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March 29, 2006

AI 5 : 10 to 9 + Results 
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Tonight's theme was 21st century songs, all songs between 2000 to 2006. Some sang modern tunes that you will always hear on the radion but some sang songs frankly I have never heard before. But tonight's show is marked by mostly mediocre performances thanks to the horrible band and also by one rather 360 degrees turn of change of attitude; Chris Daughtry is no longer loved. I'll explain further.

Best performance I must say was Elliott Yamin. His voice was truly grogeous but alas, his image consultant should be fired. His dancing was horrible, he has very little stage presence but boy, this man has got the most beautiful voice. He sang, can't remember the name of the song but it is a popular tune sang very well by the original singer. There was a slight change of arrangement, it was horrible but Elliott rose above bad arrangement to make the song his own.

Bucky did me proud. He sang a very flirty'ish song by Tim McGraw and I was told Bucky sang better than the original singer. Bucky looked cool tonight with his cowboy hat, nice shirt and I think cowboy boots. He couldn't dance but he did some fancy footwork and totally impressed me. He is still improving on his stage work but definitely tonight he gave it something extra. His singing was fine, he tends to oversing a song but his diction was really poor. For a moment I thought he forgot the lyrics since he mumbled. The band was horrible, almost made him look and sound bad.

Unsurprisingly, Mr Simon "Chris you're an original" Cowell didn't like it although Randy who dissed almost everyone tonight liked Bucky. I pity Bucky but nope, he won't go just yet. NO WAY!

Taylor did me proud to be called his fan. He explained what is Soul Patrol (his fans call themselved Soul Patrol and they exist even before he joined AI). I must say, Taylor did something to his hair. He looked so handsome! I mean it! And his dressing made him look so much younger. I really like his look tonight. Anyway he sang a song called Trouble released in 2004. He amazes me by choosing songs I have never heard and sang them his own style. This was no different. It was a bit flirtatious in sound. He just stood there and sang without the dancing and I would say it was one of his best performances. This man can sing ANYTHING from ANY ERA. But I admit he wasn't the best tonight. Elliott upped him on that one in terms of voice quality but after listening to his song again, I must say one of Taylor's best performances. Again in retrospect, great song. What people fail to understand a song with only 2 or 3 words are ultimately more difficult to sing than a song with a variety of words.

GOODIES
Download Taylor Hicks' Trouble
[URL : http://media.point2e.com/idol_th_trouble.mp3] - taken from Gray Charles

Download original version of Trouble by Ray LaMontagne
[URL : http://media.point2e.com/idol_ori_trouble.mp3]
- Who is this singer? He has been around and I only knew of his existence thanks to Taylor. And I must say the original version is really excellent too, different style but both as great. If you're curious how he looks like, click HERE

Ace sang, of all songs Drops Of Jupiter. What a famous song, so well sung by the original singer, why try this? Why not love songs in the likes of Michael Learns To Rock? Ace would ace that (every pun intended). It was awful, painful, horrible and badly sung. But he will stay since he ended the song with that killer stare. Urghhh...

Paris, I pity her. She sang ok, but she took on Beyonce's song and she even strut her stuff like Beyonce. Mandisa sang some song I can't remember and she was screaming, SCREAMING and Simon called them over indulgent. I totally agree. Paris did badly, like a bad impression of Beyonce and not very appropriate. Mandisa just screamed and screamed. But she looked nice.

Katharine on the other hand didn't over indulge but she sang a song by Christina Aguilera. Bad choice but the judges liked her. I hated it. I thought even Christina didn't sing this bad (I am not an Aguilera fan by the way) BUT Katharine totally screwed the song. Her presence was boring. She is pretty, she has a beautiful voice, she can sing but she just bores me. Why didn't she choose Norah Jones' song? It would be perfect for her.

Lisa did badly, the worst in fact by singing a song by of all people, rock chick and former idol winner, Kelly Clarkson. Kelly must be happy Lisa sang it badly, so bad it hurts. No sense of rock, no sense of rhythm. I think Lisa has overstayed her welcome. And she looked horrible with those blue eye shadow.

Kellie sang a country song which has the worst title and it was an unchallenging song. I agree with the judges of all the songs she could have chosen she chose one that was ultimately something about suds in soaps. She should have asked Taylor for advice; which song to pick.

