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American Idol is down to nine contestants. I find myself watching American Idol every season (minus two – the first season and third season) and each time, my favorite contestant makes it to second place. The winner usually ends up being someone on the polar opposite of my taste. I always thought that this was because American Idol has only been a fixture on Fox during the Bush adminstration. I told myself, “Well, Americans don’t know how to vote for a good president. It makes sense that they can’t vote for the good AI contestant.” Now, Barack Obama is President and the American people finally got that right. This gives me hope that the American public will finally push a real pop idol into the winner’s circle of American Idol. A sign of this is that all country artists have been voted off. Country boy, George Bush, is no longer in office, no country artists are eligible to win AI. It is a good feeling!

We still have eight weeks after today, but I have my favorite and based on his continued performances, I want him to take the win. For too long has American Idol had lackluster winners, allowing contestants who fell off earlier in the challenge to bring in greater success than most of the winners. Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson are the only real stars who have won, in my eyes. I only say Carrie Underwood because she has record sales to back it. I find her and her country music to lack presence on stage. Not to mention, “Jesus Take the Wheel” made me cringe. I think Adam Lambert has the great potential to finally bring renewed credibility to a show.

Every week, Adam spices up the show. Each week this season has about two or three great performances and he is always one of them, if not THE one. He is creative. He is skilled. He is interesting. He is certainly a breath of fresh air for the show. I will not go so far as to call him “unique” because I have seen plenty of guys who fit into his look, but he is the “unique” one amongst the current AI contestants. He has not really done any of the cheesy ballads that so many contestants rely on and during country week (the week I alwayd dreaded), he took a country song and rearranged it into a fantastic performance that hardly resembled country. 

I do not lose sleep over who wins American Idol, but I am hoping that since the American people got the Presidential choice correct this time around, then hopefully, they will choose a contestant that feels like a star, ala Adam Lambert.

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I continue to watch American Idol season after season, despite being frustrated with the show for various realistening to the singing and the music of the show (sin country music nights.) However, this season has proven to be significantly dull.

Last night’s show really got me fired up annoyed and if you want to make a gay man really angry, you do what happened on AI last night. Dedicate a night to the Broadway music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and have inexperienced singers put their amateur twists on it.

After Madonna sang “You Must Love Me,” you can’t mess up the lyrics like Brooke did. She was doomed to fail before she even started singing. This was one of the first movies Madge acted in and you actually believed her with all sincerity. Sorry Brooke, you lose and you made my blood boil with your rendition.

Ending the night was Carly singing a song from one of my all time favorite musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar. She sang the title track and ruined that song, as well. She missed the cunning, questioning sarcasm that goes along with the song. The tongue in cheek aspect destroyed by Carly’s overly layered version of the song. I am supposed to laugh a bit when the line, “Did Muhammed move a mountain or was that just P.R.?” I am sons. I do enjoy not supposed to cringe.

If you want to make a gay man angry, ruin Broadway songs on an overproduced and overly formulated televison program like American Idol.

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