Yeah, I heard something like that, but I couldn’t tell exactly what he was saying. So is that supposed to imply that they don’t actually make their own song choices?
Sarver was doing mushmouth countrified rapping, like Chuck D on Paxil.
I’ve never liked Allison, but she sounded like she was strangling tonight.
Kris – already forgotten.
I thought Lil was better than most people seem to, but I don’t know the original song.
Adam was fantastic. But let’s pray that someone fixes his hair.
What Paula was struggling to articulate in a nice way is that Scott’s stage presence is so wispy that the piano overwhelms him.
Alexis: Uninspired. Looked like she was in a costume from a high school play. Not bad, but probably going home.
Danny is so lacking in sincerity that I’m starting to see Joe Piscopo when he sings.
Anoop: That song has been done better by the Pet Shop Boys. Not bad, but not long for the show.
Megan: Again, I liked her more than most here, but this was essentially another novelty song. Before too long she’ll be beatboxing.
Matt: Very good job with whatever immediately forgettable song he sang.
Actually, I just listened back and he said, “I’ve also lost a lot of hat picks, by the way” (in picking songs).
I take that to mean that if he another contestant choose the same song, then they resort to a hat pick to see who gets it. Not really a compelling argument since there isn’t just one great song suited for your voice each week.
My God, I think we can still feel Cash rolling on his grave. I thought Lambert was absolutely terrible.
Well. Anoop is still alive (I hope).
I found Adam’s ‘rendition’ to be squicky. Did someone slip him acid before he performed?
Danny-obnoxious, yep.
Megan-I thought it sucked horribly, as if two different singers were singing it at the same time!
Randy Travis looked like he was wearing clip-on teeth.
My favorites tonight were Kris, Matt, and Anoop.
Adam, Anoop, Allison, and Matt were memorable, which is more than I can say for the rest. And Megan was just horrible. Even without the flu, she would have sucked. She was over-enunciating everything and her pitch was all over the place. Were the judges wearing rose-colored hearing aids?
Last season I think I started caring right around Cook’s “Billie Jean” week (apparently other people sang too, but who remembers?). This might be the week for me. Not that I have a clear favorite to win, but I was happily surprised to enjoy enough performances that I might even look forward to next week.
My list:
Teh Roxxorz:
Kris - Technically the best, IMO, but the song amplified his boring qualities. By the end of the show I doubt anyone remembered to vote for him.
Allison - She is fast becoming my favorite. There was nothing wrong with this.
Anoop - A very nice job but he needs to start showing some star quality. If he stops dressing like a college dude he might start looking like a serious contender.
Adam - I kind of hate myself for this, but I probably enjoyed this performance the most. From the arrangement to the costume to the hair to the over-the-top creepy/sexy performance, it was so horrible it became great. That look of sheer horror on the face of the woman with Randy Travis (his wife? mother?) was priceless. If that’s what an Adam Lambert win would do to the middle-America Idol viewer, I will pay cash money for a hundred concert tickets. If TPTB thought they were preserving the integrity of the competition and keeping away the gay by cutting Norman Gentle, the joke’s on them, and the joke is named Adam Lambert. But besides all that, he can do astonishing things with his voice.
(Yawn):
Matt - I tried, but I simply could not pay attention to him. He’s very comfortable behind the piano, but I find him so uninteresting.
Scott - Meh.
**Lil **- I can understand her wanting to prove some versatility by singing the song well instead of twisting it into some R&B nonsense or picking a “gimmie” song (I could have slapped Simon for suggesting “I Will Always Love You” - Gah!), but there was no personality in that performance whatsoever. I did like her yelling at Simon about pronouncing her name correctly.
(Is anyone else thinking Simon is being a real shit this year? And that Paula has had some of the best comments? I are in Bizarro World!)
Actually bad:
Alexis - I hated her take on Jolene. I like her but this was wrong on so many levels.
Danny - Hate the jacket, hate the song, hate the glasses, hate him. And this time he actually sucked at singing too.
Megan - I’m glad she was too sick to defend her suckitude by saying she “had fun!” Did anyone notice she had her back to the camera in the end-of-show lineup? I thought maybe she puked right on stage, but maybe she was just coughing. She really did look sick, poor kid, but that ain’t no reason for her to stay. Can we vote two off this week also?
Michael - Horribly outclassed. Go home!
I went back and read the thread, and…
Dio, you crack me up!
