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Tonight on "America's Got Talent," the violin-playing Dahm triplets get through but Kelli Glover does not. Because the judges hate me.
UPDATE: Full list of Top 40 acts here
Last night there were some surprising eliminations. I should clarify that I incorrectly said Thia Megia was sent home when that was in fact Ciana. Sorry, there are just a lot of acts being thrown at me in these two shows.
There is another montage of the judges deliberating about various acts. It's dumb because we don't know who they are talking about.
The first act the judges talk to personally is Paradiso Dance, the husband and wife team where he's quite large and she's very tiny and she flips him around. It's really not that great and should not get through. However, they get through. Because the judges hate me.
Okay, here's my theory: it's just like "American Idol" when they pick the Top 24. They need cannon fodder so that they get the Top 10 they really want. That's why some of these acts get through at the expense of good acts. It still sucks, though. Also, is this Mariah Carey again? I know her husband hosts the show, but enough with the Mariah Carey. I was over her back in 1996.
Ishaara, the Bollywood Dance Troupe, is up next. I think they should go through because not only are they good, but they are original. They are put against Footwork Kingz from Chicago. Except they are both through! Well, that is surprising. Especially since they presented it as overprilvileged kids from Berkley versus street kids from Chicago.
Up next in front of the judges are Jeffrey, the piano player prodigy whose voice is way lower than it should be because he looks like Mini Hiro, and Rashida, the harp player. I liked Rashida. She's like Norah Jones or Alicia Keys with a harp. The decision is that Rashida is going home and Jeffrey is advancing. Because the judges hate me. Jeffrey is uber-classy about it, crying about seeing Rashida go home. Awww.
Rejection Montage: the Whip-wielding Couple; three tumbling/acrobat acts, including the one that looks like two villains from Die Hard; Arthur the belly-dancer; nd cute sister of the brother-sister country act, who gets rejected because he had another opportunity and is no longer with the act (punk).
Eleisha Miller, the spazzy 8 year-old who sings and plays the keyboard. She's really not that good and she finds herself a lot funnier than she actually is. I hope she doesn't make it, but I have a feeling she will. And then she does. Because the judges hate me.
Next is Mario & Jamie, the leather-clad chainsaw-juggling husband and wife team. Frankly, I don't really see what point she serves in the act, but maybe that's just me. I guess they're actually kind-of the definition of a "Vegas" act, so I'm alright if they make it. And then they do! They judges probably still hate me because I'm very wishy-washy on these two.
Marcus Terell & the Serenades are next. Marcus should audition for "American Idol;" he doesn't need the Serenades. The judges tell him no and the Serenades ask if they'll consider taking him by himself and they'll bow out. The judges agree to that and it's all very sweet. One of the Serenades says, "That's what friends do." Awww.
Dance-Off Time
BreakSk8, Destined2B, and Euphoria are up now. It's very group-week-of-American-Idol. I really want to see someone have a meltdown. Euphoria performs first and it reminds me of a cheerleading competition routine. BreakSk8 does some neat tricks, I dig the roller skates. Destined2B is the most boring, to me. I would put through Euphoria and BreakSk8. If I could only pick one, it would be BreakSk8, I think they are the most original. In the end, BreakSk8 goes through. Man, the judges finally don't hate me!
Next are Voices of Glory, the three kids whose mom is in a wheelchair. I mean, are the judges really going to cut them? It'd be like killing a puppy with a tack hammer. So of course the judges put them through. Duh.
Top 40 Montage: cancer-having opera singer mom; weird Amazing-Jonathan-like comedian/variety act; Viva and the other cute dog; the dancing granny; Charles something-something the piano player/singer; Pixie Sticks, the creepy munchkinland girls; an acrobatic tumbling group; a female singer I don't recognize (is that Thia Megia?); the singing sisters who did "I Want You Back;" the boys who play guitar and tapdance; and Grandma Lee.
Alisma, the violin-playing Dahm triplets, are up next. The judges tell them that they have a long way to go with perfectin their act but that they are through anyway. Hmmm. I loved their violin playing, so I'll be curious to see what they do in the next round.
The final showdown today is Mia the piano-player/singer from last year and Kelli Glover, the season 1 "American Idol" semi-finalist. I think both are good enough to go through, if you ask me. After making both women cry and beg and plead (shame on you judges), it turns out Kelli is not through and she starts really begging. It's so upsetting.
