Brian Damage
03-17-2008, 11:57 PM
Well, Amanda Overmyer's hair is about as big as Sanjaya's...
The comparison between the hard-rocking nurse and the most infamous American Idol contestant ever would end there, except for one other thing: Like Sanjaya, Overmyer has won the endorsement of Vote for the Worst.
"She mumbles through her song, does crazy dancing and basically makes a mockery of the competition by singing every song the same way," the Idol-subverting site declared. "This is why we love her."
To Idol blogger Rickey Yaneza of Rickey.org, Vote for the Worst's selection only proves producers' contentions that this year's batch of contestants are, on the whole, "good to go."
"She has a limited vocal range. But she's not a total trainwreck," Yaneza said Monday of Overmyer. "She's not the ideal Worster. But the pickings are slim this year."
Vote for the Worst originally threw its lot behind the love-him, hate-him Danny Noriega and the model Amy Davis. Davis' elimination in the first semifinals round left the site looking for a new female champion, which it found the following week in Overmyer.
"Her rendition of 'Carry on My Wayward Son' was one of the worst vocals on Idol. Ever," the site judged on Feb. 27.
With Noriega eliminated March 6, Overmyer, hailed for her "striking style" and "rawness" by rock journalist and Los Angeles Times blogger Ann Powers, became the last Vote for the Worst candidate standing.
If the site was really trying to rid the show of its weakest link, it'd be gunning for Syesha Mercado or Kristy Lee Cook, according to Yaneza.
"The worst right now is Syesha," Yaneza said. "At least with Kristy Lee, she's hot."
"Unfortunately, they [Vote for the Worst] hate her. They think she's a plant."
True enough, the site has called the teenage singer "a plant," as in a ringer, for her onetime Nashville record deal. And plants, not bad singers, are what Vote for the Worst seems to most hate. The site, after all, is dedicated to drumming up votes for contestants who "the producers are rooting against." Hence, it's season-five endorsement of the Simon Cowell loathed Taylor Hicks, the eventual winner.
In the case of Cook, who was picked apart by the judges last week for her frenetic country rendition of "Eight Days a Week," the site has decided "she's too marketable and slightly boring compared to Amanda's wild chile."
So Overmyer it is.
And if the Vote for the Worst votes keep the licensed practical nurse from Indiana safe this week and earn her a spot in Idol's Top 10 summer tour, well, worse things have happened.
The comparison between the hard-rocking nurse and the most infamous American Idol contestant ever would end there, except for one other thing: Like Sanjaya, Overmyer has won the endorsement of Vote for the Worst.
"She mumbles through her song, does crazy dancing and basically makes a mockery of the competition by singing every song the same way," the Idol-subverting site declared. "This is why we love her."
To Idol blogger Rickey Yaneza of Rickey.org, Vote for the Worst's selection only proves producers' contentions that this year's batch of contestants are, on the whole, "good to go."
"She has a limited vocal range. But she's not a total trainwreck," Yaneza said Monday of Overmyer. "She's not the ideal Worster. But the pickings are slim this year."
Vote for the Worst originally threw its lot behind the love-him, hate-him Danny Noriega and the model Amy Davis. Davis' elimination in the first semifinals round left the site looking for a new female champion, which it found the following week in Overmyer.
"Her rendition of 'Carry on My Wayward Son' was one of the worst vocals on Idol. Ever," the site judged on Feb. 27.
With Noriega eliminated March 6, Overmyer, hailed for her "striking style" and "rawness" by rock journalist and Los Angeles Times blogger Ann Powers, became the last Vote for the Worst candidate standing.
If the site was really trying to rid the show of its weakest link, it'd be gunning for Syesha Mercado or Kristy Lee Cook, according to Yaneza.
"The worst right now is Syesha," Yaneza said. "At least with Kristy Lee, she's hot."
"Unfortunately, they [Vote for the Worst] hate her. They think she's a plant."
True enough, the site has called the teenage singer "a plant," as in a ringer, for her onetime Nashville record deal. And plants, not bad singers, are what Vote for the Worst seems to most hate. The site, after all, is dedicated to drumming up votes for contestants who "the producers are rooting against." Hence, it's season-five endorsement of the Simon Cowell loathed Taylor Hicks, the eventual winner.
In the case of Cook, who was picked apart by the judges last week for her frenetic country rendition of "Eight Days a Week," the site has decided "she's too marketable and slightly boring compared to Amanda's wild chile."
So Overmyer it is.
And if the Vote for the Worst votes keep the licensed practical nurse from Indiana safe this week and earn her a spot in Idol's Top 10 summer tour, well, worse things have happened.