The top six contestants
started the night with a medley of songs by the rock band “Queen”
Ok. Life on
Idol without Colton Dixon starts now. In case you didn’t know, last week
America voted off Colton Dixon, who in my opinion was by far the best
contestant this season and one of the best I’ve seen ever. Even worse, America
decided to vote the 20 year-old rocker from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, out right
before Queen week. Dixon, who was a highlight every single week, would have
been especially phenomenal this week. But I have to push through. Colton said
that had he made it to the next round he would have sang “The Show Must Go On.”
Well it's true. Even without the kid who was clearly the best this season, the
show must go on. In addition to the
Queen songs, each contestant will sing a song of their choice. At the start of
the show they all sing a medley of Queen songs with two of the original members
of Queen. The medley included “We Are The Champions” which made me think, “no
Colton’s the champion. How could America do this?” Anyway let's get to the recap
because the show MUST GO ON.
Round 1: In this round, the contestants must sing a Queen song
Jessica Sanchez Bohemian
Rhapsody
Why on EARTH would she choose this song. It is an unwritten
rule that it is untouchable. You just don’t do this. And Jessica’s disastrous
results show why. First off, this song cannot be shortened. It just can’t
happen. This song is epic and incredible and spectacular, you just can’t chop
part of it off. Second, it’s incredibly hard to sing this song solo. In fact it
can’t really be done. Harmony is too big a part of the song for it to be done
by one person. And third, this song changes so much, goes from slow to fast,
from high to low, so quickly you need to be an incredibly gifted vocalist to
sing this song. Many great singers can’t. Jessica’s performance was just a
mess. Not only was the song too big for her, and not only did she chop part of
the song off (like she had to in order to fit in into the time constraints), but
during most of the parts of the song she just sounded bad. The only part she
really sounded good was during the “Nothing really matters” part. Even the
judges, who almost never say ill about Jessica, had to admit it was bad. Simply
put, this was a disaster and this song just should not be sung on Idol ever
again. NEVER EVER EVER! D-
Skylar Laine The
Show Must Go On
I really like Skylar, so with Colton gone, I knew she was in
the running to become my new fave. She sang the song that Colton said he would
have sang had he made it to this round and nailed it. She perfectly built up
tons of drama during the verses and then had it all explode out during the
chorus. And man, she NAILED that chorus. It may have been just me, shocked that
Colton is really gone, and combined with the fact that Colton and Skylar were
close friends, but I felt like I could almost here Colton’s voice in the
background during the chorus. Skylar did a wonderful job with this song and officially earned my endorsement for
American Idol. Freddy Mercury is smiling down from heaven. A+
Joshua Ledet Crazy
Little Thing Called Love
Not a great song choice for Joshua. I’m not complaining
because he didn’t go all church on us like he usually does; I’m complaining
because this song didn’t really allow him to show off his voice in anyway. It
was ok, but nothing special. B-
Elise Testone I
Want It All
Let's be straight here. I don’t really like Elise Testone. I
find her personality kind of grating, I don’t think her singing is anything
special, I cannot believe she outlasted Colton, and I really just think that she
should be eliminated. However, she sang this very well. I was not as impressed
with her “Whole Lotta Love” as everyone else seemed to be, but this was very
good. She sang very well, performed with energy, and looked great. She really
killed the chorus too! That said, right now in my book she is WAY behind the
others so for her to really get in this thing she is going to have to do this
every single time. A
Phillip Phillips Fat
Bottomed Girls
I really liked this. Phillip sang very well and with a lot
of energy. Phillip is one of those people who is so fun to watch because of how
much fun he has when performing. Phillip was having a ball here and it
transferred to the watcher. A
Hollie Cavanagh Save
Me
Was this amazing? No. Was it pretty good though? Yes. I’m
not sure why the judges are being so hard on Hollie. Maybe because the
producers have already decided they want Jessica to win and they think Hollie
and Jessica are similar? Not sure. But I thought Hollie delivered a nice
performance here. She sang well, not great, but well. The verses may have been
a little blah but she made up for it with killer chorus. B+
Round 2 - In this round the contestants chose any song they
wanted
Joshua Ledet’s stirring
performance of “Ready For Love” was one of the best of the night
Jessica Sanchez Dance
With My Father
This was well sung, this was emotional (considering she sang
for her dad who is in the army and was able to make it to the show tonight) and
this was touching. Was it incredible though? No. This is a big song and Jessica
did a good, not great, job with it. However, after her awful first showing, she
needed something really amazing here and this wasn’t it. The other big problem
is this song has already been sung this season by Jermaine Jones. He sang it
very well and better then Jessica. You never want to sing a song that has
already been sung during a live show that season. If you do, it has to be a
home run, and this wasn’t. For Jessica, at this point, a double like this isn’t good enough. A-
Skylar Laine Tattoos
On This Town
Skylar is definitely one of the more popular contestants
here. I could tell from her video that she is liked by everybody. Anyway, this
performance was very good. This was a very good song choice for her. It's right
up her ally and while it didn’t have the intensity her other performance had,
she still sang terrifically. A
Joshua Ledet Ready For Love
After an off first song, Joshua stormed back with “Ready For
Love.” This was one of his best performances of the season. It was intense,
emotional, and vocally flawless. I know that he brings emotion to every
performance, but this performance had a new level of emotion I hadn’t seen in
Joshua before. This performance had a sincerity about it and when looking over
Josh’s past performances, that’s what makes this one stick out. A+
Elise Testone Bold
As Love
C’mon Elise! I just praised your first performance and you
come out and do this? This was very bad. She basically growled her way through
this performance. All the things that made “I Want It All” were absent. Also,
is it just me or does she seem a bit distant from the other contestants? D
Phillip Phillips The
Stone
Phillip went out on a limb here and picked an offbeat, not well-known
song. Everyone seems to have either loved it or hated it. I didn’t really feel
either. I was not particularly impressed with it but it wasn’t bad. I don’t
really know what else to say about it. B
Hollie Cavanagh The
Climb
I know this song too well. When Miley Cyrus came out with
this song I was at the height of my Disney Channel watching days watching almost
every show that was on (besides Hannah Montana actually) and at literally every
commercial they would play this song. And I HATED it. I don’t like Miley Cyrus and I don’t like
this song, so it takes a really great performance to get me to like it, and
that’s what Hollie did here. She sang with passion and clearly had a connection
to the song. It was really quite moving. It was so touching to watch that I
found myself singing along to a song I can’t stand. Great job Hollie. A
Run Down
Skylar Laine’s intense
performance of “The Show Must Go On” helped her win the night
Best Performance Of The First Round: Skylar Laine, “The Show
Must Go On”
Worst Performance Of The First Round: Jessica Sanchez,
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
Best Performance Of The Second Round: Joshua Ledet, “Ready
For Love”
Worst Performance Of The Second Round: Elise Testone, “Bold
As Love”
Best Performance Of The Night: Joshua Ledet, “Ready For
Love”
Worst Performance Of The Night: Jessica Sanchez, “Bohemian
Rhapsody”
Contestant Who Had The Best Night: Skylar Laine
Contestant Who Had The Worst Night: Jessica Sanchez
What The Bottom 3 Should Be
Hollie, Jessica and Elise with Elise going home.
Predicted Bottom 3
Jessica, Hollie and Elise with Elise going home.
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