American Idol 8 Top 8 Perform Songs From Their Year of Birth
American Idol Season 8 is back with the Top 8 contestants and their theme this week is “the year that you were born. We’ll see baby pictures of the contestants and of the judges too. Here’s what the contestants performed:
Danny Gokey
He performed Stand By Me (Mickey Gilles version). The song is from the year 1980. He sorta change the songs arrangement, making it interesting to listen but not powerful enough for me. Randy Jackson tells Danny that he made him love it, even though he didn’t love the arrangement. Kara Dioguardi agrees. Paula says he opened the show by setting the bar high. Simon Cowell says he thought the beginning was good, the middle was lazy, and the end was terrific – so overall – great!
Kris Allen
Idol cutie and last week’s contender came out today with the song All She Wants To Do, a hit on his birth year, 1985. He’s now playing the guitar and he changed the songs arrangement drastically which didn’t bade well to the judges specially Simon, who called his performance indulgent, boring, and forgettable – it was a stupid song choice.
Lil Rounds
She sang Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do with It” – she sang it well, but nothing original. Lil must be confused by what the show’s aim is – they’re looking for a star, but she keeps performing songs by well-known artists and singing it like the original. Perhaps she just doesn’t know what to do with her talent. So far, Lil has shown she’d be really good to be hired to sing at a bar to entertain folks which isn’t so bad…she just isn’t a star.
Anoop Desai
He chose to do Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” – Great version a bit boring, but great vocals.
Scott McIntyre
Hesang “The Search is Over” – it was kind of bizarre to see Scott playing the guitar instead of the piano, but he gave his all, but I don’t think it worked for him.
Allison Iraheta
She performed Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” – what a smart song choice by her. She did a pretty good job of singing it too.
Matt Giraud
He sang Stevie Wonder’s “Part Time Lover” – great job with it…I don’t know why he’s not as popular as Danny or Kris, he’s just as good, if not better. Well, he was definitely better than those two tonight!
Adam Lambert
My beloved Adam sang Tears For Fears’ “Mad World” – Its an excellent rendition ever Simon Cowell gave him a standing ovation.
I think Scott will be going home this week.
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