{"id":821,"date":"2007-01-17T19:49:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T00:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/01\/17\/1169081386284.html"},"modified":"2007-01-17T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T00:49:46","slug":"blogentry-american-idol-2007-season-premiere-same-old-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] American Idol 2007 Season Premiere :  Same old stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=&#034;text\/javascript&#034;><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = &#034;pub-4716552313955049&#034;;\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\ngoogle_ad_format = &#034;728x90_as&#034;;\ngoogle_ad_type = &#034;text_image&#034;;\ngoogle_ad_channel =&#034;1714283069&#034;;\ngoogle_color_border = [&#034;336699&#034;,&#034;000000&#034;,&#034;B4D0DC&#034;];\ngoogle_color_bg = [&#034;FFFFFF&#034;,&#034;F0F0F0&#034;,&#034;ECF8FF&#034;];\ngoogle_color_link = [&#034;0000FF&#034;,&#034;0000FF&#034;,&#034;0000CC&#034;];\ngoogle_color_url = &#034;008000&#034;;\ngoogle_color_text = [&#034;000000&#034;,&#034;000000&#034;,&#034;6F6F6F&#034;];\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=&#034;text\/javascript&#034;\n  src=&#034;http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js&#034;>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to American Idol, and hours and hours of the same old stuff.  The audition weeks have become caricatures of what they once were.  The bad contestants can&#039;t just be bad, they have to be bad and come in costume.  And you can spot the good contestants before they ever sing, because there&#039;s a whole produced segment about them.  Oh look, a Navy guy &#8211; let&#039;s get footage of his aircraft carrier.  Naturally we know that they went to the trouble to get that footage after he was selected.<\/p>\n<p\/>Every judge (including Jewel) is mean this year, but mostly in a sort of &#034;Oh come on, are you kidding me?&#034; way.  It&#039;s like they&#039;re bored with the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p\/>They also do that thing that everybody hated last year, where they make a montage of all the bad singers all singing the same song.  So, in other words, these people were told that they were horrible, and then told &#034;Sing some more.&#034;  Most of those people walked out of their audition screaming, cursing and crying&#8230;so why would they sing more just so they can be mocked again?  <\/p>\n<p\/>The first night reveals very few good singers at all.  But perhaps the worst thing is that every bad singer gets a very lengthy segment.  Why?  From the minute they open their mouths it&#039;s obvious that they&#039;re not going anywhere.  So why let them sing a complete song, and then keep them around chatting?  I was fast forwarding quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p\/><b><a href=&#034;.\/search.action?query=american+idol&#034;>More American Idol stories&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p\/>Technorati: <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/american+idol&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>American Idol<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to American Idol, and hours and hours of the same old stuff. The audition weeks have become caricatures of what they once were. The bad contestants can&#039;t just be bad, they have to be bad and come in costume. And you can spot the good contestants before they ever sing, because there&#039;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}