Did anyone notice that Sundance almost lost it (started laughing) when he replaced "harmless little fuck" with "harmless little punk"? He turned away and almost looked like he was trying not to laugh. For the rest of the performance, I was trying not to laugh/cringe.

That's some funny stuff, right there.

I'm sorry, but Guy Smiley is already taken:

Given the couple of comments I cut-and-pasted yesterday about artists doing well after their songs are used on AI, it will be interesting to see if 311 gets a bump on downloads of the song Blake did, since it's so old.

I found it absurd, btw, that none of the judges knew that song.

You sparked me to look at iTunes and see if there is any impact yet... A few things that jumped out..

A) Yamin has an album? I'll have to see if it is any good.
B) Waiting on The World to change is #30, but it may have been high already
C) Geek In The Pink is 46 (my fiance contributed to that), but it also may have been high already
D) 5 of the top 100 songs on iTunes are from idol contestants, and only 1 is a winner (1 for Underwood, 2 for Daughtry, 1 for Yamin, 1 for McPhee). That's pretty impressive.

Looked more like he turned to the girls, who I'd guess were giving him shit on how he was gonna change the verse and if he would remember to. But I also only saw it once...


While it's still terrible, I could understand that they didn't know the name of the band, the name of the song, or even both. But to have never heard it before? Jesus.

Considering none of the judges were aware last year that the RHCPs had covered Higher Ground (their backpeddling the night after Daughtry's performance notwithstanding), I didn't find it all that hard to believe they'd never heard that song before. In fact, it had been so long since I'd heard it, I immediately thought it was 311 then wasn't sure, because Blake's laid back version of it neutered the original so much I started having second thoughts. But then he went into the part of the song that is in virtually every other 311 song I've ever heard, and I knew it was them.

Wasn't that for Live's version of I Walk the Line?

I had never heard that 311 song before, so there.

Probably for both. But I specifically remember the uproar about the RHCP's version, which the judges lauded for being unique and that "he made it his own, dawg."

Oh, and how about Randy throwing out Steve Perry's name in comparison to The Insane Bald Guy? I thought my wife was going to strangle Randy through the TV set.

That was an awful show to watch. Good thing I had it tivo'd and I could fast forward through most of it.
Blake and Chris were the best of the night while I think Jared and Sanjaya will go home.

Oh yeah? I'd never heard of 311 before!

I don't find it all that surprising that they didn't know the song. I haven't heard the song or group before either.

Funny comment from a recap of last night:


"Sundance reveals that inside him there is a thin man trying to escape. As he performs "Jeremy", we learn that it's not Eddie Vedder."

Ironic given the Captain America thread, but for the first time, I have found spoiler info about songs for tonight's show. How should this be handled? A link, no info, or post it after a big spoiler alert at the top of the post and a bunch of space?

This is info that I well understand is spoiler-worthy...

first off - I'm baffled that this is obvious to you but the other thread is not, but I do understand your logic...

Anyways... I think a link is the right way to go.

spill it spoiler boy

It's simple, really - if there was even one real news article discussing it, I might feel differently. But this is all speculation that isn't being reported by anyone other than college kids with nothing better to do all day.

Like I said, I understand the logic, it just baffles me.

FWIW, I don't think the C.A. thing should be a news story.

What the girls are singing tonight:


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Gina's rumored song choice terrifies me. That could be an unmitigated disaster.

Great, now we're going to have a bunch of posts with veiled references to some characteristics of the song choices, and I'm going to end up the bad guy in YET ANOTHER THREAD over spoilers! ;)

You're a very bad man, K.

Meant to ask this when I posted last night. I was talking over what Ryan said to the judges when Sanjaya finished his song. The judges cracked up, so Ryan must have said something funny for once. What was it?

Sanjaya looks like a less codeined Paula.

He was referring to Sanjaya hair. He said that Sanjaya has split ends like Paula.

Ah thanks JB. And Easy Mac for the humor. :)

Looks like a fun choice to me. Could be a disaster, but should be interesting either way

"I just wish you could sing better."

-Simon Cowell


hahaha

I really like Evanescence sound mainly because of Amy's vocals. Good try but way short to me.

it was good for me until the very end... seemed kinda odd...

Too extreme for the audience...

nice pink bra showing thorugh the grey dress.

