Man I Hate That Song

But American Idol contestants love them some Whitney Houston.

Here are videos of AI folk singing "I Have Nothing." The last one is Christina Aguilera singing it on the New Mickey Mouse Club in her early teens.

Nah...I Wasn't Feeling it, Dawg...

I've succumbed to American Idol.

In the past I've watched the early weeks (aka The Parade of the Delusional), and then gracefully bowed out when it became about singing. This year, I'm in for the stretch.

Key factors to my buy-in:

the 2+2 American Idol Wagering forum

The Antonella Barba white-trash-a-thon (For this I post no links. Find it yourself)

The Feldman American Idol betting pool (Being far away, i'm more motivated to be involved)

dialidol.com : A really cool way to predict who's getting how many votes based on rates of busy signals

Melinda Doolittle (Here doing "My Funny Valentine"): Who is awesome and may win despite looking 50 and wearing really retarded pants-suits every week.

Wiki articles about old contestants, with lists of every song they ever performed on the show, plus youtube, where you can see them all = staying up very late a few times.

Some other reasons that I won't fess up to unless you hit me with a knotted rope a ala "Casino Royale"

So I'm in, and therefore 10% closer to actually being a teenage girl.