American Idol New Season Tonight

those are new stripper boobs.... and I know from stripper boobs....

I am actually more interested in that nice little pink-framed rectangle of skin right under her navel anyway. If I went to my prom with someone like that, instead of the plump, round-faced future gym teacher that I did go with, how different my life would most certainly have gone.

Or maybe someone like that other great American Idol, Katherine McPhee.





















By the way, here's one of those Antonella Barba pictures that Joahaeyo mentioned...yowsa.

and of course you'll notice (if possible) that she's wearing a Carolina shirt....

I think she'd look better without it, but hey, that's just my opinion.

Sanjaya hula dancing and bragging about it was just too weird.

Phil Stacey was unbelievably horrible tonight. Good grief, and WHAT was he wearing?!?!


I like Sundance as a person, but I didn't like him either.

I only liked the beat-box guy and the Osbourne kid. Both did great!

Melinda Doolittle. What the...who the...how the...oh my god, she's like the best f---ing singer I've ever seen! Jesus CHRIST that girl can belt it out. And it almost looks like she's surprised when the crowd goes f---ing wild everytime she finished a song. Amazing.

I hope that Gina chick stays this week. I'd like to date her. I think we'd probably fall in love and have a child. Just one. A boy. We'll probably name him Skeetch or Scrappy or something cool like that. Yeah, little Scrappycan. That has a nice ring to it.

melinda doolittle is unbelievable. Sabrina however is the total package. Doesn't sing as well as Melinda but sings really well, is hot as a three dollar pistol on the 4th of July, and has stage presence a plenty. I think she could go all the way.

Based on nothing but talent and the ability to move you with her voice though.... it's Melinda and no one else.

I like Gina the rocker chick a lot. the porn queen and Haley have to go.

As far as the guys go.... take them all out back and shoot them. Let Chris be the trigger man,. He's allowed to live.

I bet you all watch Oprah and Jerry too.

I bet your number one sexual fantasy is taking one up the pooper from Ted Nugent too....

but of course we don't deal in stupid ungrounded statements here on A2K do we? Thank goodness we're more mature than that....

Antonella, Sabrina, Sundance, and Jared left tonight.

I totally knew Sanjaya would make it.
I love when people do that. Adds to some excitement (screaming at tv) to a typical slow start to AI. I laughed last season too when the Harry Potter looking kid kept making it round after round.

Sabrina and Sundance leave and Sunjaya and Haley stay.

These must be the people who elected bush twice.

Next to Melinda Sabrina was the biggest talent on the show and Sundance was top 12 material.

For 2 weks in a row that Sunjaya kid has been the most shellshocked about not being thrown off. Even he knows he's our of his depth.

My Sabrina is gone. Oh God, why have you deserted me?

This is when I get totally frustrated with this show. Mediocre people like Sunjaya and Haley are still in and good people get booted. It just makes the show weak and pointless. It also seems to indicate who has the most relatives who are willing to hit redial and pay for voting over and over.

Sabrina and Sundance are now free to be pursued by agents and record companies. They'll do fine.

This is my first year for tuning into AI and I definitely agree with your comment at this point.

Much better is the system they use for America's Got Talent where the audience votes for one (to go) and the judges vote for one.

Let's face it folks. There are only three or four genuine star quality talents in this competition. Sundance had potential but we all know he was unlikely to beat out the top girls. Still he was certainly the best of the guys.

I'm with Simon, however. If Sunjaya wins, I'm quitting with him.

Has anybody else heard the rumor that Howard Stern is pushing his audience to call in votes for Sunjaya? Just to scuttle American Idol?

Am I the only one here who thought Sundance was pretty crappy? O.K., he wasn't even close to being as horrible as Sunjaya or whatever his name is, but I think he was definitely one of the lesser talents, even among just the guys.

Of course, it ain't Kickycan Idol, so what do I know.

I didn't like him at first. But his last two outings, he stepped up considerably.

I've been following Grease: You're the one I Want this season too and there they let the voters choose the bottom two. Then those two have a short sing off and the judges pick the one who stays. AI may have to go to that to get away from the syndrome of who has the fastest speed dial to decide these things. Had it been up to the judges, Sanjaya wouldn't have made the final 12.

And there's this:

That's kind of sad Foxfyre. Sanjaya is just 17 years old and he seems like a nice kid, but as long as he is around Simon is going to treat him like a KickMe toy. He's going to become the butt of endless jokes and I wouldn't wish that on any young person. It really doesn't do him any good and it might further hurt people with more talent. I never liked Howard Stern and this just gives me another reason to continue to dislike him.

I tend to agree GW.....at least with the disliking Howard Stern part and I think also with the rest of your point. Sanjaya is obviously popular with the other contestants and that says he probably is the sweet, gentle soul he appears to be. But, as Simon would say, I sure wish he could sing and sell a song better.

The fallacy in all this is that if it was a true talent competition, the results wouldn't be determined by who has the most home town support or by a vulgar talk show host goading his audience into goofing around with the AI results. We can't blame all that on Howard though. They are the ones who are calling or text messaging in the vote.

In truth, however, the best of the best usually don't get voted off in the early rounds, and each week with a smaller pool to vote for, it becomes increasingly more difficult for large voting blocks to determine the outcome. Who doesn't think Kelly Clarkson was the best choice in Season 1? Or Carrie Underwood in Season 4? Many of us were disappointed by the winners in other seasons, but the truly talented got enough exposure to go on and land their own recording contracts.

But I agree with you. There is no need to intentionally hurt people who haven't done anything bad to anybody.

Well I think it's important to load the vote with conservatives otherwise the american idol could turn out to be a liberal.