Anyone notice the little girl was crying during Melinda’s song as well?
And for the record Phil looks more like Young Dr. Evil than Nosferatu to me.
I missed Jordin’s performance. It looks like that was the best one. I was thinking last week that Lakisha has a James Bond theme song type of voice. I’m glad she seems to agree.
It may be my television, but it seems like the sound quality is really poor. A lot of the voices seem to disappear into the music until they really start belting it. Anyone else have this experience?
We skimmed the show on TiVo last night, and I may not bother.
Who sucked badly: Chris R., Phil, Sanjaya, Gina, Blake
Who was boring: Lakisha, Chris S., Haley, Stephanie
The night belonged to Jordin, who really created an atmosphere with her performance, and Melinda, who started boring but wound up pretty good.
Someone mentioned that Peter Noone is of the song, “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”, and I immediately realized that Chris Sligh would have killed on that song. Seriously, the lisp, the fat nerdy vibe, along with his more than decent voice? Once the background singers kicked in, that little crying girl would have slit her wrists.
Melinda said she was out of her comfort zone? She got right back into it with that song choice. :rolleyes: I love her but she needs to change it up. Jordin did great with hers; I felt the emotion of that.
Chris Sligh needs to refrain from walking through the audience since I believe the effort of it took his breath away (I’m fat too and it would have me) and left his voice weaker.
My favorite thing was Sanjaya’s coat. You would think it was decorated with words or maybe random symbols, but no, it was the alphabet, in order. :smack: He was like an escapee from a children’s show.
Jordin brought the house down- far and away the best performance of the night.
Seacrest shouldn’t ever try to do that little funky chicken dance move, ever again. Please.
I think the girl started crying at the first note, and didn’t stop until they were running the credits two hours later. Our vote is also some Make-A-Wish tie-in.
I actually think that was Sanjaya’s best performance- he actually projected his voice, and didn’t timidly warble like he has every other week. It was if he said, you know what? screw this noise. I’m gonna go rock the house. It was still the worst performance of the night, but it was his best since his audition.
Haley- cutesy and sexy. I’m still trying to figure out how she restrained those puppies, what with all the bare back shots.
Melinda- you’re the overall best singer there, but song choice? You need help.
Am I the only one who thought Sanjaya’s performance was like a “fuck you” to the judges? But, if that was a sincere performance, then it was hilarious! And I really think that the judges being kind to him was their way of using reverse psychology on the VFTW lot.
That performance sucked a whole lot of ass.
I thought Jordin was the best of the night, followed by Melinda and then Blake. I’ve been a Blake fan since Hollywood week, but this week his vocals finally matched his performance ability. He really sang well. He has a unique voice.
As for Stephanie, I think her days are numbered. She’s a good singer, but she’s waaaaaay outsung by 3 other girls. As one of my co-workers said this morning, “Which one is Stephanie?”
I think Stephanie or Haley will go tonight, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see the lightbulb with eyebrows go.
And LCG was such a stereotype. Come on, she’s a plant! The pigtails, the braces? The only thing missing was her clutching a teddy bear. :rolleyes:
Well, that was interesting. My rankings for the evening:
Jordin - Really, really good. For someone so young to be able to put that much emotion into a song is amazing to me.
Blake - He did his thing and made the song sound hip and fresh. I think he could do a remake of it and sell quite a few records with that one.
Lakisha - Her song was just slightly less boring than Melinda’s, so I’m ranking her just above Melinda. Great singer, terrible song. She did look gorgeous in that dress.
Melinda - Again, great singer, but this time the song was atrocious. I don’t know how she squeaked this one in with the theme, but it was a huge mistake. She and Lakisha need to liven it up a little bit. This one totally made my mind wander.
Gina - I like her, and thought the song was pretty good except the one part that Simon was talking about where she totally went off the melody.
Chris S. - I liked him a lot this week. Probably because he didn’t butcher the song like last week. I thought the song choice was good and he sang it very well.
