They got bad opinions on music
Apparently this week the producers of
American Idol are determined to show us the contestants who are not good enough to make it to Hollywood. I’ve been disappointed with the auditions in San Diego and Charleston, even more than the judges were, I think.
They tell us they put 23 singers from Charleston through to Hollywood, and we saw exactly four of them, plus a bunch of also-rans. And of the four, I didn’t see any superstars. The brother-sister act of Michelle and Jeffrey Lampkin was a nice novelty, and they have big personalities, but how do we know they’re good enough if they didn’t sing solos? The abstinence-teaching cheerleader Amy Flynn was sweet, but her voice was a bit weak (and Simon correctly pegged her as “annoying”). London Weidberg, who put her singing on hold while her father was dying and tried to live up to a Billie Holliday song, has a chance to go further than the others, but I’m not sure she’s Idol material, either.
If the next Idol is coming out of San Diego, it won’t be any of the performers they showed us on last night’s fiasco. They’ve been putting through mediocre singers with good stories. Let’s hope they weed out the weak links in the Hollywood round, so we don’t end up having to vote on another Sanjaya, thank you very much. Once they make it past Randy, Paula and Simon, and it becomes up to America, any dumb thing can happen, as we’ve proved year after year. I’m still hoping to wake up and find Melinda Doolittle won season six.
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