American Idol: Ellen OUT! JLo IN!

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Nothing J.Lo has ever done music video-wise will ever top this Fosse-inspired and David Fincher-directed video from Abdul!:

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Granted, they're both sh!t singers, but Paula's music video choreography, which she mainly did herself, was top notch.

[DRW50]

Paula was actually pretty entertaining and enjoyable up to about 1990 or so.

I think JLo's early music was a good listen. If I Had Your Love and Waiting for Tonight, I would watch VH1 waiting to see those videos. I think she just started taking herself way too seriously, and she seemed to become a joke that only she wasn't in on.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I think people often forget what a successful pop career Paula had, even though it was brief.

Forever Your Girl was the top selling album of 1989 in the US, and she scored 4 #1 hits off that album alone, and an additional two on her sophomore album Spellbound.

Yes, I will forever revel and live in 80's and early 90's pop culture.

[All My Shadows]

THIS JUST IN: Mother Angelica named fourth judge on American Idol!

WAITING FOR TONIGHT!! OH OH OH!!!

I used to sit and write down the lyrics as it played on TRL and think about my first boy crush. Good times.

Anyway, thank god Ellen's outta there. She never fit in nor did she ever belong there. Hopefully she sticks to her talk show for a while because I'm tired of seeing her face.

What are the format differences between Idol and X Factor? I can read wiki, but I'd rather hear it from a fellow SONer

[DRW50]

I'm getting some of this wrong, but each of the judges on X Factor (there were three, now there are four) mentors a certain amount of contestants. I think you have:

- a group (2-4 people)

- a teen set

- an older man group

- an older woman group

(older being up to about 30-35 I guess)

The mentors pick the songs for each of their acts.

Then in the early rounds of public voting, the public votes for a bottom two and the judges decide who among the bottom two should go. If they don't want to make a decision, then they go to a tie vote, a deadlock, and the public vote decides.

When you get to a top 5 or so, the public vote is the sole decider.

You also have a lot of backup dancers and silliness on X Factor. Here's a group I really enjoyed, for both good and bad reasons.

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[SFK]

Though she was no great singer (something I didn't even grasp at the time), I will never diss Paula's pop culture contribution. She was really big when I was in 4th/5th/6th-ish grade, my second elementary school. The Opposites Attract video, I was a fool for that, I was really into animation and the whole Roger Rabbit thing (though now that I think of it, I BET she based that on Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry the mouse, hmmm...). And my little cousin, she just loved that song with the strings that had Keanu Reeves in the video, was that Hush?

Do you guys remember the show A Current Affair? They did a piece on a singer (ooh, I wish I could remember who it was b/c iirc she went on to do more stuff that we'd know her from) who was trying to sue Paula because she was credited on her album as a "background singer" when on Opposites Attract (I think that was the song) she wasn't singing "background" at all. She sang the song completely and they doubled the track with her voice and Paula's creating once smooth synced voice. I don't remember whatever became of that case.

[DRW50]

Rush Rush

[SFK]

SFK <--embarrassed My bad, RUSH. Maybe I was thinking of, "Hush, Hush, Somebody's Callin' Mah Name".

[quartermainefan]

good riddance to Ellen, she sucked. J Lo though? This could work I guess but she will need to be drunk twice weekly to make it work. But even with that, no Paula and no Simon means none of this matters.

[DRW50]

Don't let the door hit ya, Kara!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/07/30/kara-dioguardi-fired-american-idol-report-says/

Hey Kara, they used to play this at STUDIO 57!!

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[Lucid]

JLO is a horrible choice unless these kids want to be about flash and no depth

[Soapsuds]

My second favorite song of hers behind "Forever Your Girl"

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Oh dear gawd...Steven Tyler??....Ugh....the show is going to implode!

[All My Shadows]

OH MY GOD!

Praise the sweet baby Jesus!!

I get SO MUCH pleasure out of the fact that she didn't quit, that bitch was fired. Get outta here, girl! Getcha ass gone!

[quartermainefan]

considering how dull they all were this past year and the smaller than life personalities, I think a little more flash and a little less depth will be appreciated. I am tired of these contestants telling us how every song is for their grandmother who died saving puppies, or literally sobbing because they just find themselves oh so moving.

[Jonathan]

I still remember that comment!