I feel like I'm late to the party by posting in the morning, but I don't have a computer near my TV.
I thought the whole show was awful. Nobody did any better than just OK. I'm really glad Carrie lost the big Texas hair. She always looks like she's been playing dress up when she comes out like that. I agree that Paula has it in for her. Maybe Carrie's too red state for her taste.
Constantine mangaged to out-cheese himself with all of the kicking and oggling the camera. I wish he would realize that it's okay to look away from the camera every now and then. It gets a bit unsettling after a while. He sounded terrible too.
Vonzelle is probably the dark horse to win it all. She's the only one who's really grown and 'performs' as well as she sings. At this point I'd be willing to bet she is in the top two, if not the winner.
Can't wait to see Slingblade go tonight, although seeing his parents made me slightly sympathetic to him. I'm a push over I guess.
I'll check in later... I'll Tivo the show so that I can skip all the flase drama and just get to the meat of it!
I'm in the same boat in addition to being in the Pacific time zone where we see the show three hours after the east coast.
If I'm not mistaken, I think we've reached the point in the show when there will not be a bottom three, but a bottom two. In my opinion, last night's bottom two were Scott and Constantine. I was actually touched by Scott's tribute to his dad, but it's an awful song and he performed it tentatively.
As for Constantine, he simply cannot out-rock Bo. Bo is a one-trick pony. Rock is it. Although he doesn't have a great voice, it's perfect for rock, and he sure knows how to perform it well. Constantine, strangely enough, turns out to be more of a crooner who is actually pretty good doing more melodic music.
I also was not impressed with Vonzell's performance. Can't put my finger on why, but it just didn't work for me.
Also strangely enough, I thought Anthony was best last night. The kid is very young, very inexperienced, but also has real talent.
Carrie, Carrie, Carrie. She should be running away with this competition. But dang it, but her mechanical performances are starting to annoy me. She simply has not progressed one little bit throughout the entire season.
Last night on Nashville Star, an 18-year-old girl won the competition. She is a perfect example of what's wrong with Carrie. Her name is Erica Jo. She doesn't have anywhere near the natural vocal talent Carrie does, but she's a terrific performer. Carrie simply never looks like she's into the music or having fun on stage. Erica Jo has tons of that, and it more than makes up for a voice that isn't as strong as Carrie's.
(Personally, I was disappointed that Erica Jo won, because the cowboy was much better in my opinion. But that's off topic here.)
At this point in the AI competition, I don't have a personal favorite. Each of them brings something different to the table. Slingblade should be gone tonight. After that, it's anybody's guess who's likely to win.
I hadn't thought about that, but you may be onto something. After all, Paula was once Martin Sheen's daughter-in-law.
And I agree, last night's show was terrible. Nobody was very good, but some (Lt. Dan, Slingblade) were very bad.