Worst Top 24 Ever

Okay, I know we only see a fraction of what is done, but based on what I've seen, the top 24 this year sucks.

Is there anybody who seems great? Anybody with that Reuben-Clay memorability factor? They're really gonna have to turn me around on this next week.

They spent so many weeks on auditions this year and I thought I saw a lot of good singers. Simon has mellowed considerably and had good things to say about a lot of them. I actually didn't watch the last audition show till the last night, and I saw it back to back with the first Hollywood show.

So, one of the last things I saw were those three girls on rollar skates. Two got through and one was outstanding. Never saw her once in Hollywood.

Then last night they do that fake drama thing where they make every person sweat, they show you how they sung (mostly unmemorably) and they sent through a bunch of mediocrities.

There were three guys who I like. Brandon Rodgers, Phil Stacy and Chris Sleigh. They really didn't show much of Brandon in Hollywood, but his original audition was outstanding. Great voice and a lot of charisma. The only thing I remembered about Phil Stacy was his shaved head and the fact that his wife gave birth while he was auditioning. I remember thinking his audition was just okay, but the singing they showed yesterday was great.

Chris Sleigh is the fat funny guy. He's got great confidence and stage presence and when they showed him singing seriously, he sounded like he had great tone. Then Simon said his voice wasn't so good.

The rest of the guys I can take or leave. The one who dropped out last year is pretty good. I hate Sundance. Yeah he's got a voice, but he tanked all week in Hollywood and they kept overlooking him. They chose him as part of the last two over a guy who also has a great voice and I thought he acted like a jerk, telling the guy he could be his bodyguard when he makes it big. That's his idea of a nice thing to say to a guy who's just had his dream crushed?

The women were just uniformly forgettable. There were two or three where I was watching them sing for 10 or 15 seconds and thinking please don't make me listen to them sing a whole song. And they got sent through.

Then Marissa Rhodes came up at the very end. I had noticed her yesterday and she was the only one I made a prediction on. They showed her again and again she sounded great. They put her against that Antonella (who is hot, but I never liked her) and took Antonella.

I'm telling you all right now, if these people don't really surprise me next week, the pole is cancelled, cause I ain't running a pole on a show I can't be bothered to watch.

Seth