Casey is unique and has a great bluesy voice when he is strong and healthy. He was filled with promise at the start. He definitely deserved to be in the top 10 or whatever. That’s why the judges used their one Save on him.
However, since then, not only has he been very ill (who knows how many hospitalizations and blood transfusions he has received now), but he has made some poor choices in his performances. He has chosen to GROWL a lot (not this last week so much) to the point of sounding like a wolf (he already looked like one). He also chose to grimace and make snarling faces that looked only humorous and like it wasn’t taking himself or his song seriously.
He has been very weak, like this week, where his effort appeared to be about at 60%, but if I were bleeding out of my tushie all day I’d probably be weak too. So I give him a little pass on his weakness.
He had promise, he is talented, but he is losing it.
He and Haley are supposed to be an item, and he appears to have passed on his permanent growl to her. She now growls for 45% of her songs. Who knew it was sexually transmitted?
I put the grow at the feet of the judges. When they told both Haley and Casey that they liked the growl, they should have added ‘when used properly and sparingly’. It was after the judges said they liked it that Casey started doing it in all his songs until the judges told him not to.