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Crappy night on Idol. Of the five I care nothing about, Michael Johns couldn't decide whether to overpower or soft-pedal the blues, the results were painful, and he can't sing anyway. For Ramiele Malubay the drum thumped, the audience clapped, and the voice did diddly squat. Really bad. "Something you'd hear on a cruise ship," said Simon, but this underestimates cruise ships. Syesha Mercado tackled Mt. Everest, i.e. "I Will Always Love You," and was nice and quiet at the start, didn't force it in the middle (though at this point her so-so-ness was evident), the blowout at the end was stupid but not too long, but this was bearable. Kristy Lee Cook has got to stop singing over two-step beats. She didn't sound too bad, actually, but the rhythm pulled the music out from under her. Carly Smithson, by not trying to rock out, had a warmer tone than I'd expected, was rather pleasant.

Brooke White "Jolene": Brooke seemed at home in this at the start, but there were too many instrumental impediments, and I hated the audience for its clumsy clap-alongs. This would have been great if it had been quieter and slower; as it was, some feeling was there, but it had to fight through static.

David Cook "Little Sparrow": Started off credibly as folk singing, gained steam as it went along. I didn't hate listening.

Jason Castro "Travelin' Thru": I like what he did with his nice little scratch of a voice, but the surrounding instruments fought against him. Mixed, but I like him.

David Archuleta "Smokey Mountain Memories": It took him several moments to find the prettiness of his voice, and after that his phrasing connected and disconnected from the song, though not so as to bother the judges. Listenable but spotty.

There wasn't a single performance I'd want to hear again, though David Cook was reasonably himself, enough came across of White for her still to be the best voice in the building, and Smithson was a pleasant surprise. As for who gets whacked, damned if I can figure out the voters. I thought Johns was a total train wreck tonight, but when it comes to this guy the judges and I seem to be in a different universe, as they adored him and the crowd has yet to even fire a warning shot in his direction. Malubay's been terrible for two weeks running but she's never been in danger either. Mercado and Kristy Lee Cook are both mediocrities but have done well for themselves the last couple of weeks, and I find myself actually looking forward to hearing Kristy. Castro is in trouble but I think his fans will sense peril and start dialing frantically and save him. So as I said I don't know, and maybe Smithson's still at risk.

Date: 2008-04-02 09:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andthatisthat.livejournal.com
I would've put money on Syesha doing 'I Will Always Love You'.

Did no one do 'Islands In The Stream'?

Date: 2008-04-02 11:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] justfanoe.livejournal.com
Pleasant surprise for me was the first half of Syesha. Unpleasant non-surprise was the last half of Syesha. I thought the night was OK actually.

Performance Ranking
Great: (none, yet again)
Good: Carly, Jason Castro, David Cook
Good, then Bad: Syesha
Pretty Good, But Getting Boring: David A
OK Vocal, Bad Song Choice: (none)
Forgettable: Kristy
Bad: Brooke, Michael
Terrible: Ramiele

Date: 2008-04-02 11:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] justfanoe.livejournal.com
Predicted Bottom 3: Ramiele, Kristy, Brooke, with Ramiele getting the boot.

Date: 2008-04-02 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] justfanoe.livejournal.com
No, Paula was just crazy.

Date: 2008-04-03 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] justfanoe.livejournal.com
Hey, I was exactly right!

Date: 2008-04-02 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brak55.livejournal.com
I don't know if you've ever looked at www.dialidol.com. It is a program that lets people dial in their votes. I've never done it, but they also keep track of various factors in the votes being called in and come up with a ranking of how they think the night will go. They have a pretty good track record on their predictions using that ranking system.

If they are right this week, the bottom three will be Kristy Lee, Jason and Ramiele with Ramiele going home by a HUGE factor.

One of their factors is busy percentage. Just for comparison, Archuletta was busy 11% of the time. Ramiele only 3%.

Oh, an Paula was definitely on something. A local station was playing back just her segments this morning to listen to all her slurring.

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