Members MichaelGL Posted May 5, 2007 Members Share Posted May 5, 2007 Blake is great IMO. I hope he wins. Jordin is slowly becoming one of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted May 6, 2007 Members Share Posted May 6, 2007 Ditto! But I always have loved Jordin. I wouldnt mind seeing her win. Melinda is the only deserving one. She is outstanding week after week. I mean the girl is a great entertainer. But every year they're a suprise exit so i'm hoping that she won't go next week I love Melinda too but I just dont see her as the next American Idol. Like I said I hope Blake wins but if he doesnt win. Jordin should be the winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members David_Vickers Posted May 6, 2007 Members Share Posted May 6, 2007 Melinda or Blake should win. Jordin should not. I've liked her at times, but she's not as good as either Melinda or Blake, or Lakisha for that matter. She needs more vocal lessions imho. I hope Jordin is the next to go! Actually in the last few weeks, I've stopped liking Jordin as much, lol. Blake has mucho talent. Great beatboxing. Great singing. Great entertaining. Great originality. Great producing. Great remixing. His "You Give Love a Bad Name" was as Randy said, the most original IDOL performance ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted May 6, 2007 Members Share Posted May 6, 2007 I think this is the first season that Ive actually loved the final 2. Every year its either one person I love and one I cant stand or 2 people I cant stand, but this year for once, I will be happy if any of the remaining finalists win bc they are all deserving. The pasts seasons have ended anticlimatic for me but this one wont. Id prefer it if Blake one but I wont be disappointed if Lakisha, Melinda or Jordin were named the American Idol for 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NYC123 Posted May 7, 2007 Members Share Posted May 7, 2007 Heres to hoping Blake and Melinda does GREAT on Tuesday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KLN Posted May 7, 2007 Members Share Posted May 7, 2007 I hope Blake sucks. Not that it matters much... he could get on stage and piss in a milk jug and he'd still get votes. Overrated asshat, he is! GO JORDIN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members winterguy125 Posted May 7, 2007 Members Share Posted May 7, 2007 Here is what I am hoping for in regards to American Idol's final two: Melinda and Blake, I think that Lakeisha will get voted of next week, and than the next week Jordan will be voted off, though I wish Jordan would go before Lekeisha, seeing as she did murder one of my favorite songs by Bon Jovi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KLN Posted May 7, 2007 Members Share Posted May 7, 2007 Oh, blah. It just wasn't her genre. I imagine Blake's beat-boxing version of "Livin' on a Prayer" would've been better? He doesn't even have the vocal range to hit a strong note -- he would've murdered the song even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaysFanJean Posted May 8, 2007 Members Share Posted May 8, 2007 http://www.realitytvmagazine.com:80/blog/2...erican_ido.html May 07, 2007 Is American Idol Manipulating Results By Order Of Performance? It has long been rumored that whoever sings in the opening spot on American Idol is at a distinct disadvantage because by the end of the show, many viewers have forgotten their performance and thus forget to vote for them. It has also long been rumored that whoever sings in the closing spot on American Idol has a distinct advantage because viewers get caught up in the moment and the performance is fresh in their minds during the voting time window. Reality TV Magazine went back through this season’s top twelve eliminations on American Idol to see if there really is any disadvantage or advantage to singing earlier or later in the performance show. What we found appeared to back up the long standing rumors. The finalist who sang last has not been eliminated during the subsequent results show during the entire top twelve. In fact with the exception of Chris Richardson, no finalist singing in the last two positions has been eliminated in the subsequent results show. In contrast, the finalist who sang in the first or second spot has been eliminated four times during the entire top twelve. That means that fifty percent of the eliminations so far during the top twelve have been someone singing in one of the first two spots. In fact, the one exception that we pointed to of Chris Richardson being eliminated after he sang in one of the final two spots actually occurred on the double elimination week. If one looks back to the previous non-elimination week, Chris Richardson sang in the first spot. Since the voting totals were added together for those two weeks, one way to look at it is that both of the opening singers for those two weeks wound up going home. Looking