Okay, Justin is cute, but come on, his singing is really flat and without dimension. He is going to win of course, cause the girls of America don't care if he is lame. They only see those dimples, those eyelashes and that smarmy charm. Ooh gawd, give me the lead singer of The HIVES NOW! I want Billy Jo of Greenday to beat Justin's ass before I spew bile.
Okay, Kelly is up, Jeebus please help lord, please make it stop. These songs suck. Kelly is pretty, but needs a different stylist, dress is inappropriate and and the airy singing and Whitneyesque vocalization shit must die. This is just torture, but she is way better than Justin. That is it, she really should win. I mean they both suck but she is less sucky.
Picking up phone. Screaming "Die" over and over again. Ooops wrong number, sorry Mom.
Justin I can reach you with my fist and pummel you continuously. Why does this anger me so. I want to be nice, I really do, I realize it isn't their fault, it's just cruel. There are artists in the world who are so great and no one will even know they exist, but these mediocre talents are plastered the world over.
It's very wrong. American entertainment is wrong. Okay I am hooked. When is the next episode?
UPDATE
Cleveland Plain Dealer TV writer Mark Dawidziak looks forward to tonight's finale with breathless antici--pation:
- The suspense, if you can call it that, ends tonight, when the Fox summer hit, "American Idol," bestows the program's hopeful title on one of two finalists: Justin Guarini or Kelly Clarkson.
Viewers phoned in votes after the two singers performed during last night's installment, and the results will be announced near the conclusion of what the network hopes will be a grand finale tonight. The special two-hour episode airs at 8 on Fox-owned WJW Channel 8.
Two questions will linger in the pop-culture air after the winner is crowned. First, will either Guarini or Clarkson endure as an American "idol" once this much-hyped star search is completed? Second, will "American Idol" endure as a prime-time series?
The champion will get his or her chance. The show's contract with RCA Records mandates the release of the winner's first single on Sept. 17. That's right. The idol won't be idle for more than a few seconds. His or her first album will follow on Nov. 26.
It's too early to tell if either Guarini or Clarkson will be flashes panned by music critics. And defenders of the talent-search reality show argue that Britney Spears and Rosie O'Donnell were among the future American "idols" who launched careers on the 1983-95 version of Ed McMahon's "Star Search."
Article comments
1 - Phillip Winn
I didn't finally get pulled into this show until about three shows ago, mainly by my unbelief that the purple-haired girl managed to survive as long as she did.
The two songs they sang last night were awful, but Kelly convinced me for the first time that she was better than Justin based on her Aretha Franklin cover alone.
The winner is unlikely to sell many records beyond the promised single, I suspect. Then again, if N*Sync can sell, maybe I'm wrong.
2 - Dawn
Phillip,
I am so with you!!
I almost miss Nikki.