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1. # Gene Won 14 Oct 2010 at 11:25 pm

   Mindy,

   You never know, maybe we do know each other. Mindy is a lovely name but aside from Pam Dauber’s use of it when she was cohabitating with an alien, I don’t recall ever knowing anyone by that name. It’s nice to meet you as well as the other music lovers here. To that end, music is interesting in the eclectic nature of the crowds who will gather to see a particular performer. We have beautifully restored art deco era movie theater here in town that is used for a wide verity of performances. I have seen Alison Krauss perform there four times over the years and she draws a very diverse crowd. You will see men in bib overalls to women in evening dresses who are as different as night and day. The lady may play violin in the Symphony Orchestra and the man may be a very accomplished fiddle player in a blue grass band or just a farmer, who knows, but at the of each song they are both clapping enthusiastically. Music has a wonderful way of bringing people together and touching people’s hearts. So even if we haven’t met, we are kindred spirits. Was that you in the evening gown?

   I am familiar with vote idol but I don’t put much stock in it. You can tell more from it later in the season. They readily admit their weaknesses. The only votes they can monitor are those of people who use the vote idol system and then it measures busy signal. In my case for example, I vote a lot for someone in my demographic but I don’t use the vote idol system and I have not encountered a busy signal at all this season, except when the polls close at the end of the night on Tue. So my votes are completely off of the radar. I used to believe that the pimp spots for performing the next week were derived by vote from the past week, and that may have been true in years past. This year I believe it has more to do with the way they performed in rehearsals or some other metric, but not the vote performance from the previous show. That is purely speculation on my part. I also believe that the order that Ryan speaks to them on Wednesday night is directly related to the way they polled the night before, even though he said this week that Mike wasn’t actually in the bottom two. I don’t believe that. Why would they torture someone who they saved and who scored well by making them think they were in the bottom two. I haven’t been a big fan of Mike’s antics on stage and his song choices and arrangements have been hit or miss for me, but, I think he is a remarkably good singer and that he delivered his best performance last Tuesday. A bold and generous move on Siobhans part to suggest a song to him that could have put her out of the competition. I think Mikes performance should have easily put him in the top five. While I’m on the subject of Mike, he has been very kind to Siobhan when she needed a friend. When the camera followed her into the green room while she was distraught, mike recognized what was happening and stood up from his seat to shield her from view and then gave her a (gentle) hug. The next night you may recall he was wearing the little blond pony tail and said something about taking some style cues from SM. She looked like she was bound for the gallows prior to that but his little gesture brought a big smile to her face. Finally, his acknowledgement of her helping him choose the perfect song was generous and put a feather in her cap. He knew what he was doing so let me say thanks, big Mike for looking after our girl!

   We’ve bantered the term ‘steely” around a few times. I always loved the message in the Steely Dan song, “Hey Nineteen.” I’m sure as my musical missing twin sister you know how it goes. That me be what predisposes me to really appreciate a young singer, and especially a young female singer who has a working knowledge and genuine love and understanding for great classic songs like House of The Rising Sun. Could you hear that phantom voice I was talking about yesterday saying YES as you typed those words? There might have been an adjective added just before the word yes. That was me. There is no way I could have said it as well as you did. The last time I looked at my itunes song play total for that song it was at 79!

   BTW, have you heard of a mp3 service called LaLa? I joined it several months ago because you can listen to any song one time in it’s entirety for free. I’m in no way affiliated and this isn’t an endorsement but is is nice to be able to do that if you are reviewing song choices or have an interest in the way the original artist performed the song and do not have a copy available. I haven’t received any unwanted email from them or had any bad experience at all. I haven’t bought any downloads from them either. I dug up Chaka Kahn’s version of Through the Fire there. You can also listen to the song as many times as you like if you stop it before it reaches the end and move the slider back to the beginning or where a passage began.

   All of that to say that Chaka used non standard word pronunciations to help her through those tough parts. It sort of worked but you could tell why she was doing it. It was right after the big money notes for her as well. I was fascinated reading both J and MCL insightful explanations on those topics. I agree with you that perfection isn’t a requirement when someone is shooting for the moon. Think about that literally for a moment. The three Apollo Moon missions that we remember are One, Eight and Thirteen. One was a horrible tragedy, Eight was the ultimate triumph of mankind’s technical skills and base instinct for exploration and discovery and thirteen was about defying all conceivable odds and coming out victorious, even though the original goal was missed. All of the other mission might as well not have happened. Some of my remarks may have been disparaging of other performers. I think it’s only disparaging if they are giving their all and then you give them harsh or mean criticism. There will always be a conflict when art is compared to other art, but that is the nature of the beast. The thing about Casey for me is that he I think he has a lot more potential. To my ear he has a nice tonal quality, he sings mostly on key in that gritty fashion that I like from male singers and, as you noted Jealous Man was the first time that he stepped up to the plate and swung for the fences. On my little score card, I rated him in the top spot for the evening. Then he ruined it for me by saying that when you come to see one of his shows back home, this is one of the songs that you would hear. For some reason that just doesn’t work for me. All of my clichés come from songs, so here is another one. If I were inclined to hang out in bars, I can imagine sitting, nursing a beer and listening to Casey play great covers of many of my old favorite rock songs, and when he takes the little “pause for the cause,” as they say, I might say “man what are you doing here?” (Billy Joel, Piano Man, sorry, I couldn’t help it) In reality he would be in the only place that an a singer can find work if they don’t push themselves beyond their comfort zone. I think the judges were fair with him this week. They said, without going over the top that his performance wasn’t enough for this level of the competition. I have to agree. I think he is more than a pretty face and it’s time to bring his A game. He should have watched the black leather Elvis concert where he was sitting around in chairs in a circle with his band members. Elvis was playing his acoustic guitar and his drummer was playing a drum case as I recall and they were just jamming.’ The King has never been biter and Casey could have aced Elvis night with a “cover” of many songs from that session. That was exactly what I expected when I saw that he was performing last. Can you imagine Elvis standing still on a four foot circle for an entire song? I think he missed the assignment last week. Better luck to him and his supporters next week. I hope that wasn’t offensive to anyone.

