Barry Gibb is tonight’s mentor.
For some reason I’m hearing fractured renditions of Saturday Night Fever.
I can see Blake putting his own spin on “Jive Talking”. For the girls? I honestly don’t know.
I’m just hoping nobody’s going to sing “Massachusetts”…
One thing’s for sure. Tomorrow night’s group song will be “Stayin’ Alive”.
LOL!!!
I’m just hoping that if anyone does anything from Saturday Night Fever, they’ll enunciate properly. I’m still having trouble deciphering lyrics :dubious:
Yay! Looks like they finally ran out of crappy theme ideas!
Actually, the kids may stink up the Bee Gees’ songs, but at least the songs didn’t stink to start off with…
“…have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?”
sorry
Seacrest said something about it being “Boogie Songs”, so I’m not sure it’s strictly Bee Gees night (they did that one during Season Two with Robin Gibb). I’m guessing there will be a few Bee Gees songs with some other disco tunes thrown in.
And someone will, invariably, sing Donna Summer. Sigh. I’m not a fan.
I’d love to see what Blake does with this.
Same here. I’m ultimately a Melinda fan but I do find myself most interested in Blake’s performances. Assuming he really does have his own ideas and it’s not just that computer’s doing.
Is that your post or was it just the computer’s doing?
I’m having trouble picturing both Melinda and LaKisha doing anything but Donna Summer.
I had the thought and happened to type it into the computer. The computer did not invent the pattern for me. But I did mean to put a smilie because I don’t feel that strongly about it.
Donna Summer rules, but they can also cover Gloria Gaynor, The Three Degrees, Candi Staton, Chaka Khan, Thelma Houston, The Weather Girls, Carol Douglas, Shannon (“Let The Music Play”), A Taste of Honey, and Patti LaBelle to name a few
And if they’re really brave the can take on Aretha Franklin or Tina Turner.
Blake Lewis
* “You Should Be Dancing” - Beat-box style
* “This is Where I Came In”
Jordin Sparks
* “To Love Somebody” - Nigel convinced Barry to let her have it (Barry is performing it tomorrow)
* “Woman in Love”
Melinda Doolittle (two of the following)
* “Love You Inside” - Melinda thinks the lyrics might be a little too racy–her pastor will be in the audience tonight.
* “I Just Want to Be Your Everything”
* “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”
Lakisha Jones
* “Stayin’ Alive”
* “Run to Me”
Ford Commercial: “You Really Got Me” - A take off on the Beatles’ movie A Hard Day’s Night, with fans chasing after the Idols.
Group Number: “How Deep is Your Love” with beat boxing.
A pre-recorded performance from Pink will be featured on tomorrow’s results show.
True, true. I completely forgot about Shannon :smack:
The bitchy part of me hopes LaKisha will take on either Aretha or Tina and will ultimately fall flat on her face. It’s not that she couldn’t sing either because she’s certainly got the pipes – I just would hate to see their work tarnished.
Can you tell I’m not a LaKisha fan? looks around
I stand happily corrected! Love the Bee Gees. Had a poster of Barry Gibb (the hot, skinny coked-up 70s version) hanging over my bed when I was a teenybopper. When I was 12 I was in the 10th row at the Pontiac Silverdome for their concert. Andy Gibb came out and sang “You Should Be Dancin’” with his brothers and I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.
Wasn’t Andy the coke-head?
Damn. Melinda was just ok. Technically, she was on, but could she have chosen a shittier song? BOOOOORRRRRINNNNNGGGGG. I hope she didn’t just fuck herself.
Okay, some weird thoughts before the singing starts:
Did anyone notice the bald guy that was looking up all moony faced at Seacrest during the intro?
Did I see Judge judy in the audience?
And finally, Mr. Gee sure looks a LOT different since the last tim I saw him (granted, that was probably over ten years ago). I thought I’d be unable to get Jimmy Fallon’s impersonation of him out of my head, but now, after hearing him speak, all I can think about is Darryl Hammond’s Sean Connery on Celebrity Jeapardy.
Now, let the jive talkin’ begin. . . .
What did Melinda sing?
Disco sucks in general, so I hope she did a ballad from the sixties.
Beat-boxin’ is just as relevant a musical talent as air guitar, AFAIAC.
You did invite jive talkin’! 
So far I’m unimpressed with tonight’s song choices. Lakisha and Melinda’s first choices were pretty ho-hum, and I’m in complete agreement with Simon and Randy’s assessment of Blake’s performance. Other than the bridge area, the beatboxing didn’t really work for him and made the song come across as pretty campy…which sucks cause I love him for his originality (his Bon Jovi remix last week was actually really good to me).
Here’s hoping Jordin wows us…