Chris is going to have a tough time finding a song from the 2000s that was covered in the mid 90s by a grunge band.
…Unless he is allowed to do These Boots… I believe there was a hard rock version of that out in the early 90s. Anyone know what I’m talking about?
Do you really think, especially judging from his reaction, that Simon was familiar with the hidden track on a Live album? I don’t care how “likely” you call it, I think it’s pretty clear that he was not. Not every individual “in the business” is “likely” to be intimately familiar with every hidden track on every “alternative” album of the last 20 years.
Seriously, don’t make me smack you one. 
If you actually lived in the 21st century, then you’d surely know that just a matter of a few weeks ago, Chris sang a song by Seether and Amy Lee, which was popular oh, last year. And it wasn’t a cover, either. So there.
I could see Chris doing some Green Day, possibly “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” 'Cuz some mid-'90s bands actually did make it out of the '90s and continue to make original music, you know. But if he sings Nickelback, I’m going to puke.
The theme next week will make it Chris’s show entirely. Almost everyone else will lose a point or two. Lisa needs a chance to ignore the judges’ BAD advice and go back to doing a big, mature song, which will be difficult with this theme, so I say she’s next to go.
Anyone else hear the rumors that producers were talking about replacing Paula with Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson? That is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week. Shows how much they value Paula’s expertise, if they think she can be replaced by Jessica Simpson. In fact, that’s my new insult: “*You *could be replaced by Jessica Simpson.”
Ooh! My new sig!
Belated review:
Mandisa–Way to start! That performance was better than all last week.
Bucky–DULL.
Paris–WOW. WOW. I wanted her out a couple of weeks ago, but WOW. 10 of 10.
Chris–Nice rendition, Chris. Where’d you kife it from? 'Cos, I know you’re not J.D. Fortune.
Katharine (Lady Constantine)–I’m not feeling the McPheever this week. What is this ridiculous ancient burlesque music?
Taylor–OK.
Lisa–Um, well, she gets votes for being more capable than Bucky & Ace. Off week?
Covais–More color than usual with the whispery stuff.
Elliott–see Lisa.
Kellie–what. an. idiot.
Ace–Wow, he completely cocked up the tune & managed to sound really sexy at the same time. Weird.
Huh. Good call. I thought Bucky, Lisa, & Elliott would be bottom 3.
As for the results show… Man, Bobby Bennett. Do we have a laugh smiley?
And… Lisa’s face when she was told she wasn’t in the bottom 2: Was that just surprise, or was Lisa disappointed not to be sent home?
Wo’ happen? I missed all but the last 5 minutes due to Lost being on…
::: TWEEET ! ::: Moderator bloweth whistle, and hurls bucket of water at Biggirl and yellowval
OK, look, I’ll say it yet again: Personal insults are not permitted in this forum. You may insult the actors/contestants in the show all you want, you may insult the show itself, but you may not insult each other. People are entitled to hold different opinions about this kinda crap, that’s what discussion and Cafe Society are all about. Holding a different opinion doesn’t make them wrong, nor does it mean they have “bug up their ass” nor does it mean they are “combative” or live in some other century. So I’m reading the Riot Act, and I trust everyone else is paying attention.
When you see misbehavior in this forum, your proper reponse is to hit the REPORT BAD POST button, the little exclamation point (!) in the triangle in the upper left corner. That way, the Moderator will come in and yell at the person misbehaving. When you engage in the name-calling, then the Moderator comes in and catches YOU.
In short, I don’t know and I don’t care where this started, and I don’t have the time to go chasing along the thread to find out. I’m not interested in justice, I’m interested in quiet.
So, I’m calling you on it and it’s ending NOW.
Liberal or anyone else is perfectly free to call a contestant any name he wants, and others are free to challenge that statement. That’s fine. However, you are not free to call other posters by names, nor to impute motives to them.
We all clear on this?
Megadeth.
Nope, not exactly. Where did I call anyone a name?
Yep. Also, that was the week that storms in the Midwest kept a lot of us from seeing her performance. 
Kellie said, “What’s a ballsy?” She waited 24 hours to say, “What’s a ballsy?” presumably because she thought it would be cute to say on the air. Aargh. OK, I now want her to go ahead of Bucky. Because she insists on inappropriate & unnecessary comments that make her look like an idiot. All the time. I suspect she thinks it’s a competition to look like the dumbest, so she has to work hard to outdo “thoughtful stare” Ace & “nicotine & whisky have stained my brain” Bucky.
Oh, yeah. Kevin’s gone much earlier than I thought he would be.
:Happy Dance: :Happy Dance:
Oh. “She” at the beginning of the last post refers to Jennifer Hudson, 2 yrs ago.
Make that a shake-my-head-slowly-while-I-quietly-tear-up-from-laughter smiley.
For those who missed it, while Barry Manilow was singing, Bobby (goofy lounge guy voted off the first week of semifinals) was visibly standing in the audience, swaying & singing (mouthing?) along. Then somebody let him up on stage. I think he hugged Manilow. Wild stuff.
Oh! my new sig!
Green Day would be nice, but Audioslave would be better. “I Am The Highway,” I am thinking. It would be just like last season, when Bo sang a capella and naked.
I would be happier if the judges didn’t give him a total tonguebath, gushing about how is so different from the other contestants because he actually takes a song and interprets it in his own way and is original. Don’t get me wrong, I like Chris, but the judges shouldn’t pretend he’s not doing just as much of a karaoke version as the rest of the contestants.
Exactly. No one else is coasting such a wave of praise for being “original” when he’s about the least original one of the bunch.
. . .plus he bleats like a goat! Although it seems only me and Shayna can hear it.
But he’s just so pretty. And he’s karaoking great songs. And he’s pretty.