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Exhaustion & drama rule American Idol’s group night
It’s 9:00 p.m. at the end of the first elimination day and the contestants are told to form groups. Most do this with little effort but there are a few outcasts that finally have to push into a group. By 11:15 p.m. most people have chosen their song and started thinking about dance moves and harmonies.
Tatiana del Toro is one of those having to push into a group. The other three look a bit reluctant but they say okay. It doesn’t take long for Tatiana to start bossing everyone around and the fur starts to fly. She throws a little temper tantrum and claims the others are trying to sabotage her. She tells her sad tale to another group in an effort to slip into another team. One of the three says yes right away but alas, the other two are reluctant and send her away.
At 1:00 a.m. some of the groups feel confident enough to go to bed while others figure this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and keep rehearsing. Then the drama continues…so is Tatiana with this group or that? Well, she decides again on the original group but that quickly gets ugly because they cannot agree on the choreography.
Now dubbed Team Diva, Rose Flack has somehow ended up with Katrina Darrell (aka bikini girl), Lauren Barnes and Jasmine Murray. It doesn’t take long before the Divas lose Katrina as she decides to go to bed. She is just so tired and “conveniently” leaves the door open to her room so we can all hear her sobbing because she is so exhausted. Come morning, team Diva goes to find Katrina and she’s hiding under the covers in her room and decides she is sick, can’t perform and has to go home.
Meanwhile, back at the auditions, some teams argue a bit more and yet others start to gel. Miraculously, Tatiana’s team seems to have pulled things together. But is it an illusion?
Oh no…bikini girl is baaaaaaack! I cannot believe after all her shenanigans Katrina has the balls to show up and think these girls will understand her inconsiderate behavior. Poor Rose, she hates this group and thinks from the beginning it is going to be a train wreck. Let’s just hope she can shine through whatever happens.
To start the next morning Simon quickly announces “If you forget the words, you’re out.” Nice Simon. Let’s add some pressure why don’t we? As Ryan later says, Simon’s appetite for criticism has risen to new heights today.
So let’s begin with White Chocolate; forgive me for not getting their names folks but they go flyin’ by so fast. This group was awesome and all got through. Nice way to start.
Next group so awful I didn’t bother getting all their names and I don’t think any of them got through either. Now Action Squad; Alex, Ryan, Marie and Emily sing. They were better than the last group but not so good. Only two get through and not the ones that I thought after the last round.
Danny Gokey, Jamar Rogers, Taylor Vaifanua and another girl are awesome and they all get through. Yeah!
Jeremy Michael Sarver Adam Lambert, Matt Brietzke and Jesse Langseth all were given kudos for being incredible singers as they show them in a montage of Some Kind of Wonderful but I think they are in different groups. Thank goodness they all get through as well.
Finally it’s time for the Divas. Katrina prances across the stage, Rose forgets her words and the only one who ends up going through is Jasmine Murray (who is one of my favorites by the way). I really liked Rose but she needed to step up and sing despite the drama and she couldn’t do it.
Some of the most promising singers lose it to group day. And my David Osmond gets kicked along with some others I couldn’t’ quite catch.
Now it’s time for the final two groups. Tatiana’s group doesn’t sound so good from the little portion they play but they all make it through. Tatiana instantly starts to cry and later in the hall she weeps and whines and loves Jesus and loves everyone, including the sound stage guy holding the microphone. Her laugh and fakeness are enough to drive me nuts…I really cannot stand this girl.
Resorting to prayer, the last trio of drama calls themselves “Compromise” and sings Mercy by Duffy. It sounded more like three solos than a group. Simon says he believes that when they were each singing back up they were actually trying to sabotage the others. When Nathaniel and Kristen get through, Nancy won’t let anyone hug or console her, walks by other two and the judges saying something that was beeped. Behind the stage, she cries and can’t believe she let someone else get the best of her. To me, she seemed the most difficult of the three; although I must say Nathaniel was pretty annoying too.
I don’t know about you but I don’t have a good sense of who all got through and who didn’t. Seventy-five people made it through group day and next week they have one more chance to impress and make it into the top 36. Hopefully we will get to see more of the people we haven’t see much of so far. I can’t wait.
Hey, did anyone see if our guy from Hamilton even got on TV this week? We haven’t seen enough of him for me to even know what he looks like yet.
Is it next Tuesday yet?
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By Kim
February 5, 2009 9:31 AM | Link to this
Yeah - once again it was too much too fast and I have little sense of who stayed and who went. I’m wondering about the local boy too - I don’t remember what he looks like either. They have flown through it all so fast that I can’t keep up. And yet they’ll spend tons of time on a few people - many of whom got booted. I really liked Rose - but she totally choked in Hollywood. They gave her a break on that first round, but this one was really dismal. Trauma in the group is no excuse for not knowing the words - again - you can rehearse that part for yourself. I thought that was funny about Nancy too (the one from “Compromise” that got booted) - all of her fuss and blow about wanting to rehearse and SHE was the one that totally flubbed her words. Again - that you can study for yourself, but she was too busy fussing at everyone else. I am beyond annoyed that I didn’t even get to see David Osmond’s performance - I can’t believe they booted him. ARGH! Danny is now my new favorite I suppose - and the Pete Wentz looking guy whose name I still don’t know yet…