So I guess ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s pick the plant we love/hate the most.

Well not for me because I just don’t care that much. I watch now strictly for entertainment and so I can participate in the office coffee chat. Also, I have to participate in discussions here!

Truly there were no real Cinderella stories as far as I am concerned.

Well I don’t know about this year because it’s hard to keep up with who had a lable and who was on which tv show. I do think there have been some Cinderella stories in the past even though they didn’t win.

I’m thrilled for Jordin. She has sold a boatload of singles. Maybe after she starts touring with Alicia Keys her CD sales will go up too. I wish her well. After all, she’s only 18.

It’s amazing how Country Music radio embraces all of Carrie’s released songs. Must be great to be her.

. Then the thing about MJ and the song stealing drama and his deal with Maverick, I was prepared to hate them both just based on those things but now both won me over.

I looked at Film’s myspace page today and not only do they have Michael’s picture on their site and talk about him, they mention the following:

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“Micheal Lee (now going by Michael Johns) is a contestant of American Idol Season 7. Mike auditioned in San Diego and got through easily. (Not surprisingly!). You can check out his audition here. Rumour has it that Mike made his way pretty far in the competition. He sang in cover bands for years in Atlanta before (and after) his stint in Film, so this competition might as well have been made for him. Michael Lee Johns already has a fan site going: The Aussie Possie! – make sure you add them as a friend and stay tuned as we work together to help Michael go all the way!

After Michael Johns left Film he joined The Rising. He used 2 Film songs (Q — renamed to So Alive” and “Coming Down”) but unfortunately got dropped before the cd was ever released. You canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t buy The Risingà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s CD, but.. you can still get a copy of those songs (exactly the same version) on Filmà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s EP “rolling”, available from Amazon or iTunes. ”

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Sounds fairly amicable to me!

Albums prior to AI:

Carly, KLC, Brooke, Michael, David C

TV experience prior to AI:

Jason (MTV) , David A (Star Search), Syesha (The One, tv commercials)

Contestants have to fill out an extensive application for AI when they try out, don’t they? IMO AI researched these 8 and could tell that they would have contestants with some confidence.

Debbie, the AI stage manager even mentions it:

” From the Top 24, this was a really good group of kids. And they’re fun to be around and they’re nice and they are a little more comfortable. They all have a little more of an idea of what they want to do, which is great. They have a sense of themselves.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  ”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/04/idol-tracker-me.html

After all the criticism of last year’s group, IMO they did not want to leave it to chance and selected the performers with the best ability to handle being on stage and the pressure. In that regard, the remaining 8 are all plants.

Let the games begin! Or, rather, continue!

I can’t deny Carly’s voice, and she started to gain some ground with me a little, but the desperation she’s showing has caused her to lose that the past few weeks. At least in the group performances she seems like she’s having fun.

Back to Jason and Cheyenne, I doubt he had more than 15 total minutes on the show. I didn’t count, but he was mentioned more than he was shown. LOL.

But, being the biased Elliott fan that I am, I do think that the show took a person with little to no singing experience and transformed him into a recording star. Elliott’s journey embodies the cinderella story I like even though he didn’t win.

The MJ/Carly/David A thing still bothers me and I wont pull for any of them. But if one of them wins? Oh well – it’s a tv show.

Honestly, the only “plant” that really bothered me at first was Carly, and mostly because of the Randy Jackson connection and the $2 million dollar deal. That doesn’t bother me so much anymore. It’ll be interesting to see how it all turns out for her. There’s a desperation about her that is both off-putting and endearing. I’m not sure that makes sense. LOL.

The MJ song-stealing thing was also troublesome, but not from a “plant” perspective. The early pimpage on some of them annoyed me and I’m not sure some of them would still be around without it, but that’s really hard to say.

I think Jason is the only one left with virtually no airtime prior to top 24. His de-pimping has already started, but I’m hoping he can still make top 5.

Poporange, I am sorry if your feelings were hurt, but this par for the course. Not everyone agrees with everything that other folk write. We are just individuals with differing opinions. Not a big deal.

Jason Castro was on a tv show briefy but it does not matter.

He was not competing on a tv show though. It was a reality show, but he was basically just the boyfriend of the girl who was trying to make it in the music industry, IIRC. The reality shows that David and Syesha were on were singing-based competition reality shows, and they were contestants.

Musically speaking, especially in a “lead singer” capacity, he’s probably the least experienced of all of the top 12.

Sorry I think but I do not care what you think of my opinions anymore. This cite I got trashed big time and not a contestnts..

Nobody is trashing you. They are disagreeing with you, and that is allowed. Keep your comments on topic, please. Leave the personal stuff out of the conversation.

Were not on the list now were …david Cook and maybe Brook

Jason Castro was on a tv show briefy but it does not matter.

I nolonger care .