In celebration of the release of David Cook's self-titled album release yesterday, an AI-poll. It just popped in my head and I wanted to do it.

[Poll #1301147]

Best Week Ever presents ...

Brooke White Stops and Starts the Classics

I love that she has the sense of humor to go for this. She? Is the awesome. Now, I just have to stop and start myself so that I can read all of the titles, LOL!

ETA: All the titles behind the cut ( Read more... )

Okay, so I finally got around to watching all of the performances. I know it's long gone and over, but I HAVE to give my two cents worth (which is more like twenty dollars worth) about this because of all of the outrage and commentary over the performance night and results. And I have to say that there IS rightful outrage over Carly leaving over a performer who gave a disastrous performance and SHOULD have gone based on that performance ... if this show was ACTUALLY a singing competition (which it's not, but more on that later). That performer is, however, NOT Brooke White ... by ANY stretch of imagination. At all.

Lots (and lots) of thoughts on the songs performed, the performances themselves, flubbed lyrics, my rankings, etc. ( behind the cut. )

Obviously spoilers for who went home tonight behind the cut.

( Dude, you all know that it ain't Archie. )

Crappy, crappy, crappy night for reality TV for me tonight. Not overall, but in three of the four reality shows I watch, I lost faves. Sniff, sniff.

( Spoilers for Survivor, AI, Celebrity Apprentice, Make Me a Supermodel )

So my remote wasn't working and I couldn't watch AI without the fast-forward button and that just ain't happening, so it had to wait until it worked. This morning, it was fixed and so I zipped through the top 10 guys/girls and my thoughts.

- I LOVE Danny Noriega, even when he picks the wrong songs. I love HIM! Love him, love him, love him. I like his voice, I love his attitude. Love him!

- Danny Archuleta does have a good voice, but that song is NOT a showcase song, ah well. He did do well.

- I LOVE Brooke White. Fabulous song choice, and she was fabulous. Love her. Love her. Love her.

Everyone else, meh.

I did this last year and actually did a pretty good job in picking more than half of the eventual top 12, and I also had the final three listed in my faves, so I figured, eh, might as well do it again.

( Philadelphia )

( Dallas )

Word to those who want to watch these auditions really quickly -- fastforward through the bad performances, you get through a two-hour show in about 40 minutes or less. I actually got through 4 hours worth in an hour. Go me!! Is it me and my fast-forwarding, though, or were there less bad vocalists than normal? Have *GASP* the producers actually paid attention to the fact that they had WAY too many bad ones last year?