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helsinkibabySo am looking through CDs of skating clips that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kiddymir sent to me last year. And I find in amongst them a recording of Shae Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz skating to "Sway" ... with Michael Bublé singing live beside them. Victor and Michael in the same video clip, and I'd totally forgotten I had it... I'm a bad bad fangirl!!!
In other skating related news, was very sad to hear about the passing of Paul Wirtz, older brother of Kris, and coach to Kris and Kristy (Sargeant and Wirtz) for most of their career... I remember seeing him at the Helsinki worlds, slightly freaking him out as he seemed to think I was some kind of stalker (I don't know why he would think that; moving seats so that I can position myself right behind him in the stands so that I can get nice photographs is perfectly normal behaviour, yes???) and at so many other competitions with the two of them, and just thinking that they seemed like such nice people... *shakes head*
On a lighter note, I took overprofshallowness's journal with these very thoughts, so more or less but mostly more cut and pasted, here they are...
I actually didn't think Ace did too badly... yeah, couple of bad notes, but in comparison to the trainwrecks of weeks previous, I liked it. Love "Tonight I'm Gonna Cry" having seen The Man Himself do it in concert, twice, and even though the falsetto does not belong and sounds more like Darren Hayes than KU, good night for him.
Chris is a level apart from everyone else and has been for weeks... last week's Creed was not great, but this proves that he can really just sit down and sing a song...he could sing for me any time!
Mandisa in no way deserved to go, and I'm putting the fact that she and Elliot were in the bottom two down to the fact that neither of them had their best performance, and since neither of them fit the exact profile of "American Idol" looks-wise, the voting figures deserted them in droves. That said, I'd heard people say Mandisa was awful, I didn't think it was as bad as I'd been expecting it to be! Elliot I didn't rate that highly to be honest... Kenny Rogers told him not to oversing the song, he promptly went and did just that. It's a simple song, just sing the damn thing.
Bucky - man alive, I did not understand a single word he said in the first half of that song. Must go and search the lyrics. Yes, I know it's a cover of Vertical Horizon and I know the story behind the Gary Allan version, and I'm sure I'll love his version...but Bucky needs elocution lessons.
Taylor - of all the country songs he could have picked, that was not the best choice. Sang it ok, but there are a million more that would have suited him.
Katharine - *sigh* I have issues two-fold. First, I hate that song. Don't like it when Faith Hill does it, don't like it on AI. But the comment she made to Simon... ok, it's true, and we all know it's true, he doesn't like country music. But the girl sounded so patronising and condescending I just wanted to smack the face off her. *seethes*
Paris... I entertained a moment of hope that she might be going home, but alas, I was disappointed. However, I've long since been saying that a spell in the bottom three might be the best thing for her, in that it might just knock some of the precocious/bratty/sense-of-entitlement off her. Lord knows something needs to... she's reminding me at the moment of all the things I hated about Carmen in season two and Diana in season three... skipping off the seal with nary a backwards glance will not win her fans. Though was interesting to see her not for once sobbing at the sing out... methinks someone is a little happy to be all alone with the black vote.
And Kelly... *headdesk* The blonde who gives blondes a bad name.profshallowness didn't know the song, so to explain... Kelly's song, in its fully unabridged form, is called "Fancy" and it's sung from the point of view of a woman whose impoverished mother ("your pa's run off and I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death") paid all the money they had to buy her a red dancing dress and basically sold her into prostitution ("Just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy, they'll be nice to you") until she married some guy for his money and had a nice life for herself.
I had no idea how she was going to sing that, much less how much sense it was going to make, but they cut out the meat of the story and it didn't actually play too badly... the line about "I might've been born just plain white trash" I thought a little too on the money... that being said, the song was done by the wonderful Reba McEntire, and to steal a line from a political debate... I've listened to Reba... I've been to Reba McEntire concerts... Kelly, you're no Reba McEntire.
As for the whole calamari/salmon/how cars are made thing... give me strength. Much has been made on various message boards about how this is all put on, and how she's actually playing this up for shtick... I don't buy it for a second. She's no Reba, and she ain't no Dolly Parton either, and IMO, she's too thick to actually know just how thick she is.
