Comments on: AMERICAN IDOL Season 9: Top 12 (S)Tumbling the Dice on Stones Night

By: Lenore

Lenore — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:09:59 +0000

Woo hoo! Got your wish, PCN! See ya, Lacey. We still have a ways to go before all the fat is trimmed, though. I don’t know in what order they’ll go but the next 5 will be Katie, Paige, Aaron, Tim, and Andrew.

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:17:06 +0000

Whoa, you put Katie BEFORE Crystal, Jason?! When I saw Katie sitting on a stool, I thought, “Would Jagger be sitting on a frakkin’ stool?!”

Crystal wasn’t as good as Siobhan but I don’t want the latter to think she has to hit a crazy-ass high note every time now. It’ll turn into a grating gimmick real fast.

Yay for our girl Didi! I’m like you—crossing my fingers every time she performs, hoping she makes it through without crying. And she did well! Had a bit of growl and ‘tude in her performance this time.

Didn’t understand why Tim thought he was in Jamaica busking for Mai Tais with his version of “Under My Thumb.”

Lacey needs to go TONIGHT. She murdered one of my favorite Stones songs.

By: EIREGO

EIREGO — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:44:52 +0000

I agree with you, it’s almost embarrassing to watch one performance to the next.

But I do disagree with Simon about polarization being a good thing when it comes to music. A great song and performance crosses all lines of preference. When it’s good, it’s good and when it’s bad, it is F-ugly. Admittedly, I am a fan of the Stones, but Siobhan’s rendition of Paint It Black last night was just plain lousy in my book. The only way I could see anyone applauding it were people who hadn’t heard the original. And so what if she was able to hit a high note last night? If it did anything, it cracked glass! It didn’t kick ass! Listen to it again and try and envision that note in a song you would actually listen to. It was really lame. Also: I thing she looks like a cartoon character in a manga graphic novel.

Michael Lynche, Lee Dewyze, Casey James and, surprisingly, Paige Miles rocked it for me last night.

I could have gone either way on Didi Benami and Crystal Bowersox. To be fair though, even an off night for Bowersox is still better than an on night for everyone else.

The LIGHTS ON, BUT NOBODY’S HOME awards go to:
Aaron Kelly (he tried, but there’s just not enough mileage on him for this song)

Lacey Brown (does she even have a clue what lyrics like “She comes and goes” mean? The Rolling Stones were really sexual and had an attitude about it.)

Tim Urban (sounded like he was singing about a My Little Pony commercial he saw when he was younger. No clue.)

Katie Stevens (Wild Horses? Sounded like she was singing about a summer she spent visiting a carousel).

Andrew Garcia just didn’t have the growl he needed last night, but at least he was present.

I wish they could kick off 4 people tonight.