American Idol 9 Top 12 – Results Show Recap
Lacey Brown is eliminated, and the judges DO NOT CHOOSE to save her.
The Judge’s Save has been brought back for Season 9 The panel will have the option of saving the eliminated contestant, up until week 5
- David Cook performs “Jumpin Jack Flash” – VIDEO
- Ford Commercial – VIDEO
- Paige Miles and Tim Urban are in the B3 – VIDEO
- Orianthi sings “According to You” – VIDEO
- Ke$ha sings “Blah Blah Blah” (horribly) – VIDEO
- Lacey Brown is in the B3. Tim Urban is sent back to the couches. – VIDEO
- Lacey Brown is eliminated, sings “The Story”, the judges do not save here – VIDEO
- The Top 12 perform the music of the Rolling Stones. Download their Top 12 singles on iTunes HERE.
David Cook’s performance of the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” will be available as a paid download from iTunes tomorrow!
The right person went home tonight, more or less. While Lacey Brown wasn’t improving much week by week, she wasn’t horrifying audiences either. Tim Urban’s continued presence in the competition should at least produce some lulz-worthy moments, although I have no desire to see him on tour. Paige was the best she’s ever been Tuesday night. I’m glad she was safe.
I have mixed feelings about the return of the judges save. I knew they’d bring it back, because the save is TV gold. The drama of desperate contestants singing for their lives is too delicious for the network execs to pass up. I find it uncomfortable to watch personally. And what’s more, I truly believe AMERICA should have the final say, even if that say seems like a mistake.
Sure, the Matt Giraud save was a warm and fuzzy moment last year, but as I saw it, he really didn’t deserve to be saved. Matt’s save cut short, Anoop Desai’s run–a contestant who was actually stepping it up rather than choking. These things should really be allowed to run their course, I believe.
One minor change with the save: Lacey was able to pick her own song to sing, rather than forced to sing for her life with the song that got her kicked off in the first place. Definitely an improvement to the gimmick–makes it a little less cruel.
So, David Cook was pretty awesome tonight. He showed the kids how the freak to cover the Rolling Stones on the great big karaoke show. Orianthi seems very talented, but it’s a pity she’s saddled with such crappy material. Ke$sha was like a 10th rate Lady Gaga. She was ridiculous.
Live blog after the JUMP…
Tonight, David Cook and Orianthi perform LIVE on the big Idol stage! Ke$sha pre-taped her performance today. And of course one of the Top 12 will be eliminated tonight.
Ryan wishes us Happy St. Patrick day. Kieran the lighting guy is celebrating!
Ryan and Simon discuss Ryan’s “aggressive” behavior last night. They continue to eyeball each other. What shtick!
OOOH The judges save is on! The judges will have the option of saving the eliminated contestant, up until week 5. Should make for some good TV.
David Cook takes the stage to sing “Jumpin Jack Flash” and, he rocks his face off. Wow. This is frickin’ awesome.
Ryan chats with David afterward. David is very excited for his next record to come out. He’s busy working on it. David will be going to Africa for Idol Gives Back.
So, no Rolling Stones pointy pose from the kids?
First Ford pimpmercial! The kids design their own cars. Casey wasn’t’ there, he was battling the flu. Behind the scenes, the kids design Ford Fiestas. Wow, I’d love a car with big ugly paint splootches all over it.
Time for the results. Kieran dim the lights! Paige Miles stands up first. She says she’s feeling better. Oh noes! Paige is in the bottom 3. Lee Dewyze is next. He says he needs to be himself and let loose from this moment on. Lee is safe. He sits down.
Siobhan is next. More comparisons to Adam Lambert. Ellen says Siobhan already stands out. Siobhan is of course, safe. Aaron Kelly is next. Ryan explains the Justin Timberlake comparison from last night. He’s safe. Andrew Garcia and Tim Urban stand up. Kara says she’s not comfortable seeing people leave, but unfortunately both belong in the B3. Andrew is safe, Tim is in the Bottom 3.
