January 13th, 14th - Week 1 Impressions

I REALLY like Kara. I REALLY want Paula to go away and be replaced by Kara. She is however making sure Paula gets less airtime, and with less airtime, Paula's fawning over people who suck during the Top 12 will be much less disruptive. Paula looks semi concious this year which is good, although she still has yet to say even one interesting thing in the first 4 hours. I don't think that will change.

This week was interesting, although very little left a lasting impression, good or bad. I liked Emily Wynne-Hughes (on the left). There seems to often be a female rocker, and she has a nice tone to her voice that is more popish actually than rock. I also like Ariana Afsar, the girl who said she took care of old people, and told Simon yes, she could help Paula if she came to town. (Either really sarcastic or not too bright, that Ariana).
One thing that I was at a loss is how people didn't know Kara. They couldn't spend ten seconds of the many hours on line learning her name? Hi Simon, Paula, Randy and Other Judge! Except for that one girl with the cowboy hat who was her BIGGEST fan (and totally FOS).

And of course we had bikini girl.
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Telling Ryan she'd make out with him, telling Kara she sang better than her, and getting a golden ticket basically because Simon could tell it was irritating the women. Kara got brownie points with me for telling her "just come naked next time".

Speaking of bikini's we had Casey Carlson, who actually apparently is a bikini model, but for calendars used to raise money for cancer research. I thought she was really good actually and she's cute, and could be a factor later on.




I also remember Alex Wagner-Trugman (the really dorky guy who sang Baby Come to Me (and asked Randy to sing the chorus), the dorky indian guy who studied southern bbq or something, the horror movie camera guy, and a variety of strange or dorky people who actually sang well, which was bizarre. You could play on this show "Good or Not" because you couldn't always judge by the looks (except for the guy who sang the songs about his mom and grandman, you knew that was going to be bad).

Von Smith and Michael Castro were the only other two things that registered with me. There is NO way Michael Castro gets to Top 36 unless he's outstanding because he'll go Top 12 easily just on the name - I expect the judges to go hard on him.

For those who like spoilers, the judges choose the Top 36 next week, and it will definitely leak on the internet. I'll post a link to it here, but won't speak on it until it's shown on tv of course.

JUAN