was too good for alot of people and he had part in kicking that JC (the chubby boy) out of the group. I hate wording that way, but I wasn't sure how else to word it. I just think he is fake. I do not like him at all. He's no Carrie Underwood (i loved her when she was on)
As far as James goes, I think he is a very good performer. I agree that he could chill out a little on the screaming, but he seems to love singing and performing.
I have a tendency to root for the underdog so maybe that's it.
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I'm not sure if they get to pick from all songs relavant to the theme, or from a list of songs -- I've always gotten the impression that they have to pick from a list that's provided (by the judges? producers? not sure). That may limit Scotty's choices. I do think there are still plenty of Motown songs he should be able to handle -- just not sure he really can handle them. Hopeful, I don't dislike Scotty, but I'm not a fan, either, and am bored by hearing the same thing every week from him (and others, like Pia).
Edited to add: if Scotty has the creativity, he could do something really fantastic with a Motown song -- put his country spin on it -- but if he doesn't know what he's doing, he's going to have trouble.
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The judges will get tougher as the weeks roll on like years before, and Randy will be the Bad Dog.
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I don't really like Scotty that much .. but I'm not a country music fan either ~ so I'm sure that doesn't help.
Though did any of you notice in one of Scotty's bio's last week... he used to love to imitate Elvis...isn't some of Elvis' music considered Motown? ...so I sure hope he picks something from Elvis ~ he'll prob do great with that!
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I'm not into country music either, and as such, not a huge fan of Scotty. I do appreciate the fact that he does sing country music very well, but I think he will crash and burn if challenged to sing in another genre. I find the gospel type singer (sorry forgot his name) to be too over the top for me.
Sherrill
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Susan, my age is showing, but: right era, wrong color... Motown: think Temptations, The Four Tops, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Smokey Robinson.... Elvis was a bit too white to be Motown
although he did have some great R&B/soul-type songs. But he won't be on the list this week. I still think there are plenty of good picks for everyone, now if they only chose and sing well! Really hope we can see more fun this week!
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Sherrill, that's Jacob, and I'm laughing at myself because for the first time in years I actually know all their names
And, this link is interesting: http://americanidolnet.com/
It shows where they are in a poll and how their rankings have changed from the week before. Keep in mind these are poll rankings and not the actual counting of the votes, but still, interesting. I kinda wish they wouldn't publish it because it seems like it could unduly influence people but it's still fun to read -- Stephano went from 3% to 15%, you go, boy! And I really can't believe Scotty and Pia are at the top, but maybe the voters don't care if they're boring (oops, am I being too outspoken again?
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Scotty .. no doubt will walk away, with a record contract
I can't vote for him, as I am swayed by James the Rock and Roller, and Casey .. asberger kid, so multi talented.I hope our ' 3 judges' bring it this week. Steven Tyler, will no doubt take the place of Paula .. hoping Randy .. steps it up, and JLO continues to be honest.
Vicki Sam
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Vicki,
It's James that has the Asperger's/Tourettes...
Taken from an interview....
"American Idol
contestant James Durbin has Asperger's Syndrome AND Tourette's Syndrome! The 22-year-old California rocker is already a frontrunner in the competition, out of the guys anyway, and has a great attitude."I have Tourette's and Asperger's, but Tourette's and Asperger's don't have me," he said in an Idol interview. "I'm doing what I can to suppress it. It's not who I am."
That's right Durbin! Way to go!
Asperger ‘s Syndrome is a form of autism, and Tourette's Syndrome is a neurological disorder that causes vocal outbursts and involuntary movements. Durbin seems to have some facial tics and a way of blinking that are very typical of Tourette's. He's also very emotional, crying easily while on stage and on camera. ".......
One reason I took note is that my son has a very mild form of Tourette's and I know how hard it can be on kids/young adults! On the up side... many children with this syndrome measure extremely high in intelligence and often outgrow the tics and what not as they get older...
Still totally OK to like Casey though...LOL...
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Vicki --as I keep saying -- Casey doesn't have Asperger's -- James does!
(oops -- thanks Seaside -- I didn't see your post)
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