dinah WASHINGTON young padwan -- destination moon is one of my favorite songs ever

smelly pickles -- what an idiot -- lets the microphone roll down the stairs -- and why was she done up like a french whore?

taylor was dreadful -- that probably isn't even my top 10 buddy holly songs -- yuck

bucky -- what a mess -- so-so karaoke

ryan's i walk the line -- very interesting -- it was a little rough, but had the makings of something great

I loved Chris' version of Walk the Line better than the original and I frickin' LOVE the original.

Now, I'd like to see him make a folk song like 'Rocky Mountain High' into a rock ballad.

Taylor chose a weak song tonight, and to be blunt I thought Chicken Little's performance ran up on Taylor's.

Sorry, I thought Ace sucked. To be fair, this is not a show I follow so maybe he was better tonight than usual? Anyway, LOVED Walk The Line.

that would be CHRIS's version of I Walk the Line, young Padwan.

Lisa is boooooring. She's cute and talented but booooring. Ace makes me nuts (not in a good way) the way he makes goo-goo eyes at the camera. Ick. Kellie is staying another week.

Ace is fabulous. I can't believe how cool he is. Not as great as Constantine, (ah! he was in the audience--he is so sexy) but he is great, nonetheless.

WHY DOES EVERYONE LIKE CHRIS?

Chris can do ONE thing. Only one. ONLY ROCK. Taking any song and making it "rock" is NOT talent.

He's "true to himself" because he can't DO anything else. They always say they want versatility, but when someone is versatile, they say they aren't "true to themselves."

It's quite annoying.

1. Chris
2. Paris
3. Elliot
4. Mandisa
5. Katherine
6. Kelly

Bucky is a goner.

chris/ryan it's all the same :D
(i wonder where i got that ryan thing)

i also agree lisa is dull as dirt--i can't understand it--great singer, nice looking girl, but no stage presence

Chris's Walk the Line was very good. I'd buy that single as well. As for versatility, yeah he's not that versatile, but very few singers make a career out of versatility. Johnny Cash wasn't that versatile, either.

I'm surprised you didn't mention Kellie's no smile/fake smile entrance this evening. She had a very annoyed look on her face for about two seconds before she realized the cameras were on her, then *flash* go the pearly whites.

Chris, I did see it, but she's done that quite a few times before she knew the cameras were on her, so this time I just rolled my eyes. again. :-)

So does Kelly even make pickles? Or is her name a fake too?

Chris sounded good, but the song version isn't original. The band LIVE recorded that version a year or so ago.

1 Katharine - total entertainment;
2 Mandisa - great vocals and personality;
3 Ace - glad he no longer looks like he's preparing to hold up a liquor store, starting to sound good too;
4 Paris - just please don't talk so much, please;
5 Elliot - try to be more hipster, less doofus, 'kay?
6 Taylor - someone needs to put together a video juxtaposing his dance moves with Julia Louis-Drefus' moves in the Seinfeld episode;
7 Kelly - she can't keep up the nicey-nice act much longer and it will be great entertainment when that mask comes off;
8 Lisa - should have waited a couple of years to audition, the show will still be there;
9 Bucky - anyone else expect to eventually see him in a remake of Deliverance?
10 Chris - always does the same thing; and
11 Kevin - should have waited at least a decade to audition.

Johnny Cash was the greatest!
The best I tells ya!
Everyone must go and buy My Mother's Hymn Book by Johnny Cash. It is the best recording he has ever done. (It was Johnny's personal favorite also.)

I think someone turned off Kellie's mic just to keep her from saying stupid things... good plan, but it didn't work.

I can't stand Ace's performances... and it kills me because he is really cute. But he tries too hard to "make love" with the camera (like Constantine did last year) and it makes me feel... uncomfortable. I wish he'd just cut that out.

Kevin, Kellie, Lisa, Taylor, & Bucky were awful.

Mandisa, Paris, Chris, Elliot, & Katharine were really great! And it pains me not to put Taylor in this group because he's awesome... but his song last night was so boring... I wanted to change the channel.

What was up with that weird French pronunciation by Pickler? Best line on Television Without Pity Idol forum:

"Patsy Cline has been killed in a fiery crash yet again."

From commenter Shnuglet. Genius.

Sorry, but Chris swiped that version of Walk the Line from LIVE:

http://www.soulpatrolshirts.com/media/walktheline.mp3

The guy is unimaginative and one note. Everything he does is a cover of some alt rock version of something else. Last week he was ripping off the Chili Peppers.

