For this week of Amer­i­can Idol the singers got to choose songs from the year of their birth. It’s like Eight­ies Nite all over again, only with fewer songs to choose from. Which was prob­a­bly a good thing. Randy was a lit­tle harsh this week, and Paula was wear­ing some weird armwarm­ers with dia­monds on them… […]

[Actu­ally last week’s episode, but it was Spring Break, so sue me. Danny.] If the first night of Bea­t­les (really the Lennon-McCartney Song­book) was a glo­ri­ous show­case of all things good on Amer­i­can Idol, then the sec­ond night of Bea­t­les (actual songs the Bea­t­les recorded) was just the oppo­site, a flop-heavy col­lec­tion of mediocre per­for­mances and […]

[This is a post about Amer­i­can Idol, sea­son 7. You been warned, big guy. Ed.] One of the memes of this sea­son of Amer­i­can Idol has been how good all the con­tes­tants are. Sure, the judges are spout­ing “producer-speak” about how this is the best year ever, but I think it’s prob­a­bly true. Lots of very […]