Last night (March 10, 2010), something hilarious happened on American Idol. Kara DioGuardi was critiquing Aaron Kelly for his song choice. Aaron chose, “I’m Already There” by Lonestar.
Simon Calls Kara’s Critique on Aaron Kelly Utter Rubbish: Kara Vs. Simon
Kara went on some absurd semi-rant about how Aaron should have chosen a different song because he was only 16 years old. She said he shouldn’t have been singing about children or having a son because he was so young. I was thinking to myself, “What is she talking about?” If singers now must only sing songs they have personally experienced, then I guess the music industry is going to come to a stand-still. Artists reinterpret songs all the time, many of which have never experienced what the original writer experienced.
Thankfully, and this is the funny part, Simon Cowell interrupts her at the end of her rant and says, “That was utter rubbish.” I started laughing hysterically. He goes on to say that a song is a song, and it doesn’t matter whether it applies to the singer or not “sometimes a song is a song.” What matters most is how they sing it. He also added that she is going to confuse the poor contestants by saying “do this, don’t do this”! Go Simon.
Here is a quick summary of what Kara & Simon said,
Kara (to Aaron): I love you. You come out on the stage every week, and you give it your all. You really do. You’re in it and I can feel that. But hunny, that song…first of all, it was written in the 3rd person and its about a man calling home to talk to his kids on the phone. And you’re 16 years old, and it isn’t relative to your life. That was my problem with it. Is that how can you feel the connection to it?
Aaron then tried to explain how he was merely telling the story, when Simon interrupted by adding:
Well look…If it’s any help, Uh Kara, I think what you just said is complete and utter rubbish. You can’t keep saying he’s too little and he’s only 16 and he shouldn’t be doing this. It’s a beautiful song. It was the right type of song for you to do, uh, compared to last week. It wasn’t a great vocal, but what it did have was emotion and I could tell you were trying hard. But (to Kara), if we keep going down this road with you can’t do this and you can’t do that, we’re going to confuse these people so much, uh, its just a nice song.
I was really glad Simon spoke up, because Kara really needed to hear that. I am not “anti-Kara,” and I think she is fine on the show. However, recently she has been a little condescending and contradictory in her critiques. She speaks as if she invented music or something. Rather than giving constructive criticisms, I feel that she is speaking in a tone which suggests her opinion is a literal fact. In reality, it is only her opinion.
While Simon started calling Kara’s review rubbish, she was just sitting there like a deer in the headlights with a blank look on her face. I think he surprised the crap out of Kara by doing that. He really put her on the spot. You could read her face that she was so embarrassed, and also felt really stupid. Simon really pawned Kara in front of millions of people last night. I was so shocked-and it was so funny.
And while I am on the topic of Kara, what is up with her trying to be all flirty and all over Simon like Paula was? It seems like she is trying to fill Paula’s void now that she is gone by flirting and hanging all over Simon or something. It just doesn’t feel right. And wasn’t that a bit odd how she was crying? I thought Mike did a good job with the song, but it certainly didn’t strike any emotions for me, but hey.
How Did Aaron Kelly Do Last Night?
I thought Aaron Kelly did a great job on the song. He also made a great point: He was singing the song from a narrator’s point of view. I think that was a clever response to her criticism, and it makes perfect sense. You don’t have to literally have a child to understand and connect with the love a person feels. I think he will go quite far in this season.
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This post was written by Ben on March 11, 2010
