[Movie] American Idol Season 6

Originally Posted by Drex

I must say, Melinda Doolittle is the best thing to happen to American Idol in forever. She's amazing, pitch-perfect, has the most endearing personality combined with a huge stage presence, and if she doesn't make it to the end America has some serious owning up to do.

She's good, agreed.

More importantly, she's my ticket to big, cash prizes.

We'll gamble on just about anything at work. American Idol is no exception. When the 24 semi-finalists were announced, each of their names was placed on a popsicle stick. For $5, you got to randomly choose a stick. If the person on your stick wins, you win the whole cash pot, which is $120.

I put in $15 for three draws. I have Chris Richardson, Antonella Barba and Melinda Doolittle.

Antonella is $5 down the hole. Chris Richardson is okay, if not a little bit of a Justin Timberlake wannabe. He'll make Top 12 easily but probably won't get into the final six.

Melinda, however, has the goods to go the distance. Her only true competition could come from Lakisha Jones or possibly Chris Sligh, depending upon whether he delivers a few knockouts along the way.

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If votefortheworst has any influence at all, then Sanjaya will take the gold medal. That kid's horrible.

Also, he has caterpillars for eyebrows. That is just freakish.

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Originally Posted by RockgamerXIII

Maybe it was just me, but LaKisha never really did anything as good as she did when she sang that song in the top 24. She set the bar for herself too high too early, so she was never able to surpass what she did back then.

Bear in mind that during the Top 24 rounds, contestants are permitted to choose their own songs from any genre. It's highly likely that "And I'm Not Telling You" is a song that LaKisha had practiced hundreds of times, long before auditions, and knew she could nail.
That said, she tipped her hand far too soon. LaKisha could've sang any number of songs and still fared well, because she's obviously talented. I know you cannot rely upon being permitted to sing your comfort material each week, but some themes are rather loose and there probably could've been weeks during which LaKisha could've sang that song and gained tremendous ground when it truly counted, instead of charging out the gate and steadily losing steam.

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As for the Top 3, I think they're all pretty good, and they definitely got it right this year. I'm not the biggest Melinda fan (she can sing alright, but she has no personality whatsoever), so aside from her I don't care who wins. I think Blake and Jordin should make the Top 2, but it will most likely wind up being Jordin and Melinda.

See, this is where I disagree. I find Melinda to be far more interesting than Jordin. Jordin seems quite bland, interchangeable even. She could be any of a number of other Idol castoffs - Kimberly Locke, Trenyce, Nadia Turner, LaToya London, Lisa Tucker - and it wouldn't affect the songs she sings, nor the personality we're shown. She goes out there, sings, then stands around like a cardboard cut-out while the judges pour meaningless commentary. She doesn't make a peep. When Jordin isn't singing, she's practically invisible. And this is why she's not ready to blossom yet: Jordin lacks presence. Blake and Melinda - even LaKisha - have it. (Melinda's coyness is an act and Simon has rightly commanded her to let it go.) Jordin's performance feels like an afterthought before she's even left the stage, because once it's over, she's a shadow of herself.

The final two, in my opinion, should be Melinda and Blake. Melinda's singing has maintained the highest level of consistency throughout the competition, and Blake's unique skills are well deserving of a spot in the last episode. Both are ready for the big leagues. Jordin's not quite there yet.

And she may never be, seeing as third place Idol finishers don't exactly have a proven track record of success. Nikki McKibbin, Jasmine Trias, Vonzell Solomon and probably Elliot Yamin, soon enough, will see their careers reduced to little more than blurbs in a TV Guide retrospective and maybe being the answer on a Trivial Pursuit card.

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Well, it's official. America hates experience and talent.

Cookie-cutter Jordin will probably win now. She's completely bland and vanilla. She's never stuck out to me through the whole competition. I've always regarded her as more of a tag-along presence, someone creeping in the shadows of the more talented, female singers like Melinda and LaKisha.

But America likes predictability, and that's what they'll get. Jordin's album will be filled with lifeless, R&B drivel. It will flood the radio waves and if you didn't know better, you'd think it was someone more notable and interesting, like Beyonce or Brandy. But they'll tell you it was Jordin Sparks, and you'll react by saying "Oh."

Perhaps this premature departure will give Melinda Doolittle the freedom to offer creative input into her debut album, allowing it to be something worth a listener's time. Chris Daughtry and Clay Aiken capitalized upon that freedom, and there's no reason Melinda can't either. I expect the same of Blake.

Meanwhile, Jordin will be locked and chained into the American Idol contract, helpless and unable to express herself musically because the producers think she should be performing uninspired R&B schlock. And that's fine with me, as a lackluster debut is the surest way to send her career to an early grave and remove her from the cultural radar.

(I'm mostly just bitter about missing out on $120 in the American Idol pool at work. Melinda was supposed to be my meal ticket. You suck, America.)

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