Am I still watching American Idol?

Not really.

For many reasons that I wont detail here I have not been able to watch the latest episodes. Hopefully for me, my latest favorite, Jason Castro is still in the game. I'm not mad that Carly Smithson and Brook White went home. I was never a Carly fan, she may be a good singer but... I never heard one of her songs that I wanted to hear again. As for Brooke, I liked here a little, she can sing really well but the crying.... no, no, I had seen enough of that since she sang "Let it Be".

I'm afraid Jason might be the next one to leave unless Syesha Mercado chooses a really bad song or if the same thing that happened to Kristy Lee Cook happens to her- she would get eliminated even though she seems to be doing a better job week after week -. Even with a performance like "Somewhere over the rainbow" or "Draydream" he can't win over David Archuleta or David Cook unless they do something really bad. By the way I wasn't all crazy about his "Hallelujah" performance. I think he needs to do something very simple but original.

So far there are only three contestants I don't mind listening to more than once a week: Michael Johns, Jason Castro and Brooke White. I think Michael Johns should still have been in the competition but like many others, Carly, Brooke, he felt he had already achieved his dream in the competition, so I guess there was no point in still keeping him. I do believe however that he has the potential to make a great recording artist if they give him the right songs to sing. I think the same thing of Jason Castro and Brook White but those two might be appealing to fewer people. Even though I don't like David Cook I also think he has enormous star potential. He's the best stage performer I've seen this season, he looks natural and at ease. As for David Archuleta, the judges' favorite, this season's 17 year old that they absolutely want to win just like Jordin Sparks last season, I think he should be cast in High School Musical 3- or 4 since it might be too late for 3 -, he could play the new kid in town who's in love with Gabriella. Sorry for those who've never watched HSM-apparently that's what they call it -and have no idea what I'm talking about.

Copyright 2007 Adam Larkey / Disney

Have I become a Jason Castro fan?

Ramiele Malubay and Michael Johns were my two favorite contestants this season. Both are gone now and I barely watch the show. Though I have to admit, even before their departure I was starting to slowly but surely finding interest in none else than Jason Castro... Maybe it's his goofiness, his messy hair, his big smile or the fact that he looks like a girl or just the guitar or his tight pants???... The guy is an original and he is so distinct from most of what you hear usually, he does not have this mainstream I hear it all the time voice unlike some other contestants. I also like his laid back attitude. I still don't get the tight pants... But really I could listen to some of the songs he sang again and again.


My mom likes David Cook. Even though she doesn't listen to rock but for some reason she thinks he's really good, which means that David Cook will probably go really far in this competition, by the way my mom accurately predicted that Michael Johns was going to be eliminated last week while many people were surprised when it happened. I'll probably ask her from now on who she thinks is going to be eliminated next.

American Idol top 11 results night - Bye Amanda

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

It was result night on American Idol season 7, on Fox last night. The contestants will know if they will get another chance to try and convince America that they can be the new american Idol or if they will be sent back home.
The first person to make the bottom three is Carly Smithson, surprisingly. Less surprisingly Kristy Lee Cook joins her, she's been a regular of the bottom three for the past weeks, just like Phil Stacey was last season, he made it pretty far and landed a Disney contract. Kristy and Disney sounds like a good match. And finally, and not surprisingly at all, Amanda Overmyer joins them. As I predicted yesterday Amanda Overmyer was the one sent home. I doubt anybody who's been watching the show since the top 12 is surprised especially if you watched the previous night. She looks like a really nice girl underneath the goth-rocker-biker-chick image, when she's not wearing a lot of make-up she does look "sweet" but saying that I'll miss her on the show would be lying. American Idol being a singing competiton and not an attitude competition I can say that logically she was the weakest singer of the remaining 11.