American I-dull

I'm happy Taylor Hicks won, he deserved it. The season finale was, well...interesting. It was almost like you had to watch but for the same reason you watch a train wreck. First off, who thought Meatloaf would be good television? His seizure like singing and red hanky waiving were atrocious. What would you expect from a guy who just released "Bat Out of Hell part 3" as a way to keep his one hit record going. During the duet, I half expected to see Katharine McPhee blink out an S.O.S. message like a hostage videotape. Fortunately for her, Toni Braxton's lyric forgetting disaster with Taylor Hicks overshadowed the Meatloaf debacle.

And, it's good see Clay Aiken shake off that homosexual thing. Geez, could he have looked anymore like a twinkie-fisted bungjocky? Oh, and what about Mandesa in a red dress? All I could think of was her crashing through a wall screaming, "Hey, Kool-Aid!" American Idol attempted to re-create the memorable Kelly Clarkson moment at the very end of the season one finale. The fireworks at the crescendo of Taylor's final song were as predictable as Meatloaf's overacting. Toward the end of the season, AI was starting to get hacky with all of the family member crap. I found it interesting that most of the family members were totally absent early on in the season until their relative started to achieve some notoriety. As the finale got closer, I bet the family members were fighting like cats and dogs for tickets. I'm sure it was a real treat for the family member that got to sit next to a balling David Hasselhoff. He must have heard Clay was going to be there.