Tuesday, May 8, 2007
AI6 SemiFinals
Four sang tonight (Blake, Lakisha, Melinda and Jordin). As several people have said, it's not been the strongest field in the world this year (some have put it more strongly) but the show is still a heckuva lot of fun to watch. I like how Melinda and Jordin don't seem to let any of the comments bother or excite them very much. Either their prozac works really well or they're both really sanguine. Anyway, I thought Blake was awful but, then, I'm not sure what torture chamber the producers sadistically envisioned when they set four inexperienced soloists to sing songs written and originally performed by a group of men who always sing falsetto and sometimes in complex harmonies with each other (just try and find one straightforward melody line in some of them). The Anointed One (Melinda) sounded like the proverbial lounge singer Simon's always talking about and Lakisha was actually off key through whole sections of both songs, though she seemed far better than the last few weeks. Jordin sang the first song beautifully and chose one of my favorites for the second one but did, as Simon said, sing it too boringly (although the producers' arrangements often cause plenty of timing and pacing troubles). Anyway, I think Jordin's and Blake's fan bases will keep them in play (and probably squaring off in the final), and I suspect Melinda has producer-immunity for one more week, so I'll predict Lakisha will leave tonight.
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