Tuesday, April 11, 2006
American Idol Queen Week
Wow! Some of them really showed why they are there. That included Bucky and Ace. When Bucky was done I observed that he made me want to hang around and watch the rest of his set. Same thing with Ace. Kellie and Chris were also standouts, and look at the risk Kellie took.
Bottom? There is one clear and uncontestable bottom performance of the week, and shockingly it was Taylor, whose week I’d expected it to be. If he keeps this up, maybe even some of the rabid fans will start to notice the emperor’s wardrobe isn’t all that.
Katharine did herself an injustice and wasn’t good enough to offset the lack of spirit and a performance.
Maybe Paris, if I had to round out a bottom three. Maybe one of the others, but I’d probably need Tivo to decide.
I swear Simon was using reverse psychology an unusual amount of the time tonight; praising people the powers that be might want to manipulate off, and dissing people who did great jobs and need the “to spite Simon” votes.
All in all this was a remarkably good night, especially given how spectacularly bad it could have been. Taylor, amazingly, showed what could have happened the whole night, on what for him ought have been a “gimme” song and performance.
Now I go see what other people have said…