IDOL SOUP

Idol Soup: Your source for Idol gossip!
Associated Press
January 14, 2009

Last night the 2009 season of American Idol premiered on Fox with not only a new set of finalists, but also a new idol judge, singer Kara DioGuardi. Fans will be greeted with three weeks of auditions featuring tryouts held in East Rutherford, NJ, Jacksonville, FL, Kansas City, MO, Louisville, KY, Phoenix, AZ, Salt Lake City, UT, San Francisco, CA and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
From there the 2009 Idol season will continue as follows:

Top 36 Semi-Finalists Revealed Wednesday, February 11.
Voting Begins Tuesday, February 17.
Top 12 Singers Revealed After Judges’ Wild Card Round Thursday, March 5.
Top 12 Finalists Perform for First Time Tuesday, March 10.

As always the first show kicked off with a look back at last years winner and how "unsuccessful" he is now....sorry Dave Cook, hated you. On the otherhand, I'm not afraid to admit it, David Archuleta's (2nd place) song "Crush" gets me singing in the shower everytime....I dig it. Now, for the most important part of this review, let's look at who made an impression on me and what I think their future holds on idol.

First, and obviously, that bikini girl. For those of you who don't know, her name was Katrina Darrell, and was a 20 year old model from California. Let's face it, she was a dumpster whore.....Seacrest made the right move not to make out with her for publicity reasons and to prevent future makeout sessions with the less attractive females (I saw a lot of them). More importantly, he should not have made out with her because he probably would have gotten herpes of the mouth. WHAT KIND OF PERSON WEARS A BIKINI TO THE INTERVIEW, get over yourself honey....you had a flat ass and no boobs - I now know why you've attempted to switch careers from modeling to singing, oh wait, no I don't you suck at both! I can't wait to see what the whore wears in Hollywood and DEF. CAN'T WAIT til she get's tossed off. I am not sure what her future holds. She is tough, the guys like her because she looks descent, the girls hate her. They will probably snap out of reality in round 1 and realize she sucks and not move her on for the "joke". Even if they do, America is going to give her the boot immediately. Do me proud America! (I pray she doesn't pimp this article and get calls from modeling companies-I want her to fail miserably in everything she does)

Second, the blind guy. Unfortunately, he is going to get the pity vote. I thought he did ok, not great and we all know that you have to be great to make it on this show. I think pity helped push him onto Hollywood. As I am sure many others out there will agree, I remember seeing the legendary Chris Daughtry in his first audition and I knew that the kid had it. If I were the blind kid I would get some serious lessons in the meantime, because don't get me wrong, he has potential, but not enough true talent to get passed round 1. Unless ofcourse he pulls out a Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder impression, song - piano included. We all saw him playing the damn thing in his interview so it's possible! If he could pull that off, which I think he is more than capable of doing, then he will def. get the pity vote and move well into rounds two or three before getting the boot.

I liked the little mexicana girl who had bad hair, (long & black with serious bangs - we're not in the 90's anymore kid) 16 years old with kind of a cute face. She sounded like Corinne Bailey Rae at times so I like her odds if she continues to sing her tempo material. She needs def. work though. Her image should clear up in Hollywood. I like to assume those makeup artists will have a fieldday with her and have her looking stunning....look what they did with Carrie Underwood (natural beauty prior to hollywood, fashion model overnight) - Easy Patch.

I think my favorite girl, from what I saw, was the rocker chick with tatoos and pink hair in the beginning. I was about to change the channel, but gave her a chance. You remember her, "she was ditching her band." Can't wait til they find this out haha! She was a pretty good singer. I think she had a lot of range that left her with a repitriore of songs to choose from in later rounds. She has serious potential, probably not a winner, but from the talent I saw in Pheonix, AZ, I thought she did the best.

I know I missed a few auditions here and there, I don't really pay attention to the freaks who audition solely for William Hung fame, but all in all I did catch most of them.And that's your first recap of 2009 American Idol episode 1....let's see what we get tonight.

With love,
Rufus Feldmore
Associate Writer - Sanderson Times