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Jordin was awesome last night! ..so good she made Simon want to jump off a bridge, haha! I seriously don't get these judges sometimes ..always talking about emoting, and then when someone sings a sad song and makes them feel that emotion they criticize? Maybe I'm misreading Simon, but I took it as a negative comment. For me it was easily the best performance of the season so far.
Katatonic Fan calling Sanjaya "unclassifiable" = Howard Stern is campaigning hard for this guy. He took several calls this morning from people reporting how many votes they got in for ole Sanjo ..and yesterday he did a phone interview with the owner of VFTW.com. You can definitely feel the momentum building in his fans voting to keep Sanjaya in it as long as possible. It's time for TPTB to pull the trigger and invoke their right to override the public vote on this one for the sake of the shows credibiltiy, even though at this point it is pretty well known where all these votes are coming from.
Random thoughts: Both Phil and Lakisha have great vocal ability, but neither do anything for me. I leave Melinda out of this group because I have enjoyed some of her performances, but not last nights.. Blake and his beat-boxing can be awesome at times, but he does need to be careful not to overdo it. Gina's trying hard to please the judges, and I think it's actually hurting her right now. Is it just me or does Haley sound a lot like Olivia Newton John? Stephanie is forgettable. Richardson is 'aight. Sligh is bringing chubby back!
Jordin owns season VI.
Yes, that's good. You got a "zero" for last week so you're "penalized" I guess but now you're good. You still get credit for the points you had in the semifinal rounds.
Misha, I have your picks recorded from last week so I'll go with those. And it looks like Co had you down for Haley going home before this week's performances so we'll go with that as well.
OK, now that I've gotten the book keeping out of the way here are my thoughts about last night's Idol performances.
I've already professed my love for Jordin here so...no one will ever replace Katharine for me but I do love me some Jordin Sparks. That performance reminded me of some of Katharine's better ones. Kind of had a "Someone To Watch Over Me" feel to it. A little different kind of song but just how I felt about it afterward.
I just don't get Lakisha I guess. I'm not going to tell you that she isn't a great singer. Of course she is! But it takes more than that to win American Idol. And she just doesn't have IT. What's her thing you can grab onto aside from the big voice? We've seen big voice singers before get eliminated way before they should before. I think that's going to happen to Lakisha. She doesn't have that endearing quality to her that Melinda does. And naturally the two of them get lumped together because of their style and that they are older than the other females left.
Blake's the top guy without a doubt. Although I think Chris Richardson's going to be around longer than I predicted. I forget where I put him. Top Six will probably be Jordin, Melinda, Lakisha, Blake and the two Chris's at this point.
Yeah, I put Chris R at #7...had Gina in the Top Six. If I could adjust that now, I would.
Someone else I'd adjust upward is Haley. I think she's figured out that she's got to take advantage of her looks if she wants to stick around. She's a decent singer but she can't hold a candle to the other girls on the show. So what do you do? Well....America, meet Haley's fantastic legs! And add a little jiggle factor to the performance as well. I almost felt like Tyra last night watching her, "I could see you jiggle when you walked out!" Something about Haley's voice that falls a little flat but she'll be around a little while longer.
The people in trouble tonight are Phil & Stephanie. It should be Sanjaya...I'm resigned to the fact that it probably won't be. I hope it's Phil more than Stephanie but if you pressed me to pick...I'd say Stephanie is going home tonight.
.....I've already professed my love for Jordin here so...no one will ever replace Katharine for me but I do love me some Jordin Sparks.
I just don't get Lakisha I guess. I'm not going to tell you that she isn't a great singer. Of course she is! But it takes more than that to win American Idol. And she just doesn't have IT. What's her thing you can grab onto aside from the big voice? We've seen big voice singers before get eliminated way before they should before.
Blake's the top guy without a doubt.
Someone else I'd adjust upward is Haley. I think she's figured out that she's got to take advantage of her looks if she wants to stick around. She's a decent singer but she can't hold a candle to the other girls on the show.....
Agree with ya Joe. I see Jordin as the Big 'It' Girl, FIRST, Melinda and Blake fighting it out for SECOND and LaKisha is this season's Mandisa. Haley is this season's hottie.
I believe Kat knows Blake from back in her days spending summers with her grandparents in Washington. Apparently, they sang in the choir together. And then she knows Gina from last year's Idol Hollywood round. That's why she said she likes them. I don't know if she was picking them to win the competition when she said that.
Anyway...SCORING ALERT. I've discovered a serious flaw in my scoring system so I'm going to change it on the fly here. Still the same basic concept but instead of making each individual on your ballot worth a certain amount...each week will be worth that amount. It'll be easier to calculate this way and I can ditch the "Max Points" thing.
So last week was worth 2 points. 1 for Brandon, 1 for elimination pick (which of course were the same). So you either got 2 points or 0 points.
This week is worth 3 points. 2 points for 11th place plus 1 point for the elimination picks. Now, no one got Stephanie right in their elimination picks. And also nobody had Stephanie for 11th place. In fact, only one person had her for 10th place. So what's that mean?
Here's how the scoring goes from now on. Each week the point level increases. Top 12 was 1 pt, Top 11 is 2 pts, Top 10 will be 3 pts all the way up to the finale which will worth 11 & 12 points (Top 2 & 1 same night). So if you are correct you get the weekly maximum total (this week 2 pts). If not, you lose 1 pt for every place you are wrong...the worst you can do is 0 points for the week.
With that in mind. Here's the results through Top 11 Results Night:
Rank
Player
Semis
Top 12
Top 11
Totals
1
sjwolves
7
2
0
9
bcollan
6
8
3
Marmie467
cobabycmw
zzyzx
Vadia
Katatonic Fan
Proof
sirdoug
Spree
11
ASiriusObsession
5
Margarethsuherman
AI12345
Barlo
Gregoriancant
Misty
17
Collette_Leyton
4
Mattsie
19
Je_suis_jess
Shinamarih
21
Misha515
22
Bian
BigShady
Kate4Chris&Kat
KatBBall06