Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 
My husband says Jovany has a shovel-face. But it’s the tiny alien lip-slit that bothers me…
Come on…Naima and Robby, come on!
Naima’s last song got me teary-eyed, and Stefano’s made me a fan for the first time.
Re J-lo: (Madeline Kahn)How ordinawy. (/MK)
Ashton was the least deserving of the group. I would have picked Robbie.
Well, okay. Sorry about Robby, Bearflag.
Agree wholeheartedly with Naima and Stefano, though.
Well Robbie was robbed. Nothing against Stefano, but he would have been my #7 pick. He’s cute enough, and has a decent enough voice, but Robbie was way more talented. I would also trade Robbie for Scotty. I find Scotty very talented in his genre, and really like him, but he’s not necessarily what I want to hear on AI. I’m glad he made it, but will miss Robbie.
The rest of the boys are right on. I’m not a fan of Jacob, but can see why he deserves his spot. Love Casey, Paul, and James!!!
For the girls it’s right on, if you are going to have 7. Probably should trade Haley for Lauren Turner, but neither of them will win, so whatever. Love Naima, Pia, and Thia. I love Ashthon too, but not as much as the others. I think Lauren A. is very talented. I liked Karen better than the other fodder girls, so happy there too.
Seriously talented group this year. I also agree that Ashton was by far, hands down, the worst of the night. She was totally out of tune throughout her performance, while all of the other 5 nailed it.
I don’t have anything against the ones that made it (except Scotty) but, other than Casey, no one interesting made it. The only thing I have to look forward to is Scotty doing any other genre.
I was going to write up some kind of pithy recap of the girls last night, when I realized that I didn’t have the slightest shred of interest in any of them. So far, I haven’t seen anything remotely interesting from any of them.
Sure, they can hit the notes, they have range, and all the other technical prerequisites. Not one of them is a bad singer. But they’re all just so damned bland - even the ones making dogs cry with their clear high pitch and all that. It’s all technical excellence for no particular point.
I want to see female singers like Brooke White, Allison Iraheta, Crystal Bowersox or Carly Smithson. Someone who’s going to bring a little personality and their own original spin on music. Hell, I’d even exchange any one of these finalists for Megan Joy. Her “Caw! Caw!” Rockin’ Robin may have been goofy and a little strange, but at least it was interesting.
Instead of interesting contestents, we got six Syesha Mercados and Haley Scarnatos - pleasant to look at, technically good, and utterly forgettable.
I hope to be proven wrong, but so far I’m not getting it. The girls are a total snooze-fest.
Brett blew it with ‘light my FI-UR’. And besides, that song is bad juju for him - if anyone actually lit a fire within five feet of that hair, his head would go up like a crimson flashbulb. But at least he would have been more interesting than most of the girls. They should have dumped Ashton at the end and kept Brett.
The guys are a little better off. Casey and Paul have exactly what is missing with the girls - character. They’re not afraid to be something different. You get the sense when they take the mic that you might get something special that you haven’t seen before.
Jacob is interesting because you get the sense that at any time he might just collapse on the floor and start sobbing uncontrollably until they drag him off the stage by his feet.
James has a tail. What more could you want from a singer? If only it was prehensile. I’d like to see James singing while hanging from a boom by his prehensile tail. Or even better, what if his prehensile tail had tourettes as well? Wouldn’t it be just hilarious if Randy was all, “Dawg, that was not hot! I was saying right there that…” and then James’ tail would involuntarily wrap itself around Randy’s throat and choke him on national TV? That would be epic.
I was wrong about Scotty’s one-octave range. I think it might be an octave and a half. Honestly, I think he’s got exactly two gears - give him a cheatin’, hurtin’ song, and he’ll knock it out of the park. Give him anything else, and watch him clumsily stagger around the stage while singing in a monotone. The trainwreck factor is strong in this one.
Stefano is actually a decent song interpreter. He knows how to put emotion in a song. But he reminds me too much of LeClerk from Hogan’s Heros.
And at this point, I can’t even remember the names of the girls. That’s not a good sign.
I had a bad day and this just gave me a really good laugh. Thanks.
I hate country music. I especially hate “classic” country music.
But I love to see someone do something perfectly, and Scotty is scary perfect at being a classic country singer. It’s freakish how good he is. If he doesn’t end up with a massive country career, I’ll wanna know who stopped it, because how could it be possible to be better poised for that than to be Scotty? Completely apart from the (freakishly flawless) country singing talent, he’s cute as a bug, tall, sweet, polite, just adorable country music fodder. Seriously, I wanna know: what could be added to that package to make it BETTER than what it is? Cuz I cannot envision it.
I’m bummed about Brett.
I predict, that unless one of them just blows it horribly, it’s going to come down to Paul and Casey. Or it should. They’re the only ones who are remotely interesting, and the only interesting girl in the whole bunch got the boot. (Don’t know her name, the one who sang “Criminal”.)
It was the prehensile tail that really did me in. Although I totally agree about Jacob.
This is my first season ever watching AI.
Agree the girls were boring (to be fair, I didn’t see their performances on Wednesday.) I am rooting for Casey and James.
Another thing that was really obvious was the lack of genuine camaraderie among the women. You could see it absolutely broke those boys’ hearts when their buddies didn’t make the cut. Whereas the girls were mostly just a bunch of cookie-cutter divas going through the motions. Even my husband noticed the lack of genuine warmth.
The only one I really like is Naima, because she’s got an interesting style.
Scotty wasn’t so sweet when Jaycee (the fat little fifteen-year-old) got ditched late on Group Night, and was wandering around trying to find a group that would take him. Maybe it was just the way it was edited together, but it was very heartwrenching to see this little kid getting turned away everywhere. That’s one reason I’d have liked to see Brett stay. He may have been an annoying little fruitcake, but he wouldn’t leave a fellow social reject out in the cold.
It looked to me like Scotty started to backpedal like mad when he noticed Doucheglasses getting called on his jerkishness.
I was impressed that he managed to rein himself in somewhat for his live performance - maybe a singing coach told him to not oversing every single note in every single song. And I totally agree with your impression - when you look up “Drama Queen” in the dictionary, it has Jacob’s picture.
I keep hearing him singing “I Do” by Paul Brandt. I have nothing against Paul Brandt (I even like some of his songs, and he is a local boy), but does country music need another Paul Brandt?
That was what I saw, too. I don’t know if he truly felt bad or not, but he sure as hell didn’t say anything until people were getting called on acting like assholes.
For various reasons, I didn’t get a chance to see any of the show this week, and I’m curious about a few people. Unfortunately, I can’t remember any names yet, but the ones I’m curious about are the bass player who looks like Seth Rogan, Douche Glasses, and Teenage Geddy Lee (the skinny longhaired kid who took in Jacee after he got mean girled).
Can someone tell me how they fared (I’m hoping Douche Glasses got dumped and the other two made it)? Thanks.
Casey (Seth Rogan lookalike) is in… after a cool rendition of I put a spell on you.
Clint (douchglasses) is out… even after a decent performance, but I’m not sorry to see him go.
Brett (Teenage Geddy Lee) is also out… after a pretty flameless version of Light my fire. He does, however, have a pretty bright future in hair product commercials.