Rate & Predict American Idol

After reading various blogs and blog comments on this week’s performances, I felt very disappointed with my fellow Idol viewers.  Overall, their comments felt very snarky, and sometimes bordering on rude.

I know snarkiness has become the norm in this internet (because after all, isn’t that the only way to get noticed?), but are the negative comments really necessary.

I have to echo what Randy repeated on Tuesday: this Top 7 is a really freakin’ talented group of singers.  I enjoy listening to ALL of them sing.  I can’t say the same about previous seasons!  To me, this is the best season since the Chris Daughtry/Elliott Yamin/Katherine McPhee/Taylor Hicks season.

With the exception of Lil Rounds (who sadly does sound pretty karaoke), every contestant put their own spin on very, very, very formulaic disco songs.  I enjoyed their interpretations of well-known classics, and I think they all deserve much kudos.

I don’t understand why people care about Kris’s facial ticks, Danny’s goofy dancing, or Anoop’s 5 o’clock shadow.  This is a show about MUSIC.  Don’t you wanna listen to good, well-sung music?  That’s all I want from my American Idol: good songs performed by good singers.  And on Tuesday, that’s exactly what I got, and I loved it.

Maybe I’m annoyed because I happen to like disco music (even if it predates my birth).  Am I the only one out there that actually likes this genre???