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"Nicki the improved Simon" + Mariah SHADED for filth
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American Idol is in its Hollywood round, and there is only one reason to watch: Nicki Minaj. While even Hollywood is the same-old, same-old, Nicki’s comments are the one bright spot.
Nicki is an improved version of Simon Cowell with some Kara DioGuardi, Steven Tyler, and Jennifer Lopez added in. She’s insightful, direct, witty, and unflinching. It’s no surprise the editors are using her comments so frequently. “You are too complacenet now,” she told Idol’s first openly gay contestant, Papa Peachez. “I’m pretty sure that flame is now completely burned out. I’m so disapponted. … I can’t believe you allowed this competition to just suck the amazing quality out of you.” Ouch.
But I really loved her smack-down of Glee Project contestant Matheus Fernandes, who lied that it was his “first time playing with a live band like that,” which he totally did on the Oxygen competition when he performed for Ryan Murphy. He insisted on Twitter that he didn’t perform with a live band, but here’s more footage of him doing just that. (Update: In a vague Facebook post, Matheus says that he isn’t lying because “LOTS happens behind the scenes to an extent where the audience is NOT very aware of all circumstances.” So I guess that means the band was fake or not live, but he’s not willing to just say that?
Nicki didn’t call him out for that, but instead made good on her promise not to just send people through based on their sad stories, telling him, “Sometimes things can go from being inspiring to becoming you wanting a pity party. Once you’re great, we don’t even notice your height. You don’t have to milk that ever again. Ever. Be you, be great, and just rest in your talent after today.”
With comments like that, what are the other judges even getting paid for? Does Mariah Carey do anything other than shake her head and look exhausted? Or was everything she did just not worthy of being included in the edit? Either way, she’s nearly useless as a judge. And Keith Urban is flat and lifeless.
Whoever cast Nicki Minaj should get a raise, and the other judges should give their checks to Nicki for making the show more than just dead air.
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