Guitar Goddess, Orianthi takes the stage to sing her single, “According to You”. Ergh. This chick is a fantastic guitar player. Why is 19 forcing her to sing sh*tty songs? This song is crap.
More eliminations: Didi is next. She says she follows her intuition when she picks out songs. Her mom is in the audience. Didi is safe. Crystal Bowersox is next. Seeing her Dad crying on tape affected her last night. Crystal says she’s never thought for one second that she had it in the bag, and please don’t put words in my mouth thankyouverymuch. Crystal is safe.
Katie Stevens is next. Katie says the remarks from the panel can be confusing. Kara says there’s an inconsistency with her vocals. Kara sees her more as a Pop R&B singer. Simon disagrees. He thinks she should be doing country. Ellen says more mariachi. I think they are kidding. Anyway, Katie is safe.
Mike Lynch is next. He watched it back, and in so many words (he’s inspired by THE PEOPLE) he says he doesn’t think he’s corny. Lacey Brown and Casey James are next. Lacey is in the Bottom 3. Casey is safe. Simon thinks one of the contestants is worth saving (He doesn’t say who, but it’s either Casey or Paige). Ellen gives a really wishy-washy answer to the question.
Ryan sends Tim Urban back to the couches.
After the break, Ke$ha sings her new single “Blah Blah Blah” The sway bots love it! OMG After the rap break, Ke$ha returned to the stage wearing a ridiculous Indian headress. Well, that was stupid.
ELIMINATION: Randy isn’t surprised to see them both there. Lacey Brown is eliminated. Will she be saved? Lacey Brown is eliminated. She sings “The Story” to save herself. Nice they get to perform a different song from the one that got them eliminated. She sounds pitchy. The judges pretend to “confer”. No freaking way are they gonna waste a save on her. And they don’t. Lacey says she might go the country route. It’s obvious she hasn’t figured that out. Lacey’s goodbye video rolls. Katie is crying. The end.
Safe:
Lee Dewyze
Siobhan Magnus
Aaron Kelly
Andrew Garcia
Didi Benami
Crystal Bowersox
Katie Stevens
Mike Lynch
Casey James
Bottom 3
Paige Miles
Tim Urban (Safe, sent back to the couches)
Lacey Brown
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Ok I do not… I repeat… I DO NOT want to live in a world that Kesha is a superstar!. That was awful! She doesn´t have the charisma and singing!
But isn’t that what we Idol fans do- compare our favorites to
EVERYONE else on earth?
No one has mentioned yet the the arguably biggest teen idol of them all, Frank Sinatra. Do you think anyone is ambitious enough to try to make him current?
She has really really ugly hairdos, though!
I’m encouraged by the voting. And I’m enough of a Pollyanna to think that *maybe* Tim was actually in second-to-last place but got sent back to the couches first because they would rather have Paige’s fans a little worried and motivated to vote than Tim’s….. Well, maybe not. But in any case, the votes prove that some of the weakest performances actually are among those in big danger. So yay for that.
While Lacey seems like a very sweet girl, and I kind of like her little vibe, I really have a hard time seeing her being able to focus and energize herself enough to really become a professional singer. I know her dad says she has no experience. But seems to me that she has probably sung a *lot* in church. And yet she’s still so wandery and wavery. But she seems to have confidence in it, and that certainly helps. … Not exactly sure what she has so much confidence *in* when it comes to her singing, though, I must say. It’s not strong in any way that I can see.
I can’tget back to quote but someone (to paraphrase) said that kesha’s wearing of the Native headress and kicking the TV screen
was SOME DEEP SHIT……Ha, aha,ha,ha, You must have meant crap….
that was some shallow crap!…Yikes!!
Orianthi Guiiiitar Ninja..yes,yes,yes. “Singer”… to borrow tonights
refrain…Blah, blah,Blah!!
LOL @fanaround…Adam may be a great singer and have more style than sense…You just don’t kiss people with obviously poor hygiene
habits!!
Yeah my humor is that bad!
Results spot on, except, it should have been Paige who was sent back to the couch first.
