I grew up on The Beatles and love all of their music. Tonight’s show was all Beatles tunes, so I was a happy camper. Here’s the rundown as I saw it:
Syesha Mercado – “Got To Get You Into My Life” Not good at all. Totally went flat and could have been SO good, since she was doing the Earth Wind and Fire version and she’s, well…black. But it was too stiff of a performance.
Chekezie – Home boy went OFF tonight on “She’s a Woman”! I totally dug his performance and the arrangement, which started kinda bluegrassy at first then rocked out. He would have made James Brown as well as Lennon and McCartney proud. Then Ryan went absolutley nuts onstage until he ran out of breath it was completely odd. He even rubbed his sweaty head and had to wipe his hands constantly. VERY STRANