IDOL THOUGHTS

Thanks fellow posters.....appreciate it....

GO TAYLOR!!!!

Taylor singing Elton John. Nice switch in mood from his first song--and pure SOUL! Not his best effort, though.

Kat MAY have won the second round. I agree with JT - not Taylor's best, but at the same time, it wasn't bad.

All in all, I still put Taylor ahead tonight. Round three to go!

Not impressed with Kat's last song. Taylor REALLY needs to step it up to distance himself.

Kat blew Taylor away in Round 2 after Taylor kicked butt in Round 1. Kat just nailed it in Round 3. Taylor will have to be at his best to pull this out. Even that may not do it.

A little pitchy at the start but , WOW...

What a FINISH. ATTABOY TAYLOR

Oh my goodness Taylor fans!!!! Wait 'till you hear his third one! Bringing the house down!!!!!!

Holden - go hug your Pickler picture!

I am not a Taylor guy, but he wins in a landslide.

Did everybody just see Constantine??? Shep

Camera caught him in the first few rows while panning the standing ovation after Soul Patrol!

Pickler with SHORT hair.

LOOKING GOOD

Little late coming in after 23 pages of posts, but was THIS the BEST of American Idol?

The best got hosed a couple weeks ago. I'd have loved to see Taylor and Chris going head to head.

Thanks so much.....wanted to hear good Taylor news!

Agree totally!!! Contestants are kinda weak even though I picked them, "Went Wieters" , picking finalists back in JAN. Peace,Shep

Gotta hand it to the old looking young guy. He took an awful song that he would never,ever sing on his own and nailed it. Gotta give it to Taylor.

And Pickler's hair is ugly. I'm not a fan anymore.

Don't think the contestants were weak.....some have very good voices....Taylor was my pick from the beginning.....but he still hasn't won it.......

.....he was my pick because, in this world we live in.....he makes me laugh....... I forget about all the c r a p for a little while.....and I'm entertained.....and happily so.....

Your right LadyNMom and I apologize. Soul Patrol is the real deal and makes up for any singing deficiency with his makeup++++++++Peace Sister, Shep

Kat will make millions.

She already has a recording contract.

Taylor belongs in a bar at 2 a.m.

Old man with NO TALENT.

Hey Shep....no need for apologies....I respect your opinions....peace to you too......

I have to find a place to hide the laptop tomorrow.....my son, newly arrived for summer vacation, is threatening to take it and hide it.....so he doesn't get an early preview of tomorrow night's result......guess he likes to be surprised....

....what fun is that?

Click this ChicagoLand

25 minutes into voting--still can't get thru.

He was a little subdued tonight, but I gotta go with Taylor.

I said all along he is the wedding singer who got his shot, just like a real life Rocky.

I think he closed the deal with the last number.

FINALLY got my vote in. Took an hour. Stay the course.

Senora Shepsta just got our vote for Soul Patrol through as well peace,Shep

Soul Patrol just got my last vote of the season.

Congrats will be in order for Taylor!!!

Well the show just ended here on the West Coast.......Kat is talented, but she failed to put her own personal style into her performances.....Taylor took every song, all along....and like him or not...he made them his own.....confident, and consistent.....that has been Taylor. The final song for each illustrated this so well.....

...and to all the naysayers who poked fun at the old gray haired man.....it's so easy to pick up a bottle of coloring and make the gray go away....but that's not for Taylor.....he is what he is....to include being the next American Idol.

Neither one is profoundly talented. One will win, but sustaining a career will be difficult for either one.

Does anyone remember the singer for the band The Commitments (also a movie)?? Now THAT guy could sing the soul, much better than Taylor, but was never heard from again after that film.

Just like America's Next Top Model, the real cream gets discovered long before going into a cattle call scenario(Kelly Clarkson excepted).

Add Carrie Underwood to your list. While we were watching Idol she was winning two more awards, this time at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

dialidol.com has Kat going bye-bye! We got our four votes in for Taylor last night.