When I did my little recap yesterday I sent it before I realized
that I had only 11 peeps. I had to go back to the top, to find who I missed, and then I inserted her with the edit on “my picks to go”. Kinda….emphasizes the definition of forgettable, and she was one of my favs on her first audition for me….,Live and Learn!!!
I never heard of Kesha or Oriani before. Kesha was just horrible. Oriani was decent but nothing special.
Elimination. I won’t miss Lacey much. If nothing extraordinaire happens, there are 4-5 people who really need to go and I don’t care in what order they get eliminated.
Good that there wasn’t the option of judges save last week. They’d have a problem deciding who to give it to, 2 definetly deserved it. But I don’t think they’ll need to use it for the next 5 weeks and then we’re almost at top 5.
omg at ke$ha ICK that was horrid orianthi is an awesome guitar player not so sure bout the singing
Finally got to see David Cook & the Anthemic through the magic of YouTube after I got off work. So lovely to see them rock out again. so looking forward to new record and new tour! Glad Cookie gets restless easily so we see pop up like this. I like Idol Gives Back and I’m glad David gets to be involved.
That picture is kinda hilarious, it almost looks like one of them was photoshopped in between their different coloring and head size. Heh.
I refuse to admit how many times I watched the video of Cookie and his Anthemics
. And I know someone said 4,000 posts ago how adorable Monty looked – I love that guy, I think he’s adorable… So happy that we saw so much Neal. And Idol cameras have always loved Mr. Peek! Sigh, David Cook. Still can’t quit you after all this time. Six weeks (I think) ’til Race for Hope…
Well, there goes Merv’s big head theory, except for David cook and multitudes of others (George Clooney). Good thing I don’t bet; who knew those who deserved it would be in the bottom three? I tuned in and out last night. Was disappointed in D. Cook, whom I hadn’t seen in a long time and was curious about. Why did he hafta do a Stones song when he has original music? I thought it sounded retready…maybe b/c it was. His hair looks great, though.
I didn’t get the “deep” in Dollar-Sign-Name. Novelty viewing, would never think of buying it.
The save provides no drama, except, prolly, to contestants. They won’t use it for a dog’s age and will do it to save the ratings if someone really big is discarded by the public. Predict it to be very predictable.
I saw Ke$ha perform TicToc on a late-night talk show a while back and thought it was a real mess. I actually thought her performance of BlahBlahBlah was less of a mess on Idol last night, but yeah, it was still a mess.
I thought David Cook looked and sounded great. Orianthi was ok.
I was ok with Lacey going home, although it didn’t earn me any points in the pool, darn it. I’m ready for Tim and Katie to go.
Because he’s trying to get a single out in the next month (not very likely) or two (much more likely), and two performances of original music would be a) unusual for AI to allow outside of the reigning champ, as it’s kind of promotional double-dipping, and b) potentially confusing for viewers who won’t know which one is the new single.
(I would have felt differently about this if he hadn’t said in that one interview that he was thinking a single as early as April. He could be back very soon if that’s the case, or at least the very beginning of May. I was anticipating closer to the end, maybe Top 3 week.)
Well, Jumpin’ Jack Flash is a boring song, really. I thought Cook looked really, really great!! He dresses up real nice
For a more interesting version, take a look at the Leon Russell – Youngblood medley (from Woodstock, yeah it’s old…) It is very long, but if you have the time, it’s pretty great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZIi188Cakk
The whole Ke$ha success thing is one reason why I am so disappointed in “the industry” these days. Many of us here posting have a thing or two to say about her, but obviously someone is buying her uuuh, “product.” And I was also really disappointed when I found out that Glitterbert had kissed her. Oy. Come on man…
Moral of the story – keep listening to Led Zeppelin.
orianthi is a much better guitarist than singer, so i enjoyed her shredding a lot… i am keeping my eye on her career, as i think once they let her just do her thing – which isn’t straight ahead pop, she is going to explode… she’s also managed by simon fuller, her appearance has helped her album and single rise on itunes this morning – kesha has seen a good bump, as did cook…
Cook and The Anthemic kicked ass last night with a pretty mediocre song. The rest of the show was just painful to watch.
