Let’s say goodbye to Ashley Rodriguez, Janell Wheeler, Joe Munoz and Tyler Grady.
Wow, that week was awful wasn’t it? I think almost everyone was in danger of elimination. It was a week that created such apathy among people voting that there was probably a very smalls spread among the contestants, leading to people like Ashley and Tyler (who both actually had pretty good buzz going into this week) getting knocked out in the first round. (With no wildcard to save them…) Half the contestants were doomed from the moment the song choice was announced. Idol needs to do a better job of mentoring the contestants in week 1. I understand the judges, etc. don’t want to manipulate too much, but to allow the contestants to walk on stage and sing these dreary songs that have no chance of being good is inexcusable. (Example: John Park. He picked a song that skewed terribly old, didn’t fit his voice, and that was dreary. Other than that is was perfect). Why allow that? It had zero chance of being even mildly entertaining.
Were the people eliminated the four worst? It’s hard to tell, so many people were bad. But I can’t complain about any of them as all four had bad performances worthy of being eliminated. Hopefully it is a wakeup call for the contestants. If it continues this way no one is safe, and we may find ourselves with a very watered down Top 12. Hopefully everyone steps up to the plate and puts some thought into their song choices and their rehearsing this week.
Wow, that week was awful wasn’t it? I think almost everyone was in danger of elimination. It was a week that created such apathy among people voting that there was probably a very smalls spread among the contestants, leading to people like Ashley and Tyler (who both actually had pretty good buzz going into this week) getting knocked out in the first round. (With no wildcard to save them…) Half the contestants were doomed from the moment the song choice was announced. Idol needs to do a better job of mentoring the contestants in week 1. I understand the judges, etc. don’t want to manipulate too much, but to allow the contestants to walk on stage and sing these dreary songs that have no chance of being good is inexcusable. (Example: John Park. He picked a song that skewed terribly old, didn’t fit his voice, and that was dreary. Other than that is was perfect). Why allow that? It had zero chance of being even mildly entertaining.
Were the people eliminated the four worst? It’s hard to tell, so many people were bad. But I can’t complain about any of them as all four had bad performances worthy of being eliminated. Hopefully it is a wakeup call for the contestants. If it continues this way no one is safe, and we may find ourselves with a very watered down Top 12. Hopefully everyone steps up to the plate and puts some thought into their song choices and their rehearsing this week.
There is no where to go but up, right?
This is starting to seem unnervingly like season 3 (the Fantasia season) where we had all those awful people (remember John Stevens? Jon Peter Lewis?). This could be a really, really bad year.
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