Here’s what critics around the interwebs are saying about last night’s American Idol 12 Top 3 performance show. Read my recap here.
American Idol Recap: We’re Almost There – Okay, you guys. We are so close to the finish line I can taste it, and it tastes like rainbows. Even Ryan Seacrest expresses something close to relief when he says, “We’re almost there.” Which of course raises the question: Where are we almost? Does it matter who wins this thing? Wouldn’t Phillip Phillips’s “Home” have been a huge hit even if he hadn’t won? Haven’t each of these final three already gotten whatever boost this show can give them, and aren’t we kind of spinning our wheels at this point? – Read more at Vulture
‘American Idol’ Top 3 Perform: 11 Things You Didn’t See on TV – 3. On the first commercial break, stage manager Debbie Williams called for quiet so Ryan Seacrest could pre-tape an introduction to be used later. When Ray Chew’s musicians continued to play, she silenced them — for a moment. Just as Seacrest was about to tape is segment, the band started up again and this time Williams had to shout, “Stop playing music!” – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
‘American Idol’ Recap: Hometown Heroes – It’s down to the wire, and America is faced with the unenviable task of cutting one of the final three American Idol girls down to two on the show’s famed homecoming episodes. True to Idol history, all three — Kree Harrison, Candice Glover and Angie Miller — were treated to a trip home, replete with parades, emotional reunions with their families, trips to elementary schools and visits to former places of employment. Each singer also got to perform a show for her hometown crowd. – Read more at Hollywood Reporter
American Idol Top 3 Performance Night Recap: No Place Like Hometown Visits [Updated] – Since 2002, American Idol has maintained key sponsorships with Coca-Cola, Ford and AT&T, and that’s all good — seeing how it ensures the show’s weekly themes aren’t always variations on “Gregorian Chants” and/or “Tunes That Have Entered the Public Domain.” Still, after yet another gut-wrenching Hometown Visits episode featuring the Season 12 Top 3, I can’t help but wonder: Isn’t Fox long overdue to pursue a partnership with the good folks at Kleenex? – Read more at TV Line
‘American Idol’ recap: Pretty Pretty Please – The theme nights keep getting better! This week: Songs We Sic Upon You, featuring three rounds — Jimmy Iovine’s Choice, Judges’ Choice, and Producers’ Choice — for Kree Harrison, Angie Miller, and Candice Glover. I kept wondering “Can we get a Contestants’ Choice up in here?” — but then we wouldn’t have been treated to Candice’s show-closing big-time Idol Moment on “Somewhere” from West Side Story — a song she’d never heard of ’til this week.- Read more at EW.com
‘American Idol’ Recap: Going Home – Tonight it was down to just three: Candice Glover, Angie Miller and Kree Harrison, all vying for the title of this year’s ‘American Idol.’ It was anyone’s game until the final song when Candice might just have locked this contest up. To get to next week, they each had to sing three songs. The first was chosen by Jimmy Iovine, the second was chosen by judges and the third—the Idol producer’s picks. – Read more at The Wall Street Journal
‘American Idol’ Recap: ‘Here Comes Goodbye’ – Candice Glover closed out an emotional episode of “American Idol” on Wednesday, stealing the show with a bombastic rendition of the “West Side Story” staple “Somewhere.” “Candice, you didn’t win the round with that song; you won the night,” mentor Jimmy Iovine said at the close of the show, which found Glover, Kree Harrison and Angie Miller battling for a trip to next week’s final. The judges were just as enthusiastic, with Randy Jackson calling Glover’s performance “a singing lesson” and Keith Urban declaring, “If you don’t want to vote for Candice, call your doctor; you probably don’t have a pulse.” – Read more at MTV
‘American Idol’ recap: Top 3 are all ‘in it to win it’ – Oh, America. How will you decide? On Wednesday night, the “American Idol” Top 3 — Kree Harrison, Candice Glover and Angie Miller — proved yet again that any of them is worthy of the win. Each sang three songs apiece, none of their own choosing. Round 1 songs were selected by mentor Jimmy Iovine, Round 2 by the “Idol” judges, and Round 3 by the show’s producers. Each of the singers won a round, and Glover won the night, Iovine said, but both Harrison and Glover won our hearts and our sympathy with their “homecoming” visits. – Read more at the LA Times
‘American Idol’ Top 3 Night: Picks & Pans – On Wednesday, “American Idol’s” final three–Angie Miller, Candice Glover, and Kree Harrison–sang for a chance to compete in next week’s big season finale. But much of their fate was not in their own hands. Each girl had to sing three songs, and–breaking from the tradition of past seasons’ top three shows–they didn’t get to choose any of the songs themselves. – Read more at Yahoo.com
‘American Idol’ Recap: Candice Glover ‘Somewhere’ Near the Top – When “American Idol” reaches this stage of its season, it airs the episode one might think would provide the remaining contestants with their best chances at big moments. In a three-round evening, each performer sings a song chosen for them by mentor/record producer Jimmy Iovine, followed by one picked by the panel of judges and a third by “Idol” producers. If there’s anyone who’s been following along more closely than viewers, it’s those who are actually employed by the show, many of whom already work in the music industry. They should know the songs to choose to best highlight each singer’s strengths. – Read more at Billboard.com
‘American Idol’: Homeland – Three is a magic number, is it not? Three witches, three wise men, Three Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain. It’s a number freighted with power and meaning. So it makes sense that the annual Top 3 of American Idol is always such a big episode, crowded as it is with the home visits and the producers’ choice song and, of course, that ever-present feeling of the season being almost over, the Thursdayness of it, the sense that it’s one more bit of seriousness before everyone goes nuts and runs away. I like the Top 3 episode, I really do. And I liked a lot of the singing last night, if you can believe. Let’s discuss. – Read more at The Atlantic Wire
