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thedevinvelez: Photo dump of the last week… what a ride!

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Comments on Darren’s instagram post (December 14th, 2022)

[dorothy16]

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[marissa97217]

Devin likes to spam me from time to time.

[marissa97217]

I’ll never forget that one time I convinced this one dude on Kik that Devin was a girl named “Devina” and that “foot cheese” was slang for feta cheese.

[marissa97217]

It actually is much longer then that, but thanks for the reminder, Facebook.

[letsdimthelights]

133. Devin Velez Season 12, 8th Place

And we’re back, yet again, to the Season 12 guys. A group purposefully manufactured to be as unappealing and uninspiring to the voters as possible (like an opposite day One Direction). And man, did the producers pick a good one with Devin Velez. At 18, Devin was too young to have any real world experience to actually make his performances mature, but too old to get adoration and accolades for being “only 16!” He was a passable singer with a passable voice, whose place in the top 10 wouldn’t outrage or inspire voters. He had no sense of identity to lean on to court any particular fanbase: not a country singer or a Southerner, not a rocker or a soul singer, not a belter or an acoustic troubadour. He filled no niches (except, perhaps, as the Latin American contestant, but MySpace’s Karen Rodriguez already had shown us that bilingual singing did not lead to competition longevity. And even there, he faced competition from the more newsworthy Lazaro).

He also sang fatally boring songs and gave fatally boring performances. In his five attempts to capture America’s spirit, he picked five ballads. And not even good ballads, really. After limping through a performance of Carrie Underwood’s treacly, overwrought “Temporary Home,” he acknowledged that he’d failed to do anything remotely fun or uptempo and promised to show another side. So, of course, the next week, with the entire Beatles catalogue to peruse, he sang the meandering, and, frankly, downright terrible “The Long And Winding Road.” That’s right. Devin chose to show his fun side by singing “The Long And Winding Road.” And this is why Devin finished in 8th place.

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Stuff I’ve drawn on Splatoon.