Your American Idol top 3: Taylor Hicks, Elliott Yamin and Katharine McPhee!
Chris Daughtry is gone and Simon is probably wondering if he's lost his touch. He's only 1 for 3 on the top 3 predictions he made weeks ago.
I think no one saw this top 3 coming, except Taylor being in it. And even then magazines like Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone had Taylor leaving this week, so Taylor being at the top has never been a sure thing either.
Elliott Yamin has been all but ignored as a contender by the media and by the judges when they make their talk show rounds. Well, he'll have to be noticed now. He's like the Rocky of the bunch. No one thinks he'll go the distance, but he just keeps hanging in there.
I think we're looking at a Taylor/Elliott finale. Katharine has been on thin ice for a while and I don't think she can surpass either Taylor or Elliott to make it to the top 2.
Chris was the first really big shocker of the show, but the reasons why he is no longer there are clear.
- I don't think his fan base was ever as strong as the show producers thought it was. The kind of music Chris does, only appeals to a very specific audience, and a good portion of that audience doesn't care about American Idol. Chris' shark stare into the camera every week was not going to win over fans of other music genres. He just had no way to broaden his fan base.
- He never seemed to have any fun. He wanted to be the rocker of the show and to him that apparently meant being super serious when he sang. The problem is that not only alienates the audience, but it didn't work for every song he did. He had a lot of trouble fitting his style into the themes. Though he was praised for not compromising, he did ultimately have to. There was no way to go out and make something sound like modern rock every week.
-After the praise for not compromising Chris decided to go out and do the hardest rock he had done yet, Creed's What If. There are two problems with this. One it's Creed, a lot of self respecting rock bands hate them and two the song was just not good. This time he received criticsim for doing his rock thing. Simon said he had "crossed the line," this is American Idol after all. And the thing is he never really rocked again after that. He came close with Renegade, but he was never truly the same and he got boring.
- Finally, I think Chris never fully recovered from the Walk The Line "who's arrangement is it?"controversy. At that point the one trick pony label was already taking hold, and then he became the unoriginal one trick pony.
With all the talk about Taylor not being American Idol material, it was really Chris who wasn't. He just couldn't handle all the themes. His style was too one dimensional for the show.
I think no one saw this top 3 coming, except Taylor being in it. And even then magazines like Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone had Taylor leaving this week, so Taylor being at the top has never been a sure thing either.
Elliott Yamin has been all but ignored as a contender by the media and by the judges when they make their talk show rounds. Well, he'll have to be noticed now. He's like the Rocky of the bunch. No one thinks he'll go the distance, but he just keeps hanging in there.
I think we're looking at a Taylor/Elliott finale. Katharine has been on thin ice for a while and I don't think she can surpass either Taylor or Elliott to make it to the top 2.
Chris was the first really big shocker of the show, but the reasons why he is no longer there are clear.
- I don't think his fan base was ever as strong as the show producers thought it was. The kind of music Chris does, only appeals to a very specific audience, and a good portion of that audience doesn't care about American Idol. Chris' shark stare into the camera every week was not going to win over fans of other music genres. He just had no way to broaden his fan base.
- He never seemed to have any fun. He wanted to be the rocker of the show and to him that apparently meant being super serious when he sang. The problem is that not only alienates the audience, but it didn't work for every song he did. He had a lot of trouble fitting his style into the themes. Though he was praised for not compromising, he did ultimately have to. There was no way to go out and make something sound like modern rock every week.
-After the praise for not compromising Chris decided to go out and do the hardest rock he had done yet, Creed's What If. There are two problems with this. One it's Creed, a lot of self respecting rock bands hate them and two the song was just not good. This time he received criticsim for doing his rock thing. Simon said he had "crossed the line," this is American Idol after all. And the thing is he never really rocked again after that. He came close with Renegade, but he was never truly the same and he got boring.
- Finally, I think Chris never fully recovered from the Walk The Line "who's arrangement is it?"controversy. At that point the one trick pony label was already taking hold, and then he became the unoriginal one trick pony.
With all the talk about Taylor not being American Idol material, it was really Chris who wasn't. He just couldn't handle all the themes. His style was too one dimensional for the show.
posted by Sherry L at 6:42 AM
2 Comments:
NO! *sobs*
Don't slam my nice, good-singing Chris.
Anyway, I'll bet it'll finally be Elliott and Kat in the final 2.
I'll take that bet. Taylor will be there.
My post was not a slam on Chris, just observations about the his performance on the show.
Reading some of Chris' post Idol interviews leads me to believe he got a little too over confident. He didn't step up his performances like everyone did.
I will also stand by my assertion that his fan base was never as big as everyone thought it was. Hard core rock fans don't sit around voting for American Idol contestants.
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