American Idol - Season 8
Performance Show

What exactly does a performance show entail? I'm glad you asked. The contestants can pick any song they want, provided it is an itunes popular download of course. Always a plug in there somewhere. By the way I prefer Amazon.com's MP3 Downloads store to itunes as they offer songs starting at $.79 and they are a higher quality. Oh yes they come in the much wider used mp3 format versus apple's annoying format that won't play in windows media player.

Just saying ... now onto the show.

Ouch. Anoop starts us off with Usher's "Caught Up". A big miss for Anoop because it was not very good and it lacked the passion and energy he said he wanted to bring back. He picks it up slightly at the end but it will not be good news for Anoop this week.

Megan is singing Bob Marley & Lauren Hill's "Turn Your Lights Down Low". She is going to run into problems with making every song sound the same with her unique singing voice. And it is a bit curious the hand movements she makes while singing, definitely weird motions.

Danny Gokey does a good job with Rascal Flats.

Allison Iraheta does "Don't Speak" which was good for her but not great. She should stick with songs that are a bit more upbeat and energetic than that one. Still very good.

Looks like Scott got a haircut for tonight. Unfortunately he is still boring.

Matt Giraud is doing the fray. Is it just how his hair and beard are this week or does he look like a poor man's Justin Timberlake? Maybe it is the keyboard but he really does bear great resemblance to JT. The song was good. Not too good or much of a standout though.

Lil Rounds goes with "I surrender" by Celine Dion. Always tough to sing Celine. She did a real good job with it. The judges gave her grief for being to old and having her personality sucked out of her.

The song Adam Lambert will be butchering tonight is "Play that funky music". He always manages to take the good parts of songs and eliminate them. And then there is the damn screeching he does. Actually the screeching is very reminiscent of the song in Jesus Christ Superstar that has the similar screeching verse. I'm blanking on it right now.

Anyways the kid should take his fat face and get off my tv.

Kris Allen wraps up the show the with "Ain't No Sunshine". It was ok but I feel like I have heard it done like this before. Good but not all that original.

The bottom three looks like it will probably be: Anoop, Scott and let's say Matt again because there needs to be three.

Labels: American Idol, Music, Television

- posted by Doug @ 10:05:00 PM