I was only going to post about how good Jordin must really be when I can be that impressed with a performance of a song I hate…
but then I noticed that VoteForTheWorst has begun calling their new pick: Nos-Phil-atu, and had to share.
And they used this picture to announce their new choice
W h y a r e t h e y s i n g i n g s o s l o w ! ! !
I will not complain if Jordin or Blake wins, but Melinda is still the best thing that has EVER happened to AI.
Chris SUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD. What kind of koolaid did he serve the judges before he went on stage?
Blake played it safe; no emotion, despite the apparently drunk judges’ mischaracterization of his performance. I wish he’d given the song some plaintiveness or something.
Phil needs to get hit by a truck. A big truck.
Lakisha, great voice, but not much presence. She’s lost among the top three.
Phil needs to go next, then Chris. Then Lakisha. Then Blake. Then Jordin, and Melinda wins.
Phil blew chunks.
Chris needs to be bitch-slapped into the next millennium.
LaKisha…feh.
Blake did as good as he could do with a boring song.
Jordin started weak and pulled it together at the finish. But I hate that song.
Melinda did well, as usual. And no “surprise face” this time! WooHOO!
Inspirational music night was a big snore-fest.
An unwatchable episode.
Who the hell really gives a shit if Idol doesn’t “give back”.
Although, I thought “Imagine there’s no religion” went nicely with some of the Christian bullshit. Thank god there was a decent basketball game to flip too. Let’s hope this is the last time they pull this crap.
Well, in my defense, if I may: yesterday was my anniversary, and we celebrated by having Hamburger Helper for supper, with a chaser of some kind of champagne that we found in our small emergency backup dorm-sized fridge. Neither of us knew where it came from or how long it had been in there, so it is entirely possible that I was a whole different kind of drunk last night. Certainly I have a headache this morning. That’ll teach me.
I kind of think he’s cute, but mostly untalented. I’d like to keep him for a pet, and have my husband teach him how to shave. Does that count for anything? Last night I voted, but I voted for everyone once, and Chris twice. So it’s not like I’m all that invested.
I dunno…I thought it was good that the most popular and vapid show on television is forkin’ over some cash to people who have more to worry about than whether or not LaKisha’s designer is Omar the Tent Maker. Good on 'em. Sure the music was horrendous, but something good came out of it. I was more than annoyed with Simon’s supposed unawareness of the situation in Africa or the existence of food pantries in the US. Puh-leeeeze. Don’t charities hit up the rich stars on a daily basis? Is his ivory tower so high that he’s never seen homeless people?
Chris: I didn’t hate it, but I hate him because he thinks “nasally” is a style of singing.
Melinda: I didn’t know (or like) the song, but she nailed it. If they didn’t tell us that was a Faith Hill song, I never would have pegged that as a country song. She made it sound R&B.
Blake:
Exactly what I thought.
LaKisha: I hate Fantasia, but she outsings Lakisha on this song. I can’t believe how far she’s fallen since that goosebump-causing performance from the first week.
Phil: I looked away from the TV when he sang, so I could be more objective, but I kept picturing him anyway. And he really does have an odd sound to his voice.
Jordin: My first thought when Ryan said what song she was singing was, “Oh God, not this Jerry Lewis, crying at the end of the telethon song!” But she was outstanding. There was a bad note in there, I think, but she’s now my favorite to win.
[sub]I do kinda miss Sanjaya.[/sub]
I loved that Blake chose such a good song and didn’t flinch from “imagine no religion” and sang it simply. I really like him. However, last night I had to face up to the fact that the only person who deserves to win this thing is Jordin.
Please let it be Chris, Phil, or Lakisha going home tonight!
Any one of these would be a win for the viewers. If there’s a 3-way tie can they *all * go home? PLEASE?
