So will the judges praise the girls just as much, or even more than the boys.

Do they really think praising everyone excessively disguises the distinct lack of talent that seems to pass as the bestest evah in Idol-land?

• RE: AI 11 Top 12 Girls ECST,Estee, 08:57 PM, 02-29-12
• Intro,Snidget, 09:01 PM, 02-29-12
• Dear Ryan,,Estee, 09:01 PM, 02-29-12
• Super Sized Results Show?????,Snidget, 09:03 PM, 02-29-12
  • RE: Super Sized Results Show?????,Estee, 09:14 PM, 02-29-12
    • RE: Super Sized Results Show?????,Snidget, 09:24 PM, 02-29-12
      • RE: Super Sized Results Show?????,Estee, 09:27 PM, 02-29-12
• Chelsea Sorrell ,Snidget, 09:05 PM, 02-29-12
  • RE: Chelsea Sorrell ,Snidget, 09:09 PM, 02-29-12
    • RE: Chelsea Sorrell ,Estee, 09:12 PM, 02-29-12
      • RE: Chelsea Sorrell ,Snidget, 09:15 PM, 02-29-12
• Erika Van Pelt,Snidget, 09:16 PM, 02-29-12
  • bleh,moonbaby, 09:19 PM, 02-29-12
  • RE: Erika Van Pelt,Snidget, 09:20 PM, 02-29-12
    • RE: Erika Van Pelt,Estee, 09:23 PM, 02-29-12
      • RE: Erika Van Pelt,Snidget, 09:26 PM, 02-29-12
      • RE: Erika Van Pelt,JessicaRN, 00:11 AM, 03-01-12
  • RE: Erika Van Pelt,Estee, 09:22 PM, 02-29-12
• Jen Hirsh,Snidget, 09:25 PM, 02-29-12
  • RE: Jen Hirsh,Snidget, 09:28 PM, 02-29-12
  • Um, no.,moonbaby, 09:28 PM, 02-29-12
  • RE: Jen Hirsh,Estee, 09:31 PM, 02-29-12
• Wardrobe note.,Estee, 09:26 PM, 02-29-12
• Brielle.,Estee, 09:34 PM, 02-29-12
  • so,moonbaby, 09:39 PM, 02-29-12
    • RE: so,Estee, 09:48 PM, 02-29-12
• Taylor Swift!,moonbaby, 09:42 PM, 02-29-12
• Hallie Day.,Estee, 09:44 PM, 02-29-12
• Skylar Laine,moonbaby, 09:53 PM, 02-29-12
• Skylar Laine,Estee, 09:56 PM, 02-29-12
• Baylie Brown,moonbaby, 09:59 PM, 02-29-12
• Baylie Brown,Estee, 10:01 PM, 02-29-12
• I bring him out for special occasions.,Estee, 10:04 PM, 02-29-12
• Hollie Cavanagh.,Estee, 10:09 PM, 02-29-12
  • LOL,moonbaby, 10:10 PM, 02-29-12
• Hollie Cavanaugh,moonbaby, 10:09 PM, 02-29-12
  • RE: Hollie Cavanaugh,Estee, 10:14 PM, 02-29-12
• Haley Johnsen ,moonbaby, 10:19 PM, 02-29-12
  • RE: Haley Johnsen ,Estee, 10:23 PM, 02-29-12
• Haley Johnsen,Estee, 10:20 PM, 02-29-12
  • At first,moonbaby, 10:24 PM, 02-29-12
• *snore*,moonbaby, 10:34 PM, 02-29-12
  • RE: *snore*,Estee, 10:43 PM, 02-29-12
• Shannon Magrane,Estee, 10:34 PM, 02-29-12
• Jessica Sanchez,moonbaby, 10:40 PM, 02-29-12
• Jessica Sanchez.,Estee, 10:42 PM, 02-29-12
  • 2 more?,moonbaby, 10:47 PM, 02-29-12
• Elise Testone,moonbaby, 10:52 PM, 02-29-12
• Elise Testone.,Estee, 10:53 PM, 02-29-12
• Yay,moonbaby, 11:01 PM, 02-29-12

1. Slightly less. I think the show has already reconciled itself to WGWG#6.

2. They know they're not fooling the entire audience and they may have even realized they're driving some people away (although that will never be admitted), but all they have to do is hang onto enough to keep selling the product. And as a special bonus, the ones they have convinced will never listen to anyone else.

We can't pick a girl winner to save our souls, but maybe one of these females will win, yeah right.

No. No, none of them will be.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

To be fair, they've got to toss fourteen and then bring back three, with the chance of performances still lurking. So an hour could be a tight squeeze. Two remains overkill.