I can't wait to hear his Alt Rock cover of a disco song.

If you listen to the MP3 of Taylor's performance last night, you'll realize it was way better than it seemed. It also bears repeat viewing. I was unimpressed the first time I saw it, but I got into it the second time when I rewatched the show for my review.

http://www.soulpatrolshirts.com/media/notfadeaway_idol.mp3

Sorry, but that Walk the Line cover was note for note a swipe from Live's version just as last week, Chris aped the Chili Peppers. He's a good singer, but an unoriginal one. Too many weeks of this will kill him on the show when more people get wise.

I wasn't crazy about Taylor's song, but when you rewatch it it comes off much better. It was the best performance of the night, if not the song, and the best 50s themed performance. Mandisa was second, followed by Paris. Mandisa was the best singer of the night.

Either Lisa, Bucky or Eliot will be gone tonight.

from the little i've watched of the finals, it's hard to imagine i actually thought the contestants this season were good from the little i watched of the semis. mandisa's the only one that's any good, and maybe katherine (who is way hotter than kellie, I agree). and occasionally chris, although i don't think he belongs on the show. everyone else can get off my television.

man, taylor sucked again, but at least he wasn't the Most Annoying Man on Earth tonight. for once. and this is got to be up there on the list of paula's Most Drunken Performances. wow.

forgot paris in the "not hideously awful" group above. although I do hate how they (the show, not paris) exploited her family connections in the auditions, that seems like an unfair advantage. that, and she's got the same name as the capital city of france.

elliot and lisa also don't make me want to kill them (and I don't mind scrappy too horribly much either, but he's fron the same mold of the kiddie brigade that made season 3 suck so much. of course, so are paris and lisa)

Listening again to Taylor's Not Fade Away, I'm reminded of one of my long standing AI complaints. The sound balance seems all wrong.

I don't know how much control the competitors have, but it seems as if the band is often too loud compared to the singer, so that many singers sound as if they have to strain to not be overwhelmed by the band.

I agree on the sound balance. For some reason several singers sounded muted compared to others. Almost as if they were handicapping them.

Funny thing....I actually thought that Kellie Cucumberpreserver sounded pretty good on Walking After Midnight...and maybe Barry M was smoking crack a lot and had just forgotten about Patsy Cline.

Taylor sounded good, but he should have tried something more challenging. The crowd ate it up though.

Chris should be taken out and shot for messing with Johnny Cash, he may not have been from Texas, but Arkansas is close enough, so "DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS! I mean with ARKANSAS!"

Not shot and killed though, just wing him or something....

Please bring back Mandisa, Paris, Taylor and Chris, and let that cute brunette girl serve drinks or something.

The other ones should be home deciding who to vote for.

Before yesterday I had never seen AI. My boyfriend tries to watch it and I make him shut it off. Well, because of SarahK's posts, curiosity got the best of me and I just had to see the dreaded Kellie Pickler for myself. Now, I don't know much about singing, but that girl MURDERED a beautiful song. Had she ever heard of Patsy Cline? It was like she just yelled the lyrics rather than singing them. Anyway, that took care of it. I'll never need to watch it again.

Simon said, "It's like watching a high-school musical" Well OF COURSE IT IS!!! THESE SONGS ARE FROM THE 50'S!! WHAT DO YOU WAAAAAANNNNTTTTTTT????? (HELP! CANT TURN OFF CAPS. oh, there we go). Anytime you do a bunch of songs from the 50's it's going to sound like a sock-hop.

And Steve, I gotta disagree with ya, "dog". Chris' performance was second only to Mandisa (who could probably sing the names in the phone book and rock the house!) He took a chance with an all-time classic song, and did a great job! And as far as what one person said, that Chris can only sing rock: well, yeah. Everybody has there own style. Just sayin'.

But other people can branch out of their comfort zone, whereas Chris is --quite possibly-- physically inable to sing anything other than his brand of "rock."

All of his performances sound the same. They are interchangable. People are going to catch on sooner or later.

Thank God! I thought I was alone in my disbelief of Kelli Pickler. Not for a moment do I believe she is a dumb as she acts. I detest females who play the "dumb helpless" female bit. And Ace makes me want to retch, I thought he did a terrible job and those looks into the camera??? BLEECH!

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