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Stupid American Idol Fangirl of the Week
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about 1 year ago
This isn’t an AI fangirll rant, but a fangirl rant in general. Heck, it may not even qualify as a fangirl rant. Perhaps it isn’t even a rant, just a really unpopular opinion. Anyways, I’m so bloody tired of turning on the TV or launching my Internet browser and seeing a story about Michael Jackson. Yes, it’s tragic. But my goodness, this story doesn’t deserve the coverage it is getting. There are other, more important things happening in the world. The media needs to get over it.
about 1 year ago
From a “deep” conversation among Kelly fangirls at Pulse…first, the question posed:
Why root for them in the first place then? I just don’t get some people’s thinking, either you are a fan of the artist or not, it shouldn’t matter how “successful” they are……..and “success” means many things to many people.
The answer presented:
Cause you can’t help it. Kelly is the only artist out there worth rooting for in my opinion. She bucks the trend of the entertainment industry in dozens of ways and I find her personality and voice to be mezmerizing. To me, she is like the Lakers or the Red Sox for people in LA or Boston. The difference there is that with sports everyone is after the same thing. Its harder when you are the fan of someone like Kelly because there are a ton of different forms of success, just like you said.
There are definitely people who only want to follow Kelly if she is ultrathin and a mega star, and others for whom she can do no wrong. And then are those like myself in the middle, people who are in for the long hall with Kelly cause she is worth it, but struggle with the dilemma of what is best for the artist and what (selfishly I admit) is best for the fan, which in my case is seeing her dominate as much as possible wherever she goes and whatever she is doing.
about 1 year ago
More from Kelly’s thread at Pulse:
On the question of rooting for Kelly…I am a fan, I’m not obsessed with record sales and all that, but I agree that being a fan I can’t help but want her to be recognized as a success and reach more people with her music, especially since she’s already a household name and people who should know and trust her talent by now don’t seem to be buying her records even when they are very, very good.
The negativity gets to me because really, who wants to live in a world where people can be negative about the likes of Kelly Clarkson? She’s super-talented, she’s a nice person, she’s not out of her mind like so many celebrities, and she’s making interesting music and isn’t content to be cookie-cutter about it. How can you not want that to be the formula for success? It seems like every explanation people have for why she’s not more successful is less a criticism of Kelly than a really sad commentary on the state of the pop music world.
about 1 year ago
Why the Kelly fangirls are concerned:
Kelly’s “Thankful” Week 16: 32,387
Kelly’s “Breakaway” Week 16: 66,600
Kelly’s “My December” Week 16: 5,098
Kelly’s “All I Ever Wanted” Week 16: 7,500 (estimated)
Kelly’s “Thankful” 16 week total: 1,375,985
Kelly’s “Breakaway” 16 week total: 1,674,667
Kelly’s “My December” 16 week total: 678,372
Kelly’s “All I Ever Wanted” 16 week total: 628,870 (estimated)
about 1 year ago
Back to DCO, where the fangirls are voting once again, this time on Who Is Your Favorite American Idol Winner
Thursday, July 2, 2009 – 23:20 mom67lovesu:
I just voted. David is far behind Kelly Clarkson. We all know that David is the best idol ever!!!
Friday, July 3, 2009 – 00:17 mainedcfan:
Did you notice on the right hand side, not too far down, the “Idol Chat” box? You can put a message under “Guest” then click the “Shout” button to post it. There are a lot of comments for other idols. We need to put some on for our David….I just put 2 on – didn’t want to make it obvious that the comments were coming from the same person so I only put 2 on. Let’s give Dave his props, peeps! We all know he is and always will be the best Idol ever!!! Also, you can vote more than once!
Friday, July 3, 2009 – 03:41 cookie_monster:
Thanks to those who voted, but we still have a long way to go!!!
D-f-d, I thought the answer was obvious & that’s why I chose this topic LOL. I hope it didn’t backfire!!
