Wednesday, ax day, the day all American Idol finalists dread, has claimed another victim. Unfortunately but not totally unexpectedly, lean, lovely and stubbornly eclectic Nadia Turner has been excised from the competition and somehow, someway, slovenly sullen squinty Scott Savol, the pride of Shaker Heights, has survived to publicly display his passive aggression another week. The oafish lout vote has proved powerful and resilient, and both major parties would do well to research its mysteries prior to the '06 elections.
As Ryan Seacrest, dressed nattily in suit and tie, freely admits, Wednesday's results show is to be stretched, not to its usual breaking point of 30 minutes, but to an elastic-busting 60 minutes. However, this time the outlandish extension is supported by some actual interesting content rather than just air and commercials.
The first bit of "content" is a little documentary on the recording of the finalist's charity single for the Red Cross, "When You Tell Me That You Love Me," an appalling piece of tuneless cloying mawkishness, produced by Desmond Child. The song makes my teeth hurt. Hard to believe it received more votes than either "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" or "Everything is Beautiful" - actually, no it isn't, they all are pretty cliched and wretched. Footage from the recording studio is of mild interest, however.
The next segment is actually compelling, a day-by-day look at the contestant's week: Thursday, pick a song for the following week's competition; Friday, interviews and shopping for the next show's outfit; Saturday, record finalist's album and maybe do a little bowling; Sunday, shoot goofy Ford commercial; Monday, rehearse with band, finalize song arrangements; Tuesday, the big show; Wednesday, play along with the "drama" of the extended executioner's song.
We find out Scott is in the bottom three - as is only proper - and he sings his favorite song from the competition, "Against All Odds," in an outburst of emotion he wrestles the song to the ground and gnaws at it with his canine teeth.
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1 - Dawn
in an outburst of emotion he wrestles the song to the ground and gnaws at it with his canine teeth.
So apt, so true, so feral.
That's Scott to a tee - he will fucking wrench that AI title out of your hand with brute force, and out of defiance for your having talent where he lacks it, he will drop a smelly grumpy on you in his final act of low-class behavior.
He doesn't sing, he belches out his songs on cheap Old Milwaukee and Taco Bell burritos. I wonder how often the AI house has to be cleared after a Scott constitutional?
2 - Eric Olsen
brutal, woman
3 - Temple Stark
Really other than Carrie for the guys - who would want to see any of these people in their birthday suits.
Um, this is up on Advance, like, you know.
4 - Natalie Davis
Hmmm... watched the show with folks at work. The guys all thought Vonzell was quite attractive. As always, mileage varies.
5 - TylerNewton
Um, yeah, the Bo/Carrie/Constantine "plan" is NOT shot down buddy.
All that happened here is that too many Bo fans voted for Scott and Anthony in an attempt to dump Nadia/Anwar/Vonzell.
While it worked, that PLUS many people not voting for Bo ("he's safe, so he doesn't NEED my vote") led to Bo going to the bottom 2.
If Ruben and Fantasia can hit the bottom 2 and WIN AI, Bo can too. Now Bo fans will rally behind and give him a surge of votes.
Next week it will be some Constantine fans who change their vote to Scott and Anthony in an attempt to get rid of Vonzell or Anwar, and that could leave Constantine in the bottom 3, BUT either Vonzell or Anwar, the huge threats to the Big 3, WILL go home next week.
6 - Eric Olsen
and you heard it here first