Top 12 Men Perform!

Top 12 men in 7 hours! Should be good, I have higher hopes for the men in this year's competition than the women (even higher than before this week started after yesterday).

BTW, skating was GREAT last night. Basically Mao-Chan (the japanese skater) gave the performance of a lifetime (with the pressure of going right before her rival who is only the best skater in the world), which was followed up 5 minutes later by Kim Yu-Na giving a performance for the ages, only the highest rated performance ever. Back to back you may never see something like that again. (Having two people like that at their best as clear rivals makes for great drama - think Clay/Ruben - easily the best Idol season.)

See you at 8!

4 minutes till showtime...i'm going to blog as much as i can - kate's last hour awake is 8 to 9 so it's hard.

Todrick Hall, our resident Diva is first. He's singing SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE as a R&B song. It's not bad. It's not really showing off his vocals but it's entertaining, and it's a good look at who Todrick Hall is, which most of the girls did not give you yesterday. Good start to the show. Judges do not agree. Simon says he murdered the original song. They agreed with my criticisms but took it ten steps further.

Aaron Kelly next. If he follows the (incorrect) path of our other resident teens he'll be singing from Barry Manilow's songbook. He is singing Goodbye. (Tempting faith are we....) It's a country song. He isn't tearing it to shreds, but it's not bad. I definitely think he gets through to another week. Judges pretty much liked it but said he lacks confidence.

Note: Reading a story about the whale who killed someone today in Sea World. It's the second death he is definitely responsible for, and possibly the third. Exactly when are people going to stop climbing in the tank with him?

It's Jermaine Sellers, actually our resident diva. Sorry I blamed you Todrick. (Todrick is Fantasia's running buddy on Broadway.) He is singing GET HERE. It's a ballad, and he sings almost too softly. Eh, I didn't like it, it skewed too old and it wasn't sung that well either. Judges concur.

It's Tim, the person who replaced Chris Golighty after he was disqualified. I missed what he is singing. (It's One Republic - Apoligize I think...). I don't really like his voice on this song. I am not feeling this. Worst of the night so far, and the judges concurred. He better hope there are some bad and not memorable performances so the other people go out instead.

It's Joe Munoz. Remarkably so-so. Ellen liked it. I thought it was all over. (It was a Jason Mraz song btw.) Kara liked that he picked a song that she didn't think he would sing, and that he was up front and center, but she's not saying it's great, but it was the most consistent. Jeez, ramble much? Simon doesn't think he's a star. Eh...boring...

Next it's Tyler Grady with American Woman. I think the guitars are a little loud. Tyler was born 40 or so years too late I think. Reminds me a little of the singer of the Black Crowes. I thought it was ok, he will be remembered and he will make it through. I didn't really want him to do this song, it didn't seem very naturally. The judges seem to agree with me (I am agreeing with Simon these last two shows to a frightening degree.)

It's Lee Dewyse boring the hell out of me. (It actually picked up a lot midway through.) Ehh...I'm not really feeling this. It was slightly above average. Everyone agrees except Simon who loves it.

It's John Park! The best part of his experience so far was Shania hitting on him. Time to see if my sources are good. Maybe not, but mostly cause the song choice was bad. He tried to sing this huge song which required some huge voice to blast out, and he has a voice more suited to other things. Hopefully he gets through to next week so we can see him sing something else because this was quite so-so.

It's Michael Lynche with some Maroon 5. He is playing the guitar (Lee was too btw.) He is the second contestant btw wearing a flannel shirt tonight, we can't do better than that? His voice is extremely nasal tonight. This was pleasant enough but nothing spectacular. (Both shows have a lot of performances that are right on the border of good and bad. If someone manages in these next few weeks to knock one out of the park, they might create a buzz that could last season long.)

Next will be Alex (not Adam) Lambert! (Is it possible we can have two Lambert's in the final two years in a row?)

Will watch remainder tomorrow...ran out of time...

Ok, i watched the remainder of the show and I don't feel like blogging about it. Basically, Andrew Garcia is safe, a few others are probably safe due to being semi popular already, and anyone else can go. Two awful shows in the book. Hopefully people learn from this week. Why can't Idol coach people better for the first show? Some of the songs they allowed people to sing, the styles they sung in were 100% going to fail. Very frustrating first week. There was absolutely nothing worth posting (video, links, etc.) It was just all weak.

See you later with results.