Posted on 04/06/2010 5:56:41 AM PDT by silent_jonny
I don’t think she nailed it.
Do I think she was better than Lee tonight? yes
But it wasn’t that great. A lot of screaming.
Black Velvet is a sultry, sexy song. Crystal may be talented but sexy she is not.
(She actually reminded me a little like our first lady (Michelle) line-backer tonight.)
Wearing that black dress, legs spread wide apart. Did no one teach her how to stand like a lady? Feet together.
My normally quiet husband even commented on the un-lady like stance.
It was OK, but not great.
I gave my votes to Lee. I like him better.
We shall see.
I am frustrated at the finale songs. Lee did great at the Simon and Garfunkel, I felt more passionately than he had the first time. I agree that he probably should have chosen Halleluyah, too, though.
Then came the little Janis imitator, and dang if she didn’t turn up the heat tonight and put 80% of her into the song, doubling her normal investment, to come out on top of Lee. Only because she stays on key.
It also didn’t hurt that the judges had already seen everything at the rehearsal so they had not much nice to say to Lee, even after his first song. They made their choice of winner painfully obvious.
So Less is told to do more with his song, French kiss Simon rather than just peck his cheek, and he gets this slow song with LOOOOONG notes, “Everybody Hurts.” He did less than his best with it, though he had a few great moments (and of course a few off notes).
And then out comes Bowersox with “Black Velvet.” Arrrgh, I thought, it’s the perfect song choice for her, because it seems to suit her, and of course we know she HAS a little boy (to go with the lyrics). But she ruined the song. She was stomping around during it, in the worst dress possible, maybe even the wrong size, and she was YELLING unpleasantly instead of slowly letting the song ooze like hot syrup as it should be sung. But the judges acted like they’d just seen the Twin Towers put back together.
So Lee comes out with the song they wrote for him, and it’s just OK. He did seem to be feeling it, sang well, put his heart into it, but they gave him a kind of forgettable song. What was it? LOL. But I remember the smiles he gave during it. Niiiiice.
And then for the finale, Crystal does her song, which is in her comfort zone, sitting down, playing her guitar. She chose, no doubt for the money, to actually put her heart and soul into the song. Had real emotion, changed up the pressure and volume often on her voice, looked into “our” eyes, made it her own. For the first time this season! It was an excellent job.
So Crystal, whom I do not like, deserves to win AI, probably, because she was better tonight. Lee didn’t “bring it” to the absolute extend he needed to, and she did.
But to be fair, Crystal had been phoning it in for more than a month. She has shown a lot of contempt for the AI audience, all while voicing how much she loves to be there and how grateful she is for the experience. It just does not sound believable from her. She seemed to act as though she were too good for AI, and though the judges called it “staying true to herself,” she has not grown throughout the season.
Lee was just a ball of insecurity without direction at the start of the season. He took the judges’ notes each week and worked hard, learned, and grew into a confident, happy performer. It was a joy to watch him grow. So he hit a couple wrong notes in the beginnings of each song! He loved performing and being on AI, and the audience loved that he appreciated us.
I cast my votes for Lee, but if Crystal wins, she deserved it. I think that she will get signed to something even if Lee wins, and she will be able to put her politics, culture, and dreads on the line and either go commercial or “stay true to herself” and die after one lousy album.
Has everyone done the blind test with these two?? Lee has a delicious voice when you are only HEARING him. You actually want to hear a second song by him to hear it again. Sorry to say, though Crystal never misses a note, her voice is nothing special. And when she yells, it’s actually not pleasant.
My $0.02.
We are clearly Lee fans here and we hope the whole season speaks for itself and Lee wins!
I agree. They (producers) didn’t help Lee with that R.E.M. song “Everybody hurts”.
Don’t get me wrong, it is a beautiful song. Just wrong for this occasion.
And don’t get me started on that third song (U2) they gave him.
It is like they were trying to throw him off his game.
I watched it again with my son. (He’s 21) She looked even worse than I remember.
Completely wrong dress, shoes and song for her.
I guess I’m getting old but all night I had the urge to track her down and tell her to stand with her feet together and to stand up straight.
I love Lee. I hope he wins.
I haven’t voted all season but tonight. I voted many times. (with AT&T text messages it is very easy to get in a few hundred votes in very little time.....I felt like a teenybopper furiously texting.....my hubby thought I was crazy)
Hey, maybe we should get our kids to meet up? LOL
Not an original just like Lee's. That's a Patty Griffin song written about MLK Up On The Mountain
I agree.
My pleasure :)
Yes! And go back to three judges. And a thirty minute results show without all the filler and weirdo "musical" acts.
Dial Idol has Lee way ahead? This should be interesting. I don’t like Crystal —although she is talented.....and Lee can sing, but is not extra-ordinary. I miss Cook, Daughtry, Bo....people like that ..that stand out.....
LOL!
Or depressing Jewel-y type songs--I'll pass on that too.
Lee could still win, maybe. Adam Lambert looked like a shoe-in last year and Kris managed to squeak by. We'll see.
I agree with you, Yaelle dear...when Crystal wasn’t stomping, she was yelling and hitting a few sour notes. Lee did blossom and that’s what Idol is all about. They showed the Brian Kilmeade interview with Simon this morning and Simon said that they almost forgot to include Lee in the Top 24. He said he always had a feeling about him.
Once again I agree with your assessment. As I said in my post I don’t think Lee did himself any favors nor did the producers choice. Crystal just sounded like more of Crystal to me. Nothing new, interesting or all that great, but better than Lee.
Crystal clearly won the night. But so what, Lee owned last week. It isn’t as if people have forgotten those 2 great performances. I think like me, they were hoping for the same tonight and didn’t get it. That doesn’t mean we don’t know he’s good and deserves to be there and even to win. Crystal brought her A game and I expected that.
I believe Lee looked totally and utterly nervous and that goes back to my point last week about how you can see that he wants it in this. He was grateful to be there and probably naturally overwhelmed by it all. It’s charming and so I as well as others can look past a couple sour notes and see the musician he can become.
Crystal appeared slightly more humble to me except that awful good bye to Simon which was contrived and frankly, hard to listen to.
Crystal was much more comfortable in this setting which probably come from having been on stage more in front of people in the past but also she just seem like the type to be all that excited about much of anything other than a new tattoo.
Contestant DialIdol Score DialIdol Range Accuracy
Lee Dewyze 1
Crystal Bowersox 2
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He was grateful to be there and probably naturally overwhelmed by it all. It’s charming and so I as well as others can look past a couple sour notes and see the musician he can become.
Like I told my daughters....Lee has very loyal fans - he's been great and has grown and he's just very likeable and talented...He deserves to win and his fans will vote for him...it's not like there are a million "undecided" voters out there....you either are in Lee's camp or Crystals and I think Lee has more fans!
They’ve been right in the past.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the margin this fart apart before which could be good news for Lee.
I could see accuracy being questionable if it was really close but this is beyond DI own margin of error so who knows.
Crystal took a moment to kiss Simons butt is more like it.
Hi Jonny,
It is an emachines, and it is fast, fast, fast. Sadly, I will probably not be able to be on the live thread—at least the first hour or so because my son has a little league game, and as his mother I guess I better go...
Maybe I will catch up with you guys later. I know you will be yukking it up! :^D
” Dial Idol predicting Lee wins...(are they ever right?)
Contestant DialIdol Score DialIdol Range Accuracy
Lee Dewyze 1
Crystal Bowersox 2 “
Looks like the Dial Idol score has Lee, but the raw vote has Crystal.
Which one is it?????? or are they trying to have an Obama, and cover it both ways.............
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