My take on American Idol - The 11 contestants

Written by Michelle Mauriere
Published March 25, 2004
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I'll add the results to this entry later.


BTW I always wondered about Paula Abdul's ethnicity. She's one of the jurors of American Idol, and what I find interesting is that the jury members are of total different ethnicity, which I find good, because that way you avoid that certain people of different ethnicity are probably judged more for their heritage than for what they're actually doing on stage. Even if one doesn't cling too much with someone's style, like e.g. Jasmine Trias' very Hawaiian image, she might appeal to another one of the jury, because people look at it from different perspectives. I could imagine they've done that on purpose to appeal to all kinds of people in the USA. But I always wondered about Paula, but now I looked it up and was surprised. She's Syrian-Palestinian and French-Canadian. I would have never thought she was one of those. She's American, of course, but her heritage - I wouldn't have known. Was interesting to find out about that. I mean, her name Abdul already got me thinking, but doh, I really wouldn't have known.


So good, see you again in here later.


LATER: THE RESULTS


I just watched the results. I still can't believe who the ones in the bottom three were. I mean, Matthew was totally okay to me. But Camile and Diana? Oh my God! When they announced who's gonna drop out and Diana DeGarmo's name was said first I almost suffered from a heart attack. I already thought she was out. I mean, even Paula Abdul said she was shocked about seeing her among the bottom 3. But thankfully Diana was just the first one out of the bottom 3 who made it to next week. And thank God, Matthew Rogers dropped out this week. The USA seem to be pretty predictable to me when it comes to guessing who's got to drop out. But damn, I still have a hard time believing Diana DeGarmo was in the bottom three already this time. She's just absolutely amazing! I don't know what's wrong with these people! Never shock me like this again! =(( :D

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Published: March 25, 2004
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#1 — April 8, 2004 @ 07:57AM — idol1

jennifer ,fantasia , jon peter all SUCK
JENNIFERS FACIAL EXPRESSIONS LOOK LIKE SHE ESCAPED FROM A MENTAL WARD AND SHE GETS ONE GOOD PERFORMANCE AND GETS COCKY
FANTASIA IS SO COCKY AND ARROGANT SHE CANT EVEN PRONOUNCE WORDS RIGHT. EXAMPLE
LETSH GIVE
DEM SHOMTING TO TALK ABOUTS? JON PETER JUST CANT SING AND IS SO GOOFY HE LOOKS LIKE JOHN BOY ON LSD

#2 — April 17, 2004 @ 13:09PM — michelle

I LOVE JPL. I CAN'T BELIEVE HE'S OFF. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND HIS ADDRESS TO SEND HIM A TEDDY BEAR. DO YOU KNOW THE ADDRESS?

#3 — January 27, 2005 @ 22:34PM — Shayna

You didn't know Paula Abdul was one of "those"??? Please enlighten us, one of what? An extra-terrestrial? A super secret government agent? Oh, do you mean one of those cunning, wily Middle Easterners?

Was your statement meant to come off as ignorant and bigoted, or are you just not good at expressing yourself?

#4 — February 16, 2005 @ 22:31PM — lynn

Right on Shayna. What are "those" anyway? That's like grouping all of the peoples of North America together. Are Lebanese, Iraqis, Egyptians and Phoenicians the same? I'm one of those (from 5 generations ago- how can that make me any different from you?).
Please think about how you state things.

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