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Posted: 10/7/2011
Did you watch the season finale of American Idol? Do you care that, like, a billion tweens voted for a sixteen-year-old throwback to Pat Boone? Good for Scotty McCreery, though he s probably very nice, and is good at singing country music. Although I initially pegged him as smug, I ve since cooled out because he is literally a child (and when he started crying while visiting his hometown, I totally Are You There, God? It s Me, Margeret ed) (j/k, I have a wiener, and wieners don t work like that).
There was so much show, of course. Everyone was there, including Bono and The Edge, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Judas Priest, Tim McGraw, and Carrie Underwood. And [Sir] Tom Jones! And Tony Bennett! So weird, right?
Nope, not weird. Not weird at all. Those people all made sense, especially Tom Jones and Tony Bennett because they are steeped in musical history. See, the weirdest part of the night may have been TLC (R.I.P. Lisa Lopes) taking the stage to lip-sync a medley of two songs: Waterfalls and No Scrubs. In 2011. Very sad. Very, very sad. Their outfits were these bizarre rhinestone-encrusted zoot suits pried from Tina Knowles s storage unit. And for some very creepy reason, you couldn t really see T-Boz s face. Not once. And Ryan Seacrest s only comment on the performance was, Nice abs! (re: Chilli s very impressive abs). Sad, sad, sad. Please get better, TLC.