For Tuesday’s show, the contestants got to choose a song to sing from the year of their birth. That meant the mid to late 1980s for most of them. And for me, it was interesting as I was familiar with most of the songs, being that it was the time frame when I was singing six nights a week.
First up – Chikeze. I was pleased that he went back to his R&B crooner roots. Unfortunately, America didn’t agree with me as he was immediately ushered to the stools, meaning he was in the bottom three. Next up – Brooke, who started singing in the wrong key last night. Nevertheless, she was sent to the sofa as the first to make it through to the next round. Carly, who sang a passable Total Eclipse of the Heart, also was declared safe.
After a commercial break, wonderkid David Archuleta joined the group on the sofa, as did rocker David Cook, who turned in an awesome performance last night. Next up was Syesha. While the judges raved over her performance last night, I wasn’t impressed – and neither was America as she became the second member of the bottom three. The last member of this group, rocker wannabe Michael Johns, made it through to the next round.
Once again, they engaged in this ridiculous interactive Q&A thing with live callers. Can we please ditch this? I mean, come on – do we really care if Simon thinks he is the best looking person on the show?
The bit on Kimberley Locke, who was third in the season 3 show, was interesting but unnecessary. I guess she needs a career boost.
Without this filler, the show would be a half an hour long. But then they wouldn’t have the extra ad time, would they? Since I always TiVo the show, anyway, I have to remember to start watching it about 20 minutes after the start time and fast forward through the commercials 😉
Ramiele did a great job last night and was rewarded with a spot in the top 9. Left was Mr. Laid Back himself Jason and country singer Kristy Lee. With her choice of Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA (and an assist from VTW), Kristy Lee made it through, which put Jason in the bottom three. After going on about how nervous he was, Jason was informed that he was safe. Honestly, I thought he was a goner.
Sadly, it was Chikezie who was voted off. I was so looking forward to his future performances. I guess the voters are not into his style. I’ll bet he gets a recording contract because he’s a very talented singer.
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About a week before my first recital in college, for instance, my saxophone professor (who’s usually extremely laid back) came down really hard on me for making some phrasing mistakes. Low and behold I spent about four hours practicing the brief little section he was drilling me on so that I could make sure I nailed it during the recital.
Since Jason being in the bottom three and being pretty much slammed about not working to hard by Simon, I have a feeling he could have a similar reaction as I did and come out next week with a great performance.
**you can scratch that “for instance” from my previous comment. I forgot to delete it.
God Bless the USA? I thought there was an automatic death penalty for anyone singing that.
There isn’t? Should be.
And anyway, American Idol? C’mon, Vivian. Let’s focus on something meaningful. Like Project Runway.
Naw, that’s one of those songs that folks just love. As for Project Runway – well, I like that show, too, but I think Make me a Supermodel is even more entertaining 😉
God Bless the USA? I thought there was an automatic death penalty for anyone singing that.
There isn’t? Should be.
-Why should that be a death penalty? I believe a majority of people great pride in the USA
BOOO!! Come on America!!! You actually thought Jason was better than Chikeze?! Jason stinks!! He is the Sanjaya of season 7!!! Dreads are clumps of unwashed hair for those of you who don’t know. He can’t hit the big notes and he whispers all of his lyrics. It’s time to get rid of this guy. Enough is enough!!
i love david archuleta . hes the best 1 on the show. i only watch it cuz of him<333
vote for david
isnt ur favorite person david archuleta?
hes the bestest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VOTE FOR DAVID ARCHULETA !!!!! WEWWW
jj/julia/lory – we get it – you like David. But please pick one handle and stick with it 🙂
Oh my goodness I am super relieved that Jason is going to be around for another week to torture everyone else. I think vote for the worst is going to finally have someone they can rally around. There wasn’t anything else on the other night so I did end up watching the performances (not the results) and despite the fact that his performance of Sting was completely unoriginal and uninspired, I did note one critical difference: Jason only thinks he should be getting all the girls, whereas Sting actually *does*, and at least Sting doesn’t leave them completely disappointed with his performance.
You only have to watch this show once by mistake to realzie that Jason is that d-bag we all knew in college who spent all of his time with his guitar on the quad trying to score chicks by playing other peoples’ songs poorly before he was failed out because he never went to class. You can probably even watch it in a bar with the sound off and still pick up that salient factoid about him as a performer, thanks to the fact that every third line he sings closed-captions as “(unintelligible).”