So this is what it sounds like when you cut the balls off Janis Joplin. This is a desecration.
I thought Janay was pretty good, by the way.
“Hit Em Up Style” has a moment that gives the singer an opportunity to hit a high note and hold it. I was waiting for Janay to do this and she blew it off. Totally wasted song.
I’m not sure at this stage. I know on the theme nights, they have a list of songs that have been cleared copyright-wise (or something), and the contestants usually choose a song on that list. If they really want to do something else, though, they try to be accommodating.
They’ve really been choosing a lot of original songs this season. For the most part we’ve managed to escape the same ballad-y dreck that usually characterises AI (except for Celena Rae, who wants to make sure that genre doesn’t die). It really makes for enjoyable viewing.
Vonzel was just a’ight for me, dawg.
I think Mikalah gave the only really good performance tonight. Vonzel and Janay were just ok. The rest was a whole bunch of meh.
I think Celena and Jessica would probably be good bets to go tomorrow.
I have to say, the male field is much stronger than the women this season. Once we get to the final 12, I predict we’re going to see a steady trend of women going home for a while.
Carrie did not sing the Janis Joplin version of this song. NO ONE could do that song justice. Instead, she sang the Faith Hill version of the song. It’s a more upbeat version of the song. I still hated it though.
Jessica sang that Martina McBride song that Diana DeGarmo sang last year. If you don’t remember, Diana held that last note forever. This was just a’ight. Definitely not the best performance of the night. And what was up with them telling her that she made the song her own? She sang it exactly like Martina McBride’s version of the song. If someone should be called to task for doing a karaoke version of the song, it should be this chick. :mad:
What does an Englishman know about country music? Absolutely nothing. The above post was written by me. (Sorry dear!)
I was wildly underwhelmed tonight. In fact, I thought they all pretty much sucked. I dislike Mikalaylay even more now–bragging about being a helpless princess is incredibly unattractive.
So, given that I didn’t like any of them, I nonetheless think Celena was the worst, with Jessica and Amanda close behind in suckiness.
After the guys’ performances last night, it seems to me that the only women with a chance of going far in this thing are Nadia and Vonzell–they seem to have the strongest voices. Aloha and Carrie could turn it around, I guess. The rest of them are on borrowed time.
Yes and yes. Tuesdays are performance nights, usually with a theme and a guest host. Often the themes are quite lame (Llionel Ritchie night, Barry Manilow night) but I’ve heard that this year Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan are rumored to be scheduled as gues hosts which could indicate that a Beatles night and a Dylan night could be in the offing. Good news for Bo. I just hope he doesn’t get assassinated by a Streisand night or something. Wednesdays are elimination nights.
Once the field gets pared down a bit, the contestants begin doing two songs instead of one. When it’s down to the final two they both do three songs. Then the next night, they milk what should be a five minute result show for like two hours.
Did y’all see that Fox has cut the results show down to 30 minutes tomorrow? I guess they didn’t like all the filler crap either.
I had no idea Faith Hill had covered that song, That explains it. I’d bet that Carrie never even knew that it was anything but a Faith Hill song.
Personally, I thing doing Janis is like doing Whitney. You are never going to top the originals and all you’re doing is making people realize you’re not Janis or Whitney.
God BLESS the Child?
I didn’t know anyone sneezed.
Seriously, though, whoops. I had “help” in my head cause that was part of the lyrics that I googled.
Man, you people are brutal on Anthony. I hope he sticks around for a while just to spite you meanies.
Re: Mikaylahlala. I just don’t get it. I’ve never thought she was as great as everyone else seems to think and I thought her performance tonight was just dull.
Re: Dylan. My WAG is that if Dylan is involved it won’t be a “Dylan Night” specifically but a Folk or 60’s night. Actually, I’d like to see a Folk Night.
I agree with the comment that the men are much stronger than the women this season.
A little show show history for Good Egg.
The first year, when no one had heard of the concept and they had a fraction of the contestants, once they got to the final 12 each night was ‘themed’ with a different type of musical genre to perform. Big Band night we got hits from that era and the best the contestants/stylists could do for apparel and hairstyling. Country, disco, power ballad, etc. It was a real challenge for contestants to stretch outside of their comfort zones, learning not only new songs each week but trying to actually sing differently. I still remember distinct moments that were goose-pimply right and jaw-droppingly wrong four years later, it was that gripping.
The show was a smash and suddenly every agent realized it was a good opportunity for older artists to guest-star and thus began ‘not really a theme’ nights. Bring on Paul Anka, he’s got a zillion songs to choose from and it’ll be neat to watch him work with the kids. Olivia Newton-John is trying to pimp a new album? Put her on as a guest judge! Wait, she doesn’t have a zillion songs? Okay, we’ll forget her pop career and pretend she’s a country artist and call it country night! Manilow, Elton John, Gloria Estefan, Ashford and Simpson, Donna Summer are a few of the former guest judges.
