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maveness ([personal profile] maveness) wrote2009-01-21 09:06 pm
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American Idol

Dear AI producers and contestants,

Please stop trying to emotionally manipulate me. It's annoying. I know it's mostly the producers and the contestants will do anything to get to Hollywood, so they go along with it.

But in 8 season, I've seen exactly one story that was honest to god worthy of tears. A'siah Epperson is the only person worthy of the sob story. Period. She was the one who traveled to wherever (Atlanta? Charleston?) and found out when she arrived that her dad had died. She was raw when she sang and she sang a song that really did convey her emotions and was appropriate. A'siah gets the story. Stop with anyone else that's not that sad! People's lives stink! Hardship happens! We get this!

[identity profile] pmgoose.livejournal.com 2009-01-22 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, this is true. No one's story tops A'siah Epperson's.

[identity profile] sullivanlane.livejournal.com 2009-01-22 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
That girl who was a single mother and had a disabled daughter was also deserving of the sob story. Forgot her name though.

Do what I do: Mute/fast-forward/have a screaming toddler during the commentary, and only pay attention to the actual singing.