Yeah, WTF Adam.
If Ke$ha becomes a superstar I might have to do something drastic. Tik Tok is a STUPID song. Blah Blah Blah is pretty much the exact same song.
I actually think it’s because Keith Richards, ever an agent of chaos, rang up 19 HQ and in a rare moment of cognizant thought, mumble-slurred that he’d hunt them all down to the ends of the bloody earth if they carried out their plans for a Bradified lipsynced pointy pose Stones medly. Plus some cursing and stuff I can’t repeat. Rock gods can only handle so much indignity, you know. And, since Keith Richards is actually immortal and impervious to human weapons and also lethal amounts of alcohol, 19 thought it best to comply. So they turned to Commissioner Fuller, who sent up the Cook signal, which is like the Bat signal only guitar shaped. And thus our dark knight was beckoned back from Europe to save the day, because it was the performance that the Idol audience deserved, if not the one that Cook needs right now.
(Yes, I will go to any lengths to paraphrase my favorite movie quotes.)
Hee sunchick. I think I love you.
I agree that the song isn’t great, but I liked what they did with it. Shirley H, who visited rehearsals and interviewed DC said on twitter that he couldn’t decide on a Stones song, and thought about doing a medley. I think arranging a cool medley in two days of rehearsal sounds pretty ambitious, but that would’ve been fun too. I’m just not that familiar with the Stones, and JJF seemed like a not-very-dynamic song that DC and the guys tried to make more dynamic.
I definitely think the right person went home. Ugh.
This is the first season of American Idol I have watched since S3, so I wasn’t familiar with this whole Judges’ Save business. I don’t like it for exactly the same reasons MJ noted: I found it very uncomfortable to watch, and what’s the point of letting people vote for the people you want to save if the judges are going to say, “Nope, you got it wrong. THIS is the person you should save”? I think they tried to steal a page from the SYTYCD handbook which has a “Dance for Your Life” segment. The difference is, all of the bottom people dance for their lives, and the judges then *leave* to deliberate privately before returning to announce who they decided to save and who to send home. It’s ugly, rude and uncomfortable for the judges to just sit there and talk amongst themselves DURING the singing contestant’s desperate performance to save her or himself. That’s some craziness right there.
As far as AI contestants that have the vocal chops and also the self-knowledge of who they are as artists to be a valuable commodity to take the AI title and go on to have some sort of commercial success I can count them on one hand (in no particular order): Casey, Siobhan, Crystal. Ok, fine, I’ll throw in Lee, even though I don’t want to because he’s not bringing it, and he hits too many bad notes. And I’ll also someone reluctantly throw in Andrew. That’s 5 people, and only 3 of them are seriously worthy, for me.
Siobhan and Crystal are just about everybody’s picks for Top 2, but I’m liking Casey more and more. He’s got strong vocals, even if he’s not a powerhouse, and he’s not a green, completely inexperienced amateur like the vast majority of the contestants are. He also has the advantage of actually showing some growth and an arc on the show, unlike Crystal, who came out of the womb as a pro. I think Casey really knows who he is. He’ll go the distance.
Oh dear Lord, if things aren’t bad enough, now they are having those two bottled blonds on? Both of them stink!
First, I think he’s more talented than many of them this season. But also, to be fair to them, he has a lot more performing experience, he’s way more polished. I really admire David for how hard he works. I wonder if people realize how much you grow as a performer even with a small amount of experience?
yeah, but was he as good as Ke$ha?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UesYWymYKBE
And, since Keith Richards is actually immortal and impervious to human weapons and also lethal amounts of alcohol, 19 thought it best to comply. So they turned to Commissioner Fuller, who sent up the Cook signal, which is like the Bat signal only guitar shaped. And thus our dark knight was beckoned back from Europe to save the day, because it was the performance that the Idol audience deserved, if not the one that Cook needs right now.
You’re making me want an “Idol All Star Heroes” comic so bad.
