TO ALL YOU ADAM LAMBERT FANS:

You keep saying, “you should check how he sang in blablabla”, “you should do your research blablabla”, but what the show is after is how he sings DURING the show itself. Not in some old video. So what if he sings like a lark before, but squawks like a crow now? I also don’t think he’s that versatile a singer. He can’t even sing country. =_= All I could say, is good luck to him next week.

KV: Good point. That really belongs in the “they didn’t think it through” moments – like what happened in the top 13, when they realized they didn’t own the 13th phone number. Oops.

Hyde: Judge’s favorite might not have been the right way to put it, but TPTB (judges and producers) certainly gave a lot of airtime early on (as WNTS documented here). Megan is a slightly different case in that while she gets soft treatment, no one takes her seriously as a winner. Alexis was considered as such. And while Simon himself was more critical, the others were tended to be more positive.

Daniel: If I thought the show was rigged, I wouldn’t be writing about it. At all. I’ve got better things to do with my time and money. I think they (over) manipulate with no regards to subtlety, and no doubt they have preferred results. And no, I do not blame Alexis’s exit on the producers alone; note that I mention her old song choices a lot. Those were, in the end, her calls. Did the rule changes hurt her? You bet, but she had a hand in her own exit as well.

And I call things as I see them: that’s called commentary. If you think I’m “biased”, well, I can’t help you.

I do agree with you, though, that the new semifinal format makes it almost impossible to build an early fanbase unless you have one based primarily on backstory.

I could see the judges using the Veto for several people. If Lil or Alison had been on the chopping block instead of Alexis, well, I think they would have used it. I have no doubt.

Matt has sounded great on occasions much earlier than this week, you’re not giving him enough credit.

As for Adam, unless he starts holding back the theatrics, I think he’ll have an early ending much like Constantine did in the 4th season. To me there are a lot of similarities with their theater backgrounds…a little over the top. I appreciate originality and showmanship, but not over the top. Yesterday at my office they were listening to Adam’s “Black and White.” Hearing it from another room, I really didn’t realize how many notes he hit that were just plain bad. I hope he figures it out because I think he has a lot of talent.

I didn’t believe it myself at first, but I watched that performance several times and it was absolutely stunning

Check it out on youtube or wherever you can, but that boy can flat out sing.

I love how you put everything bad that’s happening on the producers back:
Alexis gets eliminated before Scott and Michael. it’s because the format is wrong, not because she didn’t connect with the audience or that America loves the blind and roughneck storyline.
She didn’t get save by the judges even tough I predicted she would: the producers need the save for Adam Lambert.

I can already see what you would say if someone like Allison or Kris gets the save:
Ah! But he/she is the real TCO, they planned it from the beginning, I knew it….

Bottomline, you’re way too sure that everything is rigged and you try to find reasons to believe it.

As for Adam, well you need to do some research because based on what I see on the web, he’s interpretation of ROF which is supposed to be so extreme has at least a 50/50 split in the web (look at his WNTS rating). And he is the face of the season (for best and for worst).
If you’re a real statistician, you should know that 3 songs is an incredibly small sample and that any conclusion you get from that is at best iffy.
Don’t use some poor statistical analysis to hide your bias against Adam, there’s nothing wrong if you don’t like his style.