Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s driving me frickin’ nuts, too.
Camile, JPL, and John Stevens should just leave now. As much as I like John, I just can’t take him anymore.
Though as much as I’d like to see any of those three go, Diana can go anytime, too, as far as I’m concerned.
One more observation about John S. before he goes home :(: Has anyone else noticed how he never has any reponse to the judges’ comments besides a barely audible “okay”? He just stands there with his mouth buttoned up, nods and says “okay”.
Randy: “That was…just a’ight, dawg.”
“[nod]okay…”
Paula: “That could have been a lot better.”
“[nod]okay…”
Simon: “That was abysmal.”
“[nod]okay…”
Ryan: “John, your shoes are on fire! I’M on fire! Your MOM’S on fire!”
“[nod]okay…”
Maybe he’s just afraid of saying the wrong thing. Like, “'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
It’s because he has the personality of a wet sponge.
Sir (or Ma’am): You insult the sponge!
Because instead of shooting his mouth like a ‘diva’, he’s got some class and respect.
Bernie wrote the song because of a rather pathetic but endearing attempt by Elton to kill himself. This was just after Elton and Renate Blauel divorced. Bernie came into the kitchen and found Elton knelt over on the floor with his head in the oven and the gas on — and every window in the kitchen wide open with curtains flapping in the breeze! 
Elton, quite the drama queen, made a big deal out of Bernie’s intervention while Bernie found the whole thing hillarious. Elton decided that the rescue was metaphorical of his involvement with Renate. Bernie, hopelessly sentimental, could see that the whole thing meant a lot to his friend, and so he wrote the lyric that he believed was felt in Elton’s heart.
That’s a great story, and one I’ve never heard. Thanks!
Like, say, Fantasia?
To re-write Rilchiam’s dialog for Fantasia, it would be something like:
Randy: That was amazin’!
Fantasia: Whoo!
Paula: I love you!
Fantasia: Yeah!
Simon: You could’ve done better.
Fantasia: Talk to the hand.
You’ve got the story a bit twisted, Libertarian. That song came out in 1975, a full decade before Elton married Renate. It references an earlier situation, one that happened in the late 60’s, when Elton was unhappy with his career and the fact that he was engaged to a woman he didn’t love. Bernie pulled his buddy’s head out of the oven, convinced him not to marry the girl, and wrote a song about it several years later.
You’re right, Girl. Over the years, I did confuse her with Renate. I rewatched the Two Rooms video in which Elton and Bernie both discussed this, and the part about Bernie finding it hillarious and Elton attaching deep significance to it, and the reason he wrote the song, still stand.
Well, this week was sucktacular.
Both Johns were painful, but even worse was watching that lanky redhead try to dance. Terrrible.
Camille. I don’t even have the words to describe how painful that was.
Jasmine made my ears bleed and I’m sick to death of that flower. Yes, we know you’re from Hawaii, we get it. She was even wearing it in rehearsal with Elton.
Diana needs to fire her wardrobe advisor. Her singing was ok, but I can’t stand the “Come on, come on’s” and the audience kissassery.
I love Fantasia, attitude or no. She’s so professional sounding compared to most of the group and she has personality, which most of them are sorely lacking.
Jennifer and LaToya–both good, but I get tired of the whole gospel sound. And I’m not a fan of “Circle of Life,” but I will admit she did a great job on it.
George sounded awesome, but he needs to find some new dance moves. The bouncy thing is kinda silly with certain songs.
Top 3:
Fantasia
George
Jennifer
Bottom:
Camille
John redhead
John penboy
Last Night –
Good –
George – Almost where Ruben was last year. Kind of the annointed one. People expect him to be good, and he is.
Latoya
Jennifer – Her best so far. But will her “fans” pick up the phone
Fantasia
SoS0 –
Jasmine
Diana
Bad –
Jon Peter – “Rocket Man” sung in the style of “The Girl from Ipanema” Awful.
Jon Stevens – A for effort. Not as bad as last week.
Camille – What hasn’t been said. I do think she has a certain charisma about her though. She should be long gone, but I wouldn’t be suprised if she lasts a few more weeks.
It should be interesting tonight. There seems to be two audiences for the show. One that wants to watch young performers sing 30 year old songs, and another who pick up the phone and vote.
kevja’s overall
I know that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover (although, to quote Mark Twain, it saves one hell of a lot of time), but Diana could walk unnoticed into any Nick Lachey Fangirl Convention and seems to personify the “Oh-mi-god-did-you-see-what-Britney-wore-to-the-Grammies!” vanilla princess stereotype, plus she’s a teenager. For all those reasons, her cut of “I’m Still Standing” just had all the soul and feeling of a permed and painted four year old trying to win the plastic crown of Little Miss Biloxi by singing “What I did for Love”. Just turr’ble.
John S., my lad- there’s a difference between “taking a risk” and “going on a suicide mission”. You didn’t jump into the rapids and try to swim, you jumped into the piranha tank wearing a luncheon meat thong, then to make it worse you looked like you were going to cry in the Trial Before Simon (who is fffaaaarr easier on you than he is on others).
John Peter- maybe you’re fan base will allow him to get the lead if Hobbits: the Musical ever opens on Broadway, but he hasn’t had anything memorable in weeks. Toast.
If LaToya makes “Bottom Three” tonight then it’s proof the Klan is doing something to phone lines.
I don’t agree with IndyGrrl’s premise that sass-back = personality. Fantasia has “personality” all right – an annoying one. Since when was personality measured in quantity anyway?
I agree wholeheartedly. I’d rather see class than sass anyday and she has no class.
I just heard a couple “news” items on Extra.
This division into ‘groups’ is wierd.
It looks like Group B will be the bottom 3, but has Fantasia… interesting. Or is Group A at the bottom? VERY cool that they are telling us who got the HIGHEST votes… though I bet it is Group C, with George Huff, but it also has Jennifer, who has been in the bottom 3 a few times… so strange
[spoiler]Looks like Jennifer got some love… with Huff and Latoya. HOLY CRAP, John S, JPL are safe. Bottom three:
Jasmine
Camille
Diana
PLEASE kick Camille out![/spoiler]
I don’t think Camille has even attempted a weak smile tonight, even when the crowd applauded her. I think she wants to go home at this point.
YEAAAAAAAH! Camille is gone! I won’t have to fight the urge to rip the ears out of my head every Tuesday!
They never did say who the top group was… we just assume it was LaToya, Jennifer, and George, even though two of those three were in the bottom three previously and none of the people in group B have been in the bottom three. Ryan told them they were safe, but he did not say they were the top group. Anyway, (a) so much for the Hawaiian voting bloc, and (b) THANK GOD CAMILLE IS OFF THE SHOW! I’m surprised with all the recommendations from the judges nobody told her to lose the sweatband.