More on the topic of Idol
I guess I'm going to make these Idol reports a weekly thing. I mean, the top ten starts next week, so why not? Maybe, possibly, someone out there actually values my opinion. Um. Please stop laughing.
Random thoughts on random things.
The Black Guy
I feel awful for having to refer to him as such, but I can't for the life of me remember his name. And seriously, there's only one black guy, so it's not like you're not going to know who I'm referring to. Anyway, he was all right, but yeah, just all right. He's eighteen, so if he shuffles off to work hard for a few years and reappears on the scene, so much the better. He's my vote for first guy kicked off this week.
The Guy Who Keeps Singing Songs I Like
He sang Angel last week and Drive this week. He sings good songs, and he sings decently, but somehow he's just not meshing with things. It's a real shame, because I like him, really I do, but he's just so... meh. Second choice for voted off.
The Guy Who Had His Chance Last Year
a.k.a. Rocket Man. Every time he comes onstage, I yell, "GET OFF MY SHOW!" Er, yes, I get a little passionate and start claiming it's my show. Whatever. Anyway, he was so meh it's not funny. Know how Zach said he's almost too perfect? That plays off of what I was whining about while he was singing perfectly. See, he sounded like John Mayer, and while I like John Mayer, do we really need two of him? A person on Idol needs to have their own personality, their own identity, and he was just white bread blah. I have nothing particularly bad to say about his performance, but nothing good either. Eh.
The One Whose Name Starts With a 'D'
Dwayne? Dwight? Something like that. Eh. He's okay. I really don't remember that much of his performance, and it's only been three hours. Let's see here... Oh! Right. He sang that Matchbox Twenty song E-chan nearly did for her year two auditions. (She ended up singing Hurt, for the record.)
And noooooow... on to the ones I like best. I raided Adam's iPod, so I'm going to be nice and specific toward what they should sing this time around. *wonders if any of them will ever read this...*
Rocker Dude
His performance was very meh, to be honest. (Please note that 'meh' for him is better than 'meh' for, say, 'D' Guy.) He totally won me over with his post-song antics, though. Oh! And I remember his name. Tyler Mullendore. Yeeeeeeeah. Anyway, Mom's decided she doesn't like him because he "acts like he's already won the thing. He needs to be taken down a peg." Honestly, that's why I like him. He's just so arrogant and pretentious... kinda like Nakajima Yuto. *dodges bricks* Okay, he's like a cross between Butterfly!Jin and Yuto. Hey, would JinxRyo be called Akanishikido? Wait, what am I even talking about?
He should sing: George Michael - Faith. Hey, if Limp Bizkit can do it...
Pale Boy
a.k.a. Jethro the Pale Boy. He has reached a new level of OMGWTFSOCUTE. He really knows how to work a crowd, y'know? I think I'm going to spend the rest of this little blurb flailing. *flails*
He should sing: IDEK. He's proven he can sing frickin' anything. Although if we're talking something I'd like to hear/see him sing rather than something anyone/everyone would like to see/hear etc, Linkin Park - My December would provide a nice, intimate atmosphere his performances don't usually achieve, and his voice would be really interesting with Three Doors Down - Kryptonite.
Liam Styles Chang♥
OMG WTF WHAT WAS HE WEARING? He looks like he was dressed by Kanjani8. I think I might've died inside a little when I saw his sweater. *sigh* Oh Liam. He was wonderful, of course, truly wonderful. He always is. He was wonderful and quirky and sweet and dynamic and just... yeah. Since I don't have anything to say other than how wonderful he is, here's a conversation I had about him:
KEI. 'Kay, so Liam has a slight oddness that's somehow reminiscent of Jacob Hoggard, and yet also possesses a certain endearing shyness and adorable nervousness that brings to mind Kalan Porter. With me so far?
OKAA-CHAN. Think so.
KEI. So Liam is like if Jacob and Kalan had a baby... and it was Chinese.
OKAA-CHAN. *headtable*
ADAM. *laughs hysterically*
KEI. Oh thank god somebody laughed at that. I've been thinking about it for the last ten minutes.
Oh, I looked it up, and he is younger than me.
...
Stop looking at me like that.
He should sing: Something Dashboard Confessional. *waits for the laughter to die down* No, seriously. If he sang The Swiss Army Romance, I'd probably cry. It'd just be that... that... well, with Liam, 'wonderful' seems to be the incredibly operative word. I'd love to see him get really kinetic with something, too, since his performances to date seem to keep him somewhat stationery. I feel like he could do Blink 182's last single, Not Now, and have it have a lot of emotion to it. I'd really love that. But I'm going to stick with The Swiss Army Romance. *waves her arms around* Please, Liam, please! (Other songs I'd just die to hear him sing include Dir en grey - Kasumi and hide - Pink Spider. But anyway.)
In other news, every week when I watch Idol, they air a commercial for some newscastor showing how everyman he is by showing him in different places around his town. Um. Said town is the B-dot. In one scene he's coming out of Whatnot's Eclectics (I applied for a job there), and in another he's outside the park beside the senior public. WTF, mate?
I still need to buy this month's Shonen Jump. *sigh*
Since I mentioned Pink Spider earlier, it may be worth mentioning that I was so elated about Rize performing it at the Tokyo Live Earth show that I actually dreamed about telling Paul about it. He was watching the boy I had a crush on in high school play Zelda 2 on an NES emulator. Go figure.
