Idol Rant

I'm starting to get sick of nearly all the contestants at this point in the show.

Melinda and Blake are the only two whose singing I can tolerate. Melinda is a fantastic singer but her whole "you *really* like little ol' me?!" routine is grating and strikes me as insincere. Blake does a good job of mixing it up and not sounding the same each week.

Lakisha seems genuinely sweet but I think she over-sings every song, except for last night's which she uncharacteristically under-sang. She didn't quite fill it out. Maybe the band was just too loud.

Jordin seems to be the front-runner right now, which I don't quite get. She misses as many notes as she hits. And she absolutely must stop saying "I love you!" to the camera and making those goofy faces whenever she is on stage in the background.

Nosferatu, Nasal Boy, and the Bada Bing Girl were all forgettable.

The judges were disappointing last night, too. They go in with such low expectations for that weird little Indian girl that they don't trash her like they should.