Idol Update - Songs of Elvis - 2 Contestants gone...

Let’s say goodbye to Katie Stevens and Andrew Garcia. Katie leaving barely leaves a ripple in our pool; only 2 people had her in the Top 5. Andrew had a little more support with 13 people choosing him. Neither leaving was a shock nor either undeserved. Katie had a little bit more of a case as she was ok this week, but nothing special. Andrew was a total disaster, and it was only a matter of time until he was gone, so why not this week? (Note: Katie is the first contestant prior to the Top three to go last and still be eliminated.)

This season to me is a bit flat so far. Last week, I had (minor) disasters occurring around me on Tuesday night, and by the time they finished, I moved on to other things (probably a baseball game or something). I forgot the show was on. I’m back this week, ready to watch and I did catch up on everything Wednesday prior to finding out who was eliminated. But the judges deserve criticism for this year, they picked a pretty flat group, their criticism isn’t the least bit helpful for the most part, which makes a lot of the show very flat.

So instead of a recap, let’s do the good and bad of last week….

I LIKED
-Crystal, Michael, Lee and Siobhan.
Every week, to varying degrees these four contestants are good. (Generally Crystal is top two, Michael top three, and Lee and Siobhan all over.) They also all have an idea who they are, what kind of artist they want to be, and the potential for a real blow away performance. At least the bad shows will have 10 minutes at worst of good performances.

-Adam Lambert as mentor
He cared, he gave good advice, he mentioned Lee’s total lack of facial movement, and he treated the contestants like they were competing in a contest. Which is the point, right?

-Tim Urban
He’s not my favorite by any means but he is close to joining the fray at the top, which is amazing when you think about where he was just two weeks ago.

I DIDN’T LIKE
-Crystal Bowersox wants to go home?
http://www.rickey.org/?p=38707
GO HOME. We all have kids. We all have to travel sometimes. We miss our kids when we work all day and don’t see them. She is not special. If she does not want this opportunity then leave. She often as is looks disinterested. Nothing personal, but people getting million dollar opportunities who feel they don’t need them should not take them. (Note: This thought that somehow she’ll be fine without Idol – really? Like her career was taking off otherwise?)

-The Judges have no clue what they are looking for.
The judges for the most part have no idea what they are looking for. Thus, they have no idea what is good week to week, give strange criticism, stranger advice (Kara?) and aside from Simon, their comments are completely disregarded by the contestants. That’s not good. We always had 2 judges no one cared about; we now have three, and at times four.

This week – INSPIRATIONAL SONGS mentored by Alicia Keys! I’d say it should be good but I’m always wrong when I say that.

http://www.rickey.org/?p=38666
The songs they can choose from (not sure if it’s full list or not…)

Let’s keep our fingers crossed.