One thing to also consider is that the songs are back to "Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am" lengths which makes it harder to do songs any justice. Look at Taylor's PTFM....opening bars, jump right in rather than letting the guitar strum, a big "Heyyyyyyyy", the band kicks in and then 20 seconds are gone before the real vocal starts. If they miss a note or start off out of synch with the band (which wasn't great last night) then you can pretty much forget the song.
When there are 4 contestants maybe they can up the song to 2 minutes. Elliott's second song would have been better and Taylor could certainly have drawn it out longer.
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If next week is Elvis week, do you think they will split the theme again? What might the other songs be?