I already have my top 6 singers, and they're only on the top 18. It's going to be a long season. This week, for me it became quite clear who can sing and who can sing well enough that I'm already hunting their songs down on iTunes. I have my clear cut favorites and am hoping they make it through.
On Tuesday night, the girls sang and for the most part it seemed pretty obvious to me who will be going home tonight. It will be any combination of these 3...
This is Paige, Katelyn and Katie and they can all sing, but just aren't clicking with me or the judges for one reason or another. Paige is cute and sweet (blah, blah, blah), but just doesn't know what to do with herself. Katelyn never impressed me from the beginning and I was actually annoyed when she made the top 24. She's darling enough and when she sang my all time favorite song;
I Feel the Earth Move Under my Feet by Carol King on Tuesday night, I so wanted to like her. But all I was left saying was,
"Huh, that's all you got? I can sing better than that." And, I can't sing. And then there is Katie. Sorry, not a fan. She's boug'ie and reminds me wayyy too much of Katherine McPhee, the boug'iest of them all.
Bye ladies... If it isn't tonight it will be next week. In addition to these 3 the next I'd like to see go is this girl...
Okay, so here's the thing. She can sing, she's sort of unique, and has a cute little folksy voice and lots of range, but can I just ask,
"What is with the hair?" ick. No, make that
ICK! It's grey. She dies her hair grey. I have just two words,
"Walking Dead." As in dead people walking the earth who play the mandolin and sing like Patsy Cline. Who's dead by the way. Just like Lilly's hair. Bye. I was especially annoyed when she sang that Patsy Cline song, this week and did NOT hit it out of the park, but because she was last in the rotation it seemed to me that the judges were rushed to give their critiques, and instead of calling her out on her
"Pitchiness" and her all around sort of killing the song, they let her slide through with rave reviews. Now, like I said, she can sing and is unusual enough that she's welcomed to the show just for being different in my book, but between the hair and the deadness of it, she has got to go. Next week better be the last week I am subjected to the grey. (even though it appears that each week she is lightening it to be more of a white as not to appear so dead looking).
As far as who I do like... It's a close race between;
Crystal Bowersox (who TL who told me the other night right after she sang,
"Yep, I like her because her name is like Crystal Boston Red Sox..." which for some reason just made me laugh out loud, because that IS just something he would say)
Lacey, and
Siobhan. I'd have to say right now my favorite is
Didi. I loved her rendition of Rhiannon, by Fleetwood Mac, I loved. Loved. Go Didi, and besides saying her name is fun. Didi Benami. Try it.
As for the boys... let's just say it's looking pretty bleak. Like I said, this is going to be a long season. I relly only have two favorites. I gave
Andrew 3 weeks to blow me away again like he did in the auditions, but he failed. I mean come on, Jeannie in a Bottle? No. Make it go away. Straight up maybe, but not JIAB. He'll make it through, as he built himself a little following and there just aren't enought "other" boys to edge him out, but he will NOT win the whole thing.
But for the rest of them... eh. I am only loving my two originals:
Lee and
Alex.
And that is all I got for ya this week...