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The first episode of Canadian Idol officially validates the stereotype - Canadians are boring! Ben Mulroney must be the most out of place host I've ever seen. His jokes (if you could call them that) were not funny at all! His segues and analogies were really really bad. Who writes his lines? (Ex. "This mic is your pencil. Now go draw your exclaimation point!") WTF? And don't get me started with his flubbing of the phone number, his terribly unfitted untucked yellow shirt and his attempts to incorporate "bring it" and "dude" into his WASP English. I never thought I would say this but BRING BACK SEACREST!

Judges? What? There were judges? All I saw were terribly sedated people hunched over a table at the side of the stage. Was it just me or did you all expect Farley Flex to say "What's up dawg?" at least once? What's the point of having a black dude otherwise y'know? Sass Jordan I like. The other two are again, bo-ring! That Zack guy has got to stop stealing lines from Simon and trying to make them his own! At least Simon did it with a sense of irony. Zack seriously thinks he's the boss!

What's that you say? Canadian Idol is not about the host or judges but the talent? What talent? Mikey Boutos did not rep the Asians like he said he would. I was all ready to dial in a vote for him but he sang a Dan Hill song! That's like what my parents used to sing to each other - in a word - gross! And why do people like Billy? I was SO glad he lost his voice last episode! He screams and flings his arms like he's having an epileptic seizure! Shut up!

My picks? Candida gave a heartfelt performance and I will always love "I will always love you." That song never gets old. Tara Martel was good too. My roommate disagrees, but I like that bit of "squeakiness" (for lack of a better word) in people's voices when they go into the upper register. It makes it seem like they're putting more emotion into it. Mariah does it a lot and so did Kimberley Locke...

So that's the recap. What did you guys think? (Someone post something in the comment boxes!) =p


posted by Tim at 9:36 PM