But at least it isn't Timekeeper running things, right?

He could get it done in an hour with time to kill.

Absence makes the heart grow WTF?

From then next county over.

Cowboy Casanova

Honest to God I cannot do the judges commentary night. I.Just.Can't.

Isn't she a bit young to be singing about Casanovas?

I don't doubt she's met a few.

You couldn't handle that commentary? It was the closest they've come to criticism all week. In the current day of We Love Everyone Except Gays, Liberals, And People Who Can Think Idol, that was a full-fledged bus throw with insertion of an EZ-Pass meter into the skull. The show doesn't want her around through the vote and won't take her as a wild card. Too many country girls: this one's out.

On merit? Possibly not. I thought she was more competent than the panel did. But honesty is currently the loneliest word...

But she's still great even if they found something to criticize.

Singing Heart's What About Love

If that was rocking hard she has a big future in elevator music. Her voice sounds muffled.

LAST EDITED ON 02-29-12 AT 09:23 PM (EST)

Who the heck styled these girls, are they deliberately trying to make them all look dumpy?

I am so tired tonight, I had a long day and I really need something to start making me actually want to watch the show tonight. I usually can slog through anything, and have, but gack.

It could be the migraine that is trying to break through talking....

Maybe Wardrobe's trying not to offend the core fanbase with anyone other than the raw chromosome typing? If so, the epic fail can't be stopped.

And you are allowed to turn this off, y'know. Just about everybody else has.

I kinda wanna see if there is any chance of any girl being the least bit entertaining, but I may have to call it a night soon.

I looked at the opening line-up and thought that they took a bunch of cute young women and made them into a bunch of pageant girls. Not good.

clearly she doesn't believe in curses. Or maybe she just doesn't believe in winning.

I've heard worse attempts at Heart on this show. Much, much worse. She didn't even crack the top ten of Horrible. Actually, she left high-range tolerable and made it all the way to 'With a lot more practice...' But it's hard to predict whom the frau will allow a glimpse of false hope. She should be through -- but.

If she sends me wine she'll get all my votes.

Adele's One and Only.

After that I am out for the night, I need some dark and quiet.

End notes=cats in heat yowling in the yard.

Hey, someone has to balance out the bulldoodies the judges are slinging.

I don't know what's going to become tiresome faster: the use of Adele's catalog or the comparisons with her. Here's our usual fun game, most recent edition: Adele, slightly younger and a complete unknown, auditions for AI. How far does she get?

As for the performance... um... file this one on my scorecard as WL: Wasn't Listening. I got some of it, but my attention was interrupted and I didn't get a large enough sample for a fair judgment.

...wait a minute. Did Randy just say the panel was soft on the males last night? Is he implying they weren't as critical as they should have been? Might it be possible that the relentless flow of praise won't start again until testosterone takes the stage and the fumes once again cloud their minds?

Well, two out of three...

If Shannon comes out with the dumpy look, the Face/Off crew is in the house.

singing on the edge of the stage
wasting my time

this is what I've missed by not tuning in, huh?

SO not good. VFTW heaven.

To borrow a Pratchett image, picture a six-year old in the middle of a playroom filled with wonderful toys, on the edge of tears because no matter what happens, they all can't be played with at the same time.

LAST EDITED ON 02-29-12 AT 09:49 PM (EST)

Hallie Day?

Ok she can maybe sing.

Oh geez Steven can't help but mention Adele AGAIN. What is this, Adele night? NOBODY so far sounds like Adele, so they need to stop it. Now.

This is Adele, singing live on Letterman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLoyNxjhTzc&ob=av2n

I'm not sure I'm gonna get through the episode. I really feel like doing something more productive. Like sleeping.

Or sex.

*considers*

At this level of insomnia, sleeping can be better than sex...

Yes, it depends on the partner.

And the total lack of sleep.

The mattress is kind of a partner.

I may edit this out in the morning.

Anyway, here's Hallie, and she's doing Feeling Good as if she doesn't know the rate of her opening stanza will use up her entire allotted exert time. Except it somehow doesn't. And now she's trying to slink across the stage as if she's going down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkety sound, and by that I mean that if you took a spring and wobbled one end as fast as you could, you'd get pretty close to the shakier parts of her voice. But overall, she has some control. At least a little idea what she's doing. And teeth. She would really like us to see her teeth. Or maybe the teeth are in control and the voice is just their means of showing off.

*reconsiders*

I think Snidget had the right idea.

LAST EDITED ON 02-29-12 AT 09:56 PM (EST)

REBA sings Stay With Me! I kept thinking she reminded me of someone in the home video of the family grocery store but the hair was all wrong.

