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More Hollywood victims on American Idol
We start by peaking into a room with many nervous young people waiting to hear their fate.
Rewind…
72 singers will take the stage to sing. One last chance.
I’m so excited this week so see some really good performances and hopefully the next American Idol will be among them! These 72 young people have gone through some rough times getting this far and I don’t think it’s going to get any easier from this point either…
Everyone draws numbers to determine the order of appearance and Adam Lambert drew the lucky, or depending on your perspective, unlucky number one. He sings Believe by Cher, but in a ballad rather than disco style. I like this kid but it seems a little strained at times.
Matt Giraud, the dueling piano player, sang Georgia On My Mind while playing the keyboard. Wow. This kid is awesome and soulful and okay, did I saw Wow?
Jamar Rogers sings while best friend Danny watches from the wings. He sings Hey There Delilah. I don’t know that I liked this song choice for Jamar but I like his stage presence and his voice.
Danny Gokey sings I Hope You Dance. With Danny, I’m not sure if “sing” is the right word. Angelic expression of a melodic kind? Goosebumps, oh goose bumps…
Anoop Desai sings Bobby Brown’s My Prerogative, and then Jouge Nunuz sings I Just Can’t Stop. Flying through these auditions…
Scott Macintyre in front of his piano, sings and he was good but, and my sister is going to hate me, I don’t think he was as awesome as I expected.
Wow, three good girls in a row, so fast it’s tough to keep up with names and songs but they were all good. Kristin McNamara, after the drama of the group night, has hung in there and she sounds pretty good.
Mishavonna Henson was cut at Hollywood in a different season but she’s back. I don’t remember hearing her before and I can guess why. Not so great…at least compared with some of the others we’ve seen tonight.
Now, they start to sort everyone into four rooms.
In room two…
This is amusing. Tatiana Del Toro gets a little montage about her song count and how she is always singing beyond the end of the song and being annoying, yada, yada, yada.
Alexis Grace, Kenny Hoffpauer, Jasmine Murray all get about 5 seconds so we can’t get a good feel for how they really did. JoAnna Pacitti’s nerves got the better of her as she forgot all her lyrics. Casey Carlson also struggles with lyrics. I wonder if these folks have sung these songs before this week. Maybe they are really just that nervous. I would be I am sure.
Stephen Fowler goes down with the other lyric forgetters and asks for a second chance which they give him and he forgets again. So sad because he has such as wonderful tone to his voice. I’m thinking this room is the one going home. But wait, they pull Tatiana out of the room? What does this mean? You can see the questions lingering on the faces of the others in the room as well.
Nick Mitchell, aka Norman Gentle, takes the stage dressed as Norman the comedian. He sings Georgia On My Mind in a relatively non-comedic way until the end where he adds a little flavor. He really is good if you can look past the silliness. I hope he goes forward but then what will he do? Continue it straight or funny?
Now it’s time to split up everyone else. Two more rooms full of nervous singers.
Room 4
Nick Mitchell is in this room and people are wondering whether this can possibly be a good thing or not.
Flash back to Anne Marie Boskovish who worries about singing I Hope You Dance because so many others have, but for the most part I think she sounded pretty good.
Ju’not Joyner sings Hey There Delilah. He’s the one whose adorable little son put him over the top with the judges in New York. But he sounds pretty good on his own tonight.
Enter Tatiana. Room four folks are really concerned. Is this a good thing or a bad?
Room 3
Two Louisville favorites Kaylan Loyd and Lenesha Young. Kaylan started her song and Simon stopped her before the end.
Back in room 2, Kai Kalama had a terrible performance but just because his voice has definitely been strained. Also Michael Sarver is a tiny pitchy but I really like him. Oh no, he’s in a room with others I think are probably going home.
Room 2’s decision time…Paula is being too gloomy to really be saying no…and Kara announces they got through to the next round.
In the next room people overhear the celebration and begin to wonder if they too have made it or not. India Morrison looks back and had a great group performance but kind of did poorly from the clip they showed in her last solo.
In come the judges again…it’s really hard making these decisions…blah, blah, blah… Oops, it’s the end of the road for this group.
Okay, what the heck is Paula wearing around her neck? Has anyone told her she’s a middle aged-white woman?
Room 1 has been waiting the longest to hear and finally, its decision time. This room has some really good people in it and I cannot imagine sending these folks home. And yes…they are also in it for a bit longer.
The last room has Tatiana, the _ (let’s name her-any suggestions?), is in the room so I hope they are going home but I don’t think there are enough people left if they send these kids home. The judges start their over dramatic ramblings of this is so hard and we have to raise the bar every year and Tatiana starts wailing and crying. Paula tells her she is making it harder than it needs to be and finally one of the others asks if this is a “no”…then Paula admits it’s a yes. They have made it through one more round. I don’t think I can take much more of this Tatiana woman.
Tomorrow night they have to face the judges one last time. Looks like they have added a twist too…they ask someone to sing for their survival. I don’t know under what circumstances they will ask this of these poor kids, but I guess we will see!!
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By Holly
February 12, 2009 4:09 PM | Link to this
Do you know the song or artist that sung the song while jamar rogers was told that he was going home?By Heather
February 11, 2009 11:04 AM | Link to this
It’s really starting to get exciting for me now. We’ve been able to get a better feel for at least some of the contestants and what they may be able to do. One thing that I was extremely surprised about and not so happy - was that Tatiana was kept. I literally think my jaw hit the floor. Do I really think she’ll stay much longer? No. Then again, we saw Sanjaya WAY longer than we should have. But, come on! I mean - last week with the whole “Thank you Jesus” moment she had - she acted like she won the whole flippin competition! UGH. Ok, looking beyond her and her drama, I’m loving Danny and Jamar. I hope they go far. I’m with you on Scott Mcintyre - he was okay, but nothing spectacular. There aren’t any girls that REALLY stand out to me yet. Time will tell.