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The End of the Line

Well, its all over. The singing, the judging, the voting... the day after blogging. What will we do now? :)

Well tonight was a 2-hour show with plenty of lame skits and filler fluff to stretch out the show for the almighty advertising dollar. I wonder if the producers are bummed that they went into a sponsor agreement with coke, cingular and ford now? I mean a 2 minute spot on Idol could pull more than the superbowl. Not everyone is a sports fan but who doesn't like music?

Anyway, on to the show...

All of the other top 12 came out singing. I'd forgotten how bad this group is at the group songs. This was the strongest group of individuals, but they could not harmonize or even compliment each other. The coaches needed to work with them more to mesh their sound. They came out in coordinating white bottoms with Constantine in some colorful jacket and a white shirt that made him stand out from the rest. I'd forgetting half of those people. But first... what did Anwar do to his hair? If he's going for the Lenny Kravitz look, it didn't work for him. OOh and look, there's the sausage. LOL. Awww and Nikko. Porky, Anthony (thought we finally got rid of him!), Lindsey Cardinale - who was a faint memory, Nadia and who could forget Mikala (who's gone blonde), and sweet, perky Vonzelle.

I wonder if Mikala changed her hair to get away from the Nanny references?

The came out singing and...
OUCH the song was bad. B-A-D bad. It was a medley of 60's songs. I liked seeing Scott do the falsetto Barbara Ann. Mikala and Lindsey didn't sound good together at all. and when Lindsey belted 'in my room' out, -- oh no.. that was bad. Nadia and Vonzelle sound good together. And I have to say, Anthony's solo of Surfer Girl was pretty good. Hearing Nikko sing reminded me that I thought he got booted way too early. and I LOVED Constantine's rendition of "I Get Around". I am sooo not a Beach Boys fan, but I would love to hear him do that whole song, loved the sound.

They brought back former contestants to do the interviews, etc. Mikala was outside the theatre. She annoyed Meredith to no end, but I like her still (not as a singer - but her silliness is fun to me). Matt (the linebacker from last season) was at Carrie's hometown and Layota (who should have won last season) was in Bo's hometown. Matt was adorable, Latoya was over the top, though cute. But who really cares? Just get to the singing and results! But that's not to be. No, no... we have an hour+ of bad skits first. ugh.

They also showed the auditions (good and bad) and after audition interviews, the announcements of who was going to Hollywood. The thing that cracked me up was that they showed one bad audition of a large girl singing the National Anthem, As she is on screen, the screen splits and she walks out... singing in all her gussied up splendor. It was horrible. She was like a young, black Roseanne. I'm IMing with Meredith and she typed to me, "why the hell not"? I could picture her throwing her arms up in the air saying that. I think Mike & I laughed for 5 minutes at that comment.

Bo and Carrie sing again. Bo sang Vehicle (again?) It was his strongest song (aside from the a capella - but that wasn't high energy enough for tonight's finale) but he JUST sang it last night. He's done 24 other songs, hasn't he?

What will Carrie sing? I hope its Sin Wagon, she did that one really cute. Oh, its Angels Brought Me Here -- that original song that I didn't love from yesterday. yeah. LOL Well, she was tons better than last night. Still sounded like she was screaming, though.

After interminable bad skits, they paired Bo and Carrie to "Up Where We Belong". I always wished they'd done that with Kelly and Tamyra (I know, she came third, but she was tons better than Justin). Anyhow, this is a good duet for them. They look cute and sing well together. Their voices compliment each other. To top it off, they gave both Bo and Carrie a new car. They were both so cute, they were both thrilled - it was adorable.

Carrie started off the singing with a guy from Rascal Flatts ( I assume they are a band, it could be the name of that one guy - who knows) and I loved it. They sing well together. They should have shown us 1.5 hours of this and a half hour of recap, rather than 30 minutes of this and the rest filled with bad skits.

Anthony & Anwar came out to Kenny G, blowing the horn to "I Believe I Can Fly". Their voices are good together. It was a solid song.

Constantine, Jessica and Nadia came out rockin' it to Kenny Wayne Sheppard's guitar jammin of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" . They were really good and Nadia looked HOT. They were having fun and jammin'. It was cool. Now... I have to comment on the sausage. For real??? That ourfit on national television with her gut hanging over her belt is like me in a two piece bathing suit going to work. oh no she didn't!

NIkko and Scott were amazing with George Benson to "On Broadway". It was great. They did a wonderful job.

Vonzelle sang with Billy Preston, "With You, I'm Born Again". They were also a great duet. Their voices were great compliments. It was a nice song for her.

Mikala and Lindsey got to sing with Babyface and I think they did a pretty good job. Mikala toned it down and sounded soulful and this was the first time since 11 weeks ago that I got to hear Lindsey. She was pretty good. It was funny to see Mikala touching Babyface's legs every few minutes. LOL.

The singing ended with Bo rockin with Lynard Skynard (they're old friends now, huh?) to Sweet Home Alabama. Love that song. Especially after Meredith bought the movie, I must've watched that 5 times. They were great, Bo was beaming, he was sooo in his element. Great way to close the singing.


Earlier on, they interviewed the judges and they all said that Carrie would win the night. Remains to be seen. I don't think it matters much now, though. They will both sell tons of CDs. I think Carrie can use the push from American Idol producers more than Bo would need the help, so my gut is that Carrie should win. But based on talent, Bo should win.


After all was said and done, the final winner of Season 4 was Carrie Underwood. You will hear from both of them again - and often.


Additional notes: how funny was that kid screaming his question to Simon? I laughed and laughed - especially when he repeat screamed it. LOL LOL

So You Think You Can Dance from the producers of American Idol. ha ha. now THAT is funny. But I have no desire to watch a bunch of bad dancers, thats a show I can skip to the finale on -- if at all.

posted by LTC @ 9:32 AM