I took that to mean X number of people have to sing a slow song, X number of people have to do Carrie Underwood (to promote the label), etc. He sounded rather bitter when he said it, as though he was being forced to sing something he didn’t want to. If he had to draw straws with someone to decide who got to do a particular song, I seriously doubt he would have used the term “hat pick”.
I guess I just don’t know anything about music, because I thought Adam sucked donkey balls. Simon was right- it was self-indulgent crap. He can sing, but that performance was a big steaming pile of turd.
Megan needs to go away. She is completely outclassed by just about everyone on this show. She pronounces the lyrics to every song as if she’s never spoken the English language before and she learned the words phonetically. She can’t sustain a note to save her life. She should go home and sing lullabyes to her kid.
Lil- her weakest performance yet; too bad b/c she’s a very talented singer.
Danny- the first half of that was abysmal. The second half was better, but only because that’s the only type of singing he can do. He’s Donny “No Soul” Simpson.
Kris- I didn’t realize that was a Garth Brooks song; I’ve heard Billy Joel do it. It was OK.
Alexis continues to be bland and forgettable. I don’t get the love for her.
Sarver- again, Simon got it right- it was unintelligible. G’night, thanks for playing.
Matt’s a good singer but so bland it hurts.
Scott- his blandness hurts even worse than Matt’s.
Allison- great; unfortunately this 16-year old girl has the facial features of a 40-year old.
Anoop- way to redeem yourself. You won’t win, but you have a great name- Anoop Desai.
No, there really is a hat pick. Every week the contestants are given a list of songs that fit the theme and that are cleared to use. They each get to choose the songs they want, but in the case of very popular or particularly good songs (ie. Jolene), more than one contestant wants to sing it, so they have to do a “hat pick” - literally drawing the song out of a hat - to determine who gets it. Both Davids last year mentioned this procedure in interviews, as I recall. And Brooke White won “Jolene” in a hat-pick.
Of course, maybe they just told Scott he lost the hat pick. And I’m off to hell! See ya!
It’s not a Garth Brooks song. Bob Dylan wrote it and it’s been covered by Brooks, Joel and a bunch of others. It irks me that nobody pointed this out, but oh well.
Props to Anoop last night. He really brought it. But Adam and Megan are both awful and I can’t wait until they’re off my screen.
I thought Adam was awesome.
I’d send Scott or Michael Sarver home tonight. Scott’s problem is that Matt appears to be as good a piano player, and a much better singer.
This is a more talented top 10 than we’ve seen in a while. And I like that they all seem to have their own artistic ‘voice’. It’ll be an interesting season.
According to Dialidol:
Alexis, Allsion and Megan are the bottom three with Alexis going home.
Gokey has been number one in the voting every week. He’ll win easy. I was reading an article yesterday about how he’s getting this huge Christian vote, and there are all these people saying they would never vote for a non-Christian over a Christian, and they especially won’t vote for a homosexual over a Christian (oh, and Gokey thinks Jesus wants him to win).
So it’s turned into this whole political thing now. The fundies think that Danny Vs. Adam is God against Satan. It’s all so nauseating.
The last thing I need is another person to hate this season, but Jesus Take the Wheel was just too damn much. Even my wife laughed when she heard the song choice.
I guess if that’s true, it’ll contradict the claim that the top 4 are already picked.
Not quite. They can still use their save card – or just lie about the results. Plus they have to shuffle it now anyway, since the cat is out of the bag.
Thank you! I’ve been trying to figure out what was wrong with her, and you nailed it.
And I hated her dress. Boobs in slings – very distracting.
I think Adam should have done I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry. That’s a song he could sex up without alienating country music fans.
I think Kris will get the David Archuleta votes.
First: why do they bother having a Country Night, or Grand Ole Opry night, if everybody hates country and avoids it like the plague? I was wondering where all the honky-tonk boot scoot boogies were…only Matt Sarver came through. Everybody else went straight for the pop ballads (except Adam, of course. His performance made me think of the old “Stairway to Gilligan’s Island” mash-up. Ring of Kashmir, perhaps. I’m assuming there was nothing original about that arrangement, like David Cook’s startlingly innovative arrangement of Billie Jean.)
The crystallization of this why-bother-with-country attitude came from Simon’s suggestion that somebody sing “I Will Always Love You”. Right. Because on Grand Ole Opry night, what everybody wants to hear is yet another Whitney Wannabe. :rolleyes:
Speaking of Adam: I hate everything about him except his actual performance. He’s all hair and clothes and attitude, but I kinda like the way he sings.