This week in the American Idol world, the contestants got to sing movie songs. What’s great about this genre is that there are so many choices and styles to chose from. You have slow ballads, disco, rock, and it’s easy to put your own spin on things. For the top seven, they got the ability to work with producer Quintan Tarantino.
The contestants really did a good job this week. There were two that seemed to have some weaknesses, which involved Kris who Randy said was pitchy, and Matt who took a ballad by Bryan Adams and made it a little more his own. The judges liked the vocals but said he over did the song a bit. Anoop had a great night, and Adam got raves on his performance but Simon said it was reminiscent of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Adam liked the comment and said he didn’t think it was an insult.
Idol’s stage had some great acts perform live for the audience. One show was the now “Miley Cyrus” who has decided to put Hannah Montana to rest. She sang her song “The Climb” for our listening pleasure. The song was great, and it’s nice to see that Miley has evolved from Hannah and is growing up. If she was unable to step out of her alter ego, childhood persona she was doomed to be a washed up singer or out of work child star. She showed amazing growth as an artist. However, I did see that her on stage performance was a bit boring. Maybe it’s because the song is a ballad, but her style needs to still evolve with her as well.
Another great act was Jennifer Hudson, who in the last few years had seen some great moments like winning an Oscar and Grammy for her first ever album, and movie role. On the bad side, there was a huge family tragedy in her life that shocked the whole world and her loving fans. Jennifer went out with some serious poise tonight, coming back for the first time on the stage she was eliminated from. She is one of the idols who actually did something for herself and out shined her season’s victor, Fantasia. Jennifer looked beautiful, her voice was stunning and I can see why people said she was robbed of the American Idol victory.
In the end, America voted and three contestants had to face elimination. This week, Lil Rounds, Anoop Dasi, and Matt Giraud got the call to the cold metal seats. Anoop had a great performance and really shouldn’t have been there, but when you look at the talent on the chairs across from them, their best performance looks mediocre at best to the rest. Kris, though, I felt should have taken the seat and not Anoop. For Anoop, it was a good feeling to know he was not the bottom two and got to sit down and wait to see who was going home.
America voted and sent Matt home over Lil Rounds. Matt got his chance to impress the judges and spare his time on stage for one more week, and believe it or not, they allowed him. Matt was saved by the judges. Is this a good thing? Next week is disco, the one week that kills the idols unless you can act the genre, and two idols will be sent home. Matt will be kind of the “lame duck” of the show. It will be interesting to see how far he can go now.
This is the week that could kill Adam or Danny. They better hope they perform one heck of a show and have enough support to get them through to the next week, which it seems like they do but you never know.
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