Top 7 Studio Recordings are Now Available at iTunes!
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2. David Archuleta à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“When You Believeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬
3. Jason Castro à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“I Donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t Wanna Cryà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬
4. Brooke White à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Heroà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬
5. Carly Smithson à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Without Youà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬
6. Kristy Lee Cook à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Foreverà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬
7. Syesha Mercado à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Vanishingà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬
ETA: TPTB have take away the popularity bars for AI recordings, but the iMix thingy still works. You can check out the charts at Rickey’s . David Cook’s “Always Be My Baby” is #1 on the iTunes Top 100 right now… As of this morning:
- David Archuleta – “When You Believe” – I didn’t like this song live. The recorded version of the song is even duller. Please, no more puppies and rainbows. Save it for the coronation song, Mkay?
- Carly Smithson – “Without You” – I’m not loving the cabaret, Celine Dion version of this song. Not digging the background vocals, either. Carly would be right at home performing this in Vegas. Is this really Carly? Performing in Vegas? Just who is Carly Smithson? Will we ever find out?
- Syesha Mercado – “Vanishing” – I love the recorded version of this song. Once her vocals on the high end are tidied up, she sounds fabulous. So pretty. Syesha chose her song well this week.
- Brooke White – “Hero” – Eh. Not a great song to begin with. I hate the syrupy guitars and strings. I would have preferred the piano front and center. Brooke sounds fine, but the entire effect is rather dull.
- Kristy Lee Cook – “Forever” – Kristy Lee has a good recording voice. Fewer strings and more pedal steel would have been nice, but overall I like the arrangement. With a little tweaking, I can hear this song on country radio. I think this is Kristy’s best performance.
- David Cook – “Always Be My Baby” – The original version of this song does absolutely nothing for me, but I love love LOVE David’s arrangement of this song. Nothing can match the passion of his live performance, but this recorded version is very, very good.
- Jason Castro – “I Don’t Wanna Cry” – I’d prefer Jason recorded without strings and background vocals, but it’s OK. His quirky vocals and exquisite phrasing still manage to draw the listener in. Just lovely.
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Ps, Did you know her boyfriend proposed to her last night on the show?
Idolbeat, Kristy’s boyfriend or Mariah’s?
idolbeat, Really? Aww! :]
And I love Jason’s studio version. Its so great, and he is getting better and better. I agree about the background vocals. lol. He doesn’t need them. :]
And DCook’s is also amazing!
Thanks, purplesmile on the link!!! I’m Scotish (translate frugal) so I like to hear what I’m getting before I plunk down my 99 pennies. I already bought everything Jason has recorded (my ‘pod is very happy) ‘ceptin’ “Michelle”. You couldn’t pay me to listen to that.
Kristy’s boyfriend! Haha! He actually proposed on March 15 in the sauna at the apartments where the contestants live. They had to go there for privacy! He did it right last night, I’m not sure if it was during a commericial or after the show? Congrats to Kristy!
LOL. I bought it, but it didn’t make it to the iPod with the other Jason songs. LOL.
So while I wasn’t lovin’ the performance originally, after a few times watching the video (okay, more than a few!), DC is as always great! Yes, I even liked Innocent.
The studio version is amazing.
Thanks for that link, Purplesmile. I liked DC’s studio version but probably won’t buy it. I don’t like Jason’s all that much. I think I have to see him to like him. I’m saving my dollars now that Michael’s gone. :frown_tb:
DC at #1 again…love it. so how does the iMix trick work to see the popularity bars?
That’s great, idolbeat! I hadn’t heard that!
oh yeah…congrats to KLC!
idolbeat — Well, at least Kristy has him to lean on now that she’s gotten the boot. Never liked her much, but congrats to her anyway!
ITA. The instrumentation in the studio is a bit awkward like cheese was saying, plus nothing is going to top the raw emotion he put into the live (I can still picture his entire performance in my head every time I listen to the live, LOL). I’m going to get the studio recording like I always do, but I doubt that it’s ever going to get as many plays as my live track. Still a very, very good recording from him, though.
Loving Jason’s studio recording of IDWC. The band’s doing a little too much and I don’t like it when the background singers came in, but I love it anyway. I think this is the most powerful I’ve heard his voice to be, and I really like it.
Ok, all you MJ readers, I have an iTunes question that I hope someone here can help me with. Is there a way to convert iTunes files so that they will play in Windows Media Player? iTunes won’t recognize my mp3 player (it is a SanDisk), so the only way I can get the idol tunes to my player is to burn them from iTunes, rip them to Media Player, then convert them to my mp3 player. This takes too long and wastes CD’s! Help!
Someone, anyone??? Help!! See above^^^
Listening to Carly’s studio version of Without You reaffirms my thoughts that Randy was crazy last night concerning it. The first part of the song, she is brilliant. And really, everything before the extended belting at the very end is quite good. Where she tries to go higher at the very end it falls apart a bit though and I wish she would have kept it more restrained there, since sadly that is the last impression you get of the song.
Steph, for audio files if you have a CD drive in your computer that will burn CDs then you can have itunes burn the tracks to a CD. Then you can rip the CD that you made using windows media player to an mp3 format that you should be able to use on your mp3 player.
Thanks, Allen. I was hoping that there was some easier alternative to the burning/ripping, but I guess not. Thanks for the help!