Which of Top 10 will Tumble?
Which of Top 10 will Tumble? by Roxanne McDonald
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“America’s Got Talent” revealed the top ten; and those top ten revealed who might possibly be going home first. |
The Duttons are a huge Kennedy family-like ensemble with more than their share of talent on violins and voice. After
some standard family is everything and family is love [and family is nine related individuals working hard to get along] discussion, they perform “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” with amazing accuracy and energy.
Robert Hatcher is a lovely singer with the voice of Luther Van Dross, his grandpa thinks. Because the senior is in the hospital and because he has supported and encouraged Robert to keep on keeping on through all those years of working in the sewers, Robert hopes he will be proud tonight, as he sings “Because You Love Me.”
The Calypso Tumblers are gorgeous to look at and cool to listen to, as they discuss their backgrounds and titter about how when their Caribbean hometown friends all tuned in to watch, the whole town went into blackout. They perform some old-fashioned acrobatics that they have taken from the sidewalks of Santa Monica to the big stage…much to our delight.
Jason Pritchett also talks about this being the dream come true, etc., etc., and adds that it would be good to make a living at it. He should have no problem finding something [once he tightens and polishes his act] in the Country milieu, proving this as he sings “When You Say Nothing at All.”
Butterscotch is an enigma. She really is. She discusses having come from a place where she was studying Classical in Davis, California, and went beyond to meld and merge classical and beat-box and deliver what is uniquely Butterscotch…that which I can see as one of three or four who will take the title in this competition.
The Glamazons are the second act I see being in the final four. They are in sync, have some decent voices that work well together even though they sometimes go flat or off pitch [they are working on this], and when they deliver “Fever”, they have Piers right where the other contestants would like to have him.
Cas Hayley is my third choice for the final four, having as Piers says, the best voice in the competition, and, as I say, having the underdog looks that set listeners up for a huge surprise when he belts out the Blues as he did tonight [last night] with “Bring it on Home.” And while he has the voice of a future king of Blues, he is humble. We like that.
Terry Fator is the fourth in my final four category, though he would be lucky if his non-traditional [these days] act can
sustain: he is a stunning ventriloquist who not only throws his speaking voice to his Emma puppet but sends his remarkable, soulful, spot-on singing impersonation voice through Emma, who does female as he does male vocals for “Unforgettable”. If you closed your eyes as you listened, you likely believed you were hearing Nat King Cole and, oh, Ella Fitzgerald?
Julienne Irwin is going places, but likely not before some more practice and some focused vocal training. She sings “Till I Can Make it on My Own,” but strains a bit to deliver; and despite her corn-fed beauty and humility and grace, she will have to really step it up to stand at the top with the likes of the aforementioned.
And Sideswipe would have to do the same. They talk humility and they talk hard work doing what they do, but the act is just, well, bleh. You know when your English teacher tells you to write a piece that is ENGAGING, so that the reading audience doesn’t say “So what?” ? This is unfortunately the response of this reader/viewer. A bunch of watch-me-kick-and hayah!-to-music does nothing…even when you bring a gaggle of little martial arts kids out to do the same. I don’t wanna watch a martial arts competition, and I don’t want to watch it in action on a talent show. Maybe a skill show? Without the psychotic music?
You can likely guess who I surmise is going home first. Sorry guys.
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