AI6 - Round of 11 - Results
I hate it when I overthink things. I was gunshy of picking Stephanie this week, and just look at what happens!
But that’s not nearly what I thought was going to happen. They pulled a neat fake-out trick last night. They declared people safe in groups of three. When they got to the group of Sanjaya, Gina, and Haley, everyone knew that those were your bottom three. And when Ryan said that they weren’t the bottom three, I parsed the words very carefully and I knew just what he meant — they weren’t the whole bottom three, but one or two of them were definitely part of the bottom three.
No, that wasn’t it, either: Chris Richardson and Stephanie Edwards were the bottom two. I suppose when you need to make time for your two guest mentors to sing songs, you need to cut to the chase a little quicker. I liked it.
Heck, I even agreed with the bottom two in a weird way. I’m all for getting Chris out of there. He annoys me, and I’m happy to see I’m not the only one who doesn’t vote for him. I like Stephanie and think she has a great voice, but she’s been off her game lately, and had a rough week this week on a song she should have nailed.
Stephanie went home, in the end.
On the bright side, this means my initial predictions for the season have been right two weeks in a row. If Haley goes out next week - and that’s a real possibility - then I’ll have started the season off with the hat trick.
What more need be said? Oh, sure, Lulu was bad. Ghastly. Hideous. It was the kind of performance people go to to see the stars of yesteryear attempt to croon out their ancient hits, but without the vocal chops, the hair, or the leather pants. Well, she tried the leather pants, so I’ll give her that. But she shouldn’t sing. She knows what she’s talking about, but her time has passed, sorry to say.
Peter Noone wasn’t much better, but he also had a much easier song.
That said, I want to see one of the contestants try “To Sir With Love” some week. Imagine Gina rocking out to it? Nah, neither do I.
One last note: I rewatched Jordin’s performance of “I Who Have Nothing Last Night” from Tuesday night. When I wasn’t busy scratching out notes and could just pay attention to the performance, it got even better. That may have unwittingly been an Idol Moment. We might look back at that song in much the same way we looked back at Kelly Clarkson singing “Natural Woman” in season one — the song where she claimed her stake in Idol lore.
Or, I could be wildly overselling it.
De Blieck Out!
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:52 am
So predictable that it was boring!
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:54 am
I don’t know that it was an Idol Moment, but Jordin came close on Tuesday. And the way she’s improving, I definitely expect some IMs from her before it’s over. (I thought Melinda had one with “My Funny Valentine.” Part of the secret is picking a really great song — like Fantasia with “Summertime” and Kat with “Over the Rainbow.”)
Sanyaja! Sanyaja! Sanyaja!
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:58 am
I would definitely call Jordin’s performance and Idol Moment. I expect big things from her over the next few weeks.
Although, to this day, I still refuse to call Katherine’s version of “Over the Rainbow” last year an Idol Moment!
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:59 am
That’s OK about Kat, Josh. I still refuse to call Tamyra Gray’s Season 1 “A House Is Not a Home” an Idol Moment, and yet for many it probably is THE Idol Moment. (I may change my mind when AI REWIND airs that performance, either this weekend or next.)
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:00 am
Lulu’s bizarre, plasticky bosom haunts me to this day.
March 26th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Some AI REWIND comments:
Round of 6. Big comeback for Justin this week — HUGE. As I’ve said before, he was MUCH better than I remembered. He and Tamyra were both great, but I thought Kelly was even better. And I had forgotten what happened to the contestant who was booted this week — a real heartbreaker.