American Idol’s Top 10 grooved to 50 years worth of Motown hits with Smokey Robison mentoring tonight’s show.
Matt Giraud started off the night with Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” I loved his falsetto and soulful licks. The judges are now official fans and he joins the front-runner club.
Kris Allen impresses Smokey and the judges with his unique and easygoing “How Sweet It Is.” Simon thinks he needs Simon lessons in swagger.
Scott MacIntyre sang Diana Ross’ “Can’t Hurry Love.” He chose to stick with the piano and go against Paula’s advice from last week. Simon has finally turned on him with a classic “rubbish” review and has now given American permission to say what they have really been thinking about his performances.
Megan Joy sang in her standard style “For Once In My Life.” This really didn’t have any great stand out moments and she seemed to drown in the song. It really was not good.
Anoop Desai stayed with his serious sensitive side singing “Oooo Baby Baby.” He continued his return to favor with a clean solid performance. I agree that now he has found his vocal sweet spot, he needs to start bringing his showmanship back into his performances. If he can merge the last two weeks of great vocals with his first couple of weeks of energy then he is in the running for Top 5 or higher.
Michael Sarver attempted “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” He just didn’t hit his stride and it felt as if he was fighting with the song the entire time. He admitted as much to Simon… sometime we as performers just know it isn’t going to work as we walk on the stage. I thought he handled the judges well.
Lil Rounds sings “Heat Wave” in the classic Motown way. She obviously can sing but I was hoping she would do something a little more relevant, more reflective of something that could be on her album. I think she really lost an opportunity to jump back in the front of the pack by not giving America a “moment.”
Adam Lambert reigned in the craziness and tenderly sang Smokey’s own, “Tracks of my Tears.” He cleaned up his image, literally taking off the black nail polish, and sang the entire song in his great falsetto. This is one of the first times that I not only appreciated his talent, but enjoyed it.
Danny Gokey used his Michael McDonald voice to give America
“Get Ready.” I liked it – but no secret that I really love his voice. The judges didn’t think it was his best of the season but for the most part thought it was solid.
Allison Iraheta wailed out “Papa Was a Rolling Stone.” I really love this girl’s voice. She came out and used her pipes to SANG! She was by far the best of the night.
Scott MacIntyre, Megan Joy and Michael Sarver should be nervous about continuing on to next week. We only have three females so I don’t think Megan is in real trouble and despite his lackluster performances, I really think America has a spot for Scott so my prediction is that Scott will be sent packing… I’m sure the “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” and Judges’ Save Jokes are being written right now.
What do you all think? Who do you think will be sent home?
You can watch tomorrow’s result show on Fox at 9:00 PM.
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Phil, I think you meant Michael will be sent packing which I agree with totally, but I love his attitude. I really think it should be Megan but maybe next week for her.
The performances I enjoyed the most tonight were Matt, Adam, Danny and Allison. I also think those should be the final four.
I’m hoping that either Megan Joy or Scott go home. I’ve never really cared for either of them and feel they are out of their league, but I think Michael is going to go home.
My favorites of the night were Allison, Anoop, and Adam…followed closely by Danny.
I think Scott’s going home. He’s had four performances now and there hasn’t been much variety among them. I think we’ve seen all we’re going to see from Scott, so there’s no point in keeping him around another week just to get the same old thing. I think Michael’s fans are going to vote extra hard since he was in the Bottom 3 last week and it’ll be enough to save him.
I would feel bad to see Michael go, but he just may be the one. I like his voice and his delivery, but he may come across to people like soneone not willing to listen to advice. I’m not sure I like the talking back to the judges. Also, some are saying that Danny’s piece was edited to make it look like he did not take Smokey’s advice, which may invite more criticism about him being arrogant and such. I hope this does not work out negatively for him. I sgree that Adam and Allison were great last night.
Okay, the best part of the night for me was when Paula tried to comment on Allison’s singing while trying to hide the mustache Simon had given her! lol It WAS a great night of singing though, the best top 10 since I have started watching Idol about 6-7 years ago. Other than Megan Joy(who seemed like she was “on” something) everyone did pretty well with a few standouts.
My disappointment was with Lil who should have blasted this weeks song out of the park, but her song didn’t really “go” anywhere, it was very safe and didn’t really show her skills. I thought the first(Matt) and last(Allison) songs of the night were the two standout perfomances. I thought Dannys performance was better than the judges thought but didn’t care so much for the lyric content for someone in his position as worship leader.
Anoop CAN sing!! Last week was not a fluke! He just needs to keep picking the right songs…
Adam Lambert is the altimate showman. His change from last week to this was dramatic and his vocals convince me that he will end up in the top 3 before this is over. (still don’t care for his metrosexual thing goin’ on there…)
I have very much enjoyed Michael Sarvers voice and spirit before, but after finding out that he leads(or lead) a worship and praise team at Harvest Church in Jasper, TX and was once a lead singer at Victory Christian Center in Houston, I can see why he seems out of place on “Idol”. I don’t know, but I think God has a different/higher calling for him than what Idol might bring…
and finding that Kris Allen works with the worship ministy at his church and also works with Chi Alpha Campus Ministries really explains his gentle spirit and humble heart(and Kris’s response last night when Simon said he needed an ego )