Anyone watching Season 10 of American Idol?

I thought that James Muse song, Uprising, was wonderful. I replayed it several times and I rarely do that. I wonder if James Tourettes syndrome may cause him to show more emotion. The other guys know what a great voice Stefano has and possibl wondering, "why him, and not me?" I personally don't care for Stefanos style, a bit Rat Pack I think. 

 What I am amazed at though is Scotty's huge, huge, huge popularity week after week. I go look at Dial Idol and it shows Scotty as first ranked by huge margins. Who is voting so much for him? Teen aged girls? I don't find him all that appealing. Of course I am no where near being a teenaged girl.

I too was a huge Adam Lambert fan being an old musical theatre geek.  

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Ladies.............I love Scotty, and guess what, I'm an almost (Sunday birthday) 76 year old great-grandmother (haha), so it may not be the "teenie boppers" who are voting for him...........however, I have not voted yet..tried a couple times, and got annoyed  that my vote wouldn't take..............I think he has that cute, adorable, little boy, grandson look........ok, ladies stop laughing, Of course I love country music too, so that could be part of it.

I agree with the 1 vote thing............and I think Scotty, and Lauren are great together...........

Love James, just don't like songs I don't recognize, and don't know what the hell is being said, but he is very good..............and a genuinelly nice person..............ok, is that the "old lady" opinion coming through again.

No, it can't be, cause I love Adam Lambert, and I saw his "new look" today, and this boy is "gorgeous"...............Next week should be interesting......................

naughtty:  sorry about spilling the beans...forgot about our friends in midwest and west coast.

Funny how you miss NJ.. there is so much wrong with this state but your right,, i would miss it too if I had to leave.  I have a house in long beach island and someday soon hope to open it up. Last summer was on chemo so I rarely went down... This summer I am planning on sitting on my deck at 4pm with margarita watching the sun go down.  I am on lagoon so it is really peaceful.. Now if only the weather would cooperate here and stop raining I could get to shore house to open it up...

AI:  I liked adam lambert as well..could not believe he lost either.  .But let us not forget Taylor "mr soul train himself" who won idol that year....That was the biggest shocker....

You can vote using the phone... which is easier than figuring out the dumb on line voting thing (and anyway I am not interested in voting via facebook).

Someone posted that Scotty has been topping the voting .. can anyone post a link to where this info is available?  I'm interested in seeing other numbers.... thanks!

I agree about Hayley's outfit. I kept staying at it thinking, "I'm no fashionista, but does that MATCH?"

The thing I think about Scotty is that he is SO YOUNG - if/when he progresses in the music industry, they will work with him (I think/I hope) to smooth out the wiggly eyebrows, tilting head, grimacing stuff.

I thought the Katy Perry thing was absolutely awful/unwatchable. BUT I come from a time when rock stars just STOOD there and sang and played. I never have appreciated the whole visual element with the constumes and choreography. To me, it distracts from the music.  But hey, I'm old, right? I'm not the one they are targeting with this stuff. (But then, if Iggy was aimed at me, THAT surely didn't work either! )

I am curious if people vote for the person they are a fan of, from week to week, no matter what, or if they change their vote depending on the week's performances. Do they release the numbers of the vote totals anywhere so we can know what the order is of the ones who are safe? Or is that dial idol site the only gauge?

I loved Carol King. The place I went for the summers growing up  was the same place her daughters went - the grandparents owned a house there. That was in the early 70's (when Tapestry was HUGE) and the girls were early teens.  They know how to play the beginning bars of a few James Taylor songs - having been taught by JT himself. We thought that was SO COOOOOOL!!! Should be an interesting week.

I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet, but was Katy Perry lip-synching?  I thought so, but my kids didn't agree with me.  To me, it just didn't seem like live singing.

I don't think Katy Perry is a singer, just a performer, and on the rare occassions when I've watched her I always feel like she's saying "look at me, look at me!"  Sherrill, I didn't notice about lip-synching but I wasn't watching too closely -- but I know it at least used to be common on TV show singing -- so it could have been. 

Amy, I don't think it's our age when it comes to those performances -- some rock musicians used to put on shows -- but they also sang well (well, most of them) and often had outrageously good musicians, lyrics, and music.  Katy lacked most of those last night.  But I agree, special effects and staging can be overdone and really detract from the singing.  Which may be why some do it (ouch!  I'm mean today!).  It's like going to a movie that's all special effects with little plot or acting -- some people love that but I'd rather skip the effects and have a good story.

Also, I don't think AI ever releases stats on numbers of votes for each contestants, but if anyone knows otherwise I'd like to see the stats... all I can ever find are outside polls.  

OK -- back to real life for the next 6 days  

Kris Allen is the guy who beat Adam.  I too was shocked.  He was and is an innocuous performer with a pleasant voice.  I can't imagine why people would have chosen him over Adam -- who was quite often electrifying in his performances.

Lilah,

I think it was because he was outed for being gay.

thanks Teka..................

Teka -- you are probably right.  Sad, really.  Because who cares? (I don't)  He's just such a great performer.  Ah well -- he is having a career anyway and doing better than Kris overall.

If James had been around in the 70's, I would have had my ears plastered against the speakers and his photos plastered on my bedroom walls!

My older 3 were 70' kids, and in High school.................they would have too, and I think I actually got rid of a lot of their albums of all those musicians when I downsized.  they were long gone, and was sure they would not have wanted them.........all were Married with Children when I moved from my home after my husband died...............you must be about their age.

What a powerful performance from tonights Girls Night Out.

I love love love love Carry Underwood.♥

awb.....Our Idol did it again.

She was my guardian Angel when i was DX 2005. And i refused to stay in the hospital after my lumpectomy. I had to be home to vote.♥