Ace: STINKS.<\/p>\n
Kelly: STINKS.<\/p>\n
Elliot: I love how much he loves Stevie. He’s got some great pipes that guy. What I like about him is his sincerity. He’s got a good voice, and I never feel like he’s up there trying to sell me a line of BULL SHIT, like some of the others. He seems sincere. But unexciting performance.<\/p>\n
Bucky: Wow. The hair. Hmmm. Bad. I actually thought he picked the perfect song for his voice. Smart choice.<\/p>\n
Kevin: Uhm. Wow. Embarrassing. The makeup job was atrocious. And I felt plain old UNCOMFORTABLE listening to him singing about being a “part-time lover”. Randy and Paula just blew smoke up his ass. This is why I love Simon. I know I can count on him to tell the truth – AND when he says “Good job” it actually MEANS something. Kevin’s a cute kid, it doesn’t mean he’s a bad PERSON – but send him home, please.<\/p>\n
Katharine McPhee: In my opinion, she has the best voice on the show. Just in terms of a naturally good singing voice. But there’s something missing … I don’t know.<\/p>\n
Melissa: She sucked.<\/p>\n
Lisa: She made no impression on me – although I loooooooove that song. Simon said it was the best performance of the night – but that was before Chris performed.<\/p>\n
Paris: This is sacreligious to some but I honestly don’t know what the big deal about Paris is. She’s cute, whatever. But I don’t find her voice pleasing to listen to at ALL. It’s screechy, she’s not at ALL in control of it – she goes for effects and CONSTANTLY goes sharp or flat … she’s young, fine, but plenty of young people have kick-ass voices. She does not. I like her PERSONALITY but that’s not what we’re judging here. I would NEVER buy a Paris album. I also just don’t like that type of singing, in general. The kind of singers who can’t hold a damn note simply but have to constantly go up and down the scales. Just not my taste.<\/p>\n
Mandisa: Love Mandisa, I love her whole THING – who she is onstage, who she is off – beautiful – but she needs to work on her lower register – the beginning of her song BLEW. Once she gets up high in her voice, she’s great and exciting – but the first couple minutes sounded like unprofessional karaoke to me. Horrible. I wish they had called her on it.<\/p>\n
Taylor: Someone needs to tell Taylor that “Livin’ for the City” is not a song of CELEBRATION – it is a song of rage. I love Taylor, and that was a perfect song choice for him, but his “interpretation” made me mad last night. It was too self-serving, he was smiling and dancing around – Dude. That’s wrong. Listen to the damn lyrics you’re singing. My two cents.<\/p>\n
Chris: Far and away the best performance all night – and, in my opinion, all season. Go, Chris! I so want to own his version of that song – Simon’s right – I’d buy it. He, to me, looked like a PROFESSIONAL. Taylor did, too – I just thought his performance was stupid – but Chris looked like he already IS a star. He’s “got it”. He made everyone else look like amateurs.<\/p>\n
More Idol posts<\/b><\/p>\n
Sarah K<\/a> – I always check in with her Idol posts – they’re awesome, totally stream-of-conscious – but also very perceptive<\/p>\n Cullen weighs in<\/a><\/p>\n Ann Althouse <\/a> (validating to see that some of her commenters agreed with me about Taylor’s poor interpretation of that angry song)<\/p>\n And Tracey<\/a>!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ace: STINKS. Kelly: STINKS. Elliot: I love how much he loves Stevie. He’s got some great pipes that guy. What I like about him is his sincerity. He’s got a good voice, and I never feel like he’s up there … Continue reading