Yes, this is a mindless thread, but I must talk about my severe obsession with watching this train-wreck of a TV program.

I can't even help myself. I have to clarify that I will only watch the tryouts to see the most horrible singers alive. If you are THAT bad, how has no one told you up until now that you can't sing to save your life? Those people who didn't tell you, they don't really love you. Also, I love watching their reactions when they are told no. I feel bad in some instances. I don't know if you caught the hit-and-run "Scat" girl on an episode or two back. Yikes.

I have also noticed that more Asian men are on this one. Just something I noticed.

yes, I am rambling. If I wasn't, it just wouldn't be me.

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dcomposed:11-06-05: If I was a viking invading your village, you'd be the first to get raped.
Crabby: 10/5/06: i would love to feed you fresh fruit while bathing you.

Is it true they've been instructed in this series to only let good-looking people through?

If only they'd thought of that for Pop Idol 2 - look who we got as the winner:

That is true. I see nothing wrong with the winner of Pop Idol 2, either.

IS there something wrong with him? Looks okay to me. Eyes are a little weird in color, but who am I to pass judgment on eye color?

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dcomposed:11-06-05: If I was a viking invading your village, you'd be the first to get raped.
Crabby: 10/5/06: i would love to feed you fresh fruit while bathing you.

American Idol let a midget into the next round last night, so they're cool with me.

Me too! I love wathcing the auditions because i love laughing at the people who cant sing. And those people who will cry like babies cuz they cant get in are just stupid. They are getting good critizime from people who know what theyre talking about. Scat girl killed me. that was really funny.THese people act like babies and its true they cant sing. Some were really good like this guy , rodriqus, or something. they didnt let him in and i thought he was good. but I laugh a lot during this.

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Laugh With The World and The World Laughs With You. Cry At The World And The World Laughs Louder.

The "She Bangs" guy is totally going to be in the American Idol history books forever. I don't usually watch the auditions, but since it was on 3 times a week, and there's nothing better on, I watched. I always vote, and have a tendency to change my mind when they sing a song I really love, then screw it up. I got into it last season when I was living in Indianapolis and God knows there's nothing better to do there.

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Mediocrity at its most average.

I think American Idol is a valuable show, especially toward the last rounds. It makes you think about what separates a good performance from a mediocre one, even if almost all the songs are crap.

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I like american idol, but it seems like there only letting in extreamly good looking people(with some exceptions) and people who only sing pop or country music. That needs to be stopped.

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"Before you judge me take a look at you, cant you find something better to do"

I think it's absolutely valuable to the ruination of politeness in the world. Simon is an asshole, and he is damn near lauded for it. Take into account the acceptance of public displays of anger, like George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld's contemtuous outbursts towards anyone challenging them, and you've got a downward fucking spiral of negativity. I am not recusing myself from this description, but I still don't think it is right that anger and venom should become more commonplace ways of reacting to things.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

" Simon is an asshole, and he is damn near lauded for it."

But you have to admit he is telling them the truth and telling them what they really need to hear. Cause I mean if those really bad people i.e "scat girl" went out in public and sang, and thought they were good they would get made fun of a lot worse than what simon or any of the other judges could say. I think it was good for them to have Simon because a lot of bad singers would be on the show right now, if it wasnt for Simon's rude comments and the way he can make the other judges turn against the contestants.

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"Before you judge me take a look at you, cant you find something better to do"

Amen, brother. Simon is a tit who can't take criticism himself then expects to be taken seriously when he gives it to others. The only time I enjoyed watching him was when he went on Conan O'Brien and got his nuts handed to him by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

The way people think he's special for doing what any 8-year-old could do, and what any one of us could do if we didn't care about other people's feelings, makes me want to spiral into a cynicism that dubs people who like his meanness sheep.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

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" Simon is an asshole, and he is damn near lauded for it."

But you have to admit he is telling them the truth and telling them what they really need to hear. Cause I mean if those really bad people i.e "scat girl" went out in public and sang, and thought they were good they would get made fun of a lot worse than what simon or any of the other judges could say. I think it was good for them to have Simon because a lot of bad singers would be on the show right now, if it wasnt for Simon's rude comments and the way he can make the other judges turn against the contestants.

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Amen, brother. Simon is a tit who can't take criticism himself then expects to be taken seriously when he gives it to others. The only time I enjoyed watching him was when he went on Conan O'Brien and got his nuts handed to him by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

The way people think he's special for doing what any 8-year-old could do, and what any one of us could do if we didn't care about other people's feelings, makes me want to spiral into a cynicism that dubs people who like his meanness sheep.

At least he looks like he would if I was there with him.

Possibly a combination of baked beans and bad cologne.

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Jesus saves, but everyone else in a 10 foot radius takes full damage from the fireball.

Simon is my baby daddy.

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dcomposed:11-06-05: If I was a viking invading your village, you'd be the first to get raped.
Crabby: 10/5/06: i would love to feed you fresh fruit while bathing you.

Simon's there to make records that make money. He's spent a shitload of money on this thing himself. He's looking at this thing as a business, purely, and he doesn't want his time wasted, and in return, he won't waste your time. I think that's fine.

It's not exactly what I'd call art though, or even interesting music. Very few of my favorite records feature vocal performances that would make the cut on Idol. (I'm listening to Television, "Marquee Moon" at the moment, with Tom Verlaine's strangled, whiny, nasal, tuneless vocals, which are perfect.) Today I've listened to Neil Young, Mark Knopfler, Doc Watson, Morphine, Stan Ridgway, and the Stranglers. Not one of these performances would have made it past Simon, because it's not what he's after.

But if you think Simon's a big egotistical asshole, just look at some of the egos he has to deal with. And it adds insult to injury when they're egotistical AND undisciplined AND they don't even know it. I understand why he gets mad and why he feels it necessary to puncture their balloons.

(hides his balloons)

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Now, I agree with the fact that he MIGHT be telling them what they need to hear. Everyone, EVERYONE I have seen on that show wouldn't fit MY definition of good.

It used to be that you audition like that, and what is said to you is between you and the people present. Now, your jackass humiliation is on the screens of millions of people.

Simon's got a sweet job. With no real qualifications, he gets to tell people they suck.

Randy Jackson's got a sweet job, too. To be fat, to pretend that Journey was a great band, and that he had any impact on it, that pop music is anything other than a mindless way to subvert unique thought, and that he can tell people they suck without taking an objective look at his own career.

Paula Abdul, well... I'd bang her. Always wanted to hit that. Plus, she's a lot nicer in her criticism.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

Steve Perry was a great vocalist. Spectacular. Sadly, I found the records to be way on the far side of unlistenable.

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Awesome, awesome, awesome record. The only album my last band made was a Television homage through and through. (Right down to the fact that I can barely sing at all, but it doesn't stop me.)

I enjoyed watching last year's early rounds of A.I., just to see the really, truly awful contestants, but I couldn't be arsed to watch it this year (possibly because I think it went up against "Angel" one night and nothing comes between me and my Joss-verse).

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I has a flavor!