Busy But…

I listened to the MP3 files of all the American Idol performances last night, which is always an interesting exercise as the performance aspect has no influence on how you think you heard the song.

Taylor’s performances suffer a lot under that scrutiny, for all they were still adequate and Something sounded less Elvis on the second pass.

KathArine’s second performance benefitted greatly from a blind listen, and while she mangled the first song and nothing changes that, what hit me as diction problems on the second may have been more about the nature and styling of the song.

Chris stayed the same or improved, to me.  I also didn’t hear him so much as the lead singer of The Calling, but I could still see him singing this.

Elliot and Paris didn’t really budge for me with the MP3 listens.  The both still did a good job, but Paris is still doomed, especially since I have seen a surprising amount of pro-Katharine sentiment.  And I mean sentiment of “her second number was the best AI performance ever and she won the night!” variety, not just the “we loved his audition so no matter how bad he is we will think he won every week” variety that kept Taylor alive no matter what.  Puzzling.  But hey, if he’d been voted off when deserved, we’d have missed the fun of Taylor in the Wild Cherry tree last night.

Okay, back to billing, because getting paid is a really Good Thing.

1. I loved Chris and Taylor.  You just had to see it....

   Katherine was AWFUL and Paris was mediocre.

   BTW, I love that song by The Calling

   Posted by caltechgirl  on  05/03  at  03:29 PM

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