The Top 12 of Season 9. Really. This was the top 12!?! Oh dear.

[fudgeriver]

So I wasn’t sure that I was even going to do these this year. They took up so much time last year and that was time that I had to spare. They were a great distraction from my course work but I'm not sure they'll be from actual work. But I did get a lot of pleasure from writing them.

When I was considering whether I was going to revue/analyse the

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[littlepunkryo]

I'm going to keep watching this year, but not one of these contestants has managed to make me invest in them at all, not even Crystal. At first I thought it was just an extension of my being such a big Kris fan - like, I wasn't LETTING myself get interested in them, but as the weeks have gone on, it's become apparent that's not the problem. These contestants just seem like they don't have any heart or spirit - that they really are 100% trying to do what will make them a "star" and not what comes naturally to them. At least for me. The only ones I can maybe see ever coming out as real artists are Crystal, Siobhan and possibly Lee, if he can get over his nerves and get his pitch problems corrected (and that seems like a big if.) And even then, the only one I actually enjoy listening to is Crystal, although Lee's recent studio wasn't bad, I guess. Lee's voice reminds me of Gokey's sometimes and it's not a tone I find pleasant

[fudgeriver]

This is all so so true.

These contestants just seem like they don't have any heart or spirit - that they really are 100% trying to do what will make them a "star" and not what comes naturally to them.

It's kind of this exactly isn't it. Some of them seem to have studied what to do but don't understand what they've read. Theoretically they know what has worked for others but can't see that maybe it's not what'll work for them.

It makes him doubly annoying to me.

I completely agree with this, I find the same problem with Lee I have to admit.

[galyndean]

I've actually been looking for these while perusing the Idol forum because even though I'm not watching at all this year, I still like reading your analysis.

I hear you about not being invested though. I stopped watching after Hollywood week, though it was partly due to the Olympics being on and after they ended, I just didn't go back to Idol. There just isn't anyone that I'm excited about enough to actually... watch. Yeah.

Still, I liked reading it! Even if I can't really comment about the people. :)

[fudgeriver]

I've actually been looking for these while perusing the Idol forum

Wow, that's so lovely to read. Thank you so so much.

I thought about writing earlier but there were just too many people so I held back a bit :). Plus, I may still be finding Season 8 alums more intersting to follow!!!

Oh I got very very hooked on the Olympics as well. I'm an Ice Skating fan through and through (which is probably the least surprising fact in the world :D)

And hey, it's great o know you still liked reading it without knowing who it was about :D

[galyndean]

Well, I still read MJ's Big Blog in order to get my latest dose of Adam news, so I have at least an inkling of who's in and who's out. (In fact, I'm listening to his cd right now! Yeah, you'd never know I was a fan

[fudgeriver]

it's like she's either trying to hard or the producers are painting her too much as 'the female Adam'.

Oh I really think the producers are going to this. They're going to try and pimp Siobhan and Crystal and an Adam/Kris type situation all over again only without being able to inject a possible red state/blue state possibility. That last note was definitely a little off but not sure people are going to care. It was more a howl than singing by that point and Paint It Black is probably one of the only times you could really even attempt that.

It's kind of amusing, because at work, everything came to me for Idol news last year and this year, it's like... yeah, I know this, but only because I read it at MJ's.

I work somewhere where it is tantamount to treason so admit to watching Idol; it's far too music snobby for that. I did and I refuse to take it back! :D. But the guy oposite me didn't even know who Kelly Clarkson was!!

I saw the team speed skiing and my god was it exciting!!

[lferion]

I was hoping you would do this -- I really enjoyed going back and reading all your posts on last season. I had never watched Idol before the S8 finale - I downloaded & watched the whole season after that so I could see what lead up to it. This year is just ... puzzling. How did these people get here? What are they trying to _do_? Crystal, Siobhan, Mike and Didi (in about that order, with Crystal and Siobhan kind of neck-and-neck) seem to have a focus, a drive and sense of self, whether I like them or not. The others, just meh for the most part.

I admit that my _main_ reason for watching is for the S8 guest performances :-). I am so looking forward to seeing what Adam brings to that stage when he guest-performs. Not to mention the judge's reactions to it :-).

[fudgeriver]

Thank you so much! It means a lot to know that you went back and read the posts after the fact! I butchered them a little before the cut to get them to work better for my recap/projection of Adam & Kris's career so I hope that didn't matter. I didn't think anyone would be reading that far back :S

[galyndean]

Yeah, Idol isn't the place to pull a Mardi Gras act. ;)