Okay, so I have a confession to make. American Idol has made me its bitch this season. I got started watching to laugh at the ridiculous auditions (of which there were plenty!) and then we got to the last day in Vegas, and there was this old guy on my TV screen. Well, I thought he was an old guy, anyway. He turned out to be one of this year's finalists, Taylor Hicks.
/commercial mode on/OHMIGOD I LOVE TAYLOR HICKS!!!1!11!!! /commericial mode off/
So now that I have the teenage droolery out of my system, let me explain why I love Taylor beyond all reason. He has something going on with his voice and his attitude that totally draws me in. He's genuine, and Simon is completely bemused by him, and he makes me smile everytime he's onstage. Add to that the fact that his original material rocks, and here's someone worth wasting two hours of my time for. (Voting, that is....) Honestly, this is the first musician that I have actually cared enough about to buy new material since a friend introduced me to the music of Rush 13 years ago. I mean, I enjoy Taylor's cover performances on the Idol stage, but I *really* dig the stuff that he wrote himself and was performing with his own band in Birmingham before any of us Idol watchers had ever heard of him.
Okay, so now that I've posted a completely unauthorized commercial for this guy, I have to go so that I can take my internship paperwork to my school. Oh yeah, and try to get some job leads from the placement department. I have to get a job so that I can quit being bored and make some money and maybe try to buy tickets for the American Idol tour. (Cuz my son is just as big a Taylor fan as I am....!)
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