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Megan Joy feeds AI Season 8 Nostalgia

2010 February 26
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by TopIdol

Tonight, American Idol Season 8 contestant Megan Joy has been posting photos from last season. Like the rest of us forced to watch this year’s crap fest, she is clearly feeling nostalgic for last year. And since we’re all feeling nostalgic…

Here is Kris Allen and Megan being funny…

Megan with Lil Rounds, Lil Rounds’ weave, and Allison Iraheta all made up…

Here is Megan and Adam Lambert. More proof Adam Lambert would be a lot better looking if he just chilled on the makeup…

Megan and Anoop Desai. Weren’t they rumored to be dating or something?

Of course, I’ve saved the best for last. Its our favorite of all Season 8 Idols (even Kris Allen) — it’s QUATTO THE MOLE!!! Quatto is resplendent in his glorious beauty. It almost makes me forget Quatto Host Matt Giraud’s part-time plaything Alexis Grace is in the photo.

Oh, Quatto. I miss you so much. So many old feelings came flooding back when I saw this photo of you. Some things just never die. My love for you is one of them.

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  • michelle

    Sherena, I didn’t mean it’s a waste because of how he dresses-hell no. I meant, it seems like the last thing he cares about is music. It’s all about the fame whoring for him. If all he wants is publicity then he should have gone on Big Brother or some other reality show where the only talent you need is to be an asshole and he’s got that in spades too.

    • Sherena

      He’s in pop music, with a little bit of rock thrown in. In both of those genres, image building or what you call “fame whoring” is an integral part of building a fanbase. Publicity isn’t just nice to have to flatter one’s ego, it’s necessary if you want to sell your music.

  • Trish

    What’s up with all the S8 revisionism? Aside from Kradison, last season blew chunks. Has your Kris-tarding rendered you completely without any memory of how much you hated last season? Between you, Slezak and Cantiello, it’s like we’ve entered an alternate universe.

    Personally, I am *so* over last season. I don’t get why everyone is so down on the S9 group already. The first week always sucks!

    I need to go back and find some recaps from last season to make sure *I* haven’t lost my marbles.

    • Sherena

      It’s always like this.

      Start out bemoaning how terrible the new season is, end up choosing a few people to tard over, slowly get sick of them while bitching about everyone else, then new season starts and the last season was the best thing ever. Rinse, repeat. Heh.

      • Sherena

        Wow, I need to tamper down on this OCD of mine. I can’t stand even looking at that comment of mine because the last line is short and doesn’t line up with the others.

        I have issues.

        • Trish

          We all have issues. That’s why we’re here. :-)

          But let’s hear it for OCD. Pretty much EVERYBODY in my family has it in one form or the other. It’s the new normal.

    • Trish

      Look what you wrote about dearest Kristopher last season at this stage!!!

      Hot Fundy Boy from Arkansas is most likely cannon fodder, which is why he was probably encouraged to sing Michael Jackson. I’m starting to think they tell the cannon fodder to sing the Whitney, the Michael Jackson, the et al of schlocky diva pop.

      Ugh, this song is preachy and those good-looking Fundy kids just freak me out. You can tell this kid is a megachurch singer. Don’t you feel like you’re at a megachurch right now? A little bit? Oh come on, you know you do. I do.

      Groan. Kara chides him for choosing the wrong song. Wrong song. Why don’t you choose their damn songs from the get-go? Paula disagrees. She thinks Hot Fundy Boy nailed it. SIMON AGREES WITH HER! Are we visiting another megachurch next week?

      Frau Factor
      7.5

      Creepy Adults for Archuleta and a handful of Claymates just felt their heart go THUD. You see Jesus in him, right? He’s an Evangelical from Arkansas who Simon just pimped. This cannot end well.

      http://topidolblog.com/2009/02/american-idol-top-36-round-2-normund-gentle-is-hot-and-anointed-2/

      • Trish

        And just for the record, *I* voted for Hot Fundy Boy that week, because I kinda liked him and hated that he’d been kept under wraps until then. :-)

      • Sherena

        Looool how times change.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        Oh I know :)

        He won me over, what can I say? I was also stoked about having a gay Jew in the competition, because Elliot Yamin was the only Jewish guy to ever get far on Idol.

        I remember thinking last season sucked, too. Because Idol sucks. But christ, compared to this season’s complete group of crap singers, they all seem like Grammy winners at times. It’s all about context :)

        • Trish

          Oh, I loved the gay Jew, too, and we had many off-line conversations about him. I voted for him in the finale over Kris even though I’d figured out weeks before that he was the biggest plantiest plant the show has EVER had. I just thought he was a great guy and a great talent, but I always wondered if the “nice guy” routine was all an act — and I’m afraid it was. He has turned into such a frakkin’ douchebag. Have you seen the interview with him in yesterday’s News of the World?* What an a**hole!

