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American Idol Semifinals Round 2: The Guys
Cut it out with the hand signs, boys. Especially you, Daughtry. I know you think it's all Rocker, but it just looks stupid.
Rats, I still can't find the torrent for last night -- no idea how Ayla, The Pick, or Mandisa did. I heard the Idol folks are cracking down on media outside... Hrm.
Taylor Hicks - "Easy" - well, he's better than Jim Verraros. But this song is totally lackluster and he's trying to make it his own, and it's totally not working. I kind of liked him when he harmonica'd his way into the room in Hollywood, but he's done. He has outlived his usefulness. You are done, Hicks!
Elliot Yamin - "Moody's Mood For Love" - love his voice. Nevermind how sure he is of his song choice, the judges are going to smack him for this. Just so everyone knows, the vocal acrobatics he's doing are *really* impressive. Hey, wow, the judges like him.
RANDY, I'MA CUT YOU. Stop this Dog Pound shit. Seriously.
Ace Young - "If I'm Not Made For You" - he is so hot. And he has his beanie. Okay, his falsetto is not nice. Also, I made the mistake of looking away for a second early on in the performance and I realized how flat he was for most of the first half of the song. And how thin and nasal his voice is. Once he pushed his hair back, though, the spell was returned. He's just... he's gorgeous. It's not fair. The musicality was actually better the second half even without taking into account the magic spell that is his looks. BRENNA YOU BITCH, GIVE HIM BACK HIS BEANIE.
Gedeon McKinney - "Change Is Gonna Come" - okay, his voice in the flashback and in this song? Much better than last week. MUCH. Even though I think he way over-enunciates everything in his speech, this was a great performance for him. Okay, tired of the "God bless you" bit. But he really is a throwback -- if he pulls the Motown card every week he could probably go far. Provided, of course, that he doesn't choose Motown songs that can't be done in a minute and a half.
Kevin Covais - "Heard It Through The Grapevine" - he's doing WHICH song? Oh lord. This is... not music. This is comedy. He still has zero stage presence even though his voice is nice enough. It's like high school talent show idol. His speaking voice is such a disconnect -- he sounds so much older than he really is. I don't understand what Randy and Paula are saying -- were they watching the same thing? Paula, step away from the sixteen-year-old. Ryan, no guy needs *your* kind of help with the ladies.
Sway - "Overjoyed" - somebody please turn his mic up; he sounds like he's not making any noise. This song is boring. FLAT FLAT FLAT. Not as nasal as I'd expected, surprisingly. Wait, not as good as last week? Randy, what are you on? Okay, so he does much better than his craptastic showing last week and he gets pounded? I'm not sure I get that. Simon's right, though -- pure karaoke.
Will Makar - "Lady" - still adorable. He looks so much like John Mayer. Oh my god. He was TWELVE in Season 1. This song is too old for him. He's also making it like a dirge, which is weird. ELEVEN-year-old girls? RYAN, HE'S SIXTEEN. ::sputters::
Bucky Covington - "The Thunder Rolls" - tonight he looks like one of the girls I went to college with, plus a moustache. It's really freaky, actually. His bit about the menu? Totally fake. He's got the mushmouth going on again when he gets about halfway through the song, but the first bit was actually intelligible. He's also... clean. Okay, cleaner. HA! And he gets the Lindsey Cardinale Memorial Thunderclap. I think he just saved himself from elimination this week.
David Radford - "The Way You Look Tonight" - snore. I mean, he's good at what he does, but this is not the thing for him. Simon's right -- he was a bundle of nerves. And wow, they brought the music REALLY fast. He has such a gorgeous smile. And he looks kind of like a very young Josh Jackson. Okay, what people have to realize is that THIS IS HIS REAL VOICE. It is not an affectation, like the TWoP recappers seem to think -- some peoples' voices actually sound like that, and he's one of them. He's done well with what he's got, but this is not the competition for him.
Chris Daughtry - "Hemmorhage (In My Hands)" - if you want people to feel like they're at a rock concert, sing a rock concert, not an Idol show. He looks way too "dressy casual" for this. He's got a great voice, but I think he's thrashing his cords. Some pitchiness, but mostly pretty good.
Oh, come on, Randy. Pick up those names you just dropped.
Top six: Elliot, Gedeon (wtf?), Chris, Taylor, Ace, Kevin
Optional: Will
Out: David, Sway
Cut it out with the hand signs, boys. Especially you, Daughtry. I know you think it's all Rocker, but it just looks stupid.
Rats, I still can't find the torrent for last night -- no idea how Ayla, The Pick, or Mandisa did. I heard the Idol folks are cracking down on media outside... Hrm.
Taylor Hicks - "Easy" - well, he's better than Jim Verraros. But this song is totally lackluster and he's trying to make it his own, and it's totally not working. I kind of liked him when he harmonica'd his way into the room in Hollywood, but he's done. He has outlived his usefulness. You are done, Hicks!
Elliot Yamin - "Moody's Mood For Love" - love his voice. Nevermind how sure he is of his song choice, the judges are going to smack him for this. Just so everyone knows, the vocal acrobatics he's doing are *really* impressive. Hey, wow, the judges like him.
RANDY, I'MA CUT YOU. Stop this Dog Pound shit. Seriously.
