Well, America, I should have given you a little more credit. You got it right this week and voted off Paul McDonald. I got the bottom three right and I guess the clincher was Paul taking the show lead off position. Seems to be the worst place to be. It was time for Paul to go anyway.
My freak out moment came when the quartet of James Durbin, Paul McDonald, Stefano Langone, and Jacob Lusk did the song I wish Scotty had done last night, "The Sound of Silence" as I mentioned in my last blog. But he's not going to take any risks. He's going to hold fast to Randy Jackson's "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" advice.
I really wish the show would try to steer these singers a little more on song choice. "Old Time Rock and Roll" was such a horrible choice for Paul. He needs quiet music, no backup singers, etc. What was movie gold in Risky Business was just dreadful on the Idol stage and did nothing to showcase Paul's mellow voice. I'd hate to think he was the one who chose that one but I really don't know how the selections are made. Whatever the case, I'm still not sure why the judges loved him so much last night and panned Haley. "Not a singer's song" was what they said about Haley's "Call Me". "Old Time Rock and Roll" is literally like six notes vocally and all in the same octave and all with the same vocal dynamic. Nothing to see there; move along.
That being said, Haley will need to step it up next week to stay out of the bottom three. She can and she absolutely must pull out a barn burner performance. Like I said in the last blog, had she done a slow rendition of "Call Me" with sparse accompaniment Jacob Lusk would have been in the bottom rather than her.
Apparently, from what has leaked to the Hollywood press, you can go ahead and pencil in Scotty and Lauren for the final and hopefully I'm still awake for that.
I'll keep predicting Stefano to be the next to go.
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