          Is Didi Benami Jewish? That’s an Israeli surname. I like but don’t love her. And the tears have got to STOP, but it looks like she gets that, since she joked about it this week, which is cool. I prefer Crystal and Siobhan myself, but it would be great for a non-shiksa to get somewhere on this show! ;-)

          * “Sex, drugs and Simon Cowell: America’s new gay idol Adam Lambert tells all” http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/showbiz/xs/742048/AdamLambert.html

          • Lauren

            Benami…hmmm…it’s a possibility.

            I actually hadn’t seen that article. I am a terrible fan. I do admit he seemed kinda off there. Ehhh, I’m not going to love everything he says.

        • Lauren

          Haha TI! I can’t imagine you not loving Krissy! Elliot Yamin is Jewish? I should have voted for him.

  • Kathy

    yeah I would say this season tops 6 as a suckfest but I could find no one to root for that year. this year at least there’s Crystal and Lee for me.

    • Trish

      I like Crystal, Casey, Siobhan and Andrew — and several others have potential, so this season is way better for me than S8 or S6. S7 and S5 were my favorites (although I loved Bo in S4).

      Bottom line, though, is that I am SO glad they went back to the old format. I *loathed^ that Top 36/Wild Card/Judge’s “Save” shit last year, which I realize now was completely put in place so they could protect their Chosen One, Adam, who I now believe was THE biggest plant EVER on the show. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) That Joanna Pacitti kerfuffle was just a major distraction to keep people from figuring out that Adam was the true plant. Well, done, PTB. Well done!

      • Sherena

        Season 8 was my first season, so I didn’t get it when people constantly bemoaned the Top 36 format. But now I get it. Top 24 is so much better.

        I like Siobhan a lot too, and I liked Katelyn’s performance. I like Lacey as a person–she’s super cute. Michelle may get some flak for being too professional, but there’s a lot of upsides to listening to a professional too–her voice is so pure and controlled. Crystal seems like a cool girl, but I don’t like her music. All in all I think there’s a lot of potential among the girls. As for the guys, I don’t really care yet, although I’m rooting for John Park of course.

  • Lauren

    OMG! Why was all of Season 8 model material? Your normal humans ( as demonstrated by Season 9) just don’t look like that. I keep looking back at that picture of Adam and sighing.
    I am now convinced that is Megan’s post-Adamgasm face. lol. I’m half-kidding.
    I don’t even like Alexis, but even she is prettier than half of the Season 9 contestants. Except John Park and Tim Urban’s abs.

  • blacklisted

    This group was really pretty.

    Adam definitely looks better without makeup. I can’t wait until he does a Madonna and changes his current look to something a little more natural.

    Can’t wait to see the rest of Megan’s Season 8 pictures since this season of AI appears to be a complete waste.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      He does sometimes look like my mother in the Glamour Shot my father made her get in 1993.

  • ross

    And to think I usually come here to get away from reading about Adam.

  • michelle

    I think Adam is a good looking guy but he looks horrible with all that makeup plastered on his face. I can see wearing it for his shows but he can’t really think that’s a good every day look for him and I can’t believe anyone else truly does either.

    But then again, all he’s been doing is whoring for the media so maybe he just wants to look the part. Sad, very sad. I really think I care more about his music and that aspect of his career than he does and I am offended on behalf of his talent (singing ability not his penis) for it’s bastardization. (Okay, maybe I’ll be offended on behalf of his penis too) If I could, I’d take it (not the penis-eww) away from him and give it a good home. I’m only half kidding. What a frigging waste.

    • Sherena

      It’d be a waste of talent if someone who was talented didn’t use it. Just because you don’t approve of the way Adam dresses doesn’t mean he’s wasting his SINGING talent, sorry to say.

  • deez

    Wow. I never realized how good-looking they all were until I was faced with this year’s group of fugs. Megan is absolutely gorgeous in that last pic, and YES to the “no makeup” Adam.
    I don’t get why he wears it. He looks older, and harsher in it….it’s not exactly edgy anymore, it emphasizes the skin problem (which honestly doesn’t look that bad to me until he spackles). It must be some kind of emotional crutch, b/c without the makeup and excess hair styling, he’s quite pretteh.

    (^^my shallow post for the week)

    • http://lakshmigandhi.wordpress.com/ Lakshmi

      I didn’t even recognize Adam at first. He also looks much thinner in that photo somehow.

