<p>“mountins and hurricanes”
“whole grain oats, brown sugar, soy protein, calcium carbonate”</p>
<p>LOL You choose :)</p>
<p>How do we like Paula’s spray on tan?</p>
<p>Kara’s song was TERRIBLE! What a way to ruin the last performances of a great season. Ugghhh! I hope she won’t be back next year.</p>
<p>If the judges were in a competition and you had to rate the best one as number one and the worst one as number four, how would all of you rate the judges this season?</p>
<p>I don’t like any of the judges - I’d get rid of all of them. There all a bunch of zeros.</p>
<h1>1=Simon–He tells it like it is.</h1>
<h1>2=Randy–boring and says the same stuff over and over (dawg, got it going on, etc.)</h1>
<h1>3=what’s her name</h1>
<h1>4=Paula–she sugar coats everything and babbles a bunch of nonsense</h1>
<p>My son and I think that Adam’s first performance of Mad World was better. It was just more effective the way he sat there and stood at the end. His moving around and so forth tonight detracted from the power of the song.</p>
<p>What time does the show start tonight?</p>
<p>Tonight’s show is two hours, starting at 8PM. I think it is scheduled to run over about 7 minutes. There are many music guests performing duets with several of the Top 12. Looks like the voting tallies arethisclose.</p>
<p>Although Adam sang that last horrid song “better” musically, I connected more with Kris. When Adam sang it I didn’t even hear the words because it is all the same for me with Adam.
Anyone else tromping around in that coat in the fog would have been slammed by the judges. Made a great song theatrical.</p>
<p>Thanks, zimmer</p>
<p>Kris is my favorite. I felt so sorry for him having to sing that awful last song that was obviously too high for him. Everything Adam sings sound the same to me too. He just doesn’t seem very genuine. Maybe it’s all that theatrical training. I’m sure he will win tonight but hope Kris will get a nice recording deal too.</p>
<p>Paula and the Fake Bake (that’s what the kids call it) looked awful.</p>
<p>My D and I have loved Adam all season. That’s why we are hoping he doesn’t win so he won’t have to record that horrible song Kara wrote!! Think Kris is great too - just not as in to that style.</p>
<p>Felt bad for BOTH of them having to sing that awful Kara song!
I kept waiting/hoping for it to get better and obviously, it never did.
TERRIBLE!</p>
<p>Thanks for the great wrap-up, all. I had to miss the show but will go watch it now. Though maybe I should skip Kara’s song …</p>
<p>I know it’s wicked but I really wanted Simon to say more about Kara’s song. You could tell he wanted to. The lyrics were so lame.</p>
<p>You might have heard that it was a “team” of writers that wrote that song - including Kara (maybe she was “head writer” 
) So…it took a “team” to write that cheese??? You’d think after Kara sat in front of those contestants for weeks on end that she would have the sense to come up with something more fitting. Adam fudged through it well enough (probably biting his tongue the whole time) but poor Kris - it’s been clear that he is not a “big voice” singer and that was a big voice song. Me thinks Ms. Kara would thinking that it would be a Danny-Adam final when she wrote it…maybe that’s why she looked so totally stunned last week when Danny was voted off…</p>
<p>My question is how did all of you posters get control of the remote to watch the show in it’s entirety? At our house my husband got to it first and kept switching back to the Phillies baseball game!</p>
<p>When Simon made the comment about the song and the mountains and hurricanes, Kara was trying to say something that sounded to me as if she was trying to acknowledge it was kind of a weak effort.</p>
<p>A friend who is a composer/singer/songwriter, and a pretty successful one at that, had this to say about Idol, and I’m pretty much in agreement with him, even though I lack his talent, knowledge, and experience. :)</p>
<p>"Adam by a mile. When he sings with absolute control and walks his voice all the way to the line just before the scream takes over, that would be the envy of any bel canto opera singer. He can dial it down just as easily as he can dial it up. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone do it quite the way he does. His technical dexterity is jaw-dropping. Personally, I find his “scream” the most boring aspect of his voice.</p>
<p>His actual sonority isn’t merely remarkably beautiful, but the control mechanism in his voice is technically sophisticated and, as such, more than killer.</p>
<p>That final song was absolutely the worst of all the ones they’ve ever chosen. Not just because it was littered with unpronounceably twisted cliches, but the melody was so insistent that it didn’t give either singer a chance to breathe. After I heard that stultifyingly bad power pop arrangement, I was hoping Kris would walk out with his guitar, slow it down so that he can actually hear what he’s singing, and put his soul into it.</p>
<p>Instead, he looked like a customer in a shoe shop vainly wailing in pain because they’re trying to shove his foot into a shoe that doesn’t fit. It reminded me of that bloody scene in “Into The Woods” where the ugly step-sisters hacked their feet off to get them into the glass slipper.</p>
<p>Except, this “slipper” was more like a contraption from SAW.</p>
<p>Adam should win. But even if he doesn’t, he’s the one everyone will remember. He’s the one people will pay to see."</p>