All in All a very good night. No real trainwrecks or poor performances at all. And a couple surprise performances from some we considered also rans.
1. Danny Gokey - Jesus Take the Wheel - Another fantastic performance by Danny. He is currently head and shoulders ahead of everyone else.
2. Anoop Desai - You Are Always on my Mind - Last week I had Anoop going home, this week he showed the pipes we all fell in love with in his Audition and Hollywood week. Anoop is back in the competition.
3. Kris Allen - To make You Feel My Love - Kris may be the major dark horse of this competition. His vocal was absolutely fantastic and the arrangement was awesome.
4. Allison Iraheta - Blame in On Your Heart - Such maturity in a 16 year old voice. She is “the bees knees”! Awesome.
5. Matt Giraud - So Small - I loved the way matt changed this around and made it fit his vocals. great job.
6. Megan Joy - I Go Out Walking - WOW! Just WOW! What a vocal, and with the flu on top of it. And I really dug her interpretation.
7. Alexis Grace - Jolene - Another Absolutely great performance. The top 7 performers were all absolutely fantastic tonight.
8. Lil Rounds - Independence Day - Lil can sing, and she did wonderful on this song, but you could tell this was a “just get through this” week.
9. Adam Lambert - Ring of Fire - Vocally, possible the best vocal performance of the night, but the song arrangement was absolutely horrid. I thought I was watching a massacre scene in a Quentin Tarentino movie, but without the awesome slow motion blood spattering visuals.
10. Scott McIntyre - Wild Angels - Nice guy, nice vocal, great piano playing. Nothing Special.
11. Michael Sarver - Ain’t Goin Down - Sorry Michael, after this week you are going down. It was good, but everyone else was better.
Bottom 3 - Adam, Michael, Scott. Going Home - Michael by a mile.
My favorites tonight were Matt, Scott, and Anoop.
Allison turns everything into punk rock. The Dolly Parton wannabe (Alexis) fell flat on her face. Quirky Megan would have been just as bad without the flu.
Lil was horrible, and she looked like some sort of sports mascot in that pink bubble outfit.
Not impressed with Kris.
The Queen should save his routine for the gay clubs.
Gokey was just OK. He looked like my dentist in that white jacket.
I think Michael or Megan will go home.
I agree with your rankings pretty much. I have Danny first, Matt second, then Anoop and Kris. I know how amazing Allison’s voice is, especially for her age, but she just doesn’t do it for me dog. I think she just sounds too much the same in each song, like that Nurse Rocker from a previous season who kept getting in car wrecks.
No one else around here seems to have liked Megan but you and I - I really was impressed with her this week, moreso when I heard she has Influenza B, from which most people cannot even raise their heads off the pillow.
Adam was just WRONG. No matter how “good” his vocals, it was 100% creepy and unappealing. Very self-conscious glam. Sadly, my sons thought he was HILARIOUS, laughed all the way through it, wanted to see it 2 more times, and VOTED for him. :(
I’d miss Scott or Michael least if they went home.
Brilliant.