Shouldn’t someone have told The Most Beautiful Girl In the World that she had a big wad of toilet paper stuck to her skirt?
Heh - when I saw her standing up, I said to my husband that she needs a trim. 
My husband hated Casey’s performance, but I loved it.
Jacob was ridiculous as usual. Please vote him off, Americans. Please. I’m begging you.
I finally, FINALLY figured out why I can’t stand Scotty (I mean besides the smarm, weird facial expressions, and that obnoxious thing he does with the mic… oh, and his 8 Mile hand waving last week; “Flava” my ass, J-Lo): he sounds like a parody of a really shitty country song.
Like this: team amercia - freedom is not free.wmv - YouTube
Plus the judges never, EVER call him out for sounding exactly the same week after week after week but Pia had to try something other than a ballad (and look how that worked out). Steven Tyler’s eternal love for everybody is pissing me off too, while I’m here bitching anyway…
- James
- Jacob
- Casey
- Stefano
- Lauren
- Haley (not her best, but she’s hot)
- Scotty
- Paul (he must go!)
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[li]James - he blew everyone out of the water[/li][li]Casey - amazing, but I think most of the audience won’t get it[/li][li]Stefano - didn’t like the song but I was reminded what a great voice he has[/li][li]Lauren - again didn’t care for the song but the girl can sing[/li][li]Scotty - boring but competent[/li][li][del]Madea[/del] Jacob - amazing voice for sure but I find him slightly creepy[/li][li]Haley - meh. She is pretty tho.[/li][li]Paul - oh please just go home honey[/li][/ol]
My attention wavers in and out during this show, I must have missed it. Can anyone give me the gist?
I was only semi-paying attention, but basically the producers said they didn’t like the song he picked, that it needed a hook. But James stood his ground, and said that of course a heavy metal song is going to sound weird played on a piano, and you can’t tell if it’s going to be a hit simply by listening to it that way. Then one of the producers (the white guy, can’t recall his name) got all smarmy and said he’s been able to tell if a song’s going to be a hit just by listening to someone hum it.
JugEars Durbin has an armadillo in his trousers. And some sort of scabrous mammal pelt on his head.
Haley can blow. Love love love her. Sadly her movement was generally awkward this week and the song choice was ill-advised. It would seem Debbie Harry is the unparagoned nonpareil where Call Me is concerned, but Haley gave it a yeoman attempt.
Stefano’s earnestness has become cloying. He ought to borrow some of Haley’s whatevs attitude.
Cross my Heart is special for me, one of my wedding songs. Scotty did a preternatural great job.
Fusk Lusk.
My thoughts on last night’s performances:
- Paul - I usually don’t like him, but something about this one just clicked for me. I can see where he might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I thought he did a good job.
- Lauren - I usually like her, but this one was just kinda flat and dull.
- Scotty - He’s going to have a great career, for such a young guy he’s got that popular country singing style down, but I won’t miss him.
- Haley - She gorgeous and her voice is great. I really want to like her, but I feel like she needs to mature a little and figure out where she wants to go before she’s going to be ready for the big time.
- Jacob - Please, send this guy home. He’s going to be good on Broadway or wherever he ends up, but I can’t listen to him anymore.
- Stefano - Ditto
- Casey - I think he nailed this. It probably won’t click with the teens who are AI’s biggest voting block, but he’s got talent.
- James - He totally rocked it. Aside from some of the extra-cheese rocker posing he was doing with the guitarist, best overall performance of the night.
NO! You can’t make me. (shudder)
Thanks, joe!
I like Paul, but this wasn’t his song. He is much better on the less mainstream stuff. While I am bucking the trend, let me say I found James’ song painful to listen to. Know how you hate country? That’s how I hate heavy metal.
That wasn’t really even metal. It was Sammy Hagar.
When he did Judas Priest - THAT was metal.
Tonight we’ll see if America is ready for a quirky song with bass cello jazz along side.
I’m guessing they are not. I hope I’m wrong, the Casey reeeeeeaaaaaaalllly is testing what America will vote for.
I didn’t particularly like any of the performances from last night. Did everyone decide that now that the best singer is gone, they can all start phoning it in?!?
I didn’t dig Casey at all, Scotty sounded very pitchy during the choruses (consistently flat), Paul was unremarkable, both of the girls and Stefano were just ok. Jacob sucks.
James was the only one I dug even a little bit, and I found him standing there while Zak Wylde soloed to be a bit stupid – James does know that the voters are voting on his performance and not the guitarist’s, right?
Watched the love fest, er, competition.
Paul - he seems like a nice kid, but his quirkiness wore thin three songs ago. It was ironic that he folksied up a song that complained about pop ruining rock. What’s next? A punk rock waltz?
Lauren - Love her, but this wasn’t her best performance.
Haley - Um, no. Terrible. She’s cute, though!
Stefano - I fast forwarded past him.
James - energetic.
Casey - cool and quirky. Thought the judges were a bit too effusive with their praise.
Jacob - love this song. He changed it enough to make it interesting. Glad he didn’t do another Luther number. His career path is obviously Broadway, though, because he emotes like he’s trying to pull in the woman in the last row of the balcony.
Scotty - thoroughly professional, but he needs to work on the way he delivers the material. It’s distracting. It’d work if he was trying to sing “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” to a bunch of pre-schoolers. He’s not.
And I just love how three contestants told Jimmy I (whoever he is) to take a hike: Casey, James, and Scotty. (Which leads me to wonder how Casey James is doing. I lurved him.)
Bottom 3: Haley, Stefano, and Paul. Going home: Stefano.
Oh, oh, oh, and I love how Jimmy I chastised Jacob for preaching to the voters with the whole “Man in the Mirror” comment. Jacob was definitely more humble this week!
The first 3 singers were boring except for Paul’s costume.
They can just dump them plus the other 3 and keep Scotty and James.
Anybody catch Tyler’s comment about how he loved somebody’s “crescendos and innuendos” ? 
I predict Scotty for the win.
James (catalyzed I’m sure by the presence of Steven Tyler): The best thing to happen to Idol ever. He’s opened the door to a huge catalog of great music that has been poopooed by the establishment producers. Judas Priest, the Red Rocker, Hulkamaniacs, lewd overstuffed spandex packages…it’s the sweet smell of Heavy Metal in the room, lads, Cum on Feel the Noize! \m/ \m/
(the preceding was brought to you by my 16 year-old self who I thought I’d long stowed away with my peechees, torn jeans, and bandannas)