PC Mover is a fraud!!!

It's Tuesday night. Which means American Idol was ready to take over the TV. Tonight's episode got me fired up.

(I must forewarn you first by letting you know that I really only have a vested interest in two contestants: Adam and Allison. If they are not the final two contestants for this season, then I will not care. That would seriously just make the show second rate. They are on an entirely different level (with Adam markedly ahead of Allison at this point--I'm crowning him right now. Mark it down, you read it here first.) than the other remaining six people. I don't even know all their names, simply because they do not matter at this point.)

I never thought that I would go down this road, but I have to stick up for Lil Rounds (This is the great next rapper name waiting to happen. And can you believe that this is her REAL NAME? Maybe her family knew she was destined to drop bars while Lil was in the womb. To hell with American Idol, Lil...get with Lil Wayne and form a Lil Dynasty.). She's come out week after week and done a very respectable job no matter what week they've had. Yet time and time again, the judges find a way to rip her a new asshole. If it's not the song selection, (and if you give the people the option of choosing whatever song they'd like, could you please drop the whole 'that just wasn't the right song for you' critique? If you don't like the choice of song, why don't you just choose the songs for them? Can we not just take the performance itself and judge THAT?) it's imploring Lil to take a song and make it 'her own.' Such was the case tonight. She did a pretty impressive job on Tina Turner's 'What's Love Got To Do With It.' Yet again, the judges slaughtered her for it. Blatantly at that. I really don't know why.

(On the flip side, Allison did a song by Bonnie Raitt that wasn't anything spectacular, same arrangement and all. But the judges felt that she was great. Maybe it's because she's 16 and awesome. But, whatever.)

I can't help but wonder why someone who has been so consistent (in a positive way nonetheless) all season has been brutally victimized for being consistent. Have they noticed that it's rather difficult to take someone else's song and make it your own? The only person who has routinely be able to do that sort of thing is Adam. Do they know something that we don't? Does she go to karaoke with the entire crew and just blow everyone out of the water? Is she some secret producer who can arrange any and every song to exactly her liking?

Or...are they placing an indirect level of pressure on Lil because she's a black female? There have been past black females who were very strong contenders. There was Jennifer Hudson (recording artist, Oscar winner) and Fantasia (winner of the show) both had a powerful presence on the show when they were there. Melinda Doolittle was most likely the best overall singer from a past season. Is that what they (the judges) expect from Lil also? Maybe they think it's some star within because she has the immortal 'Lil' name? Do the judges feel like they have to be consistent about something, in order to restore some false sense of credibility to the competition? (Because, there is so much credibility that this show has to offer.) Either way, I think it's extremely unfair. I hope that Lil finds a way to make it to the Top 5, just to make the judges suck it. Big time.

I Used To Dance With My Daddy
-The Braves are back! Two stellar pitching performances in a row---against the defending champions---in Philadelphia at a hitter's park. Yeah, I would call that 'being back.'

-Michael Jordan says he thinks he can still play at 45. You know where he'd be a good fit? The Clippers!! I mean, it's not like they've done much of anything that's made sense lately.

-If you're a quarterback who struggled mightily against the South Carolina Gamecocks, should a team really be considering drafting you number 1 overall, especially when that team didn't win a game last year? I mean, that can't make sense, right? Right????