American Idol - And the weeks go on (merged)
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After the third round:
1. Taylor - Try a Little Tenderness - Another excellent song selection. Taylor stepped it up BIG TIME tonight. I think he is the next American Idol.
2. Katharine - I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues - She has style; she has flair; she has a lot of stuff. She's not Ella Fitzgerald but then again, who is?
3. Elliott - I Believe to my Soul - Very poor selection, IMHO. I think he tried too hard to emulate the late great Ray Charles instead of putting his own style out there.
1. Taylor - Try a Little Tenderness - Another excellent song selection. Taylor stepped it up BIG TIME tonight. I think he is the next American Idol.
2. Katharine - I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues - She has style; she has flair; she has a lot of stuff. She's not Ella Fitzgerald but then again, who is?
3. Elliott - I Believe to my Soul - Very poor selection, IMHO. I think he tried too hard to emulate the late great Ray Charles instead of putting his own style out there.
I agree, but I think Simon is trying to buy Kat as many votes as possible and get her to finals. Somewhere over the rainbow is an easy song to sing and make special by just about any good vocalist out there (and we all know that Kat has a good voice).
Ranking tonight:
1. Taylor - I knew he was going to make Courtney Abdul, I mean Paula Cox, I mean Paula Abdul dance with him like Courtney Cox did with the Boss in Dancing in the dark video.
2. Kat - She had one great song and 2 average songs
3. Elliot - he looked too scared out there tonight. Too bad because he is probably the best singer out of 3.
Ranking tonight:
1. Taylor - I knew he was going to make Courtney Abdul, I mean Paula Cox, I mean Paula Abdul dance with him like Courtney Cox did with the Boss in Dancing in the dark video.
2. Kat - She had one great song and 2 average songs
3. Elliot - he looked too scared out there tonight. Too bad because he is probably the best singer out of 3.
Really? Maybe not hard to sing, but a damn hard song to sell. I didn't think she had a chance of pulling it off - but she sure did. First rendition I've ever heard that gave it justice IMO. Haven't been a huge Katherine fan myself - but she knocked my wife & I off our collective feet with that one. 
Taylor stole the show though.
Taylor stole the show though.
rhuber said:
Really? Maybe not hard to sing, but a damn hard song to sell. I didn't think she had a chance of pulling it off - but she sure did. First rendition I've ever heard that gave it justice IMO. Haven't been a huge Katherine fan myself - but she knocked my wife & I off our collective feet with that one.
Taylor stole the show though.
Taylor stole the show though.
Katharine and Taylor took their efforts to a new level, IMHO. Elliott was ... Elliott.
Now, I have to log off and VOTE as many times as I can. I'm not going to assume anything.
rhuber said:
Really? Maybe not hard to sing, but a damn hard song to sell. I didn't think she had a chance of pulling it off - but she sure did. First rendition I've ever heard that gave it justice IMO. Haven't been a huge Katherine fan myself - but she knocked my wife & I off our collective feet with that one.
Taylor stole the show though.
Taylor stole the show though.
WOW .... Oh, what a night !!!!
I liked it all .....
The weird thing is, I was familiar with Elliott's choice .... I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed Paula's choice - love that song - "What You Won't Do - You Do for Love". Clive's choice was good as well .... I admit, I am a HUGE Elliott fan ... I'd love to hear him sing "Oh Happy Day". But, his weakness is SHOWMANSHIP ... it's just not there. He can improve in this area, but he just may not get the votes.
I am disappointed ... but, he just may not make it to next week.
I felt Randy's choice for Taylor was boring ..... there's just not much to the words/melody for me - YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL ... it was good, I'm just not a fan of the song. I enjoyed Clive's choice of Springsteen and I was okay with Tenderness. Taylor's STRENGTH - has fun, enjoys himself ,... interacts. He's just not MY choice of #1
Katharine - I enjoyed all of hers songs - but, man ... too much eventually TURNS ME OFF. Agree - she nailed "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" .... that was pure excellence. FLY was all over the place for me and NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES .... girl can sing, just surprised on her own choice .... Her foundation is very strong, she's coachable and should make it to next week.
For me, based upon last nights performance:
#1T - Taylor
#1T - Elliott
#3 - Katharine
Overall rankings:
#1 - Katharine
#2 - Elliott
#3 - Taylor
but, if I were to make a guess .... Elliott is going home
I liked it all .....
The weird thing is, I was familiar with Elliott's choice .... I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed Paula's choice - love that song - "What You Won't Do - You Do for Love". Clive's choice was good as well .... I admit, I am a HUGE Elliott fan ... I'd love to hear him sing "Oh Happy Day". But, his weakness is SHOWMANSHIP ... it's just not there. He can improve in this area, but he just may not get the votes.
I am disappointed ... but, he just may not make it to next week.
I felt Randy's choice for Taylor was boring ..... there's just not much to the words/melody for me - YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL ... it was good, I'm just not a fan of the song. I enjoyed Clive's choice of Springsteen and I was okay with Tenderness. Taylor's STRENGTH - has fun, enjoys himself ,... interacts. He's just not MY choice of #1
Katharine - I enjoyed all of hers songs - but, man ... too much eventually TURNS ME OFF. Agree - she nailed "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" .... that was pure excellence. FLY was all over the place for me and NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES .... girl can sing, just surprised on her own choice .... Her foundation is very strong, she's coachable and should make it to next week.
