Thank you. Even the low 1.3 million votes from Hawaii you report could definately make the difference between who went and who stayed.
Barrino, DeGarmo and London sang well last week... Trias did not. All three of the judges found she lacked pitch and feeling in what she sang. Kareokeville. She, by rights, should have gone... not La Toya London, who sang with feeling, on key, and creatively.
DeGarmo is very young and does not have an emotional feel for what she sings... she sings the notes well but puts no feeling into them. John Stevens suffered from the same lack of emotional knowledge of what he was singing. Give them both some seasoning and they will be fabulous singers.
I predicted before the results show that London would go... based on my analysis of the flawed voting for favorites. I figured there would be a racial impact as the vote for the two black divas would be split... with Barrino, the more accomplished and flamboyant of the two getting the lion share. I figured Hawaii would vote for its favorite daughter, and that a large white vote would go to the last white singer left. I was right. I wasn't happy about it. London and Barrino were and are the best two singers in this competition.
This is what you get when people vote for their favorite, rather than voting for the worst singer.
Next week, the honest musicians will vote Barrino... and the split black vote will re-unite and join with her as well. The balance of the country will counter weight the Hawaii vote and Jasmine Trias will be voted off . That being said, this ex-professional musician, predicts that it will be a DeGarmo/Barrino shoot off at the last... with Fantasia Barrino taking it.
While Trias is not a strong singer, the big thing she has going for her is the Filipino community which is where I believe her strong support is coming from. They are in love with her and are pretty determined people when they get their interest up. It has gotten so bad that the different Manila news agencies have reporters in California and Hawaii tracking her (and yes, the network has said Manila isn't voting). A Filipino newspaper here in Seattle is encouraging everyone to vote for her.
I think that voting power, which Simon is probably responsible for, will not just take her to the final two, it could win it for her...particularly when black voters leave in disgust and it becomes a teenie bopper shoot out.
I know a lot of people will thing that the Filipino community (it's big across the nation) is wrong but one thing I do know about them...they will buy her CDs.
The whole thing about this show is it isn't professionals picking the winner...it's people at home.