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Kellie Pickler’s ‘Dumb Blond’ Act Is Wearing Thin

Maybe it was the cheesy, “Pick Pickler” slogan, maybe it is the eerie similarity to last years winner Carrie Underwood, or maybe it is her reported bitchiness in Hollywood, but something about Kellie Pickler has stuck a sour note among dedicated American Idol watchers.

Based on last night’s performance, there’s probably no chance that she won’t make the final 12, but, as pointed out at PopWatch, Leslie Streeter at The Palm Beach Post taps into the Picklebot angst:

I used to think that the talented Kellie “Hey, Ya’ll!” Pickler was merely a pleasantly naive little girl. Now, I think she is the Ellie Mae Clampett version of Edward Norton’s supposed hick murder suspect in “Primal Fear.” Not that she’s a murderer. I mean, I think she’s genuinely awed by the big lights and all, and she’d be weird if she wasn’t. I just think she’s laying on that “I ain’t never been nowhere and don’t know nothing but I’m as shiny as a shrimp in grits to be here and swim in your see-ment pond!” thing a little thick. And I ain’t buying it.

…I think that, pushed far enough, pretty much everybody has an obsessive smacking gene in them somewhere. But Pickler, she of the charming ladies’ man grandpa, the wonder-eyed discovery of citified food they ain’t got down there on the farm (this week: “Sal-mon!”) and Comet the Wonder Mutt, doesn’t want to channel that, because that would alienate the Dolly-bot fans that she’s supposed to be inheriting.

What is striking about Pickler’s performance is the Jessica Simpson ‘Chicken of the Sea’ moments she routinely engages in (”I’m a mink?!”) are as contrived as Fox’s presentation of her backstory. Her quote about never singing in front of “hardly nobody” made for entertaining TV, but was completely untrue; she won a county beauty pageant singing ‘Broken Wing’ in the talent competition and ultimately went on to compete for Miss North Carolina. Then there’s her turn as a finalist on an American Idol-like contest in Charlotte, NC called “Gimme The Mike! Charlotte” [Video] last August. She didn’t win the competition, but basically went right from there to the American Idol auditions. While she has no formal training, she’s not without coaching.

The backlash has played out on the fan forums, where some from her past note that her sob story has been played up on the telecast, where in actuality she’s grew up in a loving environment and was never “poor.” The Kellie we see on TV is probably a significantly dumbed down version of the real-life Kellie, and apparently that’s part of her plan.

If you’re a conspiracy theorist, it’s worth noting that Pickler’s father is set to be released from a Florida prison on May 22, 2006 - the same week of the American Idol finals.

How’s that for foreshadowing?
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