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.
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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!