Mia gets through and starts crying really hard. Good for her for getting through, but I can't believe Eleisha Miller and the Munchkin girls and Alisma made it through and Kelli didn't. Bah.
In the previews for next week, it appears that Simon Cowell puts in a call to the judges. I will bet you all the money I have (which is not much, but it's something) that it's about Kari Callin. I bet you anything. Oh barf.
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The judges lost credibility with me. They sent through the yodeling dominatrix and not the blues guitar kid and the Suan Boyleish woman? I'm not sure, but I don't think the young girl that sang At Last get through or was she in the first group that was eliminated? But again, after sending the chick with the tail through, its now ridiculous. I may quit watching now until the top 10. That is what I do with Idol. It gets old. At least AGT is a shorter season and open to ALL ages and varying acts, not just young cute singers.
I so agree with the above comment. The boy who played guitar. COME ON PEOPLE, he was awesome and Ciana who sang at last was amazing! The other little girl is cute with her curls but can't sing. WAKE UP PEOPLE - YOU WERE LOOKING FOR TALENT. Rating don't always matter. America is angry and a lot of people won't be watching!
I figured the call had something to do with Lawrence Beaman (sp?) since he's kind of a professional singer already.
I think they should eliminate the Vegas show part of the competition. They are rejecting good acts just because they couldn't sustain an hour long show. Like the husband/wife team, they almost got cut because who wants to watch her flip her husband upside down for two hours? It's a talent competition, and I think some of the more unusal acts could get through if they elimiated the vegas show part.
This is without a doubt the worse season of this show. There has been to much rejected talent shown, and not enough of those sent forward. How can you tell someone they are going to Vegas to perform and then not let them perform. This show started out on season one being good and has progressed downward. It's time that H***elhoff and Morgan were replaced.
What happened with TJ and the Little Mamas? Were they in the big group that got cut last night?
That 8 year old girl Ciana was so fabulous it is totally ridiculous to send her home.. I hope that call from Simon saying they have a problem has something to do with the fact that CIANA IS LITTLE STAR!
I hope Cowell is telling them that they let too many crappy acts through and sent too many good acts home. It's a disgrace, it's supposed to be top 40, so let's have the true top 40, not half crappy acts so as to make the judging easier on them in the next round.
Also, why go to Vegas at all? Nobody performed, the judges just went on their previous audition tapes. In previous years they would perform in Vegas so the judges could see if they stepped up their act. What gives? H***elhoff and Sharon need to go, they are both too soft and let too many crappy acts through. The violin triplets got through just because H***elhoff likes how they look. Please.
enough with the judges hate me....its as bad as listenin to mariah durin these things....
I don't think Eleisha Miller is that great. She just knew how to suck up to the judges. Actually, I think she talked too much and behave too old for her age. After telling that little girl Ciana to start looking for a new house for her mom, they eliminated her in the first round. And after telling Keri Callin that she should charge $40,000 a night for people to listen to her they let her go as soon as their plane arrived. It is disgusting. How cruel!! I think I would watch the show again only when Elisha is voted out.
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I think after Bianca Ryan's career didn't exactly go into orbit after her debut CD, which didn't sell as well as expected, the producers got a little more wary about kids getting sent through to the later rounds. I was more than surprised to see Eleisha Miller, who to me is the epitome of obnoxious little brat who is spoiled by her parents into thinking she is some incredible talent, when she's merely an average little girl who will probably go on to lead a successful life, just not in show business. For the judges to feed into that cruel fantasy annoyed me to no end. She needed to go last night, regardless of the tears.
The ones that should have gone were the elderly so-called comedienne, the fiddling trio, the cowboy trio, Eleisha Miller and Mia, who is too strident and emotional to make it in entertainment. At a real audition, she would have been shown the door as soon as she started her little sob story.
The one who I would like to see beaten within an inch of his life is the brother of the former sibling duo, who didn't show up due to another commitment. If I'd done that to my sister, they would have found me tied to a tree somewhere in Southern Illinois, bruised and battered. Absolutely no cl*** at all, and I hope whatever commitment he had blows up in his face. In real entertainment, if a person does that, they get blacklisted. Here's hoping the same thing happens to him.
As for the Simon Cowell phone call at the end...if I want cliffhangers, I'll go watch the DVDs of Battlestar Galactica. They do a better job of it.