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Remember how bad Ramiel was on “American Idol” Tuesday? Remember how I wrote yesterday that she was just about a lock to go home? Well, she wasn’t even in the bottom 3 in last night’s results show. I know there are always surprises, but geez. Anyway, here is how the show went down. 30 million votes, blah blah blah. Group song, blah blah blah. Recap of Tuesday, blah blah blah. Chikezie, bottom 3….I didn’t think he was all that bad but apparently America did. Brooke White, safe. Carly Smithson, safe. Then a break, blah blah blah. David Archuleta, safe. David Cook , and we find out he didn’t arrange that cool version of “Billie Jean”…it was in fact Chris Cornell, who Ryan Seacrest had to mention called in to the show and said he loved Cook’s version of his version. Anyway, David, very safe. Syesha Mercado, Bottom 3. What? She was amazing on Tuesday, so America in my mind right now is not a great judge of talent. Michael Johns, safe. “Idol Gives Back,” blah blah blah. Dolly Parton mentoring next week, blah blah blah. Then Season 2’s Kimberly Locke performed her song, “Fall.” She looked great and has an incredibly powerfull voice, but this song was as bland as a plain potato. The music industry suits need to start letting real songs back in instead of formulaic crap, or it’s all going to blow up in their faces. Then they took some phone calls….and this was pretty funny last night, as one of the callers asked Simon Cowell if he thought it would be easy for her to eventually take Ryan Seacrest’s job. Then another caller asked David Archuleta why he picked that awful song, “You’re the Voice,” on Tuesday. Back to the results. Ramiel, safe. Here we go….I mean, she’s cute and all, and has a decent voice…but better than Syesha? No way. Did Danny Noriega call 5000 times to vote for his pal? Kristy Lee Cook, safe…and that was no surprise, because she really did a very smart thing by grabbing all the red state votes with “God Bless the U.S.A.” What’s that, Ryan Seacrest? Lee Greenwood also called in and said he loved it? Lee also says thank you for the royalty check. Oh, and if Dolly Parton is the mentor this coming week, can we assume country music theme? If so, Kristy just got another free pass. So it was Jason Castro in the bottom 3 along with Syesha and Chikezie, but he was almost instantly sent back to safety. So down to Syesha and Chikezie. Mrs. Mike said Chikezie, and she said it as soon as he was sent to the bottom 3. Well, she has been right for 2 weeks in a row, so no reason to doubt her, and she called it AGAIN. So no more Chikezie on Idol, but I know this guy is going to find a recording niche as a young Luther Vandross type. So now, my power rankings for the remaining nine: 1. David Cook There you go….eight more weeks of Idol, or maybe nine if you include “Idol Gives Back”…remember, last year no one was eliminated on that show. See you next week, I’m going back to watching the NCAA tournament tonight.
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I was sad to see Chikeze go, I really didn’t like him prior to the Top 12, but he won me over with those two engaging performances.
I actually have thought for a while that David Archuletta has no chance in this competition as it goes along, he’s cute, but I think he will wear on people over time. If he never would have lost a vocal chord he would have been even more amazing talent than he is (check the video on youtube from a lobby which he sings to some former idols at the age of like 12, ridiculous voice then)
At one point I WAS a huge Ramiele fan (can’t quite remember when that was anymore), but she just has no clue how to use her abilities to their max, she likes to do what she thinks is neat or aligns with her own interests and not what could put her in the Top 3. She has such a capable voice, just never consistent throughout a song. Last time she did something noteworthy was in the first couple rounds of the Top24. Bye.
Brooke white is getting a bit tedious, she needs to spice something up a bit.
Carly Smithson, I find her annoying, but I actually like ALOT of what she has done, even when the judges don’t. Total Eclipse Of The Heart was Hot (wake up Simon, usually he copies all of my critiquing). Very consistent.
The second Kristy Lee Cook started singing, I just broke out laughing, you sneaky little bimbo! Ya had to know she was safe if she nailed that song, and she knocked it out of the park. She has probably sang that 100 times at various events too, she is from Texas right? Unfortunately for her there are two songs she has performed well to this point, God Bless…. and Amazing Grace, is that right? OMG wake up America, she’s got a bleep of a voice, WHEN SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE’S SINGING, which doesn’t seem to be much.
Michael Johns was my favorite coming into the Top 24, I just thought he had the charisma & talent to win it all. I was wrong, he isn’t consistent enough (not week to week, but throughout his performances), his two biggest highlights were both Queen songs and one was in hollywood week (which I thought was better in a rawer sort of way). He’s still fun to watch, but he has some annoying tendencies when he performs.
Syesha Mercado just erks me. She has a voice no doubt, and she can lay it down. She is a step beyond confident, it’s called ARROGANT. Some of the looks and comments she has made give that away all too well. She won’t survive long, as she only does well when she can pick her genre/song type. Not much ability in being original, and thats why she is inconsistent.
David Cook, I thought he was the biggest douche coming into the Top 24. They just didn’t show him doing anything memorable coming out of Hollywood week, and what they did show sounded not so good. Which leads me to suspect they were setting him up early to be a dark horse. After all what sells records? Kelly Clarkson or Chris Daughtry type music. I must say, I couldn’t have been more wrong about him, he has great consistency and a creativity unrivaled in this competition.
Jason Castro: I just don’t get it (to all the teenage girls, time to find an older man
. Can we just vote him off already. (or not vote to get him off the show, geez!)
My Power Rankings:
David Cook, Carly Smithson, Michael Johns, Brooke White, David Archuleta, Syesha Mercado, Kristy Lee Cook, Ramiel Malubay, Jason Castro
but I think Syesha will be voted off next, as she is already in the bottom 3, and it’s about to be Country week again, no?
Sad thing is there is some REAL (already polished) talent here this year, but all that will happen is a CRAPPY pop record to sell in masses for the kiddies. Sigh.
They actually mentioned on the night of the original performance that David Cook’s version was based off Chris Cornell’s just before he sang it.
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