I'll have to stop watching Idol while sitting by my PC, as I found myself distracted during some of the performances. Or maybe they just weren’t interesting enough to hold my attention! Biggest surprise this week was that I ended up LIKING J. Lo. I'm nowhere near her biggest fan. I despise her movies and have never bought any of her albums (even though I enjoy quite a few of her singles) and I totally believe she makes all those crazy diva demands. However, she came across damn well on the show. Not only did she appear normal and funny, but for someone who isn’t the best singer in the world, I think she managed to impart upon the Idols some valid and useful words of wisdom!
Like I expected, it was basically a Gloria Estefan week. I'm pretty sure they had one of those last year (or maybe it was the year before, seasons of Idol blend together after a while). And one thing about her songs is that they are deceptively difficult to sing. After hearing so many of the Idols mangling her songs last time, I had a newfound respect for Gloria. Shame that the current Idols this year didn’t learn from previous Idols mistakes.
And its not as if there’s a shortage of Latin themed songs for them to sing. Someone could have done an interesting take on a Shakira song (that is, SING one of her songs instead of wailing like a goat on it), but no. And no one even touched Ricki Martin or Enriqué (I'm not counting the group song in the finale). I'm probably forgetting tons of other obvious Latin artists. And what about poor Jenny from the Block herself? I know its a stretch to classify anything but her latest album "Latin", but I think they could have modified at least ONE of her old singles into something that came close to a Latin flavour. For me, everyone played it safe and almost everyone was boring as hell.
The girls...........blah blah blah. I normally cant fault Melinda, but her choosing of that song shows that she’s incapable or afraid to touch something even remotely modern (I'd have even taken an Estefan song in place of "Sway". While I do LOVE the song, I've heard a million better versions of it). And the rest of the girls all did Estefan. Lack of effort all round.
The boys were split. Phil and Chris R were simply boring, both choosing Santana numbers. Phil HAS to go next week, he just HAS to. Sanjaya made me hate myself just a little by being halfway decent. Which of course is going to guaranteed his safety. If he keeps this up, he'll be in the fecking final *sigh*. And Blake finally FINALLY decided to sing a song, instead of the usual "slow mime" he does and as a result, he sounded great. His was the only performance of the night I can say I actually enjoyed. Of course this means that it'll be doubly annoying next week if he goes back to his weird way of singing, now that we know he can actually sing properly.
The results.........well...........it had to happen, didn’t it? I really do think that if Haley had picked a different song, a more manageable song, she might have stayed this week instead of Phil. I love the song to bits, but it’s ridiculously hard to sing, being more of a vocal sprint than anything else. At least she held it together admirably for her performance at the end.
J. Lo gave the first truly memorable mentor performance of the season. Even though I haven’t a clue what she was singing, the meaning behind the words still managed to come through loud and clear, a testament to the passion she infused into the song. She showed up the Idols good and proper!!
And did Ryan say "country" is next week? I better break out my GEE-tar and get a-courting my cousin.
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