Hello,
Here's a quick review of Big Band/ Rat Pack week. Jamie Foxx was the mentor, what? He was an okay mentor, but that is it. I hated the whole cool dude act he put on. What was that terrible performance he attempted Wednesday night? That was a terrible song, thank goodness for the DVR so that I could fast forward through it. Other than Natalie Cole's swinging rendition of "Something's Gotta Give" the results show performances were extremely weak. Taylor Hicks needs to fade into obscurity now, that was a very boring song.
1) Kris Allen sang "The Way You Look Tonight". I'm thinking about changing his name from Mr. Vanilla to Mr. Wussy Mustache. His performance was wimpy and his singing of that song was very weak. Can we have a double elimination next week? It would be cool to get rid of him and the Gokester in the same week. Grade D+. Buy: are you kidding me? No!
2) Allison Iraheta sang "Someone To Watch Over Me". That wasn't her best performance but it was still extremely solid. That is a great song. The judges loved her, except for Simon being a little lukewarm of her. Allison just turned 17 on Monday. Happy Birthday Allison. Let's hope that is not the only thing you are going to celebrate this year:) Grade B! Buy? I already did.
3) Matt Giraud sang "My Funny Valentine" and I thought he did a pretty solid performance of that song. The judges were mixed on him. Unfortunately he didn't have a big enough voting bloc to advance. Best of luck in your future career Matt. Grade B. Buy? maybe.
4) Danny Gokey sang "Come Rain, Come Shine" and it was okay. What was up with the weird gyrations though? The judges tripped over themselves showing him love. I'm realizing he could win the whole thing. That would be so unfortunate. That would give "AI" another Taylor Hicks like "winner". Grade: C-. Buy? I have proudly not bought one of Danny Gokey's performance and I'm certainly not going to start with that song.
5) Adam Lambert sang "Feeling Good", I thought that might have been the best performance of the night. He made up for that terrible "If I Can't Have You" on Disco night. Lambert is sort of a freak and I'll never be a big fan. However if he wins "AI" he would make a much more interesting CD than Danny Gokey or Kris Allen. I'd at least want to check it out. One more thing Adam, keep that tongue in your mouth when you sing. Grade: B. Buy? No. Although I did buy his excellent rocking track of "Born To Be Wild".
The result's show review. That was one of the most boring "AI" shows ever. I can sum it up with the following: filler and really bad performances. The show starts off with 13 minutes of filler. That includes Ryan plugging the "AI" tour for the four millionth time (I have kept track). Also we had to suffer through that lame food fight. That was so obvious it was scripted.
Then they started doing the results. Ryan asked Danny a question. He jabbered for several seconds without saying anything intelligent. He can replace Randy Jackson or Paula Abdul when they quit "AI". He certainly couldn't do a worse job. Then Allison and Danny were safe. That made for a very shocking bottom three: Adam, Kris and Matt.
It's then time for the only good performance of the night, Natalie Cole. She was great and is still looking fantastic. Natalie Cole sang at 8:24. Then there was more filler before Taylor Hicks took the stage and sang "7 Mile Breakdown". Boring! Hicks continues to prove winning "AI" is no guarantee of being a big-time star. He wasn't very convincing playing the guitar. It's pretty amazing looking back at Season 5 of "American Idol". He beat out Daughtry, Katherine McPhee and Kellie Pickler. All three are much bigger stars than him, except maybe for Katherine. She looks a lot better on my computer desktop than him.
Kris is safe joining Danny and Allison in safety. More filler then Kanye West Jr., Jamie Foxx, attempted to sing at 8:42. I call him Kanye Jr. because his song reminded me of Kanye West's song. Foxx's "performance" continued the lame performances of rappers on "Idol" this year. In fact Foxx's performance was so bad that I'm calling it filler. It has become time to limit technology with music. Tech-
nology makes music worse as much as it helps make it better. (Thank goodness next week is rock week and we'll have the reunited No Doubt and Daughtry performing.)
Adam is safe, that will scare his fans into voting for him a lot next week. Matt is going home, leaving with another solid performance of "My Funny Valentine"
As I've already mentioned next week is rock week. Guns N' Roses former fantastic guitarist Slash will be taking on the mentor role. Let's hope he can be a great mentor, the mentors have sort of been lame this season. This should be a great week for Allison and Adam and I think a bad week for Danny and Kris. Allison has to do really well or she might be going home. Danny and Adam have big voting blocs behind them so I think they'll be safe for one more week.
Thanks for reading, themusicaddict
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