American Idol - Top 36 - Group 1 - Performance Night
Boy, I may have to reevaluate everything all over again.
This is what I said last week when Group 1 was announced: "Group 1 has been announced. Crap. Danny Gokey, Anoop Desai, Stephen Fowler, Brent Keith, Matt Breitzke are all together. Ricky Braddy doesn't stand a chance. Poor guy.
Remember. It's top male, top female vote getters and the next highest (male or female) after that, that get to move on to the Top 12.
So while I can't stand Danny's personality, it seems like a lot of people love him and falling for his bleeding heart story. Yes, love his voice but again, everytime I see his smug face, I want to slap his face. On the other hand, he might be better with his BFF. I would originally rule out Matt but I think Hollywood Week really emphasized his teddy bear qualities. And does Anoop have enough fans? (I think he might). I'm feeling less confident about Brent now, mainly because of the lack of screen time in Hollywood.
For the girls, its Anne Marie Boskovich, Alexis Grace, Tatiana Crazy, Casey Carlson, Jackie Tohn, and Stevie Wright. I'm going to rule out Jackie and Tatiana. I don't think anne Marie will make it past this round, so it's between Alexis, Casey and Stevie."
I actually had to rethink my whole pool picks strategy with the strong group of guys all competing this week (which makes me wonder about Groups 2 and 3 since about the only other guys left that I think might have a chance are Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, Ju'Not Joyner and Matt Girard).
But boy, it's amazing how quickly some things can change with one live performance night. Man, no one knows anything when it comes to Idol (or at least I don't): (and thanks to Rickey who has all the mp3's and videos ALREADY)
Jackie Tohn
27 years old
Home: Silver Lake, CA
Audition: New York, NY
Song: "A Little Less Conversation" (by Mac Davis, made famous by Elvis Pressley)
Grade: C+
She does an original interpretation that's way more bluesy and soul rock but there's something about her that just bugs me. She's way too out there TRYING to be ORIGI-NAAAAAL. Good performance and I think if it was anybody else, I would have enjoyed it more but she's kinda like an annoying Punky Brewster (or is that redundant?). Her horrible outfit was like Minnie Mouse gone slutty.
Listen to mp3 here.
Jackie Tohn
2 comments:
No no no. Danny Gokey's performance of "Hero" was nothing special AT ALL. I have no idea what Paula, Randy and Kara were on (well, I know what Paula was on but the other two know better) but that was merely an adequate version of a song whose original can never be topped. I can't believe they were acting like he won the damn thing already.
The whole show was rather disappointing; I didn't even like Ricky Braddy (I thought he was kinda boring and over-emphasized every vocal). Even Anoop was disappointing and he's my favorite right now. I hate to admit that Tatiana was actually quite good during her performance, considering I find her dreadfully annoying any other time.
hmm... I totally bought into Braddy's vocals but as much as I can recognize Gokey is good, I was surprised that the judges reacted THAT much to it. It was really good. It wasn't THAT great. But yeah, almost everyone else croaked, which is what I usually remember from these pre-Top 12 eps.
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