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Topic: ANYONE WATCH THE CANADIAN IDOL (featuring Beatles songs) tonight?

ANYONE WATCH THE CANADIAN IDOL (featuring Beatles songs) tonight (18 August 2008)?

I haven’t really been following it but did catch some of the earlier shows, here and there.  I was surprised (but pleased) to see who is left standing.

Based on tonights performances, and because I hadn't heard a lot of those Beatle songs in such a long time (and anyone of a certain age has emotional attachments to them =) ), for some reason, I enjoyed the performance of DREW WRIGHT (probably having something very personal to do with his guitar pedal but that is quite another story!)...

…followed by THEO TAMS…

although I seem to recall liking Tams as having stood out in previous shows...

Everyone loves Mookie but there is something glacial and remote and disconnected about him that I do not enjoy…

The guy, uhm, Mitchel? Mitchelson? When he sang, his tone and his facial gestures reminded me of, oh, sheesh, I can’t remember his name… HEDLEY?  One of the rocker singers from an earlier season who licked Ben Mulroney’s face on live t.v. and does outrageous stuff… None of it is my style but he is memorable for that reason.

I missed the first singer…

But in the recap, it seems that they all did very very well..  Or the songs helped it appear that way. =)

Any thoughts?

I would like to see Drew Wright win and Theo Tams come in as runner up.

You?

We've got Mitch, the girly guy with the feminine voice who will probably win. How has he lasted this long? If Drew has talent, he's hidden it well. Earl is just a good 'ole boy who looks like he's stomping grapes. Theo is vocally the best but a bit of a bore.

What a stellar year. HAHAHHAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just ask the judges who never have a negative thing to say. I'm asking myself why I'm wasting my time watching this fiasco. I could care less who wins.

Hello there SA!
Please don't tell me you really enjoy this ''tripe''.

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Hello there, Laurel! Man, you are VERY funny and you write well! You might want to consider journalism or starting your own blog or something! Honestly...I'm still chuckling at what you just wrote... ha! if you read my answer to the poster below, you might get the sense that I don't really tune in specifically to watch the show... if I turn on the t.v. (usually for company like one would listen to radio), and it happens to be on, well, then so be it... Anyway, as I wrote below, 'The guys, all the rest of them, I am ashamed to say, sort of all blend in for me at the moment...' I am not really watching consistently enough to know who is who.... I DO like the idea that they can play musical instruments though - it gives things a bit of a change... Anyway, NICE TO MEET YOU, by the way... I don't come on here as often as I used to but I'm sure I'll enjoy your posts from now on (regardless whether I agree with you or not, as you write quite well.) Take care. ENJOY!! =) SA (EOM)

P.S. Oh yeah, I actually DID enjoy some of those Beatle songs!!! ha! (but, as they always say, it doesn't really matter about the song so much as the emotional memory one attaches to it, whatever the song is...) =) 'later, SA (EOM)

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Posted by: Sass
Date posted: Wed Aug 20 19:56:29 2008
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Drew?  Seriously? 

He's the only one I DON'T like.  Theo is by far the most musically talented.  Earl is just loveable.  Mitch is unique.  Drew is, well, boring.  Same old, same old.  He should have been gone long ago, even before Mark from Nfld.

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Hi Sass! Well, seriously? No, in all seriousness, I can't say seriously... You kind of caught me out!! oopsie!! =) I can only say that I saw him pumping that guitar pedal and together wtih the song he sang, it reminded me of something in my own past... so that is why I said I like him... but, to be honest, prior to that, it was Theo... But in the last show, as much as I loved how he sang the song and the way he plays the piano etc., something was a bit off with the way I was viewing him.. Maybe I couldn't link him with the other times I had seen him, i.e., I think he cut his hair, didn't he?.. I like him better with longer hair... anyway, I mixed the two up (goes to show you how often I watch the show!!)... so, no, I can't REALLY tell you which one I want to win except that it was one of those two... In the end, if either wins, I'll be happy for either... I heard on Canada AM that Mookie got voted off... Now THAT surprised me, although, as I mentioned there is something about him that I don't really like and I am actually pretty confident that it is the same one I have seen in the previous shows and felt consistently about... plus I guess his name is unusual enough that I can remember it... The guys, all the rest of them, I am ashamed to say, sort of all blend in for me at the moment... Who is the psychologist? or the one that studied it in school? Anyway, glad to see that others besides just me (and Lauren from her thread above) watch the show! ENJOY!! =) SA (EOM)

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Posted by: SA
Date posted: Mon Aug 18 22:29:56 2008
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Ha!  I had to laugh.. I just had a chance to read Laurel's topic on LAST week's Canadian Idol show... Have a look (a few further up on this thread) if you would...

 

 

Here was my response:

 

Message Posted by: SA

Date Posted:Mon Aug 18 22:28:17 2008
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Hi Laurel!  I just posted below about the show on the 18th.

 

Cheesy, eh?  OUCH!  LOL!

 

Oh, wait! was this the week when Tom Jones was on?  I used to love his raspy voice and remember the t.v. show rivalry between him and Englebert from the late 60's... (oops, giving away my age!!!)

Well, I enjoyed tonight's show because of memories some of those Beatles songs brought back to me... and I'm not even a major Beatles' fan!  =)

 

 

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The show is a fiasco this year. The judges chose terrible contestants and the better ones have been ''regionally'' voted off. *sheesh* I thought the choice of Beatles music was sad considering how vast their musical catalog is. Hey, Eleanor Rigby wasn't bad. :-> Keep on enjoying! //eom

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