Because she doesn’t want to be there. She’s shown absolutely no sincere interest or fire in her belly since before they were down to the top 10. I think she’s calculated her likelihood of winning against the more realistic possibility that now that she’s had some good exposure, she’ll be able to concentrate on singing as her career choice and still be around to be a mom to her child, and she prefers the latter. I think she’s been doing what she can to get voted off for several weeks now short of blatantly screwing up her performances. C’mon, America. Let her go home where she wants to be.
I thought a lot of the love for Chris from the judges last night was to show a “we’re cool” after last week’s fiasco. Also, despite his relative lack of talent compared to some of the others, if he wins the Idol producers will basically be printing money- he’s good looking, appeals to the voting and merchandise-buying demographic, and can pump out exactly the kind of top-40 craptastic music that’s all over the radio these days. It’s not good, but it doesn’t have to be. The package is what sells, not the outstanding singing ability.
Phil is still the favorite to get ousted if only due to his track record, but after last week, I only peg it at a 1 out of 5 chance. Lakisha’s back in her element this week, so I bet she doesn’t make the bottom three.
The bottom three will be Phil, Chris and Blake. Either Phil or Blake is going home, I say, and Phil may have just enough afterburners from last week to save himself.
According to Dialidol, the bottom three are Blake, Melinda and Chris with Chris at the bottom. Interesting. Melinda could be a shock elimination tonight.
I got home a little late last night so I missed Chris and Melinda. It’s kind of sad that I missed the first 20 minutes and there were only two performances during that time. My rankings of the ones that I did hear:
CHRIS
Not a very good performance, I’m afraid. The vocals were off and sounded whiny. The sit-down to stand-up didn’t make sense. Most of the sustained notes were sharp. On the upside, however, he twisted his head in both directions.
MELINDA
Flawless. Her voice was like butter and chocolate. Her interpretation was grander than the original. The song was a muse who escaped from her lungs. She was the only one of the singers who sang power without shouting.
BLAKE
I don’t often say that a man’s voice is beautiful, but his voice was angelic. Just beautiful. Pure and pretty. I loved that he had the balls to sing Lennon’s signature piece, and I thought he sang it prefectly, despite Randy’s comment.
LAKISHA
I’m sorry to say so, but it’s time for her to go. She just doesn’t have a place anymore among the others. Her voice was powerful but unmanaged. I’m guessing that she chose her song in the face of advice to the contrary.
PHIL
Simon was right that Phil must decide now to commit to country. A country singer can sing non-country songs, and Phil must orient himself in that direction. His performance suffered from a lack of centering and from overly tempered expression.
JORDIN
Good but not great. If Lakisha was to be criticized for shouting, then so was Jordin. She tried too hard, and the loud notes were flat. The movements around the stage really made no sense. It was a grounded song, and she uprooted it.
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Regarding Lennon’s Imagine, it makes a statement against religion but not against faith which, as I see it, Jesus pretty much did throughout His whole ministry. Lennon’s philosophy on God was more complex than simple pro verses anti. As he wrote in In His Own Write: “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”
I thought Chris was good, I loved Melinda and I liked Jordin. I voted for all 3.
I’ve hated Chris for weeks, but he did E. C. proud.
Would anyone like to speculate on what Ryan meant when he said there would be a shock tonight? He said it at the end of last night’s show, so he didn’t mean the results of the vote.
She makes everything sound R&B. The woman could make a Gregorian chant sound like R&B. She could make thrash punk sound like R&B. She has no range.
That’s not how I look at range in that sense. Having no range, to me, means being unable to sing songs from different genres. If we guaged other great singers that way, we’d have to say that Elton John has no range. He has sung everything from rock ‘n’ roll to gutter blues and yet you can pick out Elton as a singer even with a song you’ve never heard before. His voice is unique. Same same for Melinda. She has a particular sound to which she can adapt almost anything. Same same for every artist, it seems to me.
Another quote from Lennon in the same vein: “Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
A sentiment that the author of Mark’s Gospel would have agreed with.
And of course, his infamous comment about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus was an expression of confusion and irritation rather than arrogance. The hero worship he got from his fans was something that made him very uncomfortable.
