April 22, 2009

• *IDOL TOP 7*

  Why don’t they just call disco nite “Donna Summer nite” and save themselves the hassle?  Or just scrap this overdone genre already and give us a relevant music theme like Billboard-hits-from-the-past-year.  Wouldn’t you like to see Allison do “My Life Would Suck Without You?”  Or Adam do an acoustic “Womanizer.”  But I digress.  Here’s how Donna Summer nite went:
   
  LIL ROUNDS singing “I’m Every Woman.”  What a shocker.  She’s every black woman singing this (e)very song on every season of Idol.  I hate this song.  A song that does NOTHING for the vocals.  It’s such a one note boring song.  No layers whatsoever.  Her last few weeks singing “What’s Love Got To Do With It” and “The Rose”, I felt she was wrongfully brutalized.  But this time, she deserves for the shitty song choice alone.
  
  KRIS ALLEN in a plain white tee.  Classic.  Fantastic.  He totally went “La Isla Bonita” on “She Works Hard For the Money,” giving us another show of true originality and artistry that only Adam can rival.  He’s also had the best song choices all season.  Backstage, Lil Rounds was rolling over in her musical career grave.

  DANNY GOKEY.  How did I go from loving him so in the Top 36 singing “Hero” to hating him so in the top 12?  Here’s how: Obvious crowd-pleasing song choices in every genre (he has yet to chose a song that raised my eyebrows), his pompous oversinging, his obvious but blatantly unscrutinized lack of originality, and the fact that Simon has not yet warned him about his smugness.  I at least thought Simon would be tired of his sameness by now.
  
  ALLISON had me from the first note, sitting on the steps with a bluesy-rock take on “Hot Stuff.”  Allison rightfully deserves to be the last woman standing, if not the last one standing.  I can only live with 3 people winning this whole thing:  Adam, Kris, or Allison.   

  ADAM LAMBERT is a chameleon if we ever saw & heard one.  He can do down & dirty well, and he can clean up rather nicely.  He’s changing the face of music and setting a new bar for every season of Idol that follows.  He could single-handedly bring back the Monster Ballads of the 80′s.  I would just DIE DIE DIE for him to sing Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,”  Warrant’s “Heaven,” or Cheap Trick’s “The Flame.”
  
  MATT GIRAUD doing “Staying Alive” was probably pretty predictable, if I had cared to predict what he’d be singing.  Like Simon said, he really has no chance of winning.  Saving him last week was more about Simon saving himself from getting his eyes scratched out by a Paula Bear.

  ANOOP was not as bad as Simon said, but in a week where 2 are going home, it’s Lil and him for sure. 

  • 1:12 am
  • 4 Comments