Jason Yeager Idol Vlog FTW!
Jason Yeager FTW! He’s vlogging about Idol, and I am really digging his candid reviews of the Season 8 Idol shows.
Warning: He’ll probably upset those Idol fans who believe that ex-Idols should be perfectly humble, nice and never say a discouraging word about his fellow Idols. But me? I love the unvarnished honesty.
In the first video, he reviews Tuesday’s show. Let’s just say he isn’t a big fan of pimping. I also get the feeling he’s a bit scarred and still a little bitter about last year. Also, he makes a few mistakes in his Vlog that he clears up in comments so, fans of David Archuleta and Brandon Rogers might want to note his disclaimer in comments.
In the second review, he reacts in real time to Danny Gokey advancing to the Top 12. Pretty funny stuff.
Check it out after the JUMP…
Week 1 Performance Recap
Week 1 Results Recap
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Well apparently Yeager is now backpeddling faster than a cyclist at Ringling Brothers Circus…lol
As I recall when Archie made that mistake with the lyrics the camera was right in his face and followed him from there. Because I remember that his face was like “oh crap”. So he is wrong on that.
Plus the fact that it was Michael Johns who got the “pimp shot” on the first night of the competition not Archie.
Plus wasn’t Cook featured doing his audition and in Hollywood week also?
Totally agree that Anoop or Ricky should have advanced and not Michael. However that’s the thing that happens when the audience votes. It’s often not right or fair, but it depends on who was able to inspire the most voters to get to work on their phones. I didn’t vote for anyone so I guess I can’t complain too much except be disappointed.
Ricky didn’t get any buildup earlier, but Anoop sure did, and I thought he would easily be voted through, but who can account for the voting public’s tastes?
Also the big difference. As I recall when Archie sang “Imagine” and Simon said that the competition was practically over and praised Archie. I remember Archie standing up for the other contestants and defending them. I guess Yeager and others forgot that part, something Gokey didn’t do that evening.
It’s true that David A didn’t seem to like the pimping. He’s a very unassuming guy, in fact probably suffers from low self esteem if anything. He was a class act in the way he handled it. A radically different guy from Gokey.
Still, the pimpee suffers from it even when it’s not their fault. OTT pimping causes viewers to hate on the one being pimped, unless it’s their favorite it’s happening to. Which backfires when the pimping is undeserved, but doesn’t seem to hurt when the person is truly the best. i.e. it didn’t hurt Carrie or Fantasia, and I don’t think it hurt Daughtry, I don’t think that’s why he was eliminated early. Well let me rephrase that. It did hurt Carrie and Fanstasia as it made some people dislike them, however they still won the show. Bottom line it creates resentment and it’s awkward and embarrassing.
I love these vlogs but maybe, because I just finished watching “Lie to Me,” I immediately noticed the micro expression that occured on his face when he says that “…they deserve whatever they’re getting…” or something to that effect.
I think he’s laughing at the absurdity of explaining himself to the haters. But that’s my interpretation…I’m most likely wrong.
David Cook got preferential treatment? How so? I recall Simon being hard on him several times, calling him pompous, smug, and the like. Yes he got some good responses when he deserved them, when he sang really well. That’s not pimping … Pimping is OTT praise whether it’s deserved or not, so OTT that it’s embarrassing. Pimping is OTT praise week after week, without fail, no matter what the person does. Pimping is telling the person over and over that they are the one to beat, they are the annointed winner. Pimping is overlooking weeks when the singer is not so good. That didn’t happen to David Cook that I recall. He received praise some weeks and criticisms other weeks, especially from Simon.
Michael Johns said he was screwed over for David Cook? First I’ve heard that. What did he say, and where/when? Thanks for the info.
Saying that DA was “pimped” isn’t a reflection on him, it’s a reflection on the idiocy of the judges and producers. He’s the victim more than anything else. It’s not his fault. Unless one is Glokey and seems to act like he has it coming.
David Cook was definitely a producer favorite early on and he was definitely pimped. Of course he’s talented and of course he was worthy of being TPTB’s chosen one, whether he was from the start or not. It depends on how you see things, especially in hindsight.
I know I’m not imagining that Cook fans have frowned upon Michael John’s sour grapes several times or the things he’s implied about why he left in eighth place. I’m just saying it’s natural to be a bit defensive when you’re invested in these people. Every fanbase has people always ready to jump to the defense for their artist of choice. I see no exceptions.
Randy swooned and hyperventilated over Archie so much every week that I thought that Archie may have needed to get a restraining order against him once the show was over. He probably didn’t need to do it. You never know, though. LOL.
It got kinda scary to watch.
Wow. I think I like Yeager now more than I ever did during Season 7. He seems totally unafraid to say it like it he sees it, and I totally respect that, even as an Archuleta fan. I actually wish he was on the judging panel. He had way more interesting input than all four judges put together.
Yes typo…ooops…
I wont said anything againts his personality, since we all already have said that last year interviews presented before they sang never did a good job in represent the personality of the contestant, i.e. Jason Castro being call “retarted”, Archie being called “boring and retarded”, and Brooke being called “crazy” because of her videos… If I remember correctly Jason videos weren ´t any better and with the singing seem, IMHO, that was very boring and old fashioned…
Having said that nothing can be as bad as this week episode of the first 12….and that girl Casey and Steve were both so wrong that hurts… maybe only Amy Davis last year could be that bad…
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I actually feel really bad about Amy Davis, I do think she was better than her one performance on AI.