Some are utter crap and sit their repeating “that was great!” to each, some actually rehearse the kids all week, updating song arrangements and offer constructive criticism, it’s a total crap shoot. The stars have gotten more famous as the show’s ratings have went higher, but it hasn’t necessarily made for better shows.
Quentin Tarantino, so not a musician, guested as a judge last year, apparently just because he’s a rabid fan and begged for the opportunity to be on the show and snark out. They tried to spin it like he had some musical cred “In QT’s movies, music is a character as important as any of the actors, blah blah” but it was just because he’s a name brand fanboy. Oddly enough, despite his loud announcements that he was going to trash certain singers, once faced with the earnest performances he toned down the snark in a big way. :rolleyes:
The first year, the voting pretty much went boy, girl, boy, girl until the final two were Kelly and Justin. Since results shows have a group performance each week, it helped that it was nicely balanced. The last two years have been a bit more uneven, especially last year with a diva-off for the last month of the show. To prevent that, they’ve moved to this new boys against boys, girls against girls at least until they get the final twelve. Since the finalists tour as a group, it helps to have an even helping of each. We’ve been getting teasers of guest-judges but don’t know exactly how the ‘theme’ nights are going to go, and won’t until each week’s show.
I think Bo is great, but wonder if he’ll be able/willing to conform to certain styles. The guys are better as a whole compared to the chicks this year, but I think the chicks are showing more versatility, just look at Nadia, Mikahlaylay and Janay from last week to tonight.
Yes, the winner gets a million dollar contract and heaps of promotion. However, as we’ve seen with Ruben and Clay, being the winner doesn’t necessarily translate into more success. Clay put himself out there more, touring 4 times in 1 year and riding the Claymania for all he could. Ruben, not so much.
There’s some who believe that the voting is skewed, there’s a lot that believe the editing is skewed towards the judges favorites and maybe the judges comments as well, but the show says that the voting is fair and all else is speculation.
Sorry for the double post, I sorta missed answering specifically.
If the winner is not the best, it’s rather the fault of the producers/judges for putting that person thru that far. Last year we had a guy named John Stevens, a young guy who blew the judges away crooning Sinatra stuff in the audtions. Probably has gotten A’s in his school choir and solo’s in every concert, but a very limited singer, to say the least. Sort of like Bo, Nadia and Mikalaylahlah this year, John inspired passionate reactions of both extremes. Simon was very reserved about putting him thru, thinking John was a one-trick pony unsuited to a pop contest, Paula and Randy loved him and he made the cuts all the way to the finals. Once there, Simon was kinda proved right, John was very good at the crooning and miserable at everything else. He had a huge fanbase though, thousands of little girls breaking their fingers dialing in for him each week while arguably better singers dropped off one by one. John himself started to look and act as if he realized he should have been voted off, yet he stayed on thru brutal judging and scared-spitless performances.
(Yes, I’m generalizing and not trying to start last years arguments over, please don’t pit me!)
So if John had won, he’d have been very hard to promote as a pop-singer and there’s a definite limit to how many albums the teenyboppers can buy. But it would have been Simon’s own fault, and Paula and Randy’s for putting a lesser-quality singer in the finals when presumably out of those tens of thousands that got turned down there were better vocalists available.
Does that make it clearer?
Yabbut…doing promo’s on radio stations isn’t physically taxing, guesting on SNL isn’t nearly as demanding as touring, etc. I think the bigger problem, no pun intended, was Ruben’s song’s bit hard. “Sorry 2004” was just awful! There’s not a lot to promote when your singles aren’t working, he’d have had more success doing regular ol’ pop songs or even R&B standards, IMO.
I can’t disagree with you there. FWIW, I was a Clay whore from the moment I heard him. I never understood Ruben’s allure. “But…but…he’s like a teddy bear!” just didn’t cut it for me.
Just a nitpick, Simon was actually the one waving the John flag, and in fact there was a lot of tension between him and Randy over it. Randy did NOT like John. At. All. There was an on-air blowup over it at one point, IIRC.
John, by the way, was the “certain performer” Quentin Tarantino was so publicly not a fan of. He was supposedly going to give the kid a tounglashing after his performance but somehow when it came down to it, Quentin could only come up with something like “I gotta tell you, you’re not my favorite. But you did ok.”
Poor John knew very well by his last few episodes that there was an overwhelming amount of very angry people who wanted him off the show. There’s not much he could do about that, but you could tell he was torn up about it.