American Idol Season 7

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And there you have it America.  The first time in ages that Carly Smithson sings and does just amazingly (yes, I made that word up), America goes and gets her booted from the competition.  Let’s see how the show went down tonight.

First, this week’s Ford commercial featuring the song “Tainted Love”.  This one was actually scary to me since the contestants were dressed up in 80s goth rock wear.  The video was a flashback to Aha’s “Take On Me” with the black and white cartoon imagery.  Interesting.

And then President Bush and his wife, Laura came on via satellite with a message to all the viewers for helping with Idol Gives Back.  I guess American Idol is the only place the President can speak without sounding like a total idiot.

Moving along!  The show got down to the bottom two which consisted of Carly Smithson and Syesha Mercado.  At that point it was pretty much a given that Syesha was at the end of her rope… and then in a surprising turn of events, Ryan Seacrest announced that Carly had the least amount of votes.  Quite the shocking news seeing as how she did so well the night before.  Before she left, Simon let her know that she could leave with her head held high.  See, sometimes he’s a nice guy after all

Next week?  The music of Neil Diamond.  Oh, this is going to be good!

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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that David Archuleta can sing some show tunes.  He decided to go with “Think of Me Fondly” and it was fantastic.  Just spot on perfect.  Randy told David, “you can sing.  You can sing anything.  Dude, it was the bomb.”  Paula said it was “absolutely perfect” and Simon called it pleasant and yet “one of your weakest performances. All a bit forgettable.”

Carly Smithson  sang “Superstar” from Jesus Christ Superstar.  This was the best she’s done in a long time - if ever.  She had a ton of fun.  Randy said “I don’t know if this was your best performance but it was really good”.  Paula thought it might be too high for her range but she did a great job.  And Simon thought”it was actually one of my favorite performances of the night.”

David Cook went with “Music of the Night”.  It was overly Broadway and I was waiting for Simon to tell him that his performance was everything but contemporary but not the case.  Randy said “dude, that was an amazing vocal performance.”  Paula said “this song proved more and more… that you have a beautiful instrument” (yet another sexual innuendo?).  Simon called it “too rounded off, but you made the most of the song you were given.”  I thought the contestants picked their own songs? Hmm.

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Last night’s idol had the contestants performing the songs of famed Broadway composer, Andrew Lloyd Weber.

Syesha Mercado was up first singing “One Rock ‘N Roll Too Many”.  She came out in a gorgeous, tight red dress and oozed with sass and sex appeal.  She was classy and her vocals were spot on.  Randy said it was Syesha’s “best performance to date”, Paula said this is her “happy place and you’re real good at it”.  Simon said that is was “very sexy” and it was “one of your strongest performances so far.  You showed masses of personality which we haven’t seen before.”

Jason Castro did just okay last night and even I’m a big fan of his.  He just isn’t cut out for singing show tunes.  Randy said that musically and vocally “it was a train wreck.” He said that it is “just not your thing. It’s too big of a song”.  Paula said the performance “allows you to put your influence into it and further identifies your unique being as an artist”.  Simon thought “it came over as a young guy being forced by your mom and dad at a wedding, you didn’t want to sing.  You were miserable throughout.  It’s not your style of music.”

Brooke White starts her song and then stops.  She says she’s sorry and then starts over again.  It wasn’t a good song for her at all.  She tries but it just doesn’t come over well.  Randy said “for me there were parts of it that were good”, Paula thought she connected with the lyrics.  And Simon said that the start and stop threw her off and said “I think you’re going to be very disappointed when you watch this back.”

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