Fantasia Barrino and Diana Degarmo in American Idols Final
dusty
2004-05-20 02:41:02
Today the final two would be made known. Who would fight for the title "American Idol"? Of course we wouldn't find that out until the end of the one hour show.
At the beginning of the show Ryan Seacrest asked the audience who they thought who would go home. Almost the entire audience screamed: Jasmine.
Ryan asked each of the contestants if they thought they have done enough to stay in the competition. Jasmine Trias said: "I gave my best every week." Fantasia Barrino said: "I think so, Everyone worked hard every week, and I tried to be different each week". Diana Degarmo said that she gave her 100% each week.
Tamyra Gray performed a song called "You are a star". It sounded good, but it didn't move me. During the performance they showed videos from the auditions, and some video of the 12 top contestants at the Hollywood house they lived in during the competition.
The Australian winner of Australian Idol, Guy Sebastian was on the show to perform. Looking at his hair he looked kinda like Jack Osbourne (decide yourself if that is a good or a bad thing). His record is the best selling in Australian history, his record went platinum five times. His advice for the contestants was to take everything in. He then performed his song called 'Angels brought me here'. His performance was really good for an Australian, as you couldn't hear any Australian accent during his singing.
To fill the hour this week they played a video from each contestant featuring their trip home last weekend. They first showed Jasmine going back to Hawaii. There it was announced that May 13th would then be known as Jasmine Trias day. She went back to her high school called 'MaryKnoll High school' she said she got incredible amazing support. Then they did a recap of the songs and the comments.
After the break Ryan first had a talk with Tamyra, where it was announced that she co-wrote a single for this years winner called 'I Believe'. Both finalists will sing it next week, and the winner will have that song released as a single. This is to clearly make a quick buck out of the AI-rage, but they of course did not mention that part. Tamyra's new album will be released next Tuesday and she sang a song from that album called 'Raindrops will fall' which was a good performance.
After that it was time for the clip from Fantasia's trip home. She went to Highpoint, N.C. where she visited radio, tv, and her old elementary school. She stopped by a furniture store where her grandfather worked. She was given a lounge chair. She also received the key to the city from the mayor. She went to her church for a pot luck dinner. Ryan asked if she ate chitlins (whatever that is) and she replied that she didn't have that, but she did have pig's feet. She got a recap of her songs and the comments aswell. And choked up with emotion. ( good emotions! )
Diana looked very nervous for her clips. She went to a TV station, where she also did the weather forecast, which was quite funny to see. You saw her being at home, with her two dogs. She was picked up by a limo to go to the mayor. For that trip she even had a police escort with their lights on during which she remarked "I got blue lights!". She had a CD signing at a store ( which to us looked like a Walmart. ). Then she went to her high school "Shiloh" and then she got her recap of the songs and the comments.
It finally was time to torture us with the weekly clip. This time it was the song "Somebody's watching me". And all of the contestants were followed by paparazzi. First when they woke up, up to where she was driving a car and finally when they went to bed. It was amazingly amusing. Either I lost my feeling for humor by all the bad clips from the weeks before or they actually made a good clip this week.
The judges were asked for advice for the person that would leave this week. Paula said that the person should "follow their heart and soul". Simon congratulated all the contestants as he thought the show from last night was one of hte best shows ever.
It was finally time to announce who would leave the show this week: It was Jasmine Trias.
Jasmine was smiling when she heard she was leaving, however her family looked disappointed.
Jasmine had to flip a coin to decide who got to choose who would go first next week, Fantasia choose Heads, and Diana choose Tails. The coin landed on Heads and Fantasia choose that she would like to go second next week.
Jasmine was asked to perform her song as a goodbye. Normally it has always been the song that they sang the day before, however Ryan asked Jasmine to sing 'Inseperable'. It was a good performance, her voice sounded great with this song. Most people will also agree that the best performance from her in the whole competition from her was that song. That is probably why they asked Jasmine to sing that song.
Stage presence is not important to a lot of people but it gets mentioned fairly frequently when the fans talk about the singers. I agree that it is not important when you are listening to a cd but it is nice when they are performing.
SKYNET said: You say that like hilary duff is skinny. if anything she weighs more then Diana. Diana can acually sing though.
Don't be complaining they both have nice booties
I just have to take a moment to recognize the hilarity of that comment.
Can anyone please tell me the best place to get one of those Automatic redialing programs for my computer?? I need to get ready for the finale next week, lol....
Rellybois said: Can anyone please tell me the best place to get one of those Automatic redialing programs for my computer?? I need to get ready for the finale next week, lol....
Sorry, can't be a party to cheating. Might get us in trouble with Fox or some such nonsense :P
Rellybois said: Can anyone please tell me the best place to get one of those Automatic redialing programs for my computer?? I need to get ready for the finale next week, lol....
There was a link on a previous AI discussion board regarding this I think...
But I cannot remember where (date or title)...
Or by who..
A lot of bloody help I am, huh?
The post appeared in a board before Jasmine was booted off...may have been the post before the voting that got her booted off because I remember someone saying something like they were going to use it SPECIFICALLY to vote for Jasmine...(to no avail, evidently)
And remember...keep the number under 399 so Fox won't remove your votes!
LOL
Back to the show, I found it kinda weird that in Jasmine's journey video, she said "Even though I didn't make it all the way, I feel like I've come as far as I need to go." Aren't they not supposed to know the results before the show? Did anyone else catch that??
Close your eyes and compare Fantasia's voice to LaToya's...Now compare Diana's voice to LaToya's... No competition because LaToya not only has the loveliest voice ever heard on A.I., she also has the voice,
poise, grace and dignity that truly makes her the AMERICAN IDOL. Watch her rise to the top! A.I. has lost many viewers that won't come back next year because of the unfair results from a flawed voting system.
eliza said: Close your eyes and compare Fantasia's voice to LaToya's...Now compare Diana's voice to LaToya's... No competition because LaToya not only has the loveliest voice ever heard on A.I., she also has the voice,
poise, grace and dignity that truly makes her the AMERICAN IDOL. Watch her rise to the top! A.I. has lost many viewers that won't come back next year because of the unfair results from a flawed voting system.
No argument with anything you said, however Simon was right when he said that she came off as cold and when she said "It doesn't matter if I win or not, we're all going to be successful" that it bordered on arrogant and he knew she was gone.
LaToya has a very reserved manner which enables her to
take the hurts and lumps with a self-imposed 'cool'. Simon said she is 'cold' but he didn't recognize dignity and class...( Maybe he never met a lady before).But she isn't arrogant, she just repeated what everyone had been
telling her because it is a fact that the top contenders all get offers.
Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul were interviewed (I saw the 2 minute blurb tonight) and they each made the statement that LaToya was the one deserving the American Idol Title...'
I also LOVED Latoya (still do) but sometimes that "reserved" essence (and many slow song choices)translates into people being bored.
People love an underdog (which is what kept Jasmine and John/Jon afloat for so long). The teenybopper AI performers (Diana) appeals to all those Hillary Duff/Olsen Twins/beauty pagent fans. George, Jennifer and Fantasia were not "professionally flawless"...which made them more human to viewers.
As for THIS TV show...Latoya did not make for the most entertaining person on the tube (not for this pop genre anyways).
Remember, its not a show that showcases just a talented voice...the winner will be someone who can whip people up in a voting frenzie. Latoya has fans, but they are probably older folks (well...over the age of 25...old for AI I guess- which includes me BTW!) who haven't got whipped into a frenzie over a "pop star" since Duran Duran and Cyndi Lauper were big.
No sense in crying over spilt milk...Fact is: Latoya isn't in the running anymore.
