American Idol

Dawn still has nothing good to say about American Idol. Ah well.

I had some mixed feelings this week. Justin performed well. Kelly out performed him. Her rendition of Respect was great: lots of crowd interaction, moved around the stage a lot, lots of hand movements, I mean hey, we almost got into some choreography there. Justin was a little too stiff for me to say he deserves to be America's Idol. I also think his voice lends itself to boyband-ish music, which I don't like. Kelly, however, can do a much wider variety of genres: jazz, blues, etc.

The biggest disappointment from my vantage point was the shit-ass songs that were written for them. They sucked. I mean seriously, couldn't we have something a little more upbeat and a little less melodramatic? A little more like what's popular today? Or, oh my God, maybe even have the live backup bands for the BIGGEST show of the series? Can we all say anticlimactic in unison?

The performances were good, Kelly still rocked, but this was a pathetic way to end the series (I know there's tomorrow's show, but it's for the losers, not the Idol). I would have loved to see some real musiciancs backing them up, some Idol like dance moves, and better music.

What did you think?