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OLTL Discussion Group
The Neil Diamond Songbook Results Show
Let's get right to it~
Group Number - ''Neil Diamond Tribute Medley'' - Cracklin Rosie/ Song Sung Blue/ Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show - The performance is the 'usual' - that tour is going to be BORING!
HIGHLIGHTS of last evening with judges' comments
ELIMINATIONS BEGIN:
Jason C - safe - he's very fortunate to have another week
David A - safe - that was a 'given'
VIDEO - SYTYCD begins the day after AI ends. We see some bits from the show. Nigel is indulging himself!!!
David C - safe - this is wonderful news - yippee!!
Syesha M - Brooke W - one will be leaving
Natashia Bedingfield sings
IDOL TAKES CALLS - more mindless filler before Simon gets a call from his childhood sweetheart, Tara. Ahhhhhhh!!!!
FORD VIDEO
Neil Diamond sings ''Pretty Amazing Grace'' from his new CD 'Home Before Dark' - HE has no problems connecting with his audience. He's in fine voice and singing more serious songs these days.
Syesha M - safe - this is as it should be - yippee!!
Brooke White is ELIMINATED -- She is really crying
We hear Ruben's ''Celebrate Me Home'' as a video of Brooke plays.
Brooke reprises '' I Am I Said''
NEXT WEEK: Songs That Shaped / Inspired Rock n' Roll
Best wishes to Brooke and her music.
America got it right again (well according to how I would have voted.) I haven't called in a vote the whole season. Bad me. I really wanted Jason to stay another week rather than Brooke. I like him a bit better. His voice is very pleasing (thought not very strong.) I wonder if Jason has had much voice training? Also, he has the cute factor going on.
The two Davids will be the finalists I think, but Syesha sure has done great the last couple of weeks. I will be stunned if David Cook doesn't win it though.
I was disappointed that Neil sang that song, only because I'd already heard him do it online. He is coming to TULSA! We have the date the tickets go on sale on our calendar and hope to get them and see him again. :-D We thought we'd have to drive all the way to OKC to see him and that wasn't as appealing to us. Soooooo, now we'll just have a couple of hours to drive and will spend the night. YEA! I just hope he does more of the old stuff than from his new album!
Again, for those that missed any of the show or the whole thing, go to -
Season 6 Top 5 Results - Recap
http://mjsbigblog.com/season-6-top-5-results-recap.htm
and Click the purple links for Video!
You can see the Group Number, the FORD commercial, Natasha's & Neil's performances and any of the eliminations.
For another take on the show see the recap -
The Top Four Revealed!
http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV-Show-Blog/American-Idol/American-Idol-Brooke/800038659
Oh my. It seems like we are going backwards. The Group Number had started to get good since IGB and they really started performing better together. Today it was like the first time they sang together. It was terrible! They were out of sync in movement, the range was too low for some so that either you couldn't hear one of a duo or in Brooke and Syesha's case, a couple of notes in the song-- SONG sung BLUE--and the ones who had a bit of a solo who decided to do their own thing, mostly Archie, were way off in pitch and tempo. Also, David A. turned "Cracklin' Rosie" into another ballad. Can't that kid sing anything else? He's a kid! Doesn't he listen to rock music?! David C. was the only one who did the songs justice, that is when it wasn't too low that you couldn't hear him sing. I feel so bad that Neil Diamond had to witness that.
One thing I have a question about. This is the third (I think) time that they sang a song in the group number medley that was just done by one of the contestants the night before. I realize that the group number must be set up way ahead of time before the contestants decide what song they will sing. So if a song is already set up in the group number, why is it on the song list for the contestants to pick from. That just doesn't make sense when there are so many other songs for them to choose. This also was the third time that Jason started the group number. No one else can do it?
I was glad that Ryan corrected things about last night and said, regarding Paula, that rumors were false. I know she can have her strange moments but this was not one of them. Nigel through them all off by doing this and he screwed up the show by throwing in that sudden change. He should have just left it to critique after both songs. Either that or they should have gone an extra half hour.
Now that my rant is done--I liked the FORD commercial a lot better than last week, Natashia is a lot better than Leona, IMO, and Neil did a great performance! I hate the phone calls but loved the one for Simon from his first crush. That was funny but sweet at the same time. You mean Simon was once 9 years old? LOL!
Eliminations--As soon as I saw Jason come out, I figured he was safe then remembered that Ryan called Chikezie out first and sent him to the stools. So I still had hope. Then Ryan dashed that hope by sending Jason to the couches. Well, then it was easy to figure that it was the two girls together but Ryan never said "The Bottom 2". Later I noticed that Syesha was the top one in the Dial Idol predictions so that could be why Ryan didn't call them the "Bottom 2". It was another thing to fool you. It seems AI is all about tricks this year doesn't it? I had hoped that Syesha would stay and she did. She is really improving. I agree with who went home even though I was hoping it was Jason first.
I hope next week's theme will be much better for the contestants as they will be able to pick something that they actually know.
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I've heard so much about Paula today, and even if she was sober, with the money she's making being there, she should have been paying attention. Yes, they threw them a curve ball but this isn't rocket science and the other 2 figured it out with no problem.
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