Yeager could have said not a word and I’d have been amused by the Superman tee and matching hat. Ha, superhero geeking out FTW. Anyway, I am enjoying the Confessions of a Fodder blog. Keep em coming Jason. Pimp happens. Some people choose to ignore it and hate being told they could have been manipulated by the producers. Some obsess about it. Sometimes it backfires. Sometimes it happens to be deserved. Some singers rise above the manipulations, some crumble under the pressure. And for sure, for me, the show is way more fun to watch when I’m digging on one of the chosen ones, and way more annoying when I think someone has been unfairly thrown under the bus. I imagine it’s pretty sucky getting on national TV and realizing you are not on the producer’s short list of potential stars, or worse, thinking you were, and then realizing that maybe you aren’t after all. The pyschology of AI has always fascinated me. I’d prefer the manipulations to not be so soo heavy handed, and because of that I agree with Jason that this new set up is kind of icky. When you have one shot to get to the top 12, you don’t have a chance to learn from a mistake through the semis, and on top of that, it makes Hollywood week pimpage and camera time even more important. Last week Danny Gokey, for example, did not have the same kind of pressure that, say, Ricky Braddy had, and vice versa.
Just thought of something else interesting that he said. He said MJ’s Go Your Own Way sounded amazing in the studio but not so good on TV. That’s pretty interesting, because the judges were also in the studio, and if I recall correctly, the judges heard what we heard and were underwhelmed as well. Hmm…
Thing is, I was recently just thinking about that performance, trying to figure out what it was about MJ’s performance that was lacking, if perhaps the song just doesn’t work as a solo (since Carrie & DC’s duet sounded so good)… and then Jason Y. goes and says it rocked in studio. Very interesting– kinda explains MJ’s indignance or whatever to the judges’ critiques. But I’m not sure I can go all knolly and say that they screwed his sound mix to match the judges comments since East coast is live, right?
RE: Cook’s pimpage, I don’t think Simon gave DC OTT praise except after his best performances, at least “best” according to whatnottosing.com. He gave faint praise to Little Sparrow, and MOTN (the latter, incidentally, was actually rated quite highly on WNTS), he hated Innocent and the 2nd Beatles night, didn’t like Hungry Like the Wolf, that first Neil Diamond song, or Dare You To Move… and of course slammed him during the finals. Seemed to me that he just praised what he liked, and happened to echo a lot of critic’s sentiments (since that’s what the WNTS rankings use).
I wasn’t nearly invested in Season 7 as I was in 5 or 6, but I consider myself a big fan, and I have to say I don’t even remember Jason Yeager! The name isn’t even ringing a bell. I’ll have to go dig up old videos…
That’s nothing new, actually. I remember several times when Simon has mentioned on the results shows that he listened back to the performance afterward and that it was either better or not as good as he remembered from the live performance the night before.
Of course, he could have simply been backpedaling, but meh. lol
Poor jason, he just posted a Vblog to ask ppls to minimize the personal attack comments . Feel bad for him. …
This totally describes me as well. I also agreed with many of Jason’s observations and I enjoyed all of them.
Thanks, mj, for putting together a fantastic blog. I really enjoy coming here and appreciate all your hard work, time and dedication.
I guess that lies in the eye of the beholder. Not going to belabor the point.
Michael and David appear to be friends. There did seem to be some sour grapes but I don’t think Michael blamed it on David. Anyway, it was because Michael was pimped that he (and we) expected him to stay longer, even though he had several mediocre performances. A lot of it is about expectations.
Well I don’t think I was being defensive. I just saw it differently than you did.
I think there’s no doubt that Cook was heavily pimped towards the end of last season, but I also agree that it lies in the eye of the beholder. There are going to be those who feel that Archie didn’t deserve some of the over-the-top pimping he got, those who feel that Cook didn’t deserve the over-the-top pimping he got, and those who think that the pimping either David received was well-deserved and not over-the-top at all. I kind of fall in the middle. For instance, I didn’t think Archie’s performance of Imagine was all that (it was good, but I didn’t love it as much as everyone else seems to). I thought the pimping/praise for Cook’s ABMB was over the top and didn’t think the performance was worthy of a standing ovation (Billie Jean was better, IMO). But again, these things are just a matter of opinion. I do feel that both Davids were pimped heavily by the producers last season, it’s just that Archie received the brunt of the backlash for the pimping because he was hyped as “the one to beat” from the very beginning. By the time the producers really amped up the pimping of Cook, he’d already built up a lot of good will and the Archie hate was at full blast by then. I’m seeing almost the same thing happening with Danny Gokey with the frontrunner backlash, and the judges didn’t help matters with their ridiculous over the top pimping on Tuesday night (I think Danny was good and one of the better performers of the night, but he wasn’t that good. Sold-out arenas? Really?).
As for Jason Yeager, he could have received screentime/pimping on the level of Gokey, Cook and Archie combined and I still don’t think it would have helped him go further because (in my opinion) he just wasn’t that good. I thought he should have been sent packing after Moon River (which bored me to tears).