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toaster?...:)
You know she wanted to know why her sunglasses were green and hard to see through.
Drats!
Too late for the Blender!
whew....made it! Watching the live cam from Nome, Alaska....end of Iditarod. Go Lance!
oh....and GO POKES! NIT game tonight
Sports trivia finished....here we go!
This is so bad it's embarrassing.
Ok... I only got to watch part of the show last night (first nine contestants) before sleep took precedence.
Suffice it to say, I was underwhelmed.
Starting at the top, Melinda certainly has the pipes, but she looks like a fish out of water 99% of the time (i.e., whenever she's not actually performing). Even while she's performing, she looks a bit tentative, as if she doesn't know how to deal with the limelight.
Lakisha... I'm not as sold on her as the rest of y'all, from previous weeks comments. Big voice, yada, yada... she managed the stage and cameras well tonight. But that was second only to Sligh in terms of butchering an arrangement. Way, way too much affectation and pointless "coloration" -- this was one of the worst renditions of that song I've ever heard, despite the singing being technically sound, for the most part.
Phil was the only guy I saw who really delivered a good vocal performance... there's still something about him that irks me every time I see him, and for the life of me, I can't place a finger on what it is.
Sligh and Blake tried to modernize things, with similar, though slightly different results. Sligh's just didn't work, whereas Blake... no matter what you think of Blake's singing, he's going to go out and do his "thing". If enough people like that...
Brandon, Haley -- please learn the words. Not that these were good performances despite that. Vocals aside, Haley's stage performance can be summed up in three words: "drunk karaoke chick"
Can Sanjaya get any more creepily like Michael Jackson? This song was WAY, WAY too big for him. Of course, on this stage, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is probably too big for him.
I can't comment on Gina, since I lost about 80% of her performance due to reception glitches. The current look is good for her, though.