And this year’s kids are still stuck being like one of those junior teams of sidekicks like the Teen Titans or the New Mutants where everyone seems like an imitation of a grown up hero (or previous contestant) and now they need to rise to the crisis and stand on a rooftop with capes blowing in the wind and say:
“OK kids, this time it’s up to US to save the world (aka Season 9 Idol)”
and sing some kickass songs. Or something.
Ok, my thoughts on the results show:
Pretty predictable. David Cook was the highlight of the ep, by far, and unfortunately he started things off, so it was all downhill from there. He easily showed how it’s done though – and WOW! Moving around the stage WHILE PLAYING GUITAR!! What a concept!!! (Take note, S9)
The judges questions for the contestants were tedious, drawn out, and just plain annoying (though I’m getting many lulz from the fact that Adam Lambert is like contractually obligated to be mentioned in every ep now, perhaps because TPTB feel they need to remind the audience of how great some of the talent in years past was
(but then I’m a little biased, lol) Still, Siobhan is no Adam. So, yeah, end of comparison, nor should she feel she needs to be like him. I mean, she’s definitely her own person, and she should embrace that rather than feel she needs to be just like him.
As for their questions to Crystal – OMFG! What is with the harsh treatment to Crystal!? She has never seemed arrogant at all, yet they proceed to, what, get some kind of drama or tension out of an otherwise lackluster group by pretending she WAS arrogant on the show? IDK – I was really irked by the judges comments to her.
And Katie, OMG, she and Tim are easily my least favs, by far. She especially seems to be tptb golden child, yet, she has done nothing to really merit that treatment! Her voice is pretty good (though not as good as most of the women remaining) and her performances are clumsy, or unconvincing, or too old-fashioned. IDGI. Oh, wells. I think she’ll make, like 7th or 8th, but any further and I’ll be pissed.
As for the bottom 3, would have rather seen either Andrew or Katie there instead of Paige, who was LEAGUES better this week, but Tim finally making a B3 appearance was pretty sweet
And Lacey going home was exactly as it should have been, so all is well there.
Orianthi – love her guitar playing, but not at all a fan of the song or her as a “lead singer”/pop star. Just isn’t very convincing, and she has zero charisma or star power as a vocalist. Her guitar playing, though, is truly kick ass awesome!
Kesha (not even using the dollar sign, sorry) – yeah, that was about as mindless and ridonculous as I had expected, maybe more so, with the WTF indian headdress and dancing TVs. Really coming off as a desparate Gaga wannabe.
My feelings for her are, her songs are insanely catchy, and I can see why they sell so much, but she, as a live performer, or as an artist of any substance or style, comes across very immature, very one-dimensional, and just clumsy and lazy. JMO.
“…So they turned to Commissioner Fuller, who sent up the Cook signal, which is like the Bat signal only guitar shaped. And thus our dark knight was beckoned back from Europe to save the day, because it was the performance that the Idol audience deserved, if not the one that Cook needs right now.”
sunchick… very funny and well-stated post! Thanks for the smile.
LOL – well, I think he was drinking at the time, so I’ll forgive him…this time…
ETA: and Sunchick, HI-LARIOUS post
Ke$ha is not the kind of music I listen to, but People have to remember that the reason why artists like her and Lady Gaga are huge is because they produce dance music. When the weekend rolls around the young kids hit the dance clubs and this is what they want to listen to. Dance music is not meant to be deep and thought provoking, it is meant to be mindless fun. So I don’t under estimate the popularity of some of the awful music that is out there.
David Cook bores me. After 2 years still no star quality about him, I guess that is why he is still looked over and doesn’t get the respect that a lot of his fans think he doesn’t get. His tone is average and his music is meh. He pretty much shouts out everything and it all sounds the same to me. I have his CD and rarely listen to it and his second CD probably will be more of the same. He got good reviews last nite but when you have mediocre contestants even Taylor Hicks can wipe the floors.
Well, imo much pop music on the radio these days does not lend itself well to live performances – especially one off performances for tv shows like this (as opposed to actual tour performances, which have a lot more prep time and resources going into them).
A song like Tik Tok or BBB is hardly some masterpiece that is going to sound brilliant when sung live on a stage, not to mention, those songs rely so heavily on autotune and backup tracks – trying to replicate that live just makes it sound worse and more fake, more often than not.