Friday, July 3, 2009 – 11:12 DCisloved:
David has been the only one on that show that they did not have to groom and mold into something. The talent was so obvious from the audition and he never wavered from who he is. I’ve got every season except season one so can’t say anything about it. But IMO the rest of them were made into what the show wanted them to be. But not David he stayed true to himself all the way through. He has set the bar so high for any future contestests.
Friday, July 3, 2009 – 12:20 cupofjava:
Voted! David was the only idol I voted for since the show began. His voice and songs are unforgettable.
Saturday, July 4, 2009 – 13:52 cookie_monster:
Happy 4th of July!! Thanks again for voting!! We’re a lot closer now, but still behind. Poll ends in 3 days!! Keep it up!!
It isn’t long before the fangirls start wondering how to cheat:
Saturday, July 4, 2009 – 14:08 DCisloved:
Happy 4th all. Does anyone know how the votes are tabulated. I have been voting numerous times and it seems to only be adding one vote each time. I have even refreshed and closed the page and reopened it.
Saturday, July 4, 2009 – 14:13 cookie_monster:
I think it only allows one vote. I’ve refreshed too & it only gives me the option to change my vote.
Since they can’t seem to figure out how to cheat, they turn to recruiting:
Saturday, July 4, 2009 – 17:44 Andie:
Voted!
Also posted at the dash to see if we can get some more votes, since it seems we can only vote once each.
For a brief shining moment, the fangirls think they’ve found a way to cheat on a meaningless poll:
Saturday, July 4, 2009 – 17:57 Andie:
Just found a way to vote more than once!
If you have firefox, download the add-on named web developer, restart your firefox, and you’ll have a new tab appear on the top left called Cookies. Click down on that tab and select Delete Domain Cookies, refresh the My Idol News page and voilá, you can vote again!
EDIT: Oh forget it, I was only able to vote two more times… I’m guessing they check ip addresses too. Sorry!
Sad, isn’t it? Nevertheless, their efforts at recruitment appear to pay off:
Saturday, July 4, 2009 – 22:02 DCisloved:
David is now in the lead with 34% of the votes.
Saturday, July 4, 2009 – 22:19 Antares:
Dc and Kelly are very close now…
David Cook 388 (34%)
Kelly Clarkson 375 (33%)
The fangirls take pride in their duplicity as well:
Sunday, July 5, 2009 – 06:40 Andie:
David Cook 453
Kelly Clarkson 386
Hooray for us!
I’ve been able to vote again in intervals of about 4 hours.
The cheerleading continues:
Sunday, July 5, 2009 – 15:40 Heliotrope:
David is still my favorite Idol ever!
Sunday, July 5, 2009 – 16:03 Viivi:
Just voted for David. For me, he’s the one and only Idol ever! I’m a fan for life.
about 1 year ago
This is from a thread titled “Best and/or Funniest of DCO”:
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 – 18:26 kaydeecee:
Oh, these vids from the steamy little clubs are the best. They demonstrate a fundamental truth: David Cook is still the sexiest American Idol guy, and I will tell you why.
In olden days, there were no sexy man Idols, only Clay Aiken and Taylor Hicks, each of whom were sexy like your cousin’s neighbor in the show choir whom your mom wanted to fix you up with in high school. Sort of the antisex.
Then there was Daughtry, who was not sexy either, unless you have very specific tastes involving married men and pickup trucks, which, hey, if so, more power to you. If you hit that, ask him about the back tatt. Doesn’t he think that’s just a little douchey?
And now there’s Adam Lambert and Kris Allen, who are each hot, but are missing an essential component–accessibility. You know, Adam being gay is not an issue. That does not and never will stop a straight woman from crushing on a guy. No, the issue is stylistic. Adam, said, one acute observer, could best be described as a “glittery alien.” Aside from the fact that I’m not a dude, it’s hard for me to actually imagine getting it on with Adam: like, where would this scenario happen? In space? At a secret cabaret on the island of David Bowie and Iman? He’s attractive, but not made for daily wear.
