Thursday, March 02, 2006

American Idol: 20 down to 18

My boss has WMZQ (the biggest local country station) playing softly at work and since I'm right there I hear it all day. I had never, until I started working there, heard a country song on a country radio station from start to end.

But I picked up on something pretty quick. Not surprisingly, it is very much like a pop station, in that they pick about 4 or 5 songs which apparently needs to be played at least once an hour. And if I hadn't heard Carrie Underwood's "Jesus take the wheel" all day, I might have enjoyed her performance... Don't get me wrong, she was (as she was last year) awesome. An excellent performance, but I hear it all day. (BTW the other songs WMZQ loves to play: Leann Rimes' "Probably Wouldn't be this Way"

Well, on to the eliminations. The girls are first again and this time they don't rediculously tell all the girls, but one, they were safe, and then a few minutes later tell one of the "safe" girls that she was gone. I really liked that Ryan Seacrest called the judges out for being so flippant in their comments when the Heather and Kinnik were about to be told which one of them was leaving.

I also want to point out that Brenna is AMAZINGLY annoying. She's in it for the money, and lets it show, but won't admit it. Everytime I see her pose I want to punch her.... ugh.

Anyways, I get be smug and point out that I correctly picked the 4 contestants who would leave and be featured in the "You had a bad day" montage. So here are my quick thoughts on them: Good riddance, Brenna. Heather, wow, you finally sung pretty well when you weren't nervous about the competition. David, you've got a fine voice but the crooning thing won't fly. And Sway, you shouldn't have been the one leaving tonight... but it doesn't matter much because you would have probably been gone next week.

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