So I’m on the American Idol weekly beat here on Real Moms Guide which means I get to watch it every week and report on it to you guys. Which also means I get to tell my husband that I can’t do the dishes because I’ve got to watch Steven Tyler do those crazy faces as he watches the singers that he enjoys. I get to watch Jennifer Lopez and her hot figure as she calls the wanna-be singers “baby” or tells them that they’re “lovers” or “not quite there yet, but come back next year, baby.”
One thing that I’m missing is that Randy Jackson is not Yo Doggin’ it up all that much. Is it that there are not enough good Dog singers so far this season? One contestant even told him to call her Dog when she came in for her audition. The judges aren’t using their “One million percent yes!” or their “I say, one billion percent yes!” quotes all that much this season yet either. Has the American Idol talent pool been drained?
It doesn’t seem that all the talent has been that amazing from the folks that have come through yet. No one really stands out from this week’s auditions in Colorado or Texas – we had a bartender who served Bull’s testicles, a manic-depressive, a Lady Gaga wanna-be. The talent was so far-flung the show even planted a dude named Magic Cyclops. Come on, was that Ryan Seacrest dressed up as a Brit singer? Still, he was kind of amusing in an annoying kind of way.
I do notice that there are quite a few Scotty McCreery wanna-bes this season. Sorry contestants, I can guarantee that ship has sailed and you’re not getting another country idol this year. We need a Gaga extraordinaire, someone to really kick it outta the park, knock us off our feet, someone to blow us away. In fact, we need someone other than anyone we’ve ever found in the previous 10 seasons on Idol.
Why exactly am I watching?
I guess that’s the question — I’m watching to wait and see what’ll happen. Let’s see if they surprise us.