Meanwhile, you can’t have a sexual fantasy about Kris Allen without mentally destroying everything his handsome plaid-shirted soul loves and believes in and wrecking the little married home with the two little matching aprons and it’s all just wrong, so, again, if that’s your thing, OK . . . go stand over there. You imaginary homewrecker.
But David Cook looks, I dunno, doable. Especially in these tiny club shows. He looks like if you’d had the good fortune to run into him in one of those dingy Tulsa bars and smiled at him over the badly-made drink he handed you and gone back to his rented room and listened to some Our Lady Peace, maybe you would have managed to make out on the futon and you know, get somewhere.
Now in truth, this is an illusion. In real life, Dave is a pretty gorgeous and charming human being and also talented and famous and in order to date you would have to be very gorgeous too and cool and at least a D-list celebrity who’d appeared on TMZ a few times. There are probably a million people out there who idolize him or at least think highly of him, and a large chunk of them are women, and some guys, who also would like to take his pants off.
So, it’s not really about thinking you are actually going to boff David Cook. It’s more like he seems like he’s OK with the imaginary idea of the two of you getting a pizza, watching Netflix, and then doing it on the floor amid the scattered CD cases and crumpled band t-shirts. And he manages to convey this secret sexy message to you by looking right at you during one of his awesome concerts. You, and everybody else who’s bought a ticket.
Yuck!
about 1 year ago
I’m feeling a little queasy, but here’s another entry from that thread:
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 – 15:05 SybilT:
Why I love David? It’s hard to think of something pithy, especially when so many have already expressed themselves so beautifully. But I will try.
He has all the admirable qualities that others have discussed below, but there are other people with some or all of those qualities and we merely admire and respect them. So what is different about David?
What I would say is this: David is both ying and yang. He is extremely thoughtful and unself-conscious at the same time. He has his insecurities (don’t we all) — the massive skull and the 15 hairs, the tummeh, and there are those badly bitten nails – and yet he seems to know and like himself at the same time. He was confident in his musical abilities, and yet very much needed the “vindication” hearing those outside his circle say, “hey, you don’t suck.” He is ambitious — how many people come right out and say that they want to be one of the biggest acts in the world, that they want their music to be important — and humble, always giving credit is due (and even sometimes when its not). A realist and a dreamer (pessimistically optimistic?), someone who cares deeply about causes and doing something concrete to support them besides writing a check, and yet wants to still be a goof and fool around with his friends. He has dignity, and he’s a dork.
He’s a masculine man who accepts his feminine side. He is both strong and vulnerable, able to bear the crushing weight of his intense emotions without keeping them bottled up inside, unafraid to let people see them when he needs them to. When he needs to. Not because he’s inflicting them on other people, not because he’s looking for sympathy, or catering to the voyeurs and the hungry media, but because it helps him reach other people in pain, when it helps him carry that load.
I guess the most striking thing about David is his self-acceptance. He’s not trying to be anything other than what he is; he’s simply trying to do things that he thinks are worth doing.
The comparison of audition David and last night David is so telling. Underneath the hideous bangs and soul patch is exactly the same beautiful face, albeit just a little rounder. I’ve always wondered whether he actually thought that look was good for him, or whether he was making some sort of a statement about the unimportance of physical beauty — almost trying to hide the beauty underneath. As if he were trying to say, accept me for what’s inside, not the exterior. And it was only after he gave us a chance to connect with what was inside that he was willing to let the AI stylists do their magic. (I may be giving him too much credit on this score — he may have been genuinely clueless about how he looked — but even that cluelessness is endearing, at least in retrospect.) But think about it: how many “hot” guys do we see, in our own lives and in the media — Spencer from last night comes to mind — who are totally empty underneath. Look at how the AI audience initially responded to Michael Johns because he is so damned handsome, yet never got to know him. (I’m not saying Michael is empty underneath, just that he let the audience get distracted by the pretty until it was too late.) David wanted us to know from the beginning that he wasn’t an empty argyle vest.
about 1 year ago
Another entry:
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 – 17:24 gueseppe:
My year of living Dave has caused me to do many new things that didn’t really surprise me like voting on Idol, buying an IPOD, downloading Itunes and watching YouTubes. But, then there were all these amazing new things that did:
Getting irate over perjurious comments made towards a certain someone’s porcelain complexion and getting propelled from TWOP lurkdom into the blinding light of squeegurl fandom.
