RSSMan, What Were You Thinking? American Idol Edition
Jan 02
Television American Idol, Katharine McPhee, Taylor Hicks Comments Off
It is officially 2007 and some unwise decisions have left me with a hangover from last year. Here’s my list:
American Idol, what were you thinking voting Taylor Hicks to the top spot?
First Hicks impressions:
Just how old are you? Too fat to be an American Idol. Do you sing anything contemporary?
Well, Hicks was at the top of the eligible age bracket. He lost weight during the show. The producers gave him a stylist when they realized he wasn’t being voted off. He still does not sing anything contemporary. His stage presence is frenetic and lopsided. He can sing, but has zero appeal as a performer.
Hicks was the easy pick over the well-to-do L.A. girl Katharine McPhee. Her voice was inconsistent from week to week, she practically wilted under the stage lights, and had nothing on Hicks for the Southern voting bloc. The fact that it came down to the two of them brings up another complaint…
Chris Daughtry seemed like the best candidate for the win, even up to the last second when he was voted off the show. He would have been the first pure rocker to take the show, and how hot was he. That’s not a question. So how come he got voted off before the final week?
You can blame Idol producers (I do) or you can blame the voting audience. This is not a call for conspiracy. But damn well the producers position certain contestants for succeeding week to week. They have a hand in song choice, arrangement, the order of each performance during the broadcast, and all of it affects the voting results. There is no doubt in my mind that Hicks and McPhee were in the top two for a reason. But damned if I can figure out what that reason might have been.
My favorite theory: there was no way either Hicks or McPhee were selling albums without a huge Idol endorsement. So Daughtry, whose career is going to be swell, got the boot so that American Idol and Arista could sell more Taylor Hicks (that is the name of the album, too.)
Next up, the January 30 release of Katharine McPhee’s RCA album Never Saw It Comin’. Two words for you.
Justin. Guarini.
