American Idol

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Allison dorks on over to Anoop and sings that OK Go song "Here It Goes Again," because they are in the B3 again, but he's such a tool he doesn't even understand why she's being embarrassing. Then commercials. You know, no matter how many times I see it, I don't really believe that the movie is going to be called Fighting at the end of the commercial. I really think it's going to be something else, and Fighting was just the name they were using for now. It gets me every time.

I also never really thought there would be David Archuleta again, either. But there he is. He sings some song about how if you scream loud enough at the Jonas or Archuleta or whatever concert, he will see you and take you backstage and then the two of you will get comfortable, turn the lights down, light some candles, and pray so fucking hard you'll be walking funny for a week.

I don't get the Edward Cullen/Jonas Brothers thing at all, I don't like it. I don't get it and I don't like it. I grew up with George Michael literally taking his dick out for us, and I thought he was adorable. Even the NKOTB guys weren't constellated around virginity as the ideal, it was just part of the package. Half of them looked like they were in their thirties anyway. But this new crew? Ugh, so creepy. What's sexier than a boy who will never, ever fuck you? Waiting five years until your parts work, and then having sex like a normal goddamn person.

I get that they're like, sex methadone, but it seems like a dangerous precedent to teach your kids to sublimate their sexuality in that way, like, the downside to abstinence porn is that you're basically being asked to fetishize not having sex, paraphilically focusing how on not fucking is the new fucking, which... Why bring a little kid into that mess? That's so gross.

It solves the problem now, but in the most twisted, confusing way where you hyperfocus on stuff that's not even that interesting when you're that age anyway, and then instead of just going, "Yeah, that's normal, you'll get there later" you take this bizarre left turn and say, "It's natural, but it's not natural, so let's talk about how natural it is, but act totally unnatural about it, and instead you can focus those natural feelings you weren't even thinking about on some weird absent void of sexuality."

To review: "There is not an elephant in this room." "Do not think about the elephant in this room." "Over there is a monkey. Monkeys are the opposite of elephants. Instead of thinking about the elephant in the room, think about this monkey. Think about the monkey!" "Your favorite thing about this monkey is how much he hates peanuts! You like peanuts? So do elephants. Which don't exist! You hate peanuts! Look at that monkey hating peanuts! Covered in peanuts, but just hating them. Are you hungry for peanuts one day? Don't be bad! You're a bad girl! Stop thinking about the elephant!"

American Idol