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American Idol: Final Twenty Four in Place
16-Feb-2006
Written by: Jennifer O'Reilly
After this week, it’s out of the judges hands. America’s in charge from this point forward.
Despite pummeling the Olympics in the ratings, this week’s American Idol was a bit of a bore. Sure, we have our final twenty-four now and yes, there was a little bit of drama due to the Idol contestants having to work with each other’s diva personalities. But overall, the competition stacks up the same – a few bright contenders like Paris Bennett and Katherine McPhee surrounded by a bunch of nameless, unidentifiable people who won’t even give the front runners a run for their money.
It stacked up like this – Tuesday night’s Idol was dominated by coverage of the drama of the Brittenum twins. One of them (Derrell or Terrell?) hated his group because they refused to stay up all night and rehearse with them. He promised the one cooperating group member that he would make sure that the both of them get through. Then the next day, when aforementioned group member was eliminated, Derrell (Terrell?) accused him of not being on pitch. Afterwards his brother, Terrell (Derrell?) told Simon that his “spirit was broken” because his brother had been eliminated. Except his brother wasn’t eliminated. So they both looked like idiots. Not that it mattered, because the two of them were both wanted on fraud charges and American Idols have to be squeaky clean. Or at least not wanted felons.
In other group drama, Brenna Gethers made everyone unhappy by being generally annoying and self-promoting. Everyone that is, except for Simon who, miraculously, admitted that he liked her when he put her through to the next round. I predict America won’t be too keen on this “diamond in the rough”, booty slaps and all.
American Idol capitalized on their old standbys this week – making fun of contestants who forget the words to Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (and someone always forgets the words, didn’t any of these fools see Seasons 1-4?), grouping all the winners and losers into rooms and faking them out about who is in and who is out, and of course, the long walk to the judges table to find out whether or not you’d made the final twenty four. It was all very predictable, but somehow we all still love it.
Despite what I said about nobody being able to touch the front runners, I wanted to add Idol has some real interesting personalities this year. These include:
Mandisa Hundley for telling Simon off! That was classy and also interesting in that it didn’t involve swearing or attitude. Simon actually looked ashamed. (Does anyone other than me think that Simon is actually nice inside?)
Also: Taylor Hicks, why do I love you so? My husband says that you look mentally challenged when you are singing, but somehow your white haired, harmonica playing charm has me weak in the knees.
Kevin Covais: How is possible you even qualify for this contest? But still – your mama’s proud of you and so am I. I just won’t vote for you when it comes that time. You need a few years more experience before your playing with the big cats.
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