Personally I thought it was a crime they both had to sing those songs for the final number--I would have liked to see each of them pick the song of their own choice to finish with---to me both songs stunk, as the judges agreed

I would also like to see them to go to male idol and a female idol---Taylor and Kat are so far apart in what they do, do not get me wrong they are talented but so different, that it is difficult to compare- it has now become a popularity contest not truly a judging of talent

TR..have to agree...those last songs were HORRIBLE! I was REALLY surprised the judges admitted the SONG was bad for Kat. That is the song she will record if selected.....doesn't Simon have any say or influence in that song selection???? I thought he was involved in the recording contract of the winner. It sounded like that was the first time they had heard that song. I think both songs were horrendous....but I thought Taylor salvaged his better than Kat did.

When people can vote more than once, it becomes a popularity contest and not a judging of talent. No question both have talent. I have my opinion which of the two is going to win and which of the two are going to be successful in the music industry. THEY AREN'T THE SAME PERSON.

I wanted to hear Taylor do "She Came in Thru the Bathroom Window" and truly rock.

As for Kat after her doing "Rainbow" I don't where she would go--I would have selected that to be her first single and do it as her closing number--

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TR..have to agree...those last songs were HORRIBLE! I was REALLY surprised the judges admitted the SONG was bad for Kat. That is the song she will record if selected.....doesn't Simon have any say or influence in that song selection???? I thought he was involved in the recording contract of the winner. It sounded like that was the first time they had heard that song. I think both songs were horrendous....but I thought Taylor salvaged his better than Kat did.

luvbb, as I recall, the judges really only made a big deal about how bad katherine's song was. In case you hadn't noticed (and I don't know how anybody couldn't have noticed!), Randy really, really, really had it out for Katherine. He constantly commented on her redoing songs when Taylor did the same thing. In fact, they were supposed to do that! Also, if you recall last week, he also went off on Katherine for song choice on the song that Clive Davis chose. I am not a big fan of Katherine's, but I did lose all respect (what little I had) for Randy over the past 2-3 weeks. Simon really is the only one who knows what he's talking about.

Actually, I think the judges commented that both the "original" songs were not as good as the singer who was singing them. They did say that Taylor did, however, make it his own.

What I was commenting on was the fact that I was surprised that Simon (who is involved in the record contract of the winner...I believe), would have NO SAY in the song the winner would be releasing first. All three judges sounded surprised at the "original" songs by both contestants. I actually enjoy Simon, and agree with him 90% of the time. He just impresses me that if HE had any say in the song to be recorded...it would NOT have been EITHER of those songs.

However, I agree...Randy has been tough on Kat. BUT....Simon has been hard on Taylor fairly consistently. It really doesn't matter tho....their votes don't count and I sometimes think their opinions sometimes influence voters int he OPPOSITE direction of what they actually said (just to prove them wrong).

I agree with you to a point. Yes, Simon has been tough on Taylor, but his criticism has been directed to things that Taylor can control--song choice (when the performers were selecting songs), dancing, etc. Randy's attacks on Kat have been on things over which she has no control.

Last night while waiting to vote.....I went to Dialidol.com.....and checked back to when there were 24 contestants. In the past 13 weeks Dialidol has consistently picked who would be eliminated.......guess who they picked as receiving the most votes 12 out of these past 13 weeks? Taylor Hicks.....it seems that good old Taylor has pulled in the most votes week after week.....popularity? Of course.....and that same popularity will sell records.....

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Yes, Simon has been tough on Taylor, but his criticism has been directed to things that Taylor can control

Like...when he commented "Are you drunk?"

I guess Taylor couldn't figure to lay off the bourbon until AFTER Simon gave him that constructive criticism.

Sometimes he does look drunk the way he careeens across the stage!

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Sometimes he does look drunk the way he careeens across the stage!

I prefer to think of it as "carefree abandon"! Have to agree with you on that comment Randy made to Kat re: song choice the other week (when Clive Davis was the one who chose the song). Talk about sticking your foot in your mouth!