My Sad, Sad America's Got Talent Big Spectacular Two-Hour Finale

[albadger]

Sad, sad, sad. Not because the act I wanted to win didn't win.

Sad because I had an act I wanted to win.

But I blame that on my unusual surroundings

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Actually, not only was my favorite act not the winner, the announced order was the complete opposite of what I would put. They kicked off the two unique, interesting acts, leaving a little girl with an amazing voice, who should completely retire from performance and work on technique until her lungs grow in, but won't and will almost certainly ruin the voice, and a white soul singer specializing in early 70s ballads, of the type you've heard in nightclubs, the type I've heard in nightclubs. I've heard better in nightclubs. Dull, actually.

And the dull guy won, while the "judges" effused over how great and special and unique he was. Granted, he had a good hard-luck story. I think his grandparents' double-wide was washed away in a flood, I'm not sure. Something about mountaintop-removal mining. I wasn't paying that much attention. I have a cryptic crossword I'm working on.

Comments

[dmlaenker.livejournal.com]

Simon Cowell produces that show, right? He has no interest in creating or promoting interesting voices, only marketable ones. Thus the routine destruction of everything beautiful on American Idol in favor of building a melismatic wasteland.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Yep, Simon Cowell production... and even with a snotty British stuck-up playing the part of Simon Cowell. I looked up the previous years of AGT, and the same thing -- they get interesting acts, but the winner is inevitably bland and dull.

Which is actually good news for the runners-up...

[teddybtoronto.livejournal.com]

I don't watch the show, but I read a re-cap of the season so far, leading into the finale. The two acts that piqued my interest sound like the two you are lamenting being eliminated: Prince Poppycock and Defying Gravity.

My guess is that the exposure on the show will do both acts a world of good, and as has been the case so often on American Idol, the runner-up acts will eventually have much greater success than the "winners".

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which, right now I'm in "Adam Lambert Country," just a few miles from where he grew up. Adam's on a sell-out national tour. The guy who won... what was his name?

[benpanced.livejournal.com]

Clay Aiken?

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Naw, that was the other year where the obviously gay guy was better but the straight guy won and fell into immediate oblivion. There may be a pattern there...

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

"I think his grandparents' double-wide was washed away in a flood, I'm not sure."

Sounds like the next country hit to me!

[albadger.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's what the sob story actually was. I just don't care enough to find out the truth.

Not caring enough to find out the truth? I blame that on Fox News, which I'm listening to at this moment. Good freakin lord.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I think it was all poppycock! What's sad is that I didn't watch this program and I know what you're talking about:)

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Not as sad as watching the show. Ya know, the acts are fun (except for the eventual winner), but the crap you have to watch through -- "human interest" stories, super-superannuated celebrities, self-congratulatory footage of the "judges"... well, at least that last stuff has the entertainment value of Sharon's undisguised hatred of Piers.

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh9J-VLonPw

I'm afraid Betty has nothing to say about cryptic crosswords...........

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which, I need help with

Farther behind, in the main? Yet time for added comment

The answer is 12 letters. Ta!

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Never mind, I got it. Interchanges!

Update: sorry, I didn't get it. Interchanges is the answer to "Buries money inside crossroads." I'm still working on that other one.

[dhpbear.livejournal.com]

Behhhhhh-teeeee!

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Actually the answer to the original clue is Afterthought.
Aft = behind "in the main", i.e. at sea; Aft-er is farther behind;
Though = Yet; T = time. After-though-t.

See how easy that was?

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

timing!

That's why I never finish 'em.... the writers are more deviousl than I am!

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

"ass-backwards"? Everything else I can think of has either 11 or 13 letters!

I don't think I've ever completely finished one of these things!