Smithson's poor showing leaves her in trouble
To mark "Idol Gives Back," the eight finalists were able to pick a song they considered inspirational this week. The two singers with the most at stake did the best job at picking songs that inspired the judges while in contrast others with a better history on the show failed meserably. Jason Castro Simon Cowells target for his percieved lack of committment regards the show decided to sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" a serious risk given its history. Credit to Castro he made it work. Randy Jacksons thoughts were, "Jason Castro is back in the hunt. That was crazy, molten hot." and Simon called the performance fantastic, so it would seem Castro did enough to make it through another week.Kristy Lee Cook, whos spent so much time in the bottom three that shes resrved her own stool did all she could to earn her place on the comfortable seats of safety this week by selecting her song wisely and doing a nice job with Martina McBrides "Anyway." It didnt make anyone forget the original, but it also didnt make anyone change the channel, has she finally sussed it?Randy said that he loved it, and that "it was really good for you," but it was in a somewhat negative unenthusiastic tone. Simon was good with it saying, "With a choice this broad, you have an opportunity to show who you are as an artist, and I thought you were very, very good indeed. You look like a star tonight, Kristy." so the undoubted talent is starting to show through Kristy should survive.David Archuleta once again drew raves for his version of Robbie Williams "Angels." Always unpredictable in his song choices, the teenager made the right choice.
The rest though were at best bland at worst poor with five singers who will be particulary nervous heading into Wednesdays charity concert and Thursdays results show.
David Cook should be ok given his recent string of strong performances, but his version of "Innocent" by Our Lady Peace. The most original of the hopefuls most weeks, and in our opinion the most talented of the "Idol" finalists, struggled.
Paula Abdul as you would expect loved it, but Simon spoke for most in the audience when he said, "I didnt like this performance very much at all. I thought it was a teensy-eensy bit pompous. It wasnt anywhere near as good as the past two weeks."Meanwhile Michael Johns, who opened the night with "Dream On" by Aerosmith. The song was right in his musical genre but nobody other than Paula thought he got it.
Simon cast doubts on his rocker credential when he said "I thought it was a very good performance - (but) I dont like it when you do an impression of a rock star. I thought it was a little wannabe-ish," ouch...
Brooke White predictable Brooke, always perfectly nice and pleasant, but never truly memorable and this week she slipped further down the memorable scale, so the bottom three may once again be beckoning. Seeing the teary-eyed Brooke perform Carole Kings "Youve Got a Friend," probably meant the judges went easy on her
Syesha Mercado sang "I Believe" by Fantasia with the judges drawing comparisons to the "Idol" winner, it was inevitable she would recieve negative comments.
Carly Smithson improved this week, but only in her dress sense, she headed Simons advice but in choosing a Queen song, she didnt match Freddie Mercurys vocals on "The Show Must Go On," and it didnt help that her performance depreciated as she went on.
This drew Simon to say "I thought you oversang it to the point where you lost control of it at the end," adding "It came across as an angry performance, and you actually might be in a bit of trouble." Even 'feelgood' Paula said she didnt feel engaged... Smithsons in big trouble as she sweats out the counting of the votes.
Bottom three prediction of Smithson, Mercado, White.
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