    • jukejoint

      I’m gonna jump into some pop psych (what they used to call “dollar-book Freud”) — I think there are some people who overdo the makeup and costumes and masks of celebrity because they have low self-esteem and they are afraid to show the real person underneath. I absolutely think that’s what drives Lady Gaga and all of her face-hiding nonsense, I think that’s why Michael Jackson became such a nutball with the new noses and plastic surgery and going out with masks and veils and blankets over him and his kids, and I think that’s what goes on with Adam and his makeup and costumes, too. I think at heart he is still the fat ginger who felt like he had to go over the top to get people to pay attention. He thinks he still needs to do that, when the reality is that he has a voice that could get attention all by itself (Mad World, for example, when you couldn’t even see his face) if he would just cool the glamstravaganza and the nonsense. I think his problem now is that his fans are encouraging the glam and glitter and demanding more and more, because they have bought into that side of him as mysterious and artistic and cool mic rubbing and sexual misbehavior on stage, when he’d be a lot more interesting and have a much better chance at long-term success if he would just be who he really is. Yeah, sure, Madonna has reinvented herself and her bizarre persona a million times, but she also did her “Sex” book which, to me, meant she was a total weirdo (Carrie Fisher opined that anybody who feels the need to show off their cooter that often was probably abused as a child) and not some striking individualist taking a hard line for the 1st Amendment.

      Adam is supposedly all about The Velvet Goldmine and its surreal depiction of Bowie and Iggy Pop (with a little Lou Reed). So what happens to the characters in the movie? The Iggy/Lou character self-destructs (and the real Iggy is doing commercials in England) and the Bowie character turns into a plastic weirdo with no trace of the person he used to be. More hiding and lying about who he is. It’s a really sad movie to me, about people who can’t be who they really are so they have to dance as fast as they can and drug themselves into oblivion or totally become someone else. Yuck.

      • Sherena

        Agree with you, but not on Madonna. What with all the messed up double standards and irrational fear we have of female sexuality in this country, the “Sex” book was a statement, and an effective one. Madonna knows her stuff.

        • Mithra

          Madonna knows her stuff.

          Correction. Madonna knew how to hire people who knew their stuff. Talk about poseurs.

          • Sherena

            I’m sure her people are good too. But from what I’ve seen of Madonna, she’s highly intelligent and aware. Of course, I don’t know her and I can’t judge for certain, but I get a pretty definite impression of her and it’s a good one.

      • pattyluponey

        Wow, that whole comment made me sad. Adam is such a beautiful man (I’m not being over-the-top tard here, I mean naturally, sans spackled make-up, he is a really attractive man). It’s amazing how we never overcome who we really were in high school.

        This season has some pretty girls, but man, the guys are fug…thankfully we have the hotness of John Park to cut through that. He can hang with Season 8…:)

        • Sherena

          The guys are fug because they hope that the viewers are more lookist than they are sexist. We will see. I’m tentatively leaning towards thinking that they will finally get their female winner.

      • Trish

        I totally agree with your entire thesis and came here to make pretty much the same arguments. Thanks for saving me the time! ;-)

        People who wear to much make-up or become serial plastic surgery patients (and I still maintain that Adam has had rhinoplasty) kind of get addicted to the process. In this world of HD photography, however, camouflaging one’s flaws is not good enough. You really need to have flawless skin or cover your flaws with a minimal amount of make-up because the camera is completely unforgiving.

        I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the last two winners of American Idol both had beautiful skin (as did the runner-up S7). I’m not saying it was the only reason they won, but it sure didn’t hurt that their magnified punims didn’t display horrific acne or scarring.

        Adam needs to let his skin heal and then get some dermabrasion — or grow a beard. Hiding behind that caked on stage make-up just draws attention to his skin problems while making him resemble Eddie Munster.

    • Sherena

      Makeup is a safety blanket for some people. They cling to the idea that it makes them more attractive because then they have the security of possessing something that is guaranteed to make them attractive even on bad days.

      Or some people just like the way heavy makeup looks. There’s no accounting for taste.

      Anyway, the whole “Adam why won’t you stop wearing makeup you’re so much prettier without it WHY CAN’T YOU SEEEE” thing has lost my interest. He’s not gonna change. I’ll just appreciate the natural candids we do get. Made more precious by rarity, and all that.

      And I agree COMPLETELY on the attractiveness thing. Last season’s people were so much prettier than this season’s, wtf. I hadn’t really thought about it, but looking at these pictures, it becomes so obvious.

      • Mithra

        A lot of it is conditioning. I’ve grown up hating make up partly because I lucked out with good skin and bone structure, so I didn’t/don’t need it, but I also saw how much freaking TIME it took for my mother (who used to be a model) and my sister to paint on their faces each morning. It was stupid because my mother used to tell me that you need to do your make up so it doesn’t look like you’re wearing make up…which lead me to think the obvious…WHY WEAR MAKE UP THEN? They have magnifying mirrors and ones with different lighting settings. It’s insane. Clearly Adam is using make up as a mask as well, and a cover up. He’s going the way of more artifice in order to excuse it I suspect. Someone like Zac Efron uses make up not to the extreme, so it just looks vain. I think Adam is deluding himself into thinking it’s edgy and artistic. That may have been edgy in, oh…1965?

  • Verbally Dyslexic

    Season 9′s contestants wish they had half the talent of Quatto.