'American Idol' Siobhan Magnus and her Irish connections

Posted by E.B. 04—1-2010 at 09:03 AM. L.A. TIMES: This is highly recommendable for everybody to read ‘cuz its near PERFECT. An April Fool's Day story came out claiming Simon Cowell quit American Idol due to viewers ousting Didi Benami over Tim Urban. Though truly the Urban myth, Lord Cowell should leave the show for having shown himself unworthy of even holding court at a Karoake singoff. The London Looney-Tune, it seems, has tainted himself as a bit of a bully, and thus, a coward. With his fear of a fellow troubadour being crowned American Idol 2010 instead of Crystal Bowersox, Cowbell has disqualified himself as a judge of any caliber with his attempts to cause Siobhan Magnus to cower before his monkey-minded comments. Cowell realizes Siobhan strides the stage as well as Crystal, but instead of encouraging the two artists-in-arms to wow us with their unique approaches to music, ol' Harry Chest has chosen to make Siobhan kowtow to his limpwristed opinions. Deriding the way she looks, calling her "quirky", scoffing at her so-called "screams" as tiresome, downplaying her performances with his high-nosed shortsights that they will be half-loved, half-hated by an ambivalent America, Cowardly Cowell took it on himself to get into the mind of Magnus and cause her to stumble in the competition. And, unfortunately, Simon the Snipper's constant slights seemed to bring a bit of self-doubt to Siobhan as seen with her Shaka setback. Hopefully, she'll shake Simon off and truly go through the fire of a jerky judge who has taken it upon himself to burn an artist at the stake for no other reason than to promote his own preferences. Even more hopefully, Simon will banish himself from the judges' table sooner rather than later and allow Siobhan and the other singers to blossom instead of wither under his cockamamie critiques and inane prattle. Don't boo, Simon, you know it's true. Hurry on now, the cruise ships await you.

Siobhan, you're the best or will be the best AI ever, a total performer with so much talent. You need to concentrate on singing & not use any musical instrument during you're AI performance...sing a variety of songs COUNTRY, ROCK & POP...

Siobhan Magnus did great but what I like most is Lilly Scotts’ rendition of Sam Cooke’s song--A Change is Gonna Come, that is really exceptional! Moreover, I almost never agree with any of the American Idol judges, and I think the only one approaching honest is Simon.