EDIT: Liam listens to Gackt. *dies*
Random thoughts on random things.
The Black Guy
I feel awful for having to refer to him as such, but I can't for the life of me remember his name. And seriously, there's only one black guy, so it's not like you're not going to know who I'm referring to. Anyway, he was all right, but yeah, just all right. He's eighteen, so if he shuffles off to work hard for a few years and reappears on the scene, so much the better. He's my vote for first guy kicked off this week.
The Guy Who Keeps Singing Songs I Like
He sang Angel last week and Drive this week. He sings good songs, and he sings decently, but somehow he's just not meshing with things. It's a real shame, because I like him, really I do, but he's just so... meh. Second choice for voted off.
The Guy Who Had His Chance Last Year
a.k.a. Rocket Man. Every time he comes onstage, I yell, "GET OFF MY SHOW!" Er, yes, I get a little passionate and start claiming it's my show. Whatever. Anyway, he was so meh it's not funny. Know how Zach said he's almost too perfect? That plays off of what I was whining about while he was singing perfectly. See, he sounded like John Mayer, and while I like John Mayer, do we really need two of him? A person on Idol needs to have their own personality, their own identity, and he was just white bread blah. I have nothing particularly bad to say about his performance, but nothing good either. Eh.
The One Whose Name Starts With a 'D'
Dwayne? Dwight? Something like that. Eh. He's okay. I really don't remember that much of his performance, and it's only been three hours. Let's see here... Oh! Right. He sang that Matchbox Twenty song E-chan nearly did for her year two auditions. (She ended up singing Hurt, for the record.)
And noooooow... on to the ones I like best. I raided Adam's iPod, so I'm going to be nice and specific toward what they should sing this time around. *wonders if any of them will ever read this...*
Rocker Dude
His performance was very meh, to be honest. (Please note that 'meh' for him is better than 'meh' for, say, 'D' Guy.) He totally won me over with his post-song antics, though. Oh! And I remember his name. Tyler Mullendore. Yeeeeeeeah. Anyway, Mom's decided she doesn't like him because he "acts like he's already won the thing. He needs to be taken down a peg." Honestly, that's why I like him. He's just so arrogant and pretentious... kinda like Nakajima Yuto. *dodges bricks* Okay, he's like a cross between Butterfly!Jin and Yuto. Hey, would JinxRyo be called Akanishikido? Wait, what am I even talking about?
He should sing: George Michael - Faith. Hey, if Limp Bizkit can do it...
Pale Boy
a.k.a. Jethro the Pale Boy. He has reached a new level of OMGWTFSOCUTE. He really knows how to work a crowd, y'know? I think I'm going to spend the rest of this little blurb flailing. *flails*
He should sing: IDEK. He's proven he can sing frickin' anything. Although if we're talking something I'd like to hear/see him sing rather than something anyone/everyone would like to see/hear etc, Linkin Park - My December would provide a nice, intimate atmosphere his performances don't usually achieve, and his voice would be really interesting with Three Doors Down - Kryptonite.
Liam Styles Chang♥
OMG WTF WHAT WAS HE WEARING? He looks like he was dressed by Kanjani8. I think I might've died inside a little when I saw his sweater. *sigh* Oh Liam. He was wonderful, of course, truly wonderful. He always is. He was wonderful and quirky and sweet and dynamic and just... yeah. Since I don't have anything to say other than how wonderful he is, here's a conversation I had about him:
KEI. 'Kay, so Liam has a slight oddness that's somehow reminiscent of Jacob Hoggard, and yet also possesses a certain endearing shyness and adorable nervousness that brings to mind Kalan Porter. With me so far?
OKAA-CHAN. Think so.
KEI. So Liam is like if Jacob and Kalan had a baby... and it was Chinese.
OKAA-CHAN. *headtable*
ADAM. *laughs hysterically*
KEI. Oh thank god somebody laughed at that. I've been thinking about it for the last ten minutes.
Oh, I looked it up, and he is younger than me.
...
Stop looking at me like that.
He should sing: Something Dashboard Confessional. *waits for the laughter to die down* No, seriously. If he sang The Swiss Army Romance, I'd probably cry. It'd just be that... that... well, with Liam, 'wonderful' seems to be the incredibly operative word. I'd love to see him get really kinetic with something, too, since his performances to date seem to keep him somewhat stationery. I feel like he could do Blink 182's last single, Not Now, and have it have a lot of emotion to it. I'd really love that. But I'm going to stick with The Swiss Army Romance. *waves her arms around* Please, Liam, please! (Other songs I'd just die to hear him sing include Dir en grey - Kasumi and hide - Pink Spider. But anyway.)
In other news, every week when I watch Idol, they air a commercial for some newscastor showing how everyman he is by showing him in different places around his town. Um. Said town is the B-dot. In one scene he's coming out of Whatnot's Eclectics (I applied for a job there), and in another he's outside the park beside the senior public. WTF, mate?
I still need to buy this month's Shonen Jump. *sigh*
Since I mentioned Pink Spider earlier, it may be worth mentioning that I was so elated about Rize performing it at the Tokyo Live Earth show that I actually dreamed about telling Paul about it. He was watching the boy I had a crush on in high school play Zelda 2 on an NES emulator. Go figure.
EDIT: Liam listens to Gackt. *dies*