Totally Reba. If they say Adele I will fall off my chair.

LOL Randy just said Reba. Whew. If I fell I'd have to stay there, my back's been out all week.

Oh, and DWTS called, they want their dress back.

From a town so small, they can only manage three hundred thousand power votes.

Stay With Her, she urges. And -- remember how Wardrobe needed nearly all of last season to figure out Lauren? The only time that one was in an outfit which worked for her was around F3 and they immediately ran from that look and never looked back? Skylar's skirt would like to rush out the door and find Lauren, then hug her and kiss her and squeeze her and whip the fringes around until TMZ dedicates the full half-hour to the results.

The show wants a country girl again and this could be the one they'd prefer to go with: the backstory and salt-of-the-earth (around where the diner had a spill) aspects are just the kind of corn that makes decent bread. But there's a choice of platters. Just not a choice of skirts. At least, not ones most sane people would make.

Amazed.

Very pretty little girl with a weak little voice.

She's wearing a prom dress.

A bad prom dress.

Very poor breath control. Her voice keeps trying to drop out in mid-lyrics and it's not a style choice, it's inability to hold the notes.

She's looking at the camera as if it's a freshman and she's trying to get a copy of its homework.

I keep waiting for her to adjust the dress.

Adjusting her voice is way too much to ask for.

"I'm not having fun. I've had fun. This isn't it!"

Peter Venkman. Who would have changed the channel forty minutes ago.

It's been lovely, but I have to scream now.

Tiny girl, giant voice! I was surprised when she started singing.

I don't know the song. Too bad that long loud note towards the end was a little off. I'd say the best so far tonight.

The song is an altered version from the Mulan soundtrack. It never completely caught on.

There was a split-second when I thought she was going to try and go for the full Siobhan at the end. Didn't quite make it.

LAST EDITED ON 02-29-12 AT 10:21 PM (EST)

Oh so laughably bad with Sweet Dreams. Everybody's looking for something. She's looking for a note. Anywhere.

LOL Randy called it a nightmare.

Randy has found his inner Simon. Long may he listen to it. Someone has to get knocked out here, and why not do it on the ones who earned it? (Other than the Agenda?) Of course, he may have just cued the Worsters...

I just realized: she was wearing a 50th Street ten-dollar two-block umbrella.

Ready to take on anything.

Takes on Sweet Dreams.

Sweet Dreams scores a knockout in the first round.

She's doing vocal exercises into a microphone. Vocal exercises which are supposed to sound like lyrics. And don't. Now she's breathing heavily. There are sex chat sites which would tell her to work on her breathing.

I think she wants people to vote for her legs.

She's still breathing.

Could she take that somewhere else?

I thought hey, not bad. Then the back up singer stopped singing with her and I started laughing.

LAST EDITED ON 02-29-12 AT 10:36 PM (EST)

Shannon Magrane. Sixteen, very large dad.

The song was boring, the dress was bridal and she stole Celine Dion's stage moves.

What stage moves?

...oh, right: that was the point.

...

I want my pillow.

Her father is present. Steven does not die. And thus the night was not redeemed.

She's through to the thirteen. I can't see any way she isn't through: if she doesn't get the votes, she's a wild card. The show can't afford to drop her at this stage -- not after all the focus she's gotten.

But if she didn't make it, Steven might die. And thus Thursday would be glorious.

Again I don't know the song. Sheesh I totally can't do this.

Ok she's a little screamy-when you can hear her. At first it was like she wasn't even singing because she has a sore throat. Well if she screams when she sings no wonder her throat is sore.

Ryan says only two more girls tonight. At the time I started typing this, there were about twenty minutes left in the show and Jessica was halfway through her song. Even with time for the recap at the end, Ryan's math feels off. Are we about to get Female #13 to counter Jermaine?

*listens*

Not quite a case of saving the best of last, but she's ahead of the majority for the pack. I almost want to like her, but I think the frau are going to backlash against her early and often: if she gets through tonight, she'll wind up with a Pia exit. She still needs to work on making a connection with the audience -- but the people she needs will never meet her eye.

I really hope it's only 2- I'm ready to sleep right now.

Sings...an Adele song. That I don't know the title of.

Anyway, she was good

No, she's the last. One very long commercial break later, there's only time for her.

Kind of dressed like Niecy Nash. With the flower to match. And keeps taking side glances at the camera as if she's not sure what to do with it. Eye contact with a glass lens: not quite in her skill set yet. Works the piano. Gets up. Colton's getting through, so she wants to be Colton. He may want to be her. She should ask about a trade.

And then the night ended.

The nightmares have only begun.

It's ten PM, do you know where your children are? This child is going to SLEEP!

Gnite!