Ace Young - "If I'm Not Made For You" - he is so hot. And he has his beanie. Okay, his falsetto is not nice. Also, I made the mistake of looking away for a second early on in the performance and I realized how flat he was for most of the first half of the song. And how thin and nasal his voice is. Once he pushed his hair back, though, the spell was returned. He's just... he's gorgeous. It's not fair. The musicality was actually better the second half even without taking into account the magic spell that is his looks. BRENNA YOU BITCH, GIVE HIM BACK HIS BEANIE.
Gedeon McKinney - "Change Is Gonna Come" - okay, his voice in the flashback and in this song? Much better than last week. MUCH. Even though I think he way over-enunciates everything in his speech, this was a great performance for him. Okay, tired of the "God bless you" bit. But he really is a throwback -- if he pulls the Motown card every week he could probably go far. Provided, of course, that he doesn't choose Motown songs that can't be done in a minute and a half.
Kevin Covais - "Heard It Through The Grapevine" - he's doing WHICH song? Oh lord. This is... not music. This is comedy. He still has zero stage presence even though his voice is nice enough. It's like high school talent show idol. His speaking voice is such a disconnect -- he sounds so much older than he really is. I don't understand what Randy and Paula are saying -- were they watching the same thing? Paula, step away from the sixteen-year-old. Ryan, no guy needs *your* kind of help with the ladies.
Sway - "Overjoyed" - somebody please turn his mic up; he sounds like he's not making any noise. This song is boring. FLAT FLAT FLAT. Not as nasal as I'd expected, surprisingly. Wait, not as good as last week? Randy, what are you on? Okay, so he does much better than his craptastic showing last week and he gets pounded? I'm not sure I get that. Simon's right, though -- pure karaoke.
Will Makar - "Lady" - still adorable. He looks so much like John Mayer. Oh my god. He was TWELVE in Season 1. This song is too old for him. He's also making it like a dirge, which is weird. ELEVEN-year-old girls? RYAN, HE'S SIXTEEN. ::sputters::
Bucky Covington - "The Thunder Rolls" - tonight he looks like one of the girls I went to college with, plus a moustache. It's really freaky, actually. His bit about the menu? Totally fake. He's got the mushmouth going on again when he gets about halfway through the song, but the first bit was actually intelligible. He's also... clean. Okay, cleaner. HA! And he gets the Lindsey Cardinale Memorial Thunderclap. I think he just saved himself from elimination this week.
David Radford - "The Way You Look Tonight" - snore. I mean, he's good at what he does, but this is not the thing for him. Simon's right -- he was a bundle of nerves. And wow, they brought the music REALLY fast. He has such a gorgeous smile. And he looks kind of like a very young Josh Jackson. Okay, what people have to realize is that THIS IS HIS REAL VOICE. It is not an affectation, like the TWoP recappers seem to think -- some peoples' voices actually sound like that, and he's one of them. He's done well with what he's got, but this is not the competition for him.
Chris Daughtry - "Hemmorhage (In My Hands)" - if you want people to feel like they're at a rock concert, sing a rock concert, not an Idol show. He looks way too "dressy casual" for this. He's got a great voice, but I think he's thrashing his cords. Some pitchiness, but mostly pretty good.
Oh, come on, Randy. Pick up those names you just dropped.
Top six: Elliot, Gedeon (wtf?), Chris, Taylor, Ace, Kevin
Optional: Will
Out: David, Sway
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2. If you kill Randy, I'll totally alibi for you.
3. Sway was baaaaaad this week.
4. Never look away when Ace is on. The pretty tries to overwhelm the bad and tonight without the pretty, there wasn't anything. Also? The song sucks to begin with.
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2. I had a feeling you'd get my back.
3. Yep. So much for the hometown boy.
4. Yeah, that was my sad, sad realization. It won't happen again. The looking away, that is, not the poor singing from him. I suspect THAT will happen again fairly frequently. Sigh. I wish there were more of a connect between how they actually sound on-set and how they sound on TV.
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2. That's what friends are for. Which, coincidently, is just about the ONLY stevie wonder related song that has NOT been butchered on this program.
3. *snerk* Yeah, I'm not that kind of loyal.
4. It would be nice to just get live without any post-production work. I belive there have been many articles about how they work to make people sound worse/better.
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dude. I love ace more than life and I was CRINGING last night as he was singing. last week I thought he really WAS fantastic (and omg hot) and this week was realy pretty bad (but still, you know, OMG HOT.)
I actually kinda like chris but I thik it's more like a by default thing that anything else. everyone else other than ace and chris (and sometimes taylor and elliot but thats it) are TERRIBLE imo.
I want to smack that bitch brenna SO HARD my hand twitches when I see her fucking face on screen.
(also, HI. I friended you like, LAST NIGHT and am half in love wth you already. just sos's you know *g* ♥)
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Chris... I feel like this whole rocker thing is real for him, but he comes off like he's mocking the show, which. I get that it ups his "cred". But screw that shit. I do like his voice, but I worry about him thrashing his cords like he does.
I was... pleasantly surprised by Gedeon. I still don't like him, but his was probably top-3 level material last night, which WTF? He bugs, though. He's trying to be George, and that won't work.
Oh god, Brenna. SO MUCH HATE. She's gone this week or next, or there's gonna be justifiable homicide.
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