I think Ellen has been kind of like a deer in the headlights. I think she'll lighten up after a few shows. Show business or not, it's still a new job. I hope she's just feeling it out rather than taking it so seriously.

To me, I guess it just seems like all of the guys are forgetable, there is nothing really all that good.

Maybe it was first show jitters, who knows, but it hasn't started out good.

Could they just eliminate four dudes tonight an no girls?

it's a burden that Casey and I bear

and can big Mike even play the guitar?

why even attempt to use one?

I noticed that--Mike was holding that guitar but didn't appear to play it at all, to me.

BeadOps, I hope Ellen will lighten up. She seems to be trying awfully hard to word her critiques exactly right. I wish she'd just say what comes to mind, which would probably be pretty funny. She is way too serious so far. Hopefully it is just "new job" jitters.

If it didn't mean a huge loss of revenue to FOX, they could get rid of 4 of the women and 4 of the men tonight, and make this all go away that much quicker.

Just my $0.02...

Only 4 of each BG?

I think they could go ahead and send home everybody but Crystal (bad teeth, right?), Didi, Siobhan, the Landslide girl, Lee, Big Mike, Casey, and Andrew. The whole train wreck would be much better off.

Maybe America just doesn't have any more Idols left.

I think a weekly hour long show on stupid human tricks would work much better.

What are your thoughts about last night?

My husband was shocked that Tim (sang Apologize) got to stay. I told him I wasn't surprised since I'm sure all the teenage girls voted for him.

I thought the show was lackluster at best.

I thought Allison SUCKED.

Chris had a good performance though.

Meh.

Tim should have gone home. Not happy. But it's ok, there's NO WAY he makes it to the top 12 overall.

Allison did indeed suck. Chris was ok, but not as good as I am used to. I'm wondering if they had sound problems.

Jannell sounded better singing out than she did live performance. Too bad, she had personality.

He replaced Chris (?) Golightly. The foster system kid with the blonde afro. Due to editing, he lurked around in the background a lot in the final cut episode, but you could see him if you looked hard enough.
Apparently, he lied about being under contract...

Why do people think they can get away with that? Do they REALLY think AI and Fox aren't going to find out if they had a girlfriend when they were 5 before they put them on the show? By now they should know that this group vets all their contestants and knows if they are under contract, have been under contract, have a work visa, have any kind of bad reputation that could damage the show, etc.

I totally agree with this, she was way better last night than she was when she performed on Tuesday. Too bad for her.

I disagreed with all of the ones who went home last night except Ashley Rodriguez. The other three should have gone home fairly early, but I thought there were worse performers this week than the other three who got the boot.

I was happy that they sent Paula home at the begining of the year.

LMAO...me, too

!! Point! Ed.

there should be a hot chick exception for Janell

The sucky get to stay yet again. I was really surprised the Muñez kid went home instead of the deer in the headlights. Sure.. let's not vote for the kid who is at home on stage, but let's keep the kid who has the same performance, crowd involving skills I have (without beer, none!).

Sticking with the usual opposite opinion, I liked Allison, hated Chris. I absolutely HATED the arrangement Chris sang. I'm kind of a Beatles purist, though.

I wonder how Vote the Worst is choosing this year?

Tim Urban, clearly


They do have a lot of options though.

Maybe that's Idol's master plan? To have enough sucky people to confuse the vote the worst group so they have a lesser impact?

Don't you just listen to some of these singers and think, "Really? Out of all the thousands and thousands of people who auditioned, you were one of the top 24 vocally?" I don't know what the judges are hearing sometimes.

I am becoming much more cynical about this show every year. . .you just know there will be at least one 16 or 17 year old boy, one 16 or 17 year old girl, a rocker, etc. I think they focus too much on filling those assigned slots and not enough on the singing when they narrow the field to 24.