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Finally I have some spare time to check out all the videos suckshardcore has posted of all the different Idols. So I'm going to watch them one by one and comment on the ones that stand out for me (positive or negative or whatever) and edit this post as I go along.

First: holy hot banana on a pretzel, that is one GORGEOUS rendition of With or Without You by those Norwegian folks. I needs me an mp3 of that.

fun fact, Espen Lind co-wrote a few of the songs on David Cook's album, including the current single "Come Back To Me

Get outta here. I remember this one song of his, 'When Susanna cries', from 1997 it was I think. I remember a friend of mine bought his debut album and talked about how he's so amazing but he never really had any hits here besides the Susanna song. And I never listened to his album. Because the Susanna-song, to me, was a bit whiney. But still, hell? Espen/David Cook: random! Love it.

I'm going to go to the next batch of videos. OHHH I see Guy Sebastian's Climb every Mountain, yay! I'd forgotten about it but I'd had it on my mp3 player forever back in the day and I'm not kidding when I say that I cried a few times when hearing it at first. In a good. way.

Edit I: HOLY CRAP WHO LET GAVIN FRIGGIN' ROSSDALE IN CANADIAN IDOL <3
Leave it to Canada to invite totally awesome people. Oh and the CI clips remind me how much I love the accent and how much I miss those 4 judges and how much of a skeeveball Ben Mulroney is. Hey where did that other knucklehead go? Did they get rid of him after CI2? I think CI2 was the first and only season I watched, front to back. The one with Jacob Hoggard and that curly little Kalangel Porter. Oh and Wiebe. <3 Okay back to watching. This is going to be a long post.

Edit II: Alright maybe it's the song or maybe it's the fact that he's of Dutch descent (is that how you spell it?) or maybe it's just. Theo. but I loved that Weak in the Knees performance. Never heard the song before. Loved that.

Edit III: The video survivorjordancontestant posted, by Carly Rae Jepson - At Seventeen. At first I was like "okay, lot of mumbling" but then I got it, she's got a lovely tone of voice and emoted that song really well. Loved that! What's funny is that I'm googling the contestants afterwards since I've never heard of them, so I can find out a little more, how they ended up and stuff.
Huh. I didn't know Guy Sebastian isn't gay.

Edit IV: I find myself being constantly underwhelmed by the performances of the female contestants with the power voices. This has probably less to do with my personal taste and more to do with the fact that I am STILL punishing myself by re-watching AI3 and my ears are still ringing (fyi, if you re-watch that season? Fantasia turns out to be quite funny. And I can't believe J-Hud was in the bottom 3 almost every single time).

Edit V: I like Ricki-Lee Coulter's tone of voice, too. Why is she hated? Oh and I think she looks like Bikini Girl. So I hate her too. FUCK RICKI-LEE you witch.

Edit VI: this is taking me a lifetime to get through, this topic's videos. So I'm going to admit something: as soon as I lose interest in a video, I stop watching it. Most of the videos I manage to watch halfway, some I watch in full. Some I start watching, I appreciate them, until some whispery whiney voiced madam called Natalie Tosslewosslewaithe or whatever comes on and ruins it. (by the way, I apologize if I insulted any country's pride and joy without me knowing it. I'm merely judging by the one clip I see of them)
Shannon Noll's voice, I like it. But [Kara]here's the thing[/Kara]: in order to get through the video, I need to not fall asleep because of the song. And quite frankly, the songs I listened to were kinda middle-of-the-road for me and so I search for some Noll clips on youtube from his Idol days but there were none. Boo. Because a good song combined with a great voice gets the full-time watching treatment from me.
Plus, I need to hurry a bit because in 50 minutes' time, the finale of the Apprentice will be on the BBC.