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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009My rankings for tonight:
Adam Lambert: In terms of sheer talent and artistry, the guy’s miles ahead of everyone else. I still don’t think he’ll win, though. He’s too weird for the Idol crowd. Maybe this sounds weird, but with the goth vibe and the theatrics, he sorta’ reminds me of a male Dita Von Teese.
Matt Giraud: With Allison Iraheta, my favorite right now. The guy has ridiculous soul. Probably his best performance of the competition. And yeah, Marvin is exactly the kind of stuff he needs to be singing every week.
Allison Iraheta: Can’t believe she almost went home last week. Maybe it’s best if she bows out soon, though. Everyone knows she can sing. Go home soon, and she could cut an edgy album that isn’t Idol mush.
Kris Allen: I’m still not a fan, but he was nearly flawless this week. Have to give him some credit. And he’ll get voted much, much higher than where I’d put him.
Anoop Desai: Another nice performance tonight. I had written him off, but the guy’s got a voice. I do think, however, that it would be a mistake for him to take the judges’ advice and go upbeat next week. He got himself back into this with ballads. He should stick with them.
Danny Gokey: I still think he’s the favorite. He’s likeable, he can wail, and he isn’t threatening in the way Adam Lambert is. He was good tonight. Probably didn’t help or hurt himself.
Lil’ Rounds: Motown should’ve been her chance to move to the front of the pack. She was just okay. I think one change would have made the whole thing much better: Save for the last time, each time she sang the word “heatwave,” she went low. She should’ve gone high. It would have made a huge difference. The judges are probably right that the song needed to slow down a bit, too. But a huge missed opportunity for her.
Megan Joy, Michael Sarver, Scott MacIntyre: The prime candidates for elimination over the next three weeks. All three are decidedly behind the rest of the pack. Megan Joy’s vibratto is wearing really thin. Cute is only going to get her so far. Sarver’s a likeable guy, but clearly out of his league, now. And MacIntyre just keeps disappointing each week. He sounded whiny this week.
“Maybe this sounds weird, but with the goth vibe and the theatrics, he sorta’ reminds me of a male Dita Von Teese.”
Yes. Very Weird.
I think Adam Lambert can win it. I really like Danny Gokey, but he seems too consistent to stand out. Adam Lambert is the person I most wanted to see perform tonight, and I bet that’s true for a lot of people.
My top three right now are Alllison, Adam, and Danny. I can’t stand Megan, and I agree that Michael is out of his league. But I’d rather watch him than Megan.
Lambert has a ton of drama training and it shows. He probably won’t win, but he’ll be #2 or 3. He absolutely nailed it this evening.
I am in total agreement with your bottom three. It was a pick’em for everyone else. Hopefully, Megan Joy is canned. I don’t think I could stand another week of 30′s radio boop…
I really liked Megan in her audition and throughout the early rounds of this competition, but ever since “Rockin’ Robin,” she’s been losing me and this week was no exception.
I was disappointed in Lil Rounds, but i still like her a lot and I think “the week where you sing the music that is your style and everybody expects you to be awesome” is one of the hardest weeks as people invariably get either “I was expecting so much more!” or “Your choice was too safe” or “I can see what you were trying to do with changing it, dude, but it didn’t work.”
Adam Lambert feels to marketed to me. He sounds good, but a big mac tastes good and that doesn’t mean I’m giving one a prize for cuisine. Danny Gokey is creepy.
Lil and Alison all the way.
Meagan killed, or is it Meagan murdered that song! She needs go.
I’m still saying Lambert is destined to join Clay on Broadway.
What you wrote about Allison Iraheta is precisely the reason I don’t watch the show. Idol is to music what doughnuts are to food.
can’t disagree more on Adam Lambert. He was just too weird, and as @MacK said, he belongs on broadway.
I’m with @CC — I really dug Meagan early on in the season, but she’s a one-trick pony and is getting old. Besides, every time she does her little twisty-dance I become physically ill.
I think Allison was amazing last night, and she keeps getting better. I’d like to see her win, because I like seeing her every week. However, I agree that getting out from under the Idol curse would be better long-term for her career.
Thought Danny was good as usual, but he’s starting to look the same every week as well. Very commercial, but somewhat boring.
Love Adam, and he doesn’t fit into any of the categories that past winners fit into. I’ve noticed that every season’s winner seems to be a different kind of singer – interesting in a this-is-all-rigged kind of way. But he may just be a little too far out there, which of course, makes him my favorite.
Anyone else think he looked just like Kurt Russell playing Elvis last night?
Meghan’s phrasing works for some kinds of music, but she does it to every freaking song. She drives me insane.