America's Got Talent: Performance Episode #1

i voted (in the tv squad poll here) for johnny come lately 'cause i think they're pretty good for 15-yr olds...when i was that age i watched a lot of local, young bands and they weren't nearly as put together as these guys (and girl). i disagree w/ the notion that they should do more contemporary music. to me that =play pop punk or emo (or is that the same thing?), which...i thank god that i wasn't a teenager in the last decade for a reason..what awful music to grow up w/.

anyway, kevin james disappointed me. i think he was great in his past performances, but this one was really boring. i hope if he continues he steps it up.

the glamazons are kinda cool, but i think their best performance remains the first.

kashif, i didn't mind during his first performance since it was something different, but...yeah he sucks kinda. he should be eliminated swiftly along w/ the ridiculous "boy shakira"...i mean c'mon..is clumsily bopping your hips from side-to-side while impersonating a skanky female singer really worth $1 million...?

sideswipe i had high hopes for since i LOVE martial arts, but they're getting kinda boring.

johnny lonestar...while i like that he adds variety, he best add something new, 'cause that's also not worth $1 million.

all the singers...bah. i would be perfectly satisfied if simply singing were banned from the competition all together. a) if i wanted to watch singers that all sound the same i'd watch american idol (save for the one guy that sounds like sting...at least he sounds a little different...all the others are some derivitive of r&b or country...yawn) and b) the singers, imo, clearly don't have to step it up as much as the other acts. i mean the others are expected to add something new or do something different. the singers just pick a different song and do the same exact thing. boring.

that leaves butterscotch who has something MORE than singing. she's very unique and cool and i'd like to see her go a long way in this competition.

1. Kevin James - lots of potential...if he makes it through, I can't wait to see what he does next.

2. Glamazons - entertaininment only...they aren't REAL good singers, but you let that slide because they keep your attention...

3. Butterscotch - glad she let her hair down. She looked really good last night and I agree with Sharon...I hated the trumpets at the beginning.

4. Sideswipe - can't help but like these guys.

5. Julienne - need a kid and she's pretty good.

Ok I apologize.

I love Kashif and I voted for him last night. I know he's terrible, but there is something likable about him. Welcome the new Sanjaya.

See "Sublime- Doin' Time" for a VERY similiar version to what she did.

Except that sublime is a whole band. Her talent is not arrangement. If this was america's got originality they all would be in trouble.

To my mind, Butterscotch has already received exposure enough to land a record deal, regardless of how well she does in the competition. Her downfall on the show may well be that just too few people like/appreciate beatbox. (It's an easy talent to disregard and few are aware of just how difficult it is.) That said, she is a magnificent talent with an outstanding range and a unique sound not heard elsewhere in the competition. I'm rooting for her, but I don't think she needs to win in order to be successful. She makes the other singers look like, well, just singers.

The problem I have with Butterscotch is the same I had with Blake Lewis on AI. It's good, impressive even, but it's NOT too original.

She's going his route of taking other groups versions of songs and basically doing that one.

See "Sublime- Doin' Time" for a VERY similiar version to what she did.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESvYTII2P9g

The contestants are only somewhat interesting, but I like the addition of the X-Factor's intro shots for each contestant, where they have them in front of a bunch of lights and all that. I was hoping they'd copy that for Idol, but, at least they copied it for something here in the states. :)

WHY are you people inside watching this crap!?!? As soon as the guy with batons wasn't moved on I said SCREW THIS.
And Hasselhoff as a judge!?!? Have you SEEN Baywatch?
Sharon Osborne? who the hell is she to be judging people.
Dare I say Piers is just the Simon Cowell wannabe? I checked out his credentials. Maybe it this was America's Got Gossip he'd qualify, but otherwise get the hell off the panel.
This is just pure CRAP and a sure sign of the mindless tripe we've been watching since the first Survivor. This is truly why it is called an Idiot Box.

First, I still preferred the way they ran the show last season to the way they're doing it this time around.

I was so disappointed with Kevin James's act tonight particularly after they said last week that Anthony Reid's water escape wasn't good enough. What was that business with the beer anyway?

Johnny Lonestar's act isn't bad, it's just not great. Almost a century ago Will Rogers was the toast of Broadway as a rope twirler but he had the good sense to insert topical jokes while he was twirling.

The less said about Kashif the better except to say that Leonid the Magnificent, on his worst day, is better than this guy on his best. Kashif's act is little better than a dance version of kareoke.