Idol Finale Wrapup

Disclaimer: I know that by writing this blog that I'm completely throwing myself under the bus. I get that. But the good part about the season ending is that I can once again say that I don't watch a single moronic network show, and to me that is worth it.

Another season of Idol has come and gone. As many of you know, I have been a faithful follower of the show for many years now. I think that my biggest attraction to the show is my love of being a critic and comparing my critiques with those that know more than I do.

I think the coming and going of Idol was really something special in our lives. At one point after the new year one of us would say to the other "it is almost time for Idol". We would really look forward to the first episode even though I'm usually not a fan of the sillyness that goes on during the first few shows. And that's how it would go - every tuesday and wednesday we would invite them into our home and we would never miss an episode.

Anyway, here are some of my thoughts on last night's show in particular and the season in general.

- Lee Dewyze? Really? He seems like a nice guy and in a way I was rooting for him but at the end of the day he is just a (very) poor man's Joe Cocker. If he sang a song that was in his (very) limited range he could do a good enough job with it but once you get out of his range there were problems. You could just see the confidence being sucked out of him. Doesn't American usually get it wrong? It seems that way. I think there is always a backlash against the favorite.

- Because of my aforementioned love of being a critic, I'm going to miss Simon more than most. Believe it or not, he and I are almost always in agreement about a performance (yes, I'm sure he'll be impressed by that). And he's a grump, just like me. Sympatico, I say.

- Paula reminded me of the drunk that grabs the mic at the end of a wedding. New show premise: Paula has a show where the is given as much vicodin as she wants one hour before taping. They then give her a mic and she just stumbles around for a half hour. Gold.

- When did Siobahn morph in to Ann Murray? This girl went from singing some pretty decent rock songs to falling in love with her voice and crappy love songs. She brought syrup to a brand new level.

- What was Alice Cooper thinking? It was bad enough to see Ozzy in a sitcom - did we really need to see Cooper in that hacky bit where a bunch of kids put on eye makeup and danced around stage behind him? Even worse, did you hear is voice? Yikes. We had it cranked up pretty high on the home theater and he was so out of tune that Linda McCartney no longer seems tone deaf.

- Was it 70's theme night and nobody told me? The Gibbs? Hall and Oats? Chicago? What, Leif Garret wasn't available?

- Speaking of Chicago, how did Lee get stuck with them and their outdated songs while Crystal got Alanis Morrisette? That's almost as bad as Adam Lambert getting KISS and that other guy (I've already forgotten him) getting Cyndi Lauper (I forget who he got but it was comparable to Cyndi).

- Randy Jackson has to have the worst sense of humor on the planet. He's just a geek.

- Crystal was one of the few contestants that I actually looked forward to seeing. I'd say that Lambert and probably beatbox (I forgot his name also) were the others. She was clearly in a class by herself on this show.

- Is it just me or did Christina Aguilera manage to get the same hairstyle and Charlie Brown's sister (Sally)? That said, that girl has pipes. I know, this just in....

- I love that Ford made these two act in their crappy in-show commercials all year long and then gave them the crappiest cars in their fleet (the Festiva). But hey, they custom-made the crap just for them.

- Thank GOD...errrrr, never mind... that we don't have to sit through another group performance.

- Meddlies always suck.

- And last but not least, Janet Jackson. Where to start.... it is one thing to lip synch your songs. It is another thing to lip synch the studio version of your song while onstage. Worse, she looked like she was mouthing a completely different song. At one point they opened up her mic so she could yell something and it sounded COMPLETELY different. I haven't seen an act that bad since Paula took the stage three years ago. But hey, she managed to keep them in her shirt this time - that has to be progress.