So here I am In this Hollywood city The city of the stars, movies, women and cars Well I guess I I guess I Star[1] While I enjoy the drama that goes with Group Round of Hollywood Week which cuts the group approximately in half (175 to 98 this season), my favorite time, more often... Continue Reading →
It’s Hollywood Week and everybody is sick including your Friendly Neighborhood Muser. While this may be briefer than usual, it will be no less professional. I’m still reserving judgement on the whole “MOST TALENTED CROP IN IDOL HISTORY!” thing but there were a few Idol winner worthy performances tonight. And as if to validate the... Continue Reading →
Thanks to the magic of the interwebs that worked better than my local ABC affiliate WJLA last night, I was able to see the good auditions I missed during WJLA's greenout/rainbowout/bufferingout last night (and able to efficiently fast-forward through the fraudulent ones). Two auditions really, really stoodout: Ashley Hess behind the piano singing Norah Jones... Continue Reading →
Thanks to the local ABC affiliate WJLA, here is most of what I saw on Idol tonite. Prior to the station's (WJLA) outage, I saw a nice audition by Idol returnee, Alyssa Raghu who was eliminated in last season's Top 24. Here is what I said about her in the next-to-last and last episodes from Hollywood Week last... Continue Reading →
Like Chris Harrison, I have lots of questions but unlike Chris Harrison I'm not going to breathlessly shout them at you. What if two people who’ve known each other for a few days didn’t have to get engaged according to a primetime TV calendar? What if two people with a mutual attraction simply decided to... Continue Reading →
IT’S LIKE NOTHING YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE!!! OK, Chris, you overcame my skepticism. I will finally agree with one of your (typically empty) breathless proclamations and not in a snarky way. Tonight was surprising and even quite captivating. We began with The Search for Colton in the Portuguese countryside with a missed opportunity to have... Continue Reading →
[The following rant has been edited for length.] TOO MANY SAD/INSPIRATIONAL STORIES!!! IT’S A SINGING COMPETITION (insert bad word here with an exclamation point!), NOT A HALLMARK CARD! Thankfully, tonight’s auditions closed with a rush. I had noted a few decent Idolists early on - Laine Hardy[1], Nate Walker, Riley Tucker, Clay Page – and... Continue Reading →
Ray's Musings 