Well, the show just started another season & I'm all geared up for the entertainment!
I usually watch it live or record it when I can't. Last week they started with the process of elimination. Some of these contestants were so bad but so humorous of course. Then after they get their walking papers, they are so shocked & crying sometimes. As if they thought they had any talent in the 1st place! Takes all kinds, I say!
Now I like Randy (judge) the best. He is even keeled. Paula Abdul I think is too "generous" at times & Simon is a perfectionist.(whatever that brings)
I liked the 3rd runner up last year but he blew it by singing an unknown song at a critical time-& it did not have the "wow" factor.
It's not time yet for the voting but I'll have the # ready on redial when it is!

RickJ

Me, me!! It's one of only a couple network programs that our family watches. Yes, the beginning sessions showing all the whack-0-wanna-be-idols is pretty funny!

J_9

Me too!!!

Tomorrow night is Memphis auditions. I have to see if there is anyone I know. I do know of 4 that got on (not personally, but from my town), but will they be televised? I will have to wait and see.

Allheart

Oh me toooooo. I just love the show. Boy they are really getting grilled for this year though. I do love Simon so much. I laugh so much I honestly fall off the couch. More at Simons facial expressions. Last week I do think he went a bit over the top with the boy with the big eyes. Something about he looked like one of the jungle monkeys. But I did hear that Simon apologized. I actaully think Simon deep down has a big heart. I love Paula and Randy too. I just love the show period.

shygrneyzs

Just for the sake of argument, I will tell you that I do not care much for American Idol. These people who get the audidtion should have to go through a preliminary audtion before getting on tv so we can spared the wretched noise and the sarcastic comments. To seemingly go out of one's way to mock someone's best efforts is not humor nor is it enjoyable.

Allheart

Shygrneys,

I do completely understand what you are saying. I do find great humor when Paula and Simon go at it, although it's probably more playful than anything. What I enjoy most about it is the actual competition, not so much the auditions being run now. Unless during the auditions, you hear that one singer and go WOW now that is a singer. But I most enjoy when the competition is underway and seeing one great singer after another.

I do get a great charge out of Simon, not so much for his unkind words, but the bantering with Paula and Ryan. They do just crack me up.

Some of the people who come out for the auditons do just break your heart.

But overall, I really enjoy the show. But I do understand about the ridicule. I think they get immuned and don't realize how it is coming across. I also think with some of the people who come out they are trying to let them know that they will never be a singer. They don't want these people to be taken advantage of my someone filling their heads with false hope.

Sorry didn't mean to make this so long.

shygrneyzs

It is okay and I understand what you are saying. Once those horrid audtions are over and the real competition begins, I find the show interesting. But that is a small part of the show. lol. I do not like how Ryan Seacrest eggs the losers on in badmouthing Simon. But I guess it is all for ratings and the show sure has them, irregardless of what Rosie on "The View" thinks (she is a whole different topic - lol).

Allheart

Rosie sure did have a busy couple of weeks...yikes LOL.

I have a feeling that Simon will tone it down after last week. I was a bit speechless with some of his "observations". But if you notice, they just flow out of his mouth, I really don't think he means any harm at all. It doesn't make it right, I know. But I did hear he apologized.

So we may see a more gentler loving Simon. Okay, that may be pushing it just a tad LOL

31pumpkin

I think it was all for attention and ratings that Rosie commented about Paula Abdula's drinking.

KMSRyana

I agree.

Unfortunately, it's ratings. It's half of the reason why people watch these types of shows, so they can feel good about the fact that it's not them humiliating themselves on national television. I don't watch it, frankly it bores me. It's full of hidden agendas, which are pretty hard to get away from in modern television. If I want to watch someone humble themselves, all I have to do is go downtown and find someone holding up a cardboard sign begging for others to give them money or food. I can't sing worth a darn, and the people that go on to these types of shows, knowing they can't either, do it for exposure. It's pure desparation, and America loves it. Seeing how bad someone else is makes you feel better about yourself, right? Kinda like slowing down at an accident to see how bad somebody else got injured, instead of just getting the heck out of the way so the emergency crew can do their job.

So...

Finding new talent and appreciating it, I'm good with. The amusement at those who have no talent, I despise. Just my side of the fence, hope I didn't offend.