Now the best for last, best as in most dramatic. Again, the lightnings and guess what? ROCK again, this time Creed's song. Luckily for us, Daughtry sang it in his own bad, bad for us also because his own original voice was uninteresting. He kept screaming to the song, again and again most of it wasn't singing. Horrible performance but thanks to the lightning, this man has got style. With the same lightning, Bucky's dancing could have been great too. What is best though is before he performed, he was interviewed and Ryan said that last week he sang Walk The Line in the style of Live and Daughtry immediately said ya ya Live one of his favourite bands, blah blah blah. I was like "Oh My GOD! That's so like mending a broken pot (I am sure you know what it means in Cantonese)!!!". So fake. And guess what? None of the judges liked his performance but Simon truly rubbed in the salt by saying Daughtry must now venture beyond rock, that it is not doing him any good to stick just to rock because Daughtry will eventually fail since this is American Idol, he said. Yeah Simon, just last week I remember you called him an original, uncompromising, know his roots, stick to his style, blah blah blah and now he's repetetive? 360 degrees turn man! Clearly someone in AI reads the blogs! So is Daughtry out of favour? Was Simon pissed that he didn't recognise Live's version? Did Daughtry took all the credit for the new arrangement to the song Walk The Line? Well my guess is as good as yours but with the special lightning and all, I guess he is still a frontrunner, until and unless someone caught him in the act again and Simon changes his tune. I would have expected him to take someone's style tonight since it is 2000-2006 songs, all right up his alley. I just hope they do a Nat King Cole night, he would surely die. I call Daughtry Mr Ciplak. You know as in Cetak Rompak. Anyway at least he sang his own way tonight, boring but at least himself.

That is why I love Bucky, bad diction or not because he was always himself. Elliott I am beginning to love because he sang it his own way and Taylor, always his own style, always the Taylor Hicks way of singing. Whether these 3 wins the AI or not does not matter. I am sure they have got music executives lining up to sign them on and I could imagine at least 2 of them at the Grammys singing away. But Elliott and Bucky seriously need some professional guidance as to looks and stage performance. Taylor should adopt tonight's looks as he looked great and he should dance less and sing more.

So who I think will be out?

I hope Ace Young but feeling is either first choice Lisa or Bucky (I HOPE NOT!!! HE ALWAYS SURVIVES BUT HE IS ALWAYS IN DANGER).

AMERICA, SAVE BUCKY! SAVE ELLIOTT! SAVE TAYLOR! Taylor I am not worried. Elliott a bit worried. SO VOTE VOTE VOTE FOR THESE 3 because they are true originals and AI is all about talent, performances and originality. Looks can be improved on.

RESULTS
Shocking really, that America loves Bucky! I was so scared for him when Ace, Lisa were pronounced as bottom 2 and he and Katharine were the only 2 left back and I though die lar Bucky, die lar but Katharine was in the bottom 3!! And guess what? Audience booed!! What? WHAT? So you all want Bucky to go home issit?! Oh please, she was horrible last night! Anyway, Lisa got kicked out as predicted. Good. Next Ace hopefully.

4 COMMENTS

 Anonymous writes ...

I type 'Chris Daughtry copy Live' in google to how many people talk about it. Wow, I didn't realised it got blown up so big. If what MTV said is true, I feel sorry for Chris. MTV said Chris did give credit to Live but that part was cut off. I believe this news. AI do like to edit scenes to manipulate the audience. If that clip was shown, Chris wouldn't look so bad. He did sings well and has a good voice.

Anyway, long live Bucky. Haha.

2:23 pm, March 30, 2006  

 Anonymous writes ...

The pre-inteview tape where he credited Live was on youtube some time ago but got taken down for infringement of copyright. Do u happen to have it?

2:47 pm, March 30, 2006  

 Funn Lim writes ...

Credited or not, it didn't look like he credited Live. And even if he did, he sang EXACTLY like Live. Not the first time. I don't think being AI's favourite son AI would have deleted that crucial part. Nope. I also think AI fed him with that song too. I have a feeling it was a setup. But Daughtry deserved no credit for singing it well which he didn't and the whole fiasco should not be called a fiasco because it was a legitimate time to speak up.

12:01 am, March 31, 2006  

 Edd Vedder writes ...

I think the issue is not because he credited Live or not, it's because he sings the EXACT version of Live's Walk The Line, and then get praised for it like he wrote the damn thing..

..anyway, now that's the issue been resolved, wonder what the future will bring for Daughtry?

..oh yeah, btw, I'm a Katharine fan.. hehe.

5:38 pm, April 04, 2006