Quiet Pool Perspective: Fantasy Idol Results- He's No Kris Allen

Yeah I was wrong about Crystal winning. And as I said in my last post, I'm that disappointed that she came in second. However, I did find myself surprisingly angry that Lee DeWyze was this year's American Idol. I know the show isn't what it used to be. It's slowly moving off the radar, and the ratings are dropping, but when they bring back all of the past winners it definitely means something. This is an iconic position to hold and I really don't like that Lee DeWyze is taking one of those nine spots of pop-culture lure.

I think Myles McNutt of Cultural Learnings said it best...

I am not really a “fan” of Kris Allen, but in the context of American Idol he was a quality contestant: he was willing to play around with arrangements, he picked songs which suited his voice and which didn’t offend my sensibilities, and he remained humble and confident throughout the competition. Yes, in the same season Adam Lambert staked his claim as the most original Idol contest of all time and likely deserved to win for taking the risks he did, but Kris Allen was a deserving winner of a theoretical American Idol competition independent of Lambert’s performance.

We cannot, just so we’re clear, say the same thing of Lee DeWyze, unquestionably the worst winner in the series’ history. Now, I would actually rather listen to DeWyze than Taylor Hicks – the new American Idol equivalent to Sophie’s Choice, right there – but at least Hicks was good at what he did even if I have absolutely no interest in it. By comparison, DeWyze is wholly unoriginal, woefully off-key, and worst of all has absolutely no charisma. When the show gave him U2′s “Beautiful Day” as a single, it was the worst thing they could have done to him: already a weak performer, the comparison with Bono of all people was the death knell. At least if DeWyze had been saddled with one of the series’ usual sappy ballads they could have hid his inability to sing on-key beneath the treacle, but here is a good song from a great band being massacred in front of twenty million people.

Although Seacrest claimed this night was about Crystal and Lee, he was wrong. This night was truly all about Simon. Simon might have noted that the contestants were what the show was all about, and America was the true judge, he was also wrong. He was the main cog holding this empire together. Everyone was sucked in by his innate ability to make terrible insults sound compelling. Every time he bashed another contestant, Idol gained another viewer. I think since realizing he had enough of Idol, he has checked out. He has contributed to the decline of Idol by basically taking this season off. And that's okay by me. He's had enough and he's ready to move on to something else. I truly believe that without him the show won't go on. I give it one or two more seasons before FOX pulls the plug and let's X-Factor stand alone.

And Larry takes home the championship in the first Quiet Pool Fantasy American Idol League. Really not as exciting as fantasy Survivor or Big Brother. Maybe I'll start detracting points for talking back to the judges, or adding points for keeping your mouth shut, next season. We'll see. Congrats Lar.

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