Next week, Queen week... trainwrecks galore I see before me. The horrid rumour going around is that Kelly will do Bo Rhap... Jesus save us all. Mandisa would have done "Who Wants to Live Forever"... I grieve the loss of it.
kiddymir sent to me last year. And I find in amongst them a recording of Shae Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz skating to "Sway" ... with Michael Bublé singing live beside them. Victor and Michael in the same video clip, and I'd totally forgotten I had it... I'm a bad bad fangirl!!!In other skating related news, was very sad to hear about the passing of Paul Wirtz, older brother of Kris, and coach to Kris and Kristy (Sargeant and Wirtz) for most of their career... I remember seeing him at the Helsinki worlds, slightly freaking him out as he seemed to think I was some kind of stalker (I don't know why he would think that; moving seats so that I can position myself right behind him in the stands so that I can get nice photographs is perfectly normal behaviour, yes???) and at so many other competitions with the two of them, and just thinking that they seemed like such nice people... *shakes head*
On a lighter note, I took over
profshallowness's journal with these very thoughts, so more or less but mostly more cut and pasted, here they are...I actually didn't think Ace did too badly... yeah, couple of bad notes, but in comparison to the trainwrecks of weeks previous, I liked it. Love "Tonight I'm Gonna Cry" having seen The Man Himself do it in concert, twice, and even though the falsetto does not belong and sounds more like Darren Hayes than KU, good night for him.
Chris is a level apart from everyone else and has been for weeks... last week's Creed was not great, but this proves that he can really just sit down and sing a song...he could sing for me any time!
Mandisa in no way deserved to go, and I'm putting the fact that she and Elliot were in the bottom two down to the fact that neither of them had their best performance, and since neither of them fit the exact profile of "American Idol" looks-wise, the voting figures deserted them in droves. That said, I'd heard people say Mandisa was awful, I didn't think it was as bad as I'd been expecting it to be! Elliot I didn't rate that highly to be honest... Kenny Rogers told him not to oversing the song, he promptly went and did just that. It's a simple song, just sing the damn thing.
Bucky - man alive, I did not understand a single word he said in the first half of that song. Must go and search the lyrics. Yes, I know it's a cover of Vertical Horizon and I know the story behind the Gary Allan version, and I'm sure I'll love his version...but Bucky needs elocution lessons.
Taylor - of all the country songs he could have picked, that was not the best choice. Sang it ok, but there are a million more that would have suited him.
Katharine - *sigh* I have issues two-fold. First, I hate that song. Don't like it when Faith Hill does it, don't like it on AI. But the comment she made to Simon... ok, it's true, and we all know it's true, he doesn't like country music. But the girl sounded so patronising and condescending I just wanted to smack the face off her. *seethes*
Paris... I entertained a moment of hope that she might be going home, but alas, I was disappointed. However, I've long since been saying that a spell in the bottom three might be the best thing for her, in that it might just knock some of the precocious/bratty/sense-of-entitlement off her. Lord knows something needs to... she's reminding me at the moment of all the things I hated about Carmen in season two and Diana in season three... skipping off the seal with nary a backwards glance will not win her fans. Though was interesting to see her not for once sobbing at the sing out... methinks someone is a little happy to be all alone with the black vote.
And Kelly... *headdesk* The blonde who gives blondes a bad name.
profshallowness didn't know the song, so to explain... Kelly's song, in its fully unabridged form, is called "Fancy" and it's sung from the point of view of a woman whose impoverished mother ("your pa's run off and I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death") paid all the money they had to buy her a red dancing dress and basically sold her into prostitution ("Just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy, they'll be nice to you") until she married some guy for his money and had a nice life for herself. I had no idea how she was going to sing that, much less how much sense it was going to make, but they cut out the meat of the story and it didn't actually play too badly... the line about "I might've been born just plain white trash" I thought a little too on the money... that being said, the song was done by the wonderful Reba McEntire, and to steal a line from a political debate... I've listened to Reba... I've been to Reba McEntire concerts... Kelly, you're no Reba McEntire.
As for the whole calamari/salmon/how cars are made thing... give me strength. Much has been made on various message boards about how this is all put on, and how she's actually playing this up for shtick... I don't buy it for a second. She's no Reba, and she ain't no Dolly Parton either, and IMO, she's too thick to actually know just how thick she is.
Next week, Queen week... trainwrecks galore I see before me. The horrid rumour going around is that Kelly will do Bo Rhap... Jesus save us all. Mandisa would have done "Who Wants to Live Forever"... I grieve the loss of it.
