Warning: I am feeling more-than-slightly cynical this week
I am glad they finally got to perform more than one solo but kind of missed their doing 3 songs in top 3 week. It makes me excessively angry to think that we had to sacrifice an additional performance from each of these three amazing people just to make time for that wench Kara DioUseless. She has got to go! If next season we have to deal with both the loss of Simon Cowell AND increased screen time for that arogant, babbeling idiot I may have to give up Idol. I literally don't think I could stand to watch it anymore. Simon was right, you don't pick out a song for a contestant saying it's perfect for him then pick on him for not changing it completely up. You picked it because you thought the song, AS IT WAS, worked for him. I cannot remember a time I have wished a horrible, painful end on another living creature with the intensity I wish for one for her. UGH!
Now that we have that out of the way...
Given the fact that their job is to guide viewers and contestants in choosing the most appropriate Idol winner, when given the opportunity to actually affect the show the Idol judges historically pick bad songs for the top 3 to sing. I almost never approve of the Judges' song picks in top 3 week. Rare exceptions to this rule include Paula picking And So It Goes for David Archuletta and Simon picking Somewhere over the Rainbow for Katherine McPhee. Others will disagree with me, but I just have different tastes in music than the judges do. Case in point: this week. I hate OneRepublic. That song was overplayed and the only reason it ever got as popular as it did was because it got remixed by Timbaland. I hate U2. Actually, it would be more appropriate to say that I hate Bono and by association greatly dislike U2. PLUS - Adam was way pitchy throughout the whole performance (a fact conveniently not commented on) which ruined any chance I had of enjoying that performance. The only song choice I approved of this week was Danny's and that was a song I had never heard before in my life.
That would have made Danny Gokey the pleasant surprise of the night. Paula picked a perfect song to showcase who he is as an artist. Cheesy and grizzly and old fashioned. That said, I enjoyed both of his performances, even if I felt like the last one was all but blatantly reminding us why he got this far in the first place and why I didn't like him for so long: his dead wife. No, he didn't mention her but he did look up to the sky suspiciously often. I am so over it, dude. Call me heartless, go ahead.
Speaking of people invited to call me Heartless any time they like as long as they do it with a guitar...
How amazing was that? I'll tell you how amazing it was. It was so amazing that I voted! I like never vote for Idol, but I voted for Kris. 15 times! I did this because, as I watched both of his performances (even though the first got ripped to shreds), I kept thinking that, of all three guys left, Kris is the one who fits in best with the contemporary music scene.
Who is making music like Danny Gokey would? No one. Twenty years ago that wouldn't have been true but it's true today. Who is making music like Adam Lambert would? No one. Twenty years ago that wouldn't have been true but it's true today. The judges can't come up with any kind of contemporary reference for Danny and the only one they can come up with for Adam is Robert Pattinson (whose birthday is today, fyi). He's an actor who also sings. Ever listen to his music? I have. Sounds nothing like Adam Lambert. If anything, he sounds more like Danny trying to do an impression of Kris. Steven Tyler is not a contemporary musical reference. Steven Tyler is popular today because he was insanely popular twenty years ago. Adam belongs on broadway and Danny belongs in a lounge in Vegas somewhere. Kris is "current"... to use Randy's phrase.
Contemporary music isn't about big, theatrical voices like Danny and Adam have. Granted, Idol has a very serious bias against anyone who doesn't have a voice like that, but that is the ironic joke that is American Idol. The show can't decided if it's a singing competition or a search for the next superstar. The two are not necessarily the same thing. We are forced to watch contemporary musicians come in every week and perform live on the show... how many of them have swelling, big voices? Not many. The contemporary market doesn't require it. Idol (and it's judges) need to stop being ambivilent about what they're looking for in a winner.
Anyway, I'll end my rant as it is likely all for nothing. Kris will probably be going home tongiht. But I will say this: If, somehow, Kris Allen does not get sent home tonight, I would put money down that Adam Lambert will. I honestly think that the reason the producers keep giving him the pimp slot (closig out the show) is becaue he is not pulling in the votes they think he should.
We'll see...
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