No fans of American Idol 'round here, but we admit to watching the preliminaries of one or two of the popular singing contest's seasons, specifically to enjoy the monumental cringe-inducing lack of talent--or self-preservation instinct--put forth by a few of the hopefuls. (The word is schadenfreude, correct?)
Last night's premiere of Season 8 had quite a few of the above, as well as the usual decent-level talent moving on "to Hollywood". The latter bunch includes one quite attractive finalist--from here on in to be referred to as "Bikini Girl"--whose blatant pandering via her physical attributes led Idolator's Maura Johnston to consider her "a less classy version" of any one of what we deem bargain basement strippers and pseudo strippers populating the VH1 reality shows starring "Mascara Boy" aka Poison frontman Brett Michaels. Ouch!
That "Bikini Girl", with her OK voice and dissing of new judge Kara DioGuardi, managed to get the nod from the panel, speaks for itself.
If you missed it, see here for yourself.
