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American Idol 2006 Re-Cap
So it’s all over for another year and I must look back to this year’s competition and ponder.
I have never rooted for the eventual winner, Taylor Hicks. I have considered his victory and have an idea why this odd choice won.
For now-America’s final Top 5 for American Idol 2006:
What will happen to the top five?
We hear Chris Daughtry, who many think should have won this thing, is busy fielding offers from almost everywhere. He was offered lead singer for the band “Fuel”, which he turned down. We understand he did accept an offer from RCA records.
Elliott Yamin will likely get a music contract, perhaps singing country/rock/blues. Little Paris Bennett, a tiny thing with a dynamite voice, could well go onto either a career on Broadway or as a gospel singer.
Katharine McPhee is already being wooed by several record companies. I can see McPhee easily fitting into a current hiphop type of music culture.
AH, Taylor Hicks. Every week I predicted this fellow would get the hook. Every week he continued on.
Taylor is only 29 years old and I know the man is prematurely gray. But he does look much older than 29. I also didn’t “get” Taylor’s “dancing” except it wasn’t dancing to me but resembled more Steve Martin’s “Walk Like an Egyptian” dance routine.
And yet America loved him. Indeed I had to smile as Taylor song his signature song “Are You Proud of Me”. He was a man living an American dream and a most unlikely one at that.
What strikes as most evident in this year’s American Idol, the fifth in the series, is how the votes came in and the votes came in for the most normal, “American-looking” ones of the bunch.
Come on…Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee. Taylor looks like everyone’s geeky accountant and Katharine made up in looks and curves what she was lacking in voice. Katharine did not have a better voice than either Chris, Elliott or Paris. Sure it’s just my opinion but it’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I have dutifully documented every night of American Idol 2006 contest from the top ten boys and girls. Click on the link below to review it all as it unfolded.
For now, congratulations to Taylor Hicks, winning and living the American dream.
American Idol 2006 Reviews Here
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