Get Rid of the Nasty B’s and Bring Back Baylie!

Get Rid of the Nasty B’s and Bring Back Baylie! by Roxanne McDonald

Cross your fingers, hold your breath, and pray for Amanda…to get booted.

I am all for confidence and talent combined. I have accepted how one of the criterion for success on American Idol is good looks. And I have conceded to the fact that the biggest voting audience and the one buying the most records is composed of pre- and teen girls—so I have even bitten my tongue to avoid bashing the 2005 American Idol—who was so not dynamic and was so drippy sweet second-best in my book that I almost boycotted American Idol after she beat out Bo Bice.

But while I can’t fully appreciate the saccharine-sweet, I am more against the nasty, undeservedly cocky, and only mildly talented—especially when they succeed over truly talented and decent performers.

During the group round in Hollywood, Baylie Brown was stuck for a good group to work with. She ended up with Amanda Coluccio and Antonella Barba, two dilettantes with unpaid dues to the biz who spent more time bitching about song choice than choreographing and rehearsing that song.

Then, in an even more despicable move, Amanda flits off to flirt. She does this really exaggerated, really obvious strut through the rooms where boy groups are practicing like mad.

She gives an eh performance. So does Antonella. But evidently, Baylie forgets more words, and is the only one of the three who is booted.

Amanda, offstage, then says to the cameras that it just goes to show that God likes good people. Uh. 1st, this mediocre mutt is a sore “winner”. 2nd, she is obviously deluded. And 3rd, she is a lying hypocrite.

When Baylie is crying and Amanda and Antonella are coldly distancing themselves—standing a foot away and not offering any condolences—Baylie accurately points out how difficult it is to be sent home after working hard while another goes off to flirt with boys.

Amanda tells American Idol cams she did NO such thing, as the cameras cut to the scene where is doing just that. She also, arm in arm with her equally icky best friend, says she has plenty of opportunities for attracting boys back home.

Yes, Bailie, it is disgusting how those who indicate they don’t care about working and therefore must not care all that much about becoming the next American Idol. But let’s hope the judges review the clips along with the videos they consider for the next cuts. And know that you will land a music gig–so what if it’s not on Idol…it will happen to one who is so hard-working and clearly of super singing skills.

And dear Universe, if the next American Idol is anything, please let it not be a half-witted, hard-hearted slacker who lives by seduction and self-delusion.

SirLinksAlot American Idol Links

No Comments »

No comments yet.

Leave a comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.