Finally, after having to endure two long weeks of two hour episodes twice a week, we finally were treated to a shorter, more palatable hour for the boys and girls. Gone were the lengthy back stories and other waste replaced by simply the mediocre singers performing their mediocre songs.
For the girls, Katie Stevens, performing Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway", started the night out like most other nights this year...with a terrible performance. Actually, Stevens' performance could be one of the worst performances in Idol history. Stevens wasn't only flat but I think she left half of the notes back at rehearsal. I hope that Stevens has been studying because it looks like she will be returning to high school very soon. As for Kara's comment that she has a great radio voice, I hope she was talking about terrestrial radio as my satellite radio would be turned off faster than Abdul could make a white line disappear.
Siobhan Magnus belted out a Broadway-like "House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals. While not the most exciting performance, Magnus has quite the pipes...now if she can just bring out her personality and start to look more contemporary and more like an Idol.
Lacey Brown performing Brandi Carlisle's "The Story" was boring and subpar for yet another week and it is only a matter of time until the door kicks her in the a--. This chick reminds me of Nikki McKibbin...when Nikki was still skinny (prior to her Celebrity Fit Club participation). In regards to the judges calling it her best performance yet, simply state what you really mean: your past performances suck and this one finally did not.
Katelyn Epperly's rendition of Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move" felt very karaoke and reminiscent of Brooke White from last season. There is something about her and her playing a keyboard that keeps taking me back to the 80's...and not the good part of the 80's.
Happy to see Didi Benami's unique voice took on Fleetwood Mac successfully. Benami's beauty will never be questioned, however I still have to wonder if she has a chance to win with less-than-exciting song choices each week.
Paige Miles followed with an irritating performances of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile"; for a song that was just recently song with such immense compassion by Jermaine Jackson in honor of MJ, Miles did it no justice.
Crystal Bowersox was outstanding doing a bluesy version of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason". As someone who truly knows her strengths and weaknesses, Bowersox has set herself up officially to be the one to beat.
The evening ended with Lilly Scott singing Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces". Scott, once again, sang the song incredibly well, however I personally hated the actual song.
Looking back at the night, Bowersox and Scott are still the best two in the competition but repeating myself from an earlier blog post, neither seem to have what it takes to make it bigger than a club artist. I love Scott's unique voice and she reminds me of Regina Spektor; however, like Spektor, Scott doesn't have that mainstream potential. Bowersox suffers from a similar problem...I see Bowersox performing strongly in a duet with John Mayer as both have good guitar skills and a love of blues, but again, I don't think Bowersox will ever play anything larger than The Fillmore with success.
Off topic, Kara Dioguardi looked HOT on Tuesday night...wa wa we wa!
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