*** American Idol: Season 6 ***

[MassNole]

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Definitely, and I say the Ford Music video can be Blake, Melinda, and Jordin doing Staight Outta Compton.

[UNC_Pete]

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Boys in da Hood

[Pete1210]

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Probably the first week that it's a tough choice. Based on performance I'd say Blake should go. But since he's a young guy against 2 woman I think he could get the teenybopper votes, as noted above, and make it to the finals.

I'm pulling for Jordan. She just looks more what like an Americal Idol should look like IMO.

[UNC_Pete]

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Yeah, Blake actually impressed me somewhat this week. The problem is, Melinda and Jordin are solid at all parts of a song and any song. Blake sometimes hits and other times doesn't. I think Melinda wins, though. Any song thrown at her no matter what style is always solid.

[mjb2124]

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I'm very surprised that Melinda was voted off. I really thought it would be Jordin and Melinda in the final. Both are such good singers IMO.

[Brian Gee]

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Cue Chris Doughtry's "Home".

Wow.

I was thinking that her win would coincide with a big weekend for Shrek 3....

[Skerik]

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I'm very surprised that Melinda was voted off. I really thought it would be Jordin and Melinda in the final. Both are such good singers IMO.

It's a shame because she's great, but I'm not all that surprised. She and Jordin split the black female old fashioned R&B vote, while Blake got all the teenybopper vote and all the white contemporary male pop vote. Talent-wise it should be the two girls in the finals, but they just split each other's vote and that allowed Blake to slip into the finals.

They're all winners at this point though. I'd almost rather not win at this point because then you're not saddled with having to release the lame-as-hell single like Taylor and "Do I Make You Proud" last season.

[UNC_Pete]

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LOL I really hate pop music..

Melinda will be the most successful artist from this season..

[MassNole]

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LOL I really hate pop music..

Melinda will be the most successful artist from this season..

Perhaps if it was the 1950's. She is a good singer, but she has nothing else to make her a star. The 'aww shucks' routine got old fast (even if it was purely genuine). She brings nothing new to the musical table and she never stepped outside of her comfort zone. Blake deserves to go farther based on the willingness to do that alone.

[MassNole]

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It's a shame because she's great, but I'm not all that surprised. She and Jordin split the black female old fashioned R&B vote, while Blake got all the teenybopper vote and all the white contemporary male pop vote. Talent-wise it should be the two girls in the finals, but they just split each other's vote and that allowed Blake to slip into the finals.

They're all winners at this point though. I'd almost rather not win at this point because then you're not saddled with having to release the lame-as-hell single like Taylor and "Do I Make You Proud" last season.

I don't think it was the 'teenybopper' vote given Jordin is well a teenybopper herself.

[UNC_Pete]

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Perhaps if it was the 1950's. She is a good singer, but she has nothing else to make her a star. The 'aww shucks' routine got old fast (even if it was purely genuine). She brings nothing new to the musical table and she never stepped outside of her comfort zone. Blake deserves to go farther based on the willingness to do that alone.

She's a good singer? She blows Blake out of the water. Besides, this is a singing contest, right? Blake stepped outside of his comfort zone a lot, and was 'OK'. Last week he was bordering on terrible. In four minutes of a song he sounds good for 2-2 1/2 minutes tops. It's no wonder I never listen to radio if the public prefers garbage over talent..

[UNC_Pete]

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As far as the teenybopper vote, that vote is assumed to be the female teenager vote, which Blake definitely got. Remember, the kind of crowd that makes garbage like the backstreet boys popular? (Realizes that this is why I don't like the show, BB's were pop music to the highest degree..)

[UNC_Pete]

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From this day forward I vow to not watch the show anymore..I can't handle it..haha

[Pete1210]

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Jordan wins next week.

[MassNole]

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As far as the teenybopper vote, that vote is assumed to be the female teenager vote, which Blake definitely got. Remember, the kind of crowd that makes garbage like the backstreet boys popular? (Realizes that this is why I don't like the show, BB's were pop music to the highest degree..)

To be fair that same crowd that made BSB and N'Sync popular also made crappy singers like Britney Spears and Mandy Moore popular as well (I'd say Christina Aguilera but she can sing). I agree with Skerik that Jordin and Melinda cannibalized each other's audience, but I am not as quick to assume the teenage girls didn't vote for the teenage girl.

Melinda can sing, but her voice is stuck in the Motown era. If Motown makes a comeback then she will be a star, but other than that she doesn't have the range to step out of songs that aren't older than herself. As for the show being a singing competition, it is more of a competition to find a pop star. Besides if American Idol didn't think Blake and Jordin were their meal tickets one of them would have gone home.