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sarren queried in my last Idol post: "what the fuck is up with the blond guy's hair?" Andrew has a special bond with his hair. He's the "girl" in the relationship.
Girls (
special_trille, haunted_attics, baby_elvis, hithluin) I need a little input with this.However, I will try and explain as best as I can.
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James and Andrew are in love. However, last year, James and Andrew kind of broke up a little due to the hair thing (my theory).
In season 1 of Idol, Andrew had the cool sexy bad hair thing happening. Hot. He and James fell in luuurrrvvee. They did much things together. There was hand holding, playing with each other's hair, fixing each other's clothes, staring intently into each other's eyes...
Season 2: suddenly Andrew and James were sooo cool to each other. The first 6 weeks was plain icy. It was clear they had a falling out. I suspect it had a lot to do with Andrew's new hair. There was much speculation regarding their break up but it became apparent that it was due to Andrew's hair. You see, over the break, Andrew grew his hair a bit longer and started to wear it like Farrah Fawcett.
The Farrah Fawcett period was a trying time for the boys. At first, the audience and the judges teased Andrew about his hair. Each time this happened, James would get a little quiet and ignored Andrew a bit more. Andrew flirted, James did not flirt back. Andrew moved in to touch him, James moved away. This dance went on for several weeks much to our horror (Trille, Attics and myself).
But, as true love would have it, James could not resist Andrew's advances for too long and they tentitively got back together. However, the hair issue was still a bone of contentions between the two lovers. While they had resumed the flirting and eye fucking, there was still very little touching and blatant expressions of their love.
Before I countinue, you need to be aware of a few things:
1. Andrew loves his hair.
2. Andrew has bad taste (on many things)
3. Andrew thinks his hair is cool
4. Andrew has really bad taste
As much as James loved Andrew, he knew the FF look had to go. In fact, he had a whole campaign to rid the stupid hair. He began teasing Andrew about it. Started making fun of his hair. During the 70's disco show, they had a shot of Andrew and his big girly hair all boofed out and ridiculous. Finally, he dug up all of Andrew's past hair cuts and showed it on national TV and taunted the poor boy.
The next week, Andrew returned with a new hair cut. Sure, it was still bad, but it was a compromise. It was a variation of what you see now. And James was suddenly very happy. There was the touching of hair, the awed look (it was obvious Andrew had the cut just before the show and didn't let James see him until then), the swaying together, the much missed touching.
In one episode, James actually petted Andrew's chest, running his fingers over it. In another episode, they sang to each other. James sang I don't know much but I know I love you and then they both started singing it together, staring into each other's eyes, moving towards each other and just about to touch... and then they stopped, realising that it was unprofessional to start the foreplay in the middle of the show.
Much more lovage occurred during the shows to follow, but there's just too many to write down.
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So you see
sarren, that stupid hair the blonde guy is wearing is a testement to their great love. There's a history behind it.Or it's quite possible that I am insane and am reading way to much into the whole thing.
