I’m on west coast time, so it’s still June 6 here.
I loved the last act. I wasn’t sure before she started singing, but what a song.
I also liked the Chicago school kids who sang the One Direction song. The contortionist and climber were interesting, but what will they do next? Although I thought that the last time about the guy and his chihuahua, and they kept me entertained every week.
Pretty much every act should do a second one to get through. How many time have we seen an act get pushed on and come to find out it is the same act over and over.
I felt bad for the comic who bombed. And I was surprised that the 80 year old metal singer made it through, although I have a feeling he won’t make it past the second round.
Anyone notice that none of the judges determining who has talent in America is American?
None of the acts except Grace VanderWaal really blew me away last night.
Eleven Play is the sort of act I typically would like, and I liked the use of the drones but I felt it was so dark I could not see the dancing. Maybe it was better live.
The comedian who did well was funny.
The daredevil was also pretty cool.
Grace VanderWaal was quite a force. She’ll attract a lot of votes.
The deaf comic was quite good. The guy who bombed was not a comic, nobody ever laughed at him, he was delusional.
The guy on the chairs was good, but he needs his brother to do more to make it interesting.
The drones were interesting, well done, but they’ll have to work to keep improving the act.
I don’t think contortionist guy is going far. We’ve had too many contortionist acts before that were actual acts; this guy was just a bunch of positions.
Similar criticism for the balancing guy. A stack of chairs clearly designed to make a solid tower is kind of weak. I mean, I couldn’t do it but I’ve seen guys do balance acts on metal balls and random stuff.
I can’t be the only one who is tired of the style of singing that Grace VanderWaal did. She seems like a sweet young lady, very humble and with an equally wonderful family supporting her, so I can’t really hate on her. I think it’s great that she’s into writing her own music and had the courage to come onto a national stage as she did! I agree with others who believe she’ll go far. But I kinda wish she wouldn’t, because that way of singing drives me NUTS, I hate hate hate it worse than any other trend in popular music for the last couple dozen years. It’s everywhere, and in fact I think there’s a thread somewhere here about it. The over-enunciating, the weird pronunciations (e.g. “love” sounds something like “luh-eeeve” and other one syllable words suddenly have at least two syllables)… just horrible sounding. Also young Grace sounded like she was not so much as singing in her own natural voice as mimicking a certain young female singer who’s been popular doing this sort of thing for a few years now. Her name escapes me but she sounds pretty much exactly like this.
Also, though it used to be only young women who sing in this style, now it’s men too, and you can see it in contestant after contestant on singing shows. The male kid who won The Voice (I think it was) a couple years back is an example. What’s especially exasperating is every single time someone shows up singing in this weird affected way, a judge will say it’s amazing and they’ve “never heard anything like it.” Say what??!! You can’t escape this singing style…! This turned into a bit of a rant, sorry Dopers. Just hoping someone out there feels me on this. I wish young Grace all the best but nah I just can’t with that singing style.
When Grace started singing I told my wife she sounds like a singer whose song is used in a commercial, but I can’t remember which commercial it is.
He had a decent idea – a phone call with Mom that goes like a bad date – but had no idea how to set it up or deliver.
The unique thing about this guy was that he was wearing a suit and tie; so when he began contorting, it was a surprise. Other than that: meh. Contortionists kinda skeeve me out, anyway … they’re just one step above people who shove things up their nose.
I recognized him from Conan O’Brien a couple of years ago. He was good then too.
I like that he mentioned his deafness but even in a short set his best material had nothing to do with his deafness. Drew Lynch was initially funny on last year’s show but every single routine was about his speech impediment.
About Grace VanDerWaal. It’s like my son said, “She sounds like every other indy singer out there.” Yeah she’s 12 but if I turn on Spotify I can hear 30 just like her on one play list.
I liked the guy at the end tonight, but the golden buzzer really surprised me. My husband, who is a big Sinatra fan, didn’t like him at all. He looked older than twenty to me, though.
At what point, if any, do they decide that the act is too dangerous to pass them on? The girl doing gymnastics on that stretchy thing, and the older couple on the tightrope made me wonder how they were going to make their acts more exciting without killing themselves for the second round.
The four older woman and the older guy seemed to get sympathy yeses, as well as the young comedian whose father had Bell’s Palsy. And I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I don’t really want to hear each contestant’s story. Just do your act!
Why was Grace VanDerWaal singing in an affected British/Scottish accent? Really don’t know why she was put straight through.
The girl wasn’t bad for a 13 year old comic, but “my dad had Bell’s Palsy” is a pretty lame sob story.
I thought the 63 year old lady comic was WAY TOO PREMATURE in revealing that she was born a man. It was already clear the judges liked her and that she was probably going through, and if she had held off on that revelation it would have made for a killer memorable punchline in her next routine. Most of these people you won’t see again- they’ll just be weeded out and handed their hat off camera, but that would almost certainly get a big audience reactin and airtime.
I loved the knife throwing act. It was very quick and exciting.
I also enjoyed the card magician. I know I know, it is all trickery, but I don’t care, I love to be fooled, I don’t want to know how the tricks work. It is much more fun to believe in magic. 
Maybe I’m easily amused, but I absolutely loved YMCA.
I had to close my eyes when the girl who had broken her spine started getting tossed around. There’s no way I’d even get on a stepladder if I’d broken mine.