   I agree 100% with you about Melinda. Each season there are really only a few of the contestants that you get excited about seeing and as we both have said, she was the top of the list for me. She was great every week but I think the powers that be didn’t think they could market a straight up, old school good singer, so they bailed on her. I am not sure that I can go as far as conspiracy theories, but I do feel like the great performances kept coming but the praise stopped. I hope you have her CD. It took a while for it to grow on me but it’s a nice body of work, especially for a first album. Just the right mix of original music and her take on a nice Varity of classics. Even some Robert Johnson, which surprised me, given her faith and his legend. That made me think of a line from the funniest movie ever made, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Your challenge is to guess which line.

   MCL just added the story that Crystal had considered quitting the show. The story states family reasons but I have noticed how difficult the elimination nights are for her. She really seems to be a kind soul and may not be able to take the pressure of the competitive aspect of the show. I believe that your scenario is the most likely but who would have thought that Melinda or Adam wouldn’t wear the crown? They are not helping her grow to her potential, and I believe she has the potential for stardom as well. What is weird is that she is very much representative of many of the female artist I like and Siobhan is less so, but Sio is my Dawg. Go figure.

   I don’t think Siobhan is loosing momentum. I think she has weathered a powerful attack on her confidence by two adults that should be completely ashamed of their behavior. Let me go one step further, and I know this will not be popular here but I didn’t appreciate Ellen’s coments the night that Siobahn perfeormed Through The Fire. I think Randy was honest but didn’t like it, Ellen went off on a tangent being silly that came at Sio’s expense at a time when she was already about to cry because she felt like she had messed up the song and then the other two started. I like Ellen and for the most part I think she has been a good judge from the perspective of an ordinary music lover. I hope she realizes her mistake and grows in her job from it.

   I’m sure that you or I or any of those folks that have posted favorable comments about Siobhan here in the past, or those who took the time to speak out on her behalf in MCL’s special note to her today, would want her to fall victim to false praise. On the other hand, it may be to late for this season, but maybe they could try to turn over a new leaf and class this show up a little next year to the level that these young kids, I mean ALL of them, are performing at. This group is being cheated out of the mentoring sessions that they might have received in past years, They have to sit on their seats on judgment night and wait while the so called professional talent tape there performances and then have to endure some pathetic performances once they do get it down. The best performers that have appeared on the stage this year have been former idol contestants. I was moved last year when Smokey Robinson and Barry Gordy took the contestants on a tour of Motown’s historic studios. They were standing there looking through the plate glass window into the studio where the Funk Brothers, backing all of the great stars of Motown, gave birth to several hundred songs that are recognizable over a large part of the world by just a few opening notes. Lil was brought to tears and Allison was in awe as Barry told her that the song she was going to sing was recorded “right there, right there.” That is a large part of the enrichment that Idol contestants have come to expect when they give up a large part of their life on a gamble that they might be a star. I think they are being cheated.

   We were lucky to grow up in the time that we did, musically speaking. Our parents came from an era of great pop, swing and big band music that we were exposed to. If we had older and younger siblings, then our own years of musical awareness were expanded. The technology of national radio broadcasting and the need for businesses to make a profit took us a way from that era but technology is taking us back in the form of the internet. What is lacking in the new model is the common experiences of a generation. I know that you and I both watched Ed Sullivan and probably Bonanza or Andy Griffith and so on but now everyone is doing there on thing and not sharing the common experience anymore.

   That may be a lot of the appeal of American Idol.

2. # Leahon 28 Feb 2011 at 9:41 am

   I disagree with your “few Georgians,” Kevin, and with this “everything-is-a-Coke” idea in general. I think it's a bit exaggerated. The deal is, we just don't have a non-brand word like “soda” or “pop,” so any cola is a Coke. I've never heard a clear or yellow citrus soda referred to as Coke, and I listen for such things. I think “drink,” pronounced “drank,” is far more common. And people who want orange soda ask for “urnge.”
   As for the bib overalls at a wedding, must be an Eastman thang.

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