8trackmind wrote:
To determine if this really is the worst season ever, we need to compare it to the current champ: the 3rd season. There were 40 performances during the 3rd season semis and wildcard. How many of them were great? Latoya's, probably. And how many could even be called COMPETENT? Not many. Season 3's group 2, the all time gold standard of AI awfulness, the very worst night ever (okay, aside from losing my dinner when Mantasia won and fighting sleep through two hours of Idol Gives Back), had 7 utterly wretched performances and 1 okay one (from Lisa Leuschner, who didn't even get voted through). Groups 1 and 2 this year were very bad, but not THAT bad.
Even I'm not masochistic enough to go back and rewatch the likes of Jonah Moananu, The Roman brothers, Heather Piccininni, Kara Master Bates, Fatt Rogers, Bree the dyke
OMG. Lesbriana Tranirez-Real! Whatever happened to her anyway? She was lesbolicious. The best loud and proud bulldyke Idol has ever had.
I remember Masterbates getting skewered by Randy ("pick a better song and sing it better"), and Fatt's cheesy lounge-act desecration of Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do for Love" (which was practically brilliant compared to his take on "Amazed"). I remember the public voting Camomile through after she sang like she had a bad head cold (I don't remember what she sang). I remember calling the Hawaiian guy Jonah the Whale and Momomuumuu, but I can't for the life of me remember his singing. The Roman thugs are a fuzzy haze at this point. And Heather is a complete blur. Deuschner did some pretty good Chaka Khan karaoke, but was an affront to the eyes.
) and recording The Mentalist, both of which are better
than this season's Idol.