Chris R. - Pretty good. I’m glad he took Noone’s advice and didn’t run all over it. It was nice to hear that he actually can sing one note for more than a split second at a time.
Phil - I seem to be the only person alive who doesn’t hate him. Oh, well. I’m getting pretty tired of all the nasty comments on his looks. I liked his performance this week but thought he got drowned out by the background singers at times.
Haley - Not as bad as last week, but still bad.
Stephanie - Hate to do it, but I thought this was really bad. She sounded all over the place to me.
The little crying girl. WTF? You get to finally see AI and you cry during the whole fucking show?
Sanjaya - He’s dead to me after what he did to that song. I love that song and I hate him for pissing all over it. I hope he and the crying girl ride off into the sunset together.
My prediction for the bottom three: Sanjaya, Haley, Stephanie. Going home: Stephanie.
So, I heard on the radio this morning that Chris Sligh is getting slack from the folks over at Bob Jones University (his alma mater) that he didn’t sing a Christian song this week. How they expected him to do that with the theme, I’m not sure.
Ahh…my kinda music. They stretched the definition of British Invasion to the breaking point, by going up to 1967 and including show tunes. And they left a lot of good music on the table; somebody who could rock (Gina…anybody else?) coulda done The Animals “House of the Rising Sun” or “We Gotta Get Out of this Place”, or ballads like DC 5’s “Because”, or Chad & Jeremy’s “Summer Song”.
Anyhooo:
Chris R: I always hated this song (nice melody, but some really really insipid lyrics) and don’t like Chris R anyway.
Stephanie: something just off about her performance. I don’t think she ever got in synch with the tempo (whether by design or by mistake, I couldn’t tell), and it really threw me off.
Sanjaya: You Really Got Me doesn’t have much of a melody, but Sanjaya managed to lose it anyway.
Blake: did a note-for-note karaoke version of the original, and got props for “making it fresh and new”. Whatever. :rolleyes:
Lakisha: where did she dig *that *up – a Bond movie theme song that never charted? WTF – does she have the soundtrack album?
Jordin: blew everyone away.
I hope Lulu’s working as a producer, because her critiques & comments were spot-on.
Bingo. I forgot to mention this. I think she gave the best advice of any of the mentors, including the queen diva herself last week.
I also think Peter sort of bitchslapped Simon a little last night with his comments about how British people are always upbeat, except when they come to America.
What is this with the ‘show tunes’ remarks, etc. All those tunes were hits in their day. Big hits. Same goes for ‘boring’ - wtf? They are ballads. You know, slow songs to be sung with feeling. Torch songs, like Lulu said. And done very well as such.
I have no objection to show tunes; I like show tunes. A song from a 1962 Broadway show, though, doesn’t fit into the British Invasion definition (British pop bands that came to America 1964-1965).
Did Sligh really go to BJU? I wish I didn’t know that. I knew he talked about being a Christian on his webpage but I didn’t know he was a Bob Jones University type of Christian.
I cast votes for Blake and Melinda for quite a while after the show. There were a few other good performances, but Gina should have been strangled with Mick Jagger’s tongue, and Sanjaya should be sent into exile along with Crying Tweenybopper. I was so sick of her by the end that I sighed with relief at the prospect of being able to tune in to Boston Legal.
The day after, what remains in my mind are Jordin’s incredible song and Haley’s beautiful, long legs. When I get too excited about the legs I just think of Gina butchering Paint It Black.
Oh, and not to be crass, but if Crying Girl ™ is really from Make a Wish her parents should be shot for making her wear braces. I mean it really doesn’t matter in the long term what her teeth look like.
After poking around on the 'Net, I believe that “As Long As He Needs Me” qualifies under the “British Invasion” umbrella because it was a hit for Shirley Bassey – along with “I (Who Have Nothing)” and “Diamonds Are Forever.”
I have to say that I had never heard of Ms. Bassey before last night, and I must have been living under a rock or something. Because she? Is so many kinds of wonderful. So I guess reality television can be educational, sometimes.