So I thought all the under 17s except Olivia were horrible last night. Tristan, well, the less said the better. Bless her heart. Lee made a terrible song choice and then he sang it terribly. Gianna chose a song that was clearly too mature for her and then she only hit about half of the notes in the song and sang it like one of those animatronic robots on It's a Small World. In my perfect world, I'd want all of them to go home next week, but only two people are going home anyway, so there goes that dream. I think at least one of those three will get the boot while the other two stay. If I had to bet money on it, I'd guess the stayers would be Lee, because of the cute boy factor (but he is in way over his head), and Tristan because she has the country vote cornered, she has the weepy back story, and they've been pushing her like crazy.
My top two by far were La'Porsha and Sonika. I loved what La'Porsha did to Diamonds. I think she sounded like what Rihanna thinks she sounds like when she sings! It was a perfect Idol performance for me. I just hope it didn't come too early for her such that it's all kinda downhill for her from here, because that could wind up sending her home before her time. I was shocked by how good Sonika was on Bring Me to Life. She should do more in that Evanescence/Paramore lane. It really suits her.
Next down for me but all still good last night were Dalton, Mackenzie and Olivia. I hate that Delilah song and I think the re-imagining was the least successful that Dalton has done, but Dalton is always good. Mackenzie was bound for a let down after being so spectacular with his original, but he did a good job with the Ed Sheeran song. He is gonna need to shake it up soon, though. And Olivia did a lovely job with a gloopy Katy Perry song, but she just does nothing for me.
After that litlle cluster, I've got Avalon, whom I still adore, but that was not a good song choice for her at all. And then there's Trent, who wasn't bad, I suppose, but I barely remember his performance at all and that is not a good thing when you got the pimp slot.
Anyway, I predict Gianna going home from the terrible teen trio and maybe Avalon in a shock boot, which will make me very sad. I'd prefer for both Gianna and Tristan to go, though. We'll see. It's been a long time since I could predict this show at all.
And to sum up, Kelly Clarkson!
PR:AS - I love that they didn't break down the winning team and give one person the win. Should've sent both of the losing team home, too.
I was surprised by the bottom three a little but. Most of the performances were great.
My mind went weird and everytime they said Grammys I heard Oscars adn that threw me off for a long time. OH! Grammys! Duh!
La'Porsha is owning those songs. Dalton should have done something different he was too safe. Lee Jean needs to go home. Olivia Rocks should have stayed (although I don't think anyone can pick Trouble and then throw the high notes in like that). Sonika needed to look at Olivia's performance for pointers on what to do. Trent looked amazing! and so much better when not pulling faces and that was just, his voice was great. Avalon's wheelhouse is an interesting one and I like it.
Was also wondering if Olivia could have tackled Kate Bush but I don't think Kate Bush is Idol material.
La'Porsha was the only one that I really liked last night. And I don't even like Halo, but she made me enjoy it. I was mad that they made her dye her 'fro though.
I wanted MacKenzie to do more with I Wanna Dance with Somebody. I always think of Sam Smith's acoustic cover of How Will I know as the white boy Whitney cover high water mark. Something like that would've been amazing. MacKenzie's cover was just a'ight. I liked Avalon doing The Weeknd and I'm glad that she stayed. She should've never been in the bottom 3 anyway. Did not care for Olivia's watered down Pink or whatever Gianna thought that she was doing and so I'm not sad that either of them went home, but it really should've been Lee. He wasn't good last week and his Kings of Leon cover this week barely left a mark.
I barely remember what the others sang which it not the sign of the greatest week. Sonika's Kelly cover - well, she tried that. Not nearly enough sass, but I guess she was mostly in tune, so, you know, good for her. Dalton was the least interesting he's ever been. I felt like I was in a bar watching half way decent karaoke. Also, Radioactive needs to go on the list of songs banned from every being covered on reality singing shows ever again because I'm over it. Done. I would like to hear Trent do...something different. When a Man Loves a Woman was such an expected choice from him. We don't need another Michael Bolton. We already have one. I wanna know that he can do something that feels more current and of the moment.
If I missed someone, they felt missable to me.
I didn't need to see Demi Lovato or Harry Connick, Jr. performing. If we must have guest performers, let them all be former Idols like Kelly last week. Show still not about the judges.
Oh, Tristan! Yeah, whatever. She was more in tune than last week? Vince Gill is probably not somewhere wishing she hadn't sung his song? There's your moment of damning with faint praise.
I noticed La'Porsha didn't really do any runs this week which was nice to hear her just hold the notes and hear her voice.
Dalton was so disappointing the more I think about it the more disapointed I was. Dude you remade Andrew Lloyd Weber so it wasn't recognizable at first ==fight for that!
I wanted to see Avalon up and working the stage, she's really good at it and just sitting there was okay but I like to see her move around.
Sonika was trying to be...rocker,..kind of ..but her hands and body language was all wrong. She needed to be making fists instead of gesturing. Every time I was like "make a fist! bend your knees" there's no grit to her voice, which worked against what she was trying to do.
X-Tina has Patti Labelle as her guest mentor on The Voice this season. It's kind of the best thing ever!
PR: I'm not sure, but I think "I couldn't find any fabric that looked like the Sistine Chapel" is the silliest complaint I've heard on this show.
Anyone watching Drag Race this season? Bob reminds me so much of my ex, it's creepy.
I've been watching. I like Bob, but I never knew your ex. I'm behind an episode, I think. Will have to see if the hotel has On Demand.
I would have to make a custom FB group to see who I might know who would overlap in those two groups, or I could just say it to him directly, but he might take it the wrong way??