at it from this angle, 62.5% of the eliminated finalists sang in one of the two opening spots before their elimination. Here is the most shocking part of our research though. Some American Idol finalists appear to have been selected for the final closing spot more than others. Melinda Doolittle and Jordin Sparks have each received the closing spot twice. Lakisha Jones, Blake Lewis, Chris Richardson, and Sanjaya Malakar have each received the closing spot once. None of the other six America Idol finalists, who have all been eliminated, ever received the closing spot even one time. The remaining final four contestants have monopolized the closing spot 75% of the time. (Granted that as more people are eliminated there are less people to choose from, but Phil Stacey was still around with zero closings when Melinda Doolittle and Jordin Sparks got their second closing performances.) Considering that American Idol producers have access to the voting results every week, they would likely be able to put together statistics to figure out that contestants in the closing spots have a distinct advantage over contestants in the opening spots. Knowing this information, could American Idol producers affect the outcome of the competition by giving certain contestants more closing spots than others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KLN Posted May 8, 2007 Members Share Posted May 8, 2007 That thought crossed my mind -- the whole "final performer of the night has a direct advantage" thing -- but then I realized that if the final performance is really sh!tty, it'll stick out even MORE like a sore thumb than the rest, causing the singer a big disadvantage. There are pro's and con's either way. The show can do all sorts of things to sway votes. The judges can pay particular attention to a certain performer or create "a moment" to generate buzz, thus winning votes for said performer... for example, LaKisha and Simon's kiss last week. That was a 'moment,' it generated buzz and thus got LaKisha's name even more out there, hence more votes. As we all saw, LaKisha didn't go home last week. Yes, her performance wasn't bad that night, but the week before was wreched and certainly should've earned her at least one of the bottom two spots. But I digress. Another example of creating 'moments' and generating buzz/votes for a performer is Sanjaya. The show milked him for all he was worth! Always referencing the hair, always saving him as the "last possible contestant in the final three" to keep people watching... they turned it into a reverse Susan Lucci. Instead of watching each time to see when he'd finally win, they milked him so that people would tune in to see if he'd finally lose. That milking generated buzz and attention, thus winning him votes and keeping him around for far longer than he should've been. It shouldn't occur, but it does, and many people seem oblivious to the fact. If you're a good singer and entertainer, I'll root for you regardless of what tricks the show uses to sway votes in a certain direction. If 'Idol' suddenly has Jordin closing the show every night, I'm not going to wish for her to lose just because the show is manipulating the votes in her favor -- I'll simply roll my eyes at AI thinking she couldn't get the votes on her own (because they shouldn't interfere or manipulate in the first place), while simultaneously rooting for her as the deserving winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rhiannon Posted May 9, 2007 Members Share Posted May 9, 2007 I didn't dig Blake's first performance AT ALL............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rhiannon Posted May 9, 2007 Members Share Posted May 9, 2007 I agree with Randy concerning Blake's beat boxing and etc., it's getting to be really annoying. If he couldn't sing that would be one thing, but the beat boxing and etc. really mucked up his performances tonight........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Days4Life Posted May 9, 2007 Members Share Posted May 9, 2007 Blake did nothing tonight to win me over. I have a shirt almost exactly like Randy's...and I'm a girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members winterguy125 Posted May 9, 2007 Members Share Posted May 9, 2007 Tonight was just bad all around, none of them did good at all. Blake sucked for the most part, Jordan sucked especially the last song, LaKesisa sucked, and even Melinda sucked, but if I had to be nice I would say Melinda still had the strongest vocals of the night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted May 9, 2007 Members Share Posted May 9, 2007 It's Jordan and Melinda in the finals. Blake was bad tonight. He was horrible. But Lakisha was just as bad. I hated both of her songs too. I thought she would nail run to you but it fell flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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