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Archive for March, 2013. Top 8 Results: An Hour – And Season Full of Filler. Friday, March 29th, 2013. It really is remarkable of how. Can stretch out the simple act of announcing voting results into an hour-long show. Anyone remember the days of a half-hour results show? When was the last time we had one of. All this to deliver a result that was as predictable as any we’ve seen on. Devin just never connected with. It’s obvious to anybody that. Last year, we all complained about how contestants were all ...
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January « 2013 « The Idol Guy
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Archive for January, 2013. Season 12 Premiere: Worried? Friday, January 18th, 2013. This is becoming something of a familiar refrain. Doubts about the long-term survival of. New judges, yet another round of changes… must be another. To me, though, there seems to be a strong air of. Idol In Name Only. To borrow a phrase from a certain tech CEO,. Is supposed to be about the talent, the talent, the talent. And yet… most of the attention so far has been on the judges. That’s not what I watch. The most intere...
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Archive for July, 2012. Tools Have A Life Expectancy, Too. Friday, July 13th, 2012. Well, at least one part of the dire Season 12 prediction my friends at What Not to Sing. Won’t be coming true: both Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler are gone from the judging panel. The rumor mill is even saying that they may make it a clean sweep and remove Randy as well. Frankly, few serious Idol. Watchers will miss them. Both of them rendered valuable service to the Idol. Audience is made up of nowadays? To court a cont...
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Top 2 Performance Night: Dead Heat « The Idol Guy
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Top 2 Performance Night: Dead Heat. In a season that’s been full of… odd decisions, to be rather charitable, we got another one for the finale. Up to now, as far as I can remember, we’ve had two-hour performance shows. So they decide that for the finale, we get a one-hour show. So we end up with six performances that were less. The judges also weighed in less, although that may well have been a blessing. Somehow, in this rushed show, they found room for a Coke ad. Shouty, and to be honest it was all a bi...
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Archive for April, 2012. Top 6 Results: The Rules of American Idol. Friday, April 27th, 2012. Isn’t the only bit of reality TV viewing here at TIG headquarters. One of the other items on that list is. Penn Jillette was the latest celebrity to be fired by Donald Trump, and in the car ride that closes each show he said something quite meaningful: I can tell you the rules of chess, but I can’t tell you the rules of. Now, why did I detour from the land of. And bring that specific point up? That Elise never s...
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Enter your search terms. Intro to WNTS 101. Top 100 / Bottom 100. We'd love to claim that we're the best American Idol. Research and analysis site on the web, but the competition for that honor is stiff. Here's a list of sites that we enjoy and recommend. If you'd like to propose a "link exchange" with your Idol. Site, drop us a line at . You know about these already, we hope. Wikipedia's American Idol page. SirLinksalot.net : American Idol Links. USA Today "Idol Chatter". Fans Of Reality TV. And every o...
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Top 4 Results: Messing With Fate. May 3rd, 2013. She followed in the footsteps of so many young female singers on. Vocally talented, but incapable of singing with emotion and feeling. This is. A common problem that I don’t know why would-be. Contestants haven’t learned. Good looks and good pipes will get you only so far. It will get you. And yet, somehow, in defiance of more than a. Tradition, the producers found a way to muck it up. This tweet from @TheIdolPad. Voting week is bad enough. Doing so on...
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September « 2011 « The Idol Guy
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Archive for September, 2011. The Idol Off-season: How I Learned To Stop Worrying About The X Factor. Friday, September 23rd, 2011. Schedules have a funny way of working out. On the same week that the Season 10 tour ended here in the Philippines, Simon Cowell’s much-awaited (or, at least, much-. Premiered in the US. So as the final steps of this season’s. Journey ended, viewers at home were provided with what Simon thought a reality talent show ought to look like. Is that a successful season. Not so fast&...
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Season Twelve « The Idol Guy
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Archive for the ‘Season Twelve’ Category. Season Finale: An Ending. Friday, May 17th, 2013. Well, I was wrong. And I have never been more pleased to. Season. It was as close to a textbook. Campaign as you can imagine. She is, simply put, a champion. That said, though… the season was still an absolutely terrible one overall. Yes, the past two weeks have been tolerable, and. Crowned a fantastic winner. But the whole process that got you, me, and every. No season could survive that kind of imbalance. Feelin...
