The performance I disliked the most was Kellie Pickler's rendition of 'Walkin After Midnight.' That was HORRIBLE, just horrible. I mean, the woman in the song is not walking after midnight to pick up tricks, but that's exactly how Hickler sang it. Slutty, cheap, trashy, totally missed the meaning of the song, and she was also flat in several places. For the first time in AI history, I actually found myself hating a contestant.
ROFL!! I don't think Manilow was that thrilled with her either. IIRC, he told her that she was singing the song wrong during practice. Either the Gherkin ignored him or his advice just went over her head.
Manilow probably had to take some aspirin after she left :)
Manilow did try to tell her the meaning of the song, but she's incapable of feeling that music, I guess. On the other hand, Manilow did tell her she has a good voice. She has a so-so voice with a tendency to go flat from time to time. You know those old records and record players. You how sometimes a record would have a small scratch and when the needle came to it, it would sound like the singer dropped a note or went flat or something?
Listen carefully to Pickler. Her voice will be reasonably melodic, then all of a sudden there will be a catch and she goes flat for a few notes before coming back. Strange. Her pronounciation of some of the words in that song last night was also strange.
Good evening...
I posted Tradesports last night around midnight and AOL poll today.
Here's what Tradesports has now:
Bucky is trading at $64 per share (out of $100) so he's pretty much a sure thing to go home tonight.
Next is Lisa at $28 and Elliott at $18.
Kevin is at $15
The rest are in the single numbers. (Even Paris and Ace are single numbers....too bad)