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AI Recap: Diamond Cuts Brooke
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Brooke White is the latest ‘American Idol’ casualty. But I don’t think it’s necessarily her fault. The Neil Diamond catalog is pretty much one big yawn.
When it comes to cheesy 70’s vocalists, Barry Manilow kicks Neil Diamond’s patootie. What is “Sweet Caroline” to “Mandy?” Or “America” to “Weekend in New England?” Even Barry’s (we’re on a first- name basis) commercial jingles are more memorable than anything in Diamond’s repertoire.
This week’s performances were such a snooze, it’s not even worth going into detail. Everyone stank. David Cook and David Archuleta were the only ones who even came close to decent performances, but they didn’t have much material to work with.
The one memorable moment wasn’t from the contestants at all. It was judge Paula Abdul’s brain freeze -- to put it politely. For some reason, the ‘Straight Up’ singer began critiquing both of Jason Castro’s performances, though he’d only sung once. Poor thing. She had done so well up until now. All of those drinking problem rumors had faded into the background.
Her explanation host Ryan Seacrest’s morning radio show Wednesday was even more bizarre. It sounded like she woke up with a huge hangover. Or hadn’t stopped drinking yet. She was totally incoherent. Her excuse involved something about having seen him earlier because she couldn’t get her family tickets for the actual show, so she made notes at rehearsal. Seacrest tried to bail out her sinking ship by offering the explanation that she’d read the wrong set of notes. She was smart enough to just agree and shut up.
But there was another rumor floating around that Paula had a martini or two at her 1:00 pm lunch and was still a bit tipsy during the 4:00 pm taping.
I don’t think it’s the drink. I don’t think it’s drugs. I don’t even think she messed up her notes. I think she’s just an airhead. My golden retriever offers better insight. Someone needs to tell Abdul to shut her pretty mouth and look cute until they can figure out a way for her to lipsync her opinion.
