I
tried not to watch it, I really did. But there is something about this show...
It is my Brokeback Mountain, I just cannot quit it. But I decided early on that
I was not going to blog about it, despite a desperate need to write about
something, because a quick perusal of previous posts would have resulted in way
too many Google searches about it - had I used the contestants’ names! But no, previous
posts are rife with nicknames! Apparently, I hated some poor girl with bad hair
(Uni-Bang) and there was a terrible male singer who had a stutter (Stuttering
Stanley) and – oh, how I am cringing at this -
there was a singer of mixed Chinese and Hispanic heritage who earned the unfortunate
moniker of Kung Pao Taco (really, I am not racist, I swear).
Yeah,
so, no posts, but I had to do a season-end wrap-up because, well, I don’t know
how to quit it:
Luke
Bryant – most useless judge EVER. On more than one occasion, when he was third
to speak, he said there was nothing he could add because Lionel and Katie had
said it all. One time, when he was first to go, he said he wasn’t going to
comment because “no one wants to hear my voice after they’ve heard yours.”
Gawd.
Even
though previous seasons went on way too long, I didn’t really like this
pared-down format. I think there could have been a happy medium.
And
that results-the-same-night deal? Insulting to both the viewers and the
contestants because they are basically admitting what everyone has known all
along but chose to ignore - that this is a popularity contest and not a singing
competition.
What
the hell was the deal with Bobby Bones? Where did he come from and how useless
was he? And what is the deal with that name? I feel as though he should be in a
Saturday Night Live Halloween-themed sketch with Tom Hanks.
And
the producers ought to be ashamed of themselves as far as Catie Turner is
concerned. Yes, I am all for quirky chicks who do not fit into the societal
norms of physical attraction (I wonder why). And haters don’t hate – you know I
do not agree with what society considers physically attractive. But they only
put her through (and you know 99% of who goes through is decided by the
producers and not the judges) because of the publicity it would garner. No, my
biggest peeve with this is the fact that she just wasn’t that good of a singer;
had she been, then, yeah, I would be her biggest supporter. But she wasn’t and
I think it cruel of the producers to do that to her, to give her hope because, to
paraphrase The Shawshank Redemption, hope is a terrible thing, maybe even the worst
of things. And had she won, would they have changed the name to Amish Idol?
Like
if Adam Sanders/Ada Vox would have won would they have changed the name to Drag
Queen Idol? And what would have happened
had they already decided to go with separate boy/girl teams like they have done
in the past? Or maybe they did and he/she came along and they scrapped that
idea.
And
then there is Maddie. Oh, how I loved her from the start. So much so, that I
would have been OK with her not winning, because that way she could record what
she wants. And even though I did not like Carrie Underwood II Gabby
Barrett (despite her being from the ‘burgh) I would have been OK with her
winning. Caleb too. But Maddie, I have
not liked a contestant so much since Kelly Clarkson. I hope she has a career
and doesn’t fade away like Uni-Bang (well, actually, she might be a huge star
right now because I don’t remember her name!).
