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Asia'h Epperson - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Whitney Houston)
Kady Malloy - Who Wants to Live Forever (Queen)
Amanda Overmyer - I Hate Myself for Loving You (Joan Jet)
Carly Smithson - I Drove All Night (Cyndi Lauper)
Kristy Lee Cook - Faithfully (Journey)
Ramiele Malubay - Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
Brooke White - Love is a Battlefield (Pat Benatar)
Syesha Mercado - Saving all My Love For You (Whitney Houston)
Ah Mattsie, I can't lie, these gals are really disappointing me. I expected so much better. Now I bever expected to find anyone of Kat's caliber...thats a once-in-a-lifetime thing. But I was at least hoping for some talent of Jordin or Melinda's level. But I'm not seeing it sofar. Carly continues to be the best of the bunch. Kristy Lee, who I think is a much better vocalist than Kellie P, has yet to showcase her voice, and more importantly she needs to show more personality. Brooke bores me. She's no Carole King and she's no Carly Simon. Sorry, as Simon would say. And the rest, meh. The best all 3 judges could say about Syesha was "Good". Wow, good! But they all loved Amanda, one of my picks to leave.
So whos leaving us this week? It's between our lovely blondes, Kady and Kristy Lee,and Ramiele and Asia'h.
Oh, Bill, gotta hold on tight. Keep voting. The whole Texas is voting. The whole Washington and Oregon are voting. Keep up the faith. I'm not ready yet for a heartbreak.
AI has "jumped the shark" for me too Bill. You're dead on about the judges reactions. They're bored to tears by most of the contestants. Just listen to Randy. Then watch his excitement after Kat performed. Back in AI5, you knew it was bad news for a contestant if Randy didn't jump out of his chair, if Paula didn' cry or stand and clap,if Simon...well, Simon didn't get that excited back then either, that's why you never knew what Simon thought 'till he told us. Matter of fact, Simon is often the only one still critical of performances, greatly disagreeing with the other two.
OK...Brooke White is THE BOMB BABY! I just listened to her with my eyes closed and she has an amazing voice and I can definately see myself digging her CD. She has a soothing voice and very unique, not sure where her nitch would be, maybe like a Sheryl Crow mellowed out? Anyway, Her and Carly Smithson are the only ones who I really believe in when it comes to consistency and vocals.
I'm with you on Brooke....and now that someone mentioned a "mellowed out" Sheryl Crow along with Carol King and Carly Simon....it does seem to fit her. She took a big risk on the Pat Benatar song and in this years competition, if you are successful at the attempt to switch up a song, it may just be the best way to bring attention to yourself. So far, the ones to accomplish that task are Brooke, David Cook and Jason Castro. The other ladies (unfortunately) seem to just blend into each other. Carly Smithson could be the one to pull out "the moment" we all wait for each year.....if she finds the right song.
Right now I think only Carly & Brooke are capable of getting close to the end on the girls side. But the girls are disappointing this year and after Ryan's endless THIS IS THE BEST TOP 24 EVER ranting it's just so...I mean there's plenty of good singers in the bunch but nobody is really dynamic. I guess Idol probably will never get back to what it was in Season 5. That was likely it's peak and it's sliding downhill slowly. Although this year is better than last year. There's more overall talent but the personalities still aren't there. That's what really made Season 5. It felt like we knew all of them. Even Paris with her squeaky voice that annoyed me. I still felt like I had some stake in her.
And sure Kristy Lee probably does sing better than Kellie but it doesn't matter. That all by itself doesn't make for an interesting show. I just wish Kady could figure out how to take everything she does off-stage on to it. Because it's not happening for her. Although I have a hunch she survives tonight for some reason.
My guess to go this week is Kristy Lee & Asia'h. Amanda saved herself this week. But I wouldn't be that surprised by anything tonight on the girls side.
COMPLETELY CRUSHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I just realized, what is an opera-voiced singer doing on AI? Could she have been asked to downplay herself so she could get the early boot to launch her CD soon? (Harakiri style) I'm reading 37 emails right now about it, and they are livid about the idea that AI MIGHT have asked Kady to give up sooner as her various talents are overwhelming AI including her music on myspace and thus overshadowing the rise of projected winner co-teenager David Archuleta. Preposterous innuendo but could be true. Whatever! I also read that there have been serious complaints against AI that Kady was not given video coverage during the Hollywood week. She was completely edited out while showcasing Josiah Leming who didn't make it to top 24. Remember Cardin McKinney? Apparently, she was supposed to have been included on the top 24, but that would crowd this year's idol with too many hotties. Poor Cardin. However, she is being encouraged to come back next year (to be next year's talented idol hottie).
For consolation, I LISTEN to her myspace. (www.myspace.com/kadymalloyfans)
Listening right now to Kady Malloy's version of "Fields of Gold" (with a sob) Will hibernate for a while, waiting for Kady's CD.
Well, I still have my KRISTY LEE COOK. Thank God!!!!!!!! Yes, mad pimping is now cool!
There's a lot of theories about everything that goes on with Idol. And while I believe Kady is very talented, she hasn't been able to take that to the stage with her the last three weeks and ultimately it cost her. I thought she was going to survive and Kristy Lee was going to go just on a hunch (even though I thought she was better than Kady this week). The reality is Amanda's performance was a surprise (14 of 19 in the pool picked her to go this week) and it caused somebody else less expected to go (Kady with 5 of 19 votes).
I'm not sure what to make of this group of girls. It'll definitely make for some interesting ballots in the pool. I have a feeling they are going to be all over the map in spots 2-9.