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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Vote for Sanjaya—DESTROY AMERICAN IDOL!

posted by on April 4 at 12:20 PM

Over at Best Week Ever today, Alex Bragg posts the best explanation of why voting for Sanjaya could actually SAVE pop culture… and simultaneously DESTROY American Idol!

We don’t sincerely LOVE Sanjaya (with the exception of sobbing tween girls), we sincerely HATE Idol, and thus want to see it fail. Sanjaya winning the competition - an unlikely scenario that inches closer and closer towards probability by the minute - would be the arrow through Idol’s Achilles Heel, destroying the legitimacy and relevance of the competition - the lynchpins on which the whole show is held together - by exploiting its democratic nature to expose it’s inherent fraudulence.
AGREE OR DISAGREE? Regardless, read the rest of this excellent article here!

And here’s this week’s SANJAYA performance (?) on Idol. Trust me, HE AIN’T GOING ANYWHERE.

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This whole 'vote for the worst' thing seems just like The Stranger's mean-spirited and pointless attempt to sabotage 'The Real World' when it was in Seattle.

What's the point of trying to destroy American Idol? Yeah, it sucks, but whatever. It's just a talent show. People from flyover states will continue to win it, just like they have the past nth times, and then will become instantly obscure. There are worse forces of evil out there than an off-key Eastsider.

Posted by Rottin' in Denmark | April 4, 2007 12:28 PM
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He's SOOOO Dreamy!

He's going to win the competition, you know that don't you!

Posted by SanjayaSanjayaSanjayaSanjaya!! | April 4, 2007 12:43 PM
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Is anyone else reminded of David Allan Grier's bit in "Blacks Without Soul" from Amazon Women On The Moon?

Posted by L | April 4, 2007 12:45 PM
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Here's the "Blacks Without Soul" sketch...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9jTM4ZOa69U

Posted by L | April 4, 2007 12:46 PM
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I continue to refuse to watch this show ever again. EVER! Besides with all the media coverage it gets I see all the parts I wished I hadn't missed anyway.

Sanjaya... eh.
Chris Daughtry... HOT!

Posted by monkey | April 4, 2007 12:48 PM
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eh...(shrugs shoulders)

if you don't like idol, dont' watch it..

Posted by michael strangeways | April 4, 2007 12:57 PM
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off-key Eastsider? Sanjaya's from Federal Way = Southender.

Posted by him | April 4, 2007 1:19 PM
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No ponyhawk this week. I'm totally bummed.

*sigh*

Thank Jebus for YouTube. I can get my weekly Sanjaya fix in about 2 minutes, without actually watching that retarded show.

BTW, I don't watch TV, and never even heard of him before he started getting heavy play on SLOG.

Posted by SDA in SEA | April 4, 2007 1:34 PM
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He's headed to Vegas. That is one true American Idol.

Posted by Ken | April 4, 2007 1:49 PM
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Voting for Sanjaya will no more kill American Idol than a wooden steak would pierce Dick Cheney's robot soul.

Posted by elswinger | April 4, 2007 1:55 PM
11

Poor SJ did not even realize that Simon was dissin him...oh well

Posted by emptyhead | April 4, 2007 1:55 PM
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I'm sure Sanjaya was quite aware Simon was dissing him last night, after the constant negative comments he has gotten from the judges. He knows the judges dislike him and wish he would leave. All the more reason thw vote for him!

Rock on Samjaya!

Posted by Yeah right | April 4, 2007 2:07 PM
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Melinda Doolittle v. LaKisha Jones...and that's all I have to say.

Posted by Oh yeah | April 4, 2007 2:45 PM
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I'd love to see Cheney try to eat a wooden steak. Maybe he'd have a stroke trying to cut it.

Sanjaya's really from Shoreline = Northsider, beeyatch.

Posted by Fnarf | April 4, 2007 3:22 PM
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Vote for Johnny Mathis!

Posted by mike | April 4, 2007 4:20 PM
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For those that know Rottin' in Denmark thank him for making me feel like an asshole for dissing Idol. Not in this forum topic but a previous one about Sanjaya. My hate should be saved for things more realistic and ugly like W, Rove and Cheyene .
I'm sure when Idol is done with it will be a memorable as Rick Astley or Richard Marx was on Star Search.

Posted by biggie j | April 4, 2007 4:41 PM
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Ok, ok. I've got to give it up for the guy. He's got panache... so he doesn't have a good vocal range. I can do without another Mariah bloody Carey, thank you so very much. Singing ability's great if you got it, but it's easier to find a good singer than a good performer. Singing's also more easily learned than stage presence. I'm betting he'll do better post-show than the "winners" they've had on there.

Posted by wench | April 6, 2007 11:28 AM
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Oh, and...

destroying the legitimacy and relevance of the competition

Come ON. Does anyone really see this show this way to begin with?

Posted by wench | April 6, 2007 11:52 AM
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Sanjaya is a great deal of a loser...i thought he was gay when i first saw him and now i just think worse of him.

Posted by turbanman | April 10, 2007 9:57 AM
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Sanjaya is the sh$%!!

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