American Idol Round of 4: A Horseplayer's Perspective

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by onebadbeast

As A Person From The 70's, Scoring, Dancing, Coke, The Whole Disco Ball Of Fun. These Fools Cant Touch The Bee Gees. Not Even Close! Nobody Can Sing The Bee Gees But The Bee Gees......

Bee Gees were always unique, I liked them pre-disco better but even their disco stuff was pretty cool (this from a rocker who ordinarily hated disco). It's sorta like having folks do Joe Cocker or Rod Stewart songs but Jordin and Melinda did fine...you've never had anything good to say about these guys so this is an expected response from you.

[Buffymommy]

Loved Jordin. Melinda was good. Lakisha bores me to death. Blake? OK I guess.


I am hoping Lakisha goes home. I like Blake better.

[ArlJim78]

Love the Bee Gees but it didn't help most of them in my view.

Blake I have to say was pretty bad, like Randy said, dude we know you can do the beat box thing but you don't have to do it every song.

Lakisha ho -hum

Melinda- no noticeable flaws but nothing earth shaking either.

Jordin, well the first song didn't do much for me, but her second song I thought was just terrific. I didn't watch her but just listened to it. It was at that point I said that this girl is the top talent on here, and should win in a close decision over Melinda.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

Love the Bee Gees but it didn't help most of them in my view.

Blake I have to say was pretty bad, like Randy said, dude we know you can do the beat box thing but you don't have to do it every song.

Lakisha ho -hum

Melinda- no noticeable flaws but nothing earth shaking either.

Jordin, well the first song didn't do much for me, but her second song I thought was just terrific. I didn't watch her but just listened to it. It was at that point I said that this girl is the top talent on here, and should win in a close decision over Melinda.

Jim,
I don't disagree with anything you said, I suspect Jordin has the most raw talent of the group, Melinda is the most consistantly excellent...it will probably come down to what Jordin does from here on out cause I suspect we'll see excellent performances from Melinda as always...can Jordin handle the pressure as the contest winds down? Two of her last three performances have been substandard (for her), now rock and the Bee Gee's were tough gigs and maybe the choices from here on out will better suit her but Melinda has shown she can sing most anything...well, I'll hold off on Joe Cocker songs.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Jim,
I don't disagree with anything you said, I suspect Jordin has the most raw talent of the group, Melinda is the most consistantly excellent...it will probably come down to what Jordin does from here on out cause I suspect we'll see excellent performances from Melinda as always...can Jordin handle the pressure as the contest winds down? Two of her last three performances have been substandard (for her), now rock and the Bee Gee's were tough gigs and maybe the choices from here on out will better suit her but Melinda has shown she can sing most anything...well, I'll hold off on Joe Cocker songs.

I agree with that, Melinda's edge over Jordin could be in her consistency.
For Jordin her chances probably depend on the song selection.


Tonight it would seem that Blake is the obvious choice to go, but I wonder if being three on one, female to male, will give him an advantage say over Lakisha? hmmm.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

I agree with that, Melinda's edge over Jordin could be in her consistency.
For Jordin her chances probably depend on the song selection.


Tonight it would seem that Blake is the obvious choice to go, but I wonder if being three on one, female to male, will give him an advantage say over Lakisha? hmmm.

After last night, I don't care which one of them it is -- just please God let us not have another abysmal week like this one. Last night made me miss Sanjaya, at least we'd be laughing for the right reasons.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

After last night, I don't care which one of them it is -- just please God let us not have another abysmal week like this one. Last night made me miss Sanjaya, at least we'd be laughing for the right reasons.

yeah I agree, it was a letdown. Right at the time you'd expect peak efforts. Of course the music choice had a lot to do with it.

I hope next week is Johnny Cash night. Lets see what they do with that. Or like Somer said, lets give Joe Cocker a try.