Still standing...
Sorry for the late post – I’ve had a really busy work day. My picks for the votes that come in are Anoop Desai and Kris Allen. I’d like Kris to last a bit longer than Matt Giraud, but Matt did a bit better this week and probably didn’t secure the votes. I’d also like to see Alexis Grace go soon, just my opinion there.
I voted for Danny 3 times and Adam once.
I also predict that the big judge surprise tonight will be that they pick the singers’ songs from now on.
Sorry about the delay on this week’s post, but my wife considered the pre-show post a bit much for a non-American Idol blog. Since I always listen to my wife, like any good man does, I’m sticking with post-show predictions and post-results reactions from now on.
Group Two… hmmm. So many mixed feelings about these people, but there were some standouts and made my Top 3 so easy to pick out. I always have to leave in a 4th for standby just in case America screws up to show that I know that I have a pulse on the singing, though.
As you might recall from my Hollywood Week Recap, Adam Lambert was right up there in the Danny Gokey/Michael Sarver grouping of the top singers and he was clearly the undisputed winner of last night’s show. Kai Kalama was in that group until he sang last night, and I don’t think he will be going anywhere until his second chance in the wildcard show.
For the women, Allison Iraheta rocked the stage, crowd, and TV audience. The Twitter reaction was immediate after collectively falling asleep after the first three performances and either loving or hating “Norman Gentle” ditching Nick Mitchel during the commercial break.
For the 3rd spot, I’m placing Jesse Langseth (unfortunate girl with the boy spelling… poor thing) to take the spot for her song choice, good performance, and her pop qualities. In a very close 4th is Mishavonna Henson for her performance, though I don’t think her song choice was that good because I fell asleep. Sorry. Pick better songs.
What to do with Nick Mitchell? I think he was highly entertaining, but my wife would like to see him ripped off the show by a C-130 tow line by his britches, I think. I don’t think it matters when you stand him up against the other performances, unless the Vote for the Worst people are in full-force again to rescue him from the 50% crowd who hates him. Her prediction is one that I must agree with: he will be one of the last two to be announced tonight to make everyone sweat.
I am genuinely impressed with the raw talent that the contestants have this year. There are more singers that left me saying, “wow,” after their rounds during Hollywood Week than past seasons when there were usually only 3-4 standouts and the rest had to step it up as the season progressed, or risk not getting votes.
A quick update: Joanna Pacitti has been disqualified as “ineligible to continue” with no further explanation. She has achieved moderate success as a recording artist, so that may finally have had enough of a backlash from viewers this year. My wife believes it’s nudie photos, though. I ain’t going looking for them, so I’ll leave that to some newspaper lackie to find.
There was just way too much drama going on this week with idiots, sexually confused teenie-boppers, and a flat-out jerk or two. With all of that over I have quite a few opinions about the top and bottom contestants, though there are still quite a few in the middle as mush.
Let’s start with the annoying, soon to be leaving contestants, in order:
Right in the middle, I have to put Nick Mitchell/Norman Gentle. He has a heck of a voice, is infinitely entertaining, but is not acting like an American Idol. You can’t say he won’t sell tickets, though, so I have to respect that for now.
Now for my absolute favorites in order:
