Yes, I know it's just a TV show, and it doesn't really matter. But still, I'm not happy. At all.
The intro tonight was cool, the judges' clothes all look pretty cool this time.
Joshua was up first, he was safe. Then Phillip and Hollie were called up, Hollie was sent to the bottom three. (Loud complaints were yelled at the TV screen here.)
Coldplay performed their song "Paradise", it was unremarkable. Carrie Underwood performed next, the title track off her new CD, "Blown Away", it was all right as a song, but she was way flat. Coldplay then did another song, that was better.
Skylar and Jessica were the last to be called on, JESSICA was SAFE???!!!!, making the bottom two HOLLIE and SKYLAR. (Very loud ranting at America's picks commenced at this point.)
After Ryan asked the judges for their thoughts, all three responded in wonderful coachspeak, something like this: "This season is so great, you all are so talented! Blah, blah, blah." Which means, translated; "Yes, they made the right decision, we can't let our pets Jess and Josh leave so soon, and we don't like you two, anyway, because you have mass market appeal right now, and we don't; but we can't say that because we aren't allowed to offer any real criticism this year." SKYLAR WAS SENT HOME. (Extreme clamor sent towards the stupidity of this elimination.) So, she fired back with Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder and Lead" as her goodbye song, she better get a record deal, I want to hear her on radio.
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The homeschool group we used to do some stuff with had a talent share this evening, I didn't really mind missing it, but if we would have remembered it was coming up, I would have done this tweaked rewritten version of Martina McBride's Independence Day, and since we didn't go, I would have posted a video of it instead, but allergies decided to attack me this week. So just the lyrics will have to do.
Somewhere a few years ago, while first playing with the idea of tweaking songs, one of the top candidates was Martina McBride's "Independence Day", it's a classic, everybody knows it, and if you examine it carefully, for such a happy melody, it's incredible tragic. So I looked around a bit for four-syllable words that could be holidays, until I thought of 'graduation". After that, nothing was coming up, so I just left it alone for awhile. Then about the middle of March, about the 14th, I re-inspected the idea, and thought of a line, which led to another line, which led to half a chorus....pretty easy and fast project to complete once I got started.
Verse One -
Well, it was just another mundane morn,
Though she looked a little worried and sad;
She tried to pretend it wasn't happenin',
He looked quite a bit like his dad.
I was eighteen years old that summer,
WIth no idea to where my future lay;
So I took myself down to the church near town
On Graduation Day...
Verse Two -
Well, word gets around in a small, small town,
They said I was a handsome young man;
My Mama was proud, and she stood her ground,
Though she knew this was the start of the end.
Some folks whispered, some folks talked,
But not a dry eye stayed that way;
Near one about, they were all turned out
On Graduation Day...
Chorus -
Let freedom ring, let reality sting
Let the whole world know that today is a day for memories
Let the weak be strong, let the fear be gone
Throw that hat away, let the band play
It's Graduation Day...
Verse Three -
Cameras lit up the sky like the Fourth of July,
As they marveled at how we'd grown;
They watched the slideshow, sayin' "Do you know,
Can you believe how fast the time has flown?"
Now I ain't sayin' it's right or it's wrong,
But it's bound to happen some day;
Part of our evolution
Is Graduation Day...
Chorus x2
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