Participating in conversations where references to blingtrance, pantztrance, pirate pants, loctopus, Gratitewer, Mavid, bus stalking, Baba O’d, DC=42, post hoing, arm porn and guitarsex make complete and utter sense.
Getting’ jiggy with acronyms – HT, ARN, ER, DT, BJ, LS, ABMB, MOTN, AIRWIY, HLTW, BO, DYTM, IDWTMAT, ISHFWILF, TWIK, AH, SA, LO, MITB, LOTM, BBS, CBTM, IDIFY, ADAM, KOTN, MLR, BT, TOML, HCHRTW, DC, DCTR, DCTB, EEB, DWEEB, MWK, NFT, SMGF, TPTB, TWOP, DCO, LOCO, DWOP, CJT, BB, HAC, AC, RTM, EWS, SNF, FF, T4M, KDC and not getting exhausted by them.
Playing internet drinking games and hanging out in a virtual bar. Participating in name calling – Zenny, Windy, Namesake, Yo Face. And hair naming – Cookie Neutron, Transporter Accident, Boufantom of the Opera. And not finding any of this odd or unsettling.
Getting caught up in intra-fan wars like the infamous MOABO vs BAD and TWOP vs CJT. And, being coerced into making difficult decisions like scruffy or clean shaven, hair or beanie, plaid or tee, naked eyes or guyliner.
Conversing with fictional characters like Lady Madonna, Queen Jaclyn and Sybil Trelawney and people purportedly named picklesprite and bumble and archucookie (gazoontheit) or who claim to be cats and dogs and yaks. And not finding anything odd or unsettling about THAT.
Knowing what the real meaning of a soggy cookie is as well as size 13s, navy davy, teal drapes, boat anchors, union jacks, bacon, ponies and dead and dying horses.
Purposely using words in “malapproriate” ways because, let’s face it, its just fun to do. See brevity, mutual, ethereal, residual (to name a very small few!) Poking fun at regional dialects cause that’s just how I roll – tummeh, puppeh, tewer. And, realizing that I do, in fact, apparently roll.
Looking forward to a typical day in one of my favorite places where sacrificing virgins and sharing bean recipes is the norm and where I look forward to reading something called tweets from a f***ing Magic Rainbow while wearing something slutty.
All this because some fauxhawked goober auditioned at 5 am on a rainy morning in Omaha and won a silly singing contest. And, it’s been Davetastic ever since.
about 1 year ago
Agreed.
about 1 year ago
It never ends, does it? I think the Cookies will last forever, they are, persistent.
about 1 year ago
Comments from tonight’s Portland Pop Tart Tour…via TWITTER…during Adam’s performance.
about 1 year ago
Kris following Adam is like a good cigarette following outrageous, pounding SEX!
about 1 year ago
holy god holy god holy god holy god holy god holy god holy god HOLY MOTHER EFFIN GOOOODDDD!!!!!!!!! ADAM LOOKS LIKE A FULLY CHARGED SEX BOMB READY TO EXPLODE!!!!!!!!! i swear to god if he is not at least SLEEVELESS when I see him August 28th I am demading a refund…someone has been going to the GYM!!! DAAAAAYYYYUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMM…..that black tank couldn’t get tight enough….
about 1 year ago
Ah, you gotta love the Twitter girls, except minus the extra t-e-r, then you get a more accurate description of the sweet little things (or in some cases, too old to be behaving that silly little things).