Carly Went ‘Cause She Sucked. Period.

What a load of crap. Talk about making something out of nothing…

Within hours of Ms. Smithson’s performance, which was hailed by one “American Idol” judge as one of the best of the night, questions were being raised online about the song. On one thread on the show’s official Web site, AmericanIdol.com, a viewer warned shortly after the performance that Ms. Smithson’s choice of the song would put her in danger of elimination.

Diane Winston, who holds the Knight chair in media and religion at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication, said that while “Jesus Christ Superstar” had largely faded from public discussion over the years, the film “always had this tinge of disrepute about it because its picture of Jesus was so unsettling to many people.”

While it is true that Simon went ga-ga over that mess of a performance, Beth and I were pretty much nonplussed. She was shrieky, loud, and obnoxious, and frankly she deserved to go home.

This has nothing to do with blasphemy, it isn’t the first time she was at the bottom of the feeding trough, and frankly she wasn’t going to win anyway, so can we stop building controversy where there isn’t one?

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  • http://twitter.com/Jersey2Bronx Sean

    American Idol is, above all else, a popularity contest. Without taking anything away from Jordin Sparks, who is a fine talent (although not exactly my cup of tea music-wise), last year’s results were borderline blasphemous. The clear winner last year should have been Melinda Doolittle, as she had a voice touched by [insert whatever God or other "thing" you revere]. At the very least the girl deserved to make it to the final two over Blake “beat-the-beat-box-routine-to-death” Lewis. And don’t get me started on Sanjaya!

    But I digress…

    Getting back to this year, Carly was not the best-of-the best (David Cook is), and she did not deserve to win it all, but she at least deserved to outlast Dreadlock Boy. But no, Dreadlock Boy will return again next week to murder another tune while he tries to eye-fuck America with his baby blues…

    (sigh)

  • http://twitter.com/Jersey2Bronx Sean

    American Idol is, above all else, a popularity contest. Without taking anything away from Jordin Sparks, who is a fine talent (although not exactly my cup of tea music-wise), last year’s results were borderline blasphemous. The clear winner last year should have been Melinda Doolittle, as she had a voice touched by [insert whatever God or other "thing" you revere]. At the very least the girl deserved to make it to the final two over Blake “beat-the-beat-box-routine-to-death” Lewis. And don’t get me started on Sanjaya!

    But I digress…

    Getting back to this year, Carly was not the best-of-the best (David Cook is), and she did not deserve to win it all, but she at least deserved to outlast Dreadlock Boy. But no, Dreadlock Boy will return again next week to murder another tune while he tries to eye-fuck America with his baby blues…

    (sigh)

  • The Masked Rye

    I’ve got a theory. It’s all about their marketability and their fanbase.

    Archuleta: Teenie Boppy Girls / Grandmothers
    David Cook: Normal people… rockers
    Brooke: Hippie Chicks / Psuedo Hippie Chicks
    Castro: More teenie boppers…
    Syesha: People into Soul

    Carly and Aussie Boy had no real fan base… when it got down to the nitty gritty, they don’t have a group that will support them… they didn’t have a style of singing that a group could get behind, or a way of life or a personality that a group could get behind.

    Plus, I don’t care how good a voice she has… she didn’t know what to do with it. She sucked.

  • The Masked Rye

    I’ve got a theory. It’s all about their marketability and their fanbase.

    Archuleta: Teenie Boppy Girls / Grandmothers
    David Cook: Normal people… rockers
    Brooke: Hippie Chicks / Psuedo Hippie Chicks
    Castro: More teenie boppers…
    Syesha: People into Soul

    Carly and Aussie Boy had no real fan base… when it got down to the nitty gritty, they don’t have a group that will support them… they didn’t have a style of singing that a group could get behind, or a way of life or a personality that a group could get behind.

    Plus, I don’t care how good a voice she has… she didn’t know what to do with it. She sucked.

  • Joe

    I thought it was more shocking that Syesha was also in the bottom 2. And at least this year one of the “Teeny Bopper” favorites (Archuleta) actually has some talent. Dreadlocks boy was really bad this last week.

    It’s also good that we haven’t heard that Idol is racist in a really long time. There was one week in season 3 where all three in the bottom 3 were black, so people screamed “racism”. Right, because I know that I, for one, was so desperate to see them get booted that I called up and voted that I wanted all three of them kicked off the show. Oh wait, you can’t do that, right?

  • Joe

    I thought it was more shocking that Syesha was also in the bottom 2. And at least this year one of the “Teeny Bopper” favorites (Archuleta) actually has some talent. Dreadlocks boy was really bad this last week.

    It’s also good that we haven’t heard that Idol is racist in a really long time. There was one week in season 3 where all three in the bottom 3 were black, so people screamed “racism”. Right, because I know that I, for one, was so desperate to see them get booted that I called up and voted that I wanted all three of them kicked off the show. Oh wait, you can’t do that, right?