Doolittle > Everyone else

quite easily, too.

This is what I was hoping for all along from Gina. Is her voice as good as several of the other singers? No. However, I enjoyed her performance more than any of the other contestants tonight.

Overall, Gina and Jordin are still my favorite. I conced that Stephanie, Lakisha, and definitely Melinda are better singers. However, they have all stuck to performances that don't do it for me. From the females I prefer more pop or rock sound than gospel/mo-town/R&B. Sabrina seems to be in the middle somewhere, but she just doesn't sing as well.

Anyway. I'm curious to see how this moves along. The reason I say this is Lakisha, Melinda, and Sabrina seem like they would be drawing from people who favor pure singing quality and the r&b sound - whereas some of the other contestants could benefit from votes being split amongst those 3...

Dola: And I still am curious to see how the "top 3" do with theme nights. Because they ahven't shown any effort to move outside of a small comfort zone.

Again - I concede they are superior singers, so don't misinterpret what i'm saying to say that they are not ;).

1. I like Gina's voice, but she is no Amy Lee. Not quite a disaster, but I think it was bad enough that she loses out to the pro-Antonella crowd.

2. Melinda Doolittle just has a gear that no one else in this competition has.

See tonight, I don't think you can say that. Lakeesha was easily as good or better. Melinda was good but she didn't have her usual Secretariat crush the field by 20 lengths performance.

I thought Gina was a revelation tonight. She brought her game and has a good chance to hang around a long time if she sticks to her game. She should go back and watch Chris from last year. Almost every week, Chris took whatever the theme was, picked a song from the theme and proceeded to Daughtrify it. Gina can do the same thing, she can hang around a long time doing so. She sang powerfully (as opposed to a couple of the guys last night who chose to sing loud).

I thought Antonella improved a lot too. She can still go home for me based on back performance. Haley can go based on whatever criteria.

guh. no. out of tune (again).

[quote=adubroff;1412971]See tonight, I don't think you can say that. Lakeesha was easily as good or better. Melinda was good but she didn't have her usual Secretariat crush the field by 20 lengths performance.
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What? She is not in not even in the same league as Lakisha anymore. She is completely in a different league, buy far. Lakisha struggled with the lower range of her song. And Melinda blew through another song with a high degree of difficultly as if it was nothing. She really has no business on this show. I can't imagine how she could possible lose this season.

I'll bet you even money if you wanna give me field.

I don't think Melinda will have a problem with theme weeks at all. However, I do agree the the others may struggle unless they choose songs that have been previously rearranged to sound like R & B songs.

The problem is that just because Doolittle is by far and away the best singer on AI does not mean that she'll win. Why? Because there are enough Antonella-like idiots who will vote for less talented people. However, even if Doolittle does not win, it does not change the fact that she is the best and most polished singer of all in this year's competition.

1. Melinda - clean and polished, with all kinds of personality.
2. Lakisha - my first listen she sounded out of tune several times and the interpretation was odd, second listen while the son was screaming and my wife was watching it after getting home on DVR was much better.
3. Gina - only because of the song. It freakin ruled. She struggled with pitch and sustaining some of the longer notes, but what the hell is that song? It was badass.
5. Jordin - on merit basically. Was that Pat Benatar? okie dokie.
6. umm. the others start to run together. I think one of the Beyonce clones was a little better than the other, though.
7. Haley - She is pretty. Also she sang in tune except about twice. Beyond that, meh.
8. Oh are you still here?

Honestly, I don't think Melinda will win because she doesn't have quite the back story tug that Lakeesha has.

"Call me when you're sober" - Evanescence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYIO9VtjUs

I wouldn't recommend that you listen to it if you liked Gina's performance, though. It will ruin it for you, 'cuz Gina is definitely no Amy Lee.

Oooooo baby! Give me some of that tug!

why would you want any kind of "tug" from either of them?

You know what, that song just freaking rules. I may have to listen to more "Evanescence." I have heard the name, but not really the music, I guess.

MJ4H, you and I need to have a discussion about symphonic/gothic metal. If you think that Evanescence song ruled, you ain't heard nothing yet. They might be the most popular of the genre, but the American bands have nothing on the Europeans. I'm currently listening to the new Within Temptation and it kills anything Amy Lee could hope to do.