To Gaga’s credit, I think she tends to do one of the better jobs of realizing this, and modifying her songs to fit the limitations of the performance setting. So, she’ll create a light piano- accompanied opening to Poker Face, for example, and make the live performance work a bit better.
True, but 6 million people downloaded keShas song and that is what matters to record labels. When Gaga first hit the scene radio ignored her. People called her fake, not original, all style no substance. She had to go overseas where her look and style was more accepted and became huge, America radio could not ignore her anymore and when people looked past all smoke and mirror they saw someone who was pretty much talented whether she is your cuppa tea or not.
MJ, I definitely share some of your mixed feelings about the save. IMO, it TURNED OUT ok last year when it was used (Matt, imo, was actually about 5th best on the show – maybe even 4th above Danny imo), and Lil and Anoop really should have ended earlier than him, as they did with the use of the save. For the tour, that order definitely seemed more appropriate, that’s for sure.
OTOH, it could have been disastrous too, if, say, the save was wasted on Matt, and then the next week, with a double elimination, a fluke happened and someone like Adam had gotten kicked off instead (after all, he was in the bottom two the next week).
So, conceivably, I can see some similar disaster happening – say, someone stupid and undeserving like Katie or Aaron is saved, and the next week Crystal or Siobhan winds up in the bottom and gets kicked off. Sure, TPTB will love the drama and attention that gets, but that would just suck.
So yeah, mixed feelings about the save. I just feel we got lucky last year with how it worked out, and things could be less fortunate this year. But we will see.
Isn’t it funny that we’re talking mostly about Ke$ha, Lady GaGa (who wasn’t even there), and David Cook, instead of the 12 American Idol finalists — now the 11 finalists…?
Does this mean that you people are BORED SENSELESS with the current crop of contestants from American Idol 9, and prefer instead to talk about more interesting people like Cook, Lady GaGa, etc.?
I think it does!
Regarding the DL #s, I was only talking about the performance of these songs – I know they sell a lot – and that was beside the point – my point was that they come off pretty badly when performed (Blame It last year on AI was a similar mess imo – though it was decidedly a big seller, and most BEP songs are the same thing).
As for Gaga vs Kesha – time will tell – but I think that Gaga definitely brings some originality and artistry (TM Kara) to the table that Kesha just doesn’t (at least not yet, hopefully she will grow and get better).
And as a side note, some of these sentiments about Gaga hitting it big overseas before the US give me some sliver of hope about Adam’s future prospects – the love and openness he’s generally been getting overseas makes me think of a possible scenario like that for him – of those audiences “getting him” – and then having it translate back to the US (well, to a greater degree, since I still maintain that, for all that US audiences may be willing to embrace “emo/WWFM/Sleepwalker” Adam, they still have a harder time taking the FYE/more sexual Adam.)
But I digress
Weird, but the judges all seem stupid this season-just an impression I realize that but, Simon’s grouchy bored expressions don’t help.
And the ‘conflict’ between Ryan and Simon at start of shows this week were ugly.
Mostly, there is no incredibley exciting artist that has me intrigued for the entire week until the next show, as Adam was able to do last year.
I flove ke$ha
not happy about the judge save
i forgot how many points I got in
It cut anoop short an matt should have left
i forgot hoe many points I got in the pool
I have Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” and “Take it Off” on my ipod. To me, they’re tons of fun to run to, dance to, clean house to. Being the “hot mess” is her (current) shtick. (I read an article predicting she will inevitably “reinvent” herself soon and evolve a “classier” look.) And I like hearing “According to You” on the radio – I think the lyrics are clever, the song’s catchy, and the guitar is fun (I don’t want to buy it, though.)
That said, last night I thought “Lacey the eliminated” actually sang better than Ke$ha and Orianthi (who was hard for me to hear and seemed breathless at one point). It just drove home for me how much commercial success seems ironically UNrelated to vocal talent. I knew that, but it really seemed on display to me last nite.
Ok, I gotta disagree here about Jumpin’ Jack Flash. I loved David singing it, but it was more sedate than the high drama La Mick brought to it. Simple? Yes! Sure! But it’s a great song that should be roared, growled and danced for max effect.
So I gotta share Aretha all over it, with Whoopi and Keith looking like he’d died and gone to soul music heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsyaFlVlmCg
I am trying to imagine David dancing… it makes me giggle, I gotta admit
And Randy Jackson! That was great. Thanks for the memories.
Reminder:
I’ll be deleting ANYTHING thats off-topic! That included attempts by fans to hijack these threads. The topic is last night’s results show, not YOUR favorite Idol, unless he happened to be on the show.
Also, no trips down memory lane, please.
Looked forward to seeing David Cook perform and I thought he did a credible job though the person who impressed me most was the guitarist with the black nail polish in his band. That guy can shred! To me, David exemplifies why I prefer my front man NOT to be rooted to the spot, strumming a guitar. My fave rock bands have front men who strut, preen, dress crazy, grab their crotch, give us a visual show AND can song like crazy. In any case, the AI performance got me listening to the Stones’ version again and even 4 years ago at the Rio show (where the band played for 2 million people), Mick still showed more energy in his performance than any of the kids this week. http://tinyurl.com/cpem4q
1968 video of RS doing Jumpin’ Jack Flash: http://tinyurl.com/ajt43h
Goodness, ross, that is my absolutely favorite performance of Frank Sinatra’s( from the wonderful Anchors Aweigh )and actually the song I had in mind when I wrote that post! Just love that song.
Sorry, MJ, I had not read your post upthread, and now I can’t cancel mine.
I was kind of bored by Cook’s JJF, so kind of disappointed. It’s mostly not his fault, the song is simple and after awhile, bores me. But his vocals were good, and yes, the boys should really take note of how to, ya know, sing on pitch and yes, still be energetic. Plus he looked GREAT with the hair and love the red shirt and black suit. And yes, the hair was looking good.
I don’t dare watch Ke$ha and Orianthi. Maybe I’ll work my way up to it later.
Right people were in the bottom 3, Tim over Andrew if only because he deserved it over that arrangement he did. Seriously, WTF.
I thought Orianthi was done in by the lack of backing tracks or singers. There’s a big difference: just you singing live vs. a wall of you singing on the track. It’s a great single but not done well on the idol stage.
I love Ke$ha’s Shtick so that performance gets a pass from me. I kept wondering how much those guys from 3Oh!3 made last night just talking a few lines.
Sorry to see Lacey go. True, it was inevitable. I was starting to really like her voice, but she has no idea what she wants to do with it. She’ll probably go the country route as long as there’s money in it.
I’m a Cook fan but this didn’t excite me. Not much he really could have done with it though. The guitar solo’s were nicely featured and I like the way Dave pulled “gas, gas, gas” and held it.
Big Mike is officially on my nerves.
Matter of personal preference. I can’t say I have one type of front man that I’m drawn to time and again. I think what I find enteraining are musicians/singers who innately connect to their music and whose music connects with me, and are comfortable in their own skin and not coming off as poseury or faking something. Beyond DC & TA, my favorite bands include, let’s see, MCR, AIC, Arcade Fire, OLP, Sum 41 among others, and all have very different vibes. I also FLOVE Hawksley Workman and he and Cook are mucho differente. Although I’d love to see what they would come up with writing together. Pipe dream. Anyay, point being, I think Cook is plenty entertaining being Cook, so I was cool with him making the song his own rather than trying to out Mick Mick. And yeah, if Cookie grabbed his crotch, I’d probably fall out of my chair laughing. It’s just not… haaa. Not gonna happen.
Well, since AI used the judges save last year, I hope that they don’t see the need to use it just for the sake of it anymore.
OMG ptslittlecomment! You are right! Randy J., in a mile-high hairdo, a wild white coat, dancing like a crazy man and strumming on that bass!
You know, the guy sometimes seems like such a buffoon, but lest we forget he was a good enuf bassist for Aretha & the Rolling Stones to dial him up to do “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” with them…..