We Have a WINNER…

Boy, I hoped this would happen but with Idol one never knows. Congrats to DC for pulling an well deserved upset and making Simon LeBrit eat crow on national TV! I loved it! He won this contest on his own terms by remaining true to himself up to the bitter end and [...]

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Top 3: Two men and a little lady — “Pick a little, sing a little…pick, pick, pick, talk a lot, sing a little more…”

We’re almost there – can you believe that the finale is next week? Boy, this season has certainly flown by! It’s been an interesting, entertaining yet strangely familiar ride from the auditions to now, sort of reminding us of another vocally powerful “Search for a Superstar” – the season of Clay/Ruben/Kimberley (Season 2). The caliber [...]

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Top 4 – 500 Most Influential Songs of Rock – “The heart of rock and roll is still beatin’…”

I hate Top 4 week. Period.

For most of the previous seasons, this has been the week where the obvious weak link pushes out a front runner and spoils the whole mix.

Tamyra Gray. LaToya London. Anthony Federov. Chris Daughtry. These are the folks that SHOULD have moved on to the Top 3 but didn’t. Folks with [...]

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Top 5 – The Neil Diamond Songbook – “…pack up the babies and grab the old ladies…”

Neil Diamond night, eh? Ok, he’s not one of my favorite performers but I have liked a lot of his songs through the years and our Idols did a decent job overall with the ones they chose. Tonight’s format was a little different and I did like the fact that the judges had to wait [...]

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Top 6 – The music of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber – “Past the point of no return…no second chances…”

I was dreading tonight. Seriously. As much as I love Broadway I have NEVER wanted the contestants on Idol to ever come anywhere near the stuff. Trust me – I never once thought that they couldn’t handle the genre. Maybe it was one too many times hearing the Brit tell some poor kid that he [...]

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“The Music of the Night” – My Andrew Lloyd Webber song suggestions

Ok, gang…here’s the blog you’ve been waiting for – J’s song suggestions for this week’s Andrew Lloyd Webber night. Being the “Broadway baby” that I am, I was very happy that our Idols would FINALLY have to tackle songs that HAVE TO sound like Broadway! Simon will certainly be “Mr. Cranky Pants” for this part [...]

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Top 7 – The Mariah Carey Songbook – “I’ve been waiting forever for this…” – NOT!!!!!

This will be another quick review week because I definitely felt that this was going to be a boring night of singing and I wasn’t wrong in my assumptions. To say that the Mariah Carey songbook is limited in scope and difficult for anyone to sing except for the Diva herself is an understatement and [...]

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The Top 8 / “That don’t inspire me much…”

Ok, so Idol Gives Back wasn’t any better than last year, IMHO. Following a couple of inspirational songs with Ben Stiller’s potty mouth was definitely WAY out of line and pretty much sealed for me the feeling that this “charity” event is all about ratings, nothing more. Two and one half hours is not enough [...]

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Top Nine – Dollywood comes to Idolwood

Let me start off this blog with an apology – I fully intended to give my song picks for Andrew Lloyd Webber night by last weekend but I didn’t think I’d have to do as much research as I am doing for it.  Whether you realize it or not, he has a very extensive musical [...]

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Top 10 – Those great (?) songs from the year you were born…

Well, I’m back in the land of the living after a whirlwind month of RL work events and all I can say is — BRING ON THE IDOLS!  I’ve been looking forward to being able to sit down and enjoy the performances without worrying about my work and tonight I wasn’t disappointed by what I [...]

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