If excellent vocals count for anything in this competition, she should win easily. However, eventually Bo or Constantine will go home. Then all the young girls with crushes on one or both of them will vote for the remaining rocker. In the meantime, if the chatter among the kids on the AI boards is any indication, Simon really hurt Carrie with his over-the-top praise last week, and there's a backlash against her.
BTW, I don't like Anwar either. He and Nikko have similar singing voices. That high-pitched girlish style of singing by men has never impressed me. Give me the rich, rounded, resonant tone of real men's voices anyday.
I agree that Carrie will take home the top prize. She's clearly the best singer and I think she has a good stage presence without having to move and jump, etc.
I saw the results of an AOL poll which had her at 42%...the closest to her was Bo with only 16%.
Bo and Lt. Dan will probably be with her in the top 3....I think Bo is much stronger than Lt. Dan, but Dan's got the teeny bopper vote covered. That will be a good match.
Vonzell is really good vocally but so was Jessica. She's also a pretty girl but that didn't help Jess, Lindsay and Sarah Mather (From the top 12).
Nadia doesn't have a strong voice but she's got that "stage act" thing going for her (like Simon said). I don' think that will get you into the top 5 and she's been in the bottom group 3 weeks in a row.
Besides, she looks like one of the stick figure back-up singers in the Disney cartoon, Hercules. (Someone should post a photo of them here)
Anwar has a strong voice when he picks the right songs, but if he continues to "stink up the place" like the last 3 weeks, he'll be out.
Nikko is Micheal Jackson and Stevie Wonder's love child. (Stevie's blind, he thought it was Janet)
Anthony is better than the Judges treat him and Scotty is worse. But Scott gets the fat people's vote so he'll be outstaying his welcome.
That my 2 cents....
Thanks for the info on the AI boards.