Okay, tonight’s show is half over, and it has been painful. I’m groaning more than I’m laughing. For much of my cycling, I had my hands over my eyes because it hurt to watch. (Can’t measure my heart rate when I have my hands over my eyes.)
Now I realize that the producers choose the worst of the worst to show us. But I can’t help feeling bad for some of these people. Do they really not have anyone in their lives who love them enough to say, "You don’t have a great voice."? Can’t they listen to a great singer and then know that they don’t sound anything like it?
Oh, the Wizard of Oz Cowardly Lion girl. Cute growl. But if she’s watched American Idol, how could she not know that wouldn’t fly?
-rlh-
It was painful! We needed a few more entertaining bones thrown to us on opening night. I was fascinated by the mother who told the teenage son, after he got turned down, not to worry, that he would “be famous.” To me, those are the saddest cases of all!
Katy, I thought that very same thing. I understand the urge to comfort and encourage, but it’s unkind to tell your child “you’ll be famous” or “you’ll be rich” or whatever. None of us can foretell the future.
We missed Am. Idol because my daughter had a chorus concert (9th grade) tonight. The Chorus teacher allowed several of the kids to sing solos at the beginning of the concert. I don’t know if they sang so badly because they were nervous or just couldn’t sing, but my son leaned over to me and said, “This is just like Am. Idol.” LOL I guess I didn’t miss much after all.