For me, based upon last nights performance:
#1T - Taylor
#1T - Elliott
#3 - Katharine
Overall rankings:
#1 - Katharine
#2 - Elliott
#3 - Taylor
but, if I were to make a guess .... Elliott is going home
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That was probably one of the best idols I can remember.
After every Song I was like okay this is going to be my #1 and then KAT busted out with "rainbow". That was the type of performance I was waiting for all season.
I am not a big fan of Elliot but you know what. Last night he impressed me, I think he is going home but he does have a great voice. The all did great last night.
1: Kat
2: Taylor
3: Elliot
After every Song I was like okay this is going to be my #1 and then KAT busted out with "rainbow". That was the type of performance I was waiting for all season.
I am not a big fan of Elliot but you know what. Last night he impressed me, I think he is going home but he does have a great voice. The all did great last night.
1: Kat
2: Taylor
3: Elliot
I too thought Taylor was the star of the night!! Try A Little Tenderness was a great selection and he sang and performed it very well.
I have to say that when Taylor first auditioned, I was very leary about him. The whole "Ray Charles" vibe with the gray hair just through me for a loop. Even as the competition was going on, he seemed to be losing a lot of enthusiasm and steam. But over the past two to three weeks, it has been on. He has done very well and if he gets through tonight, he gets my vote for American idol.
I have to say that when Taylor first auditioned, I was very leary about him. The whole "Ray Charles" vibe with the gray hair just through me for a loop. Even as the competition was going on, he seemed to be losing a lot of enthusiasm and steam. But over the past two to three weeks, it has been on. He has done very well and if he gets through tonight, he gets my vote for American idol.
I usually have looked forward to last nights theme, but was left a bit underwhelmed....that has happened alot this season. In any case, if this was a competition true to its word--a singing competition, where the very best compete against the very best, then Kat and Elliot would be in the final two. Taylor is talented, I would not deny it, but man the guy is cheesey as heck. His "act" (espescially the whole "SOUL PATROL! SOUL PATROL" thing) has gotten old and I can only enjoy it in small increments. But....this is not a pure singing competition, has never been, which is why I think this is the end of the road for Elliot..
I'm not surprised it was that close. Fewer the contestants they have the closer it will be. I think it is like that because of the way their phone system is designed.
Each contestant has 3 lines. Each line can probably handle X number of calls at any given time. It is very likely that for all 3 contestants all X number of calls will be at use during the voting time.
At the end it probably was text message votes tha determined the winner.
Each contestant has 3 lines. Each line can probably handle X number of calls at any given time. It is very likely that for all 3 contestants all X number of calls will be at use during the voting time.
At the end it probably was text message votes tha determined the winner.
I agree. If the voting were done in a 24 hour span, the percentages wouldn't nearly be that close. It's the fact that it's done in a 2 hour span, where people can saturate the phone lines with multiple hundreds of calls over the entire span that makes it so close. It's like taking three people right now, one faster, one slower, and one medium, and seeing how many times they can tap a mouse in one minute. The faster one's going to win by a small margin, but only because the time interval is so small that there won't be much difference. If it were extended over 5 hours, you'd see a much greater difference.
While each line can handle X number of calls, this is the first time - from what I've gathered by how Ryan acted, etc. - that each of the sets of lines was pretty much equally bombarded, meaning the overall potential traffic was clearly split. In talking to a friend who has connections with the phone company, he said they probably had banks of reserve lines tied to the three that were actually publicized. Much like in an office the main line will spill over onto others, the main lines for each contestant may have had a large block of "hidden" numbers they were using. They were probably also monitoring attempts to make sure adequate lines were in reserve. If the completed call ratio dipped below a certain percentage, they'd add more lines into the system.
Had there been a clear favorite, I think it would have shown. What this is showing is that, for the first time, there isn't a clear favorite.
I expect the final vote to also be close, but it won't have much to do with the phone lines. There's a lot of support for both Taylor and Katharine. I'd be very surprised if either of them ends up a runaway winner.
Had there been a clear favorite, I think it would have shown. What this is showing is that, for the first time, there isn't a clear favorite.
I expect the final vote to also be close, but it won't have much to do with the phone lines. There's a lot of support for both Taylor and Katharine. I'd be very surprised if either of them ends up a runaway winner.
Well, so we're DOWN TO TWO ....
My Ranking:
#1 - Katharine
#2 - Taylor
My Prediction:
#1 - Taylor
#2 - Katharine
I've liked this season ..... the voting pretty much went "as it should've" - IMO
BTW - I heard from a fellow American Idol Fan .... that stuff about the voting debacle between Daughtrey and McPhee ..... was a rumor.
Anybody else hear anything. My friend couldn't really swear to it, just something he said and heard from somebody else.
My Ranking:
#1 - Katharine
#2 - Taylor
My Prediction:
#1 - Taylor
#2 - Katharine
I've liked this season ..... the voting pretty much went "as it should've" - IMO
BTW - I heard from a fellow American Idol Fan .... that stuff about the voting debacle between Daughtrey and McPhee ..... was a rumor.
Anybody else hear anything. My friend couldn't really swear to it, just something he said and heard from somebody else.