American Idol Extra. 3/23 re-cap
This is going to be brief and not terribly snarky. I wasn't going to do one at all, except some of the interviews brought up interesting things that we have been talking about on here.
This is definitely a better show than the TV Guide pre-show, which is just a complete waste of time. I pretty much zipped through that one today in about 10 minutes.
Ty Treadway chatted with Kevin Covais immediately after the show, while he was still onstage, and of course, the first thing out of his mouth was to call Kevin Chicken Little. Kevin, it's okay to tell people to fuck off now. Kevin said he was proud of the work he'd done on the show and was very matter of fact about being voted off.
Ty's co-host is Mikalah Gordon and if he's going to interview her every week, then he needs to find a replacement. Mikalah and Matt Rogers do a "celebrity" interview montage with the VIPs in the audience, including Constantine Maroulis, Ryan Cabrera, Kate Mara, Andrew Firestone and Jasmine Trias. If this show had been done in the '70s, you would have probably seen interviews with such luminaries as Jaye P. Morgan, Rodney Allan Rippy, Jimmy Osmond and Witchiepoo.
Ty interviews the vocal coach for the boys, Dorian Holley, so apparently, Byrd only works with the women. Dorian says he thinks Kevin had a tough time getting across the vulnerability of the song "When I Fall in Love." Ty Treadway himself doesn't seem to understand the lyrics to the song because he says several times he doesn't know how Kevin could have sung the song since he hasn't ever fallen in love. Yeah, Ty, it's about someone who's thinking about the first time he's going to fall in love and hoping that love lasts forever. Soap actors.
Matt Rogers is interviewing Carmen Rasumusen, who looks like she just got off her shift at the Stop n Shop. Carmen dares to diss Kevin by saying he deserved to go this week, because even though he had an okay voice, he had no personality. Cause, you know, Carmen knows star quality when she sees it. Carmen says she thinks America listens to the judges completely when voting and Matt says the judges were very positive on Kevin this week, Carmen disagrees and says they were only neutral. Matt dumps her ass quickly and then interviews Simon.
Simon is quite enlightening and acknowledges that when he trashes someone's performance, it seems to rally the voters around them and that when he's fairly positive to someone in danger, it usually spells their death knell. He says that if he had been meaner to Kevin this week that he'd probably still be here and that maybe he did him a disservice by being nice.
Matt: Were you surprised at this week's bottom three?
Simon: Not at all. Bucky was terrible. Kevin, well, you know, that was quite obvious. Lisa, no personality. If she doesn't show her personality, she's not gonna last long. She's not a bad singer. When we first saw her, we actually predicted she's win the show, but she's kind of shrunk.
Matt asks Simon if he ever goes back on early predictions and Simon says all the time.
Matt: Did the right person go home tonight?
Simon: Yeah, I think so. I mean, he couldn't win, could he? (no response from Matt) He couldn't.
Barry Manilow didn't have to rush off quite so quikcly last night, as he had time to sit down with Ty Treadway.
We see exclusive footage of Barry talking with the Idols in Vegas. Chris still looks like he's off in Live land while Barry's speaking. Barry tells them to find way to let the real them shine through and instead of being a second rate someone else, be a first rate you.
In the studio with Ty Treadway, Barry then says that since the music is from the '50s, you have to sing it like the '50s. Pay attention to the lyrics, respect the songwriter's intentions, no odd phrasing, no vocal tricks and gymnastics. Stick to how the song is written. He then immediately turns around and tells Ty he tried to get the kids to find their own style, do the song the way they hear it, not how it was done originally. To find their own version, their own voice. So apparently, Barry would make an excellent judge on the show since he seems to contradict his own advice.
The show builds up to a segment where Carrie Underwood went back to give the wannabe Idols advice and words of wisdom, yet we never get to hear any of those words, just Carrie talking about her own career while being interviewed in the studio and a few shout outs about her album and single. She says she hasn't met one person who doesn't like "Jesus Take the Wheel," then says that it touches everyone who hears it. "Or everyone is lying to me."
The girl learns fast.
Ty Treadway interviews Yvonne Elliman, I mean Jasmine Trias. Sorry, the perpetual flower threw me off. After recording two albums in the Phillipines (I wonder how Burt Bachrach translates in Tagalog?) Jasmine is moving to the mainland from Hawaii to further her singing and acting careers. What a shame the UPN is going bust.
Mikalah interviews the show's stylist, a skinny brit twist named Miles Siggins. Miles goes over each of the Idols' wardrobe for this week without saying anything of value or illumination, so that should tell you why they look so wonderful.
Finally, Treadway interviews Kevin Covais, who is very sweet and very humble. Ty makes with the Chicken Little jokes again and Kevin pretends to not mind it. Ty also presses Kevin on his sex symbol status and Kevin is somewhat embarrassed and downplays it, saying he knows he's not a sex symbol and that it was all in fun. Kevin had really nice things to say about everyone, especially his fellow contestants and will miss them all, especially Paris, who he was very close to.
More Matt Rogers, less Ty Treadway, lock Mikalah Gordon in a trunk with Kimberly Caldwell and where are the bees that should be hovering around Jasmine Trias? Oh, and Carmen, I'll take that Happy Meal to go, thanks.
This is definitely a better show than the TV Guide pre-show, which is just a complete waste of time. I pretty much zipped through that one today in about 10 minutes.
Ty Treadway chatted with Kevin Covais immediately after the show, while he was still onstage, and of course, the first thing out of his mouth was to call Kevin Chicken Little. Kevin, it's okay to tell people to fuck off now. Kevin said he was proud of the work he'd done on the show and was very matter of fact about being voted off.
Ty's co-host is Mikalah Gordon and if he's going to interview her every week, then he needs to find a replacement. Mikalah and Matt Rogers do a "celebrity" interview montage with the VIPs in the audience, including Constantine Maroulis, Ryan Cabrera, Kate Mara, Andrew Firestone and Jasmine Trias. If this show had been done in the '70s, you would have probably seen interviews with such luminaries as Jaye P. Morgan, Rodney Allan Rippy, Jimmy Osmond and Witchiepoo.
Ty interviews the vocal coach for the boys, Dorian Holley, so apparently, Byrd only works with the women. Dorian says he thinks Kevin had a tough time getting across the vulnerability of the song "When I Fall in Love." Ty Treadway himself doesn't seem to understand the lyrics to the song because he says several times he doesn't know how Kevin could have sung the song since he hasn't ever fallen in love. Yeah, Ty, it's about someone who's thinking about the first time he's going to fall in love and hoping that love lasts forever. Soap actors.
Matt Rogers is interviewing Carmen Rasumusen, who looks like she just got off her shift at the Stop n Shop. Carmen dares to diss Kevin by saying he deserved to go this week, because even though he had an okay voice, he had no personality. Cause, you know, Carmen knows star quality when she sees it. Carmen says she thinks America listens to the judges completely when voting and Matt says the judges were very positive on Kevin this week, Carmen disagrees and says they were only neutral. Matt dumps her ass quickly and then interviews Simon.
Simon is quite enlightening and acknowledges that when he trashes someone's performance, it seems to rally the voters around them and that when he's fairly positive to someone in danger, it usually spells their death knell. He says that if he had been meaner to Kevin this week that he'd probably still be here and that maybe he did him a disservice by being nice.
Matt: Were you surprised at this week's bottom three?
Simon: Not at all. Bucky was terrible. Kevin, well, you know, that was quite obvious. Lisa, no personality. If she doesn't show her personality, she's not gonna last long. She's not a bad singer. When we first saw her, we actually predicted she's win the show, but she's kind of shrunk.
Matt asks Simon if he ever goes back on early predictions and Simon says all the time.
Matt: Did the right person go home tonight?
Simon: Yeah, I think so. I mean, he couldn't win, could he? (no response from Matt) He couldn't.
Barry Manilow didn't have to rush off quite so quikcly last night, as he had time to sit down with Ty Treadway.
We see exclusive footage of Barry talking with the Idols in Vegas. Chris still looks like he's off in Live land while Barry's speaking. Barry tells them to find way to let the real them shine through and instead of being a second rate someone else, be a first rate you.
In the studio with Ty Treadway, Barry then says that since the music is from the '50s, you have to sing it like the '50s. Pay attention to the lyrics, respect the songwriter's intentions, no odd phrasing, no vocal tricks and gymnastics. Stick to how the song is written. He then immediately turns around and tells Ty he tried to get the kids to find their own style, do the song the way they hear it, not how it was done originally. To find their own version, their own voice. So apparently, Barry would make an excellent judge on the show since he seems to contradict his own advice.
The show builds up to a segment where Carrie Underwood went back to give the wannabe Idols advice and words of wisdom, yet we never get to hear any of those words, just Carrie talking about her own career while being interviewed in the studio and a few shout outs about her album and single. She says she hasn't met one person who doesn't like "Jesus Take the Wheel," then says that it touches everyone who hears it. "Or everyone is lying to me."
The girl learns fast.
Ty Treadway interviews Yvonne Elliman, I mean Jasmine Trias. Sorry, the perpetual flower threw me off. After recording two albums in the Phillipines (I wonder how Burt Bachrach translates in Tagalog?) Jasmine is moving to the mainland from Hawaii to further her singing and acting careers. What a shame the UPN is going bust.
Mikalah interviews the show's stylist, a skinny brit twist named Miles Siggins. Miles goes over each of the Idols' wardrobe for this week without saying anything of value or illumination, so that should tell you why they look so wonderful.
Finally, Treadway interviews Kevin Covais, who is very sweet and very humble. Ty makes with the Chicken Little jokes again and Kevin pretends to not mind it. Ty also presses Kevin on his sex symbol status and Kevin is somewhat embarrassed and downplays it, saying he knows he's not a sex symbol and that it was all in fun. Kevin had really nice things to say about everyone, especially his fellow contestants and will miss them all, especially Paris, who he was very close to.
More Matt Rogers, less Ty Treadway, lock Mikalah Gordon in a trunk with Kimberly Caldwell and where are the bees that should be hovering around Jasmine Trias? Oh, and Carmen, I'll take that Happy Meal to go, thanks.
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