Don't you think Paris is going to get Mandisa's votes?
Ace and Katherine did fine.
Bucky and Kellie were better than I expected.
Elliot did great with the hardest song.
Taylor was back to being himself.
Chris was screaming incoherrent words.
Simon was right, Paris was just odd.
Don't you think Paris is going to get Mandisa's votes?
No, I don't. Mandisa was a Patti Labelle singer in a 75% Queen Latiffah body. Paris has been pure pop the whole way. Idol, thank God, has NOT been about race -- but it has been about presence. Mandissa couldn't pull off a Queen Latiffah look (and yes it is about looks). I don't think her fan base will look for the next black chick. Not most of them.
Ace and Katherine did fine.
Ace made a great Queen song into a 98 Degrees/nSync Boy Band interpretation. At the most musically dramatic points, he had them arrange it to a MAJOR key. Respectful rock fans (even if they didn't like Queen) will want to punish him (I suspect he sealed his fate by disrsepcting Rock so much). The chicks and gays won't hold him aloft that much longer.
McPhee acrtually moved herself from a strong "looking good Mamacita" spot to one where no one could figure ut what the heck she was doing. I think she thinks she is in the elite circle (she isn't). She was pitchy and chose a wierd song and was foregettable (which is death on AI).
Bucky and Kellie were better than I expected.
Carrie, Jr. is one of the Holy Trinity and therefore felt safe to mess with an iconic song on National TV.
Her version of it was so truncated and her S/M outfit made it clear she isn't the ditz she continues to portray. As I said before, she could have burped the alphabet and still stayed. Some will hold a grudge for her dissing BH, others are tired of "Elly May Clampett 'I don' know nothin' about singin' outside of chapel" shtick. But she hath been crowned and will stick around.
As for Buckteeth, uninspired isn't the same as "good." Bucky could have "owned" Fat Bottomed Girls, but just chose to change the tempo and twang it a bit. Freddy Mercury was astounding for his CLEARLY UNDERSTANDABLE singing in many genres. Bucky's loud mumbling is the opposite and it showed (will be bottom 3 this week).
Elliot did great with the hardest song.
People don't necessarily respect the song difficulty. I agree with your assesment, but don't forget this is not decided by musical effetes. He was pitch and he didn't generate excitement. I give him a 50/50 chance of being bottom 3.
Taylor was back to being himself.
Yep. We all love him and he is destine for top 2. But he went "safe" to make sure he was "back to being Taylor." Good decision to have the pitcher send himself a softball across the plate.
Chris was screaming incoherrent words
But he sounds so cool doing it. I don't do alternative music, but a LOT of Gen Xers do -- and they vote. He was interesting to watch and that primitive proto-Bono thing sells.
Simon was right, Paris was just odd.
And odd one out. She was an octave too low for the song (of course Freddie was two octaves above everyone else other than Mark Farner and Roy Orbison) and was -- odd.
She doesn't fit in the current milleu -- my prediction to be next gone.