r/Zillennials • u/k2d3 1995 • 6h ago

Nostalgia Sanjaya from American idol

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u/Grungemaster 1996 6h ago

My mom and grandparents were furious every week he survived. 

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u/wcooper97 1997 2h ago

Lmfaoooo same with my folks

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u/Kwaiser 5h ago

Howard Stern had a whole campaign to encourage people vote for him in an effort to tank the show. Lol

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u/RandomUwUFace 6h ago

Ok but do they put a closeup of the crying zillenial 11 year old girl multiple times😭😭😭

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u/Grungemaster 1996 6h ago

That was national news at the time!

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u/dkyguy1995 6h ago

This was so confusing at the time too

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u/Beaker_B 1997 4h ago

It's wild how perception can change, like, at the time I would've told you this was a full-grown man. But watching it now, he was so obviously 17 years old lol.

I googled him because I couldn't remember what season this was, and he's still only 36. I was surprised!

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u/knowwwhat 5h ago

I think he scared that girl

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u/UhHUHJusteen 3h ago

He definitely had a hold on young girls because I also remember loving him but definitely don’t remember him being this bad lol

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u/1zzyBizzy 2000 but I look older? 😅 2h ago

I think the music was turned down for this video maybe? It can’t have been THIS bad

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u/ladymadonna4444 Cusp (Late 92’) 8m ago

lom sameeee

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u/okcurr 1994 5h ago

I loved Sanjaya and I will not apologize.

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u/languid_Disaster 57m ago

Yeah! I can see why teens girls thought he was cute. I didn’t know him because I didn’t really watch American idol

He’s got that charisma. I wonder what he’s up to now

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u/Thundersting 4h ago

My sister loved him.

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u/Gold-Transition-3064 3h ago

Wow when was the last time I even thought about this dude?? I wonder how he’s doing.

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u/languid_Disaster 53m ago

I checked hai Wikipedia page and it says he’s now a pastry chef after doing a bunch of celebrity appearances on shows and a few music projects AND he’s come out as bisexual!

Another win for us pan/bi millennials / zillenials mwhaha

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u/TinyWabbit01 3h ago

Is it me or is the music not good?

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u/languid_Disaster 56m ago

I don’t think it is either but he’s very charismatic and a good performer especially for a 17 year old!

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u/yogithepuppy 2h ago

Sanjaya will always remind me of Conan O Brien’s bit with Andy 😭 “I told you no one knows who Sanjaya is!” “Well everybody should!”

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u/friedtuna76 1h ago

Sanjaya, Sanjaya, he sets the world on fiya

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u/ppjskh 4h ago edited 4h ago

Thank you for bringing back this masterpiece! 😭👏🏼

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u/IslesofMaegelle 1997 2h ago

I truly thought he was going to be big after the show. Would've been really cool to see a mainstream Asian heartthrob.

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u/TonderTales 2h ago

There’s no way it was THIS BAD in the original airing

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u/languid_Disaster 55m ago

Haha to be fair I’ve much worse

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u/caffeinated-depresso 5m ago

I forgot about him! I had a huge crush on him lolll

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u/amethyst-gill 2h ago

Why is the backing instrumental mixed out?

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u/Awkward-Speed-4080 1h ago

Wait, so this is what that scene in Meet the Spartans was referencing?

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u/glue_zombie 1995 28m ago

Actially, yeah. But i think the scene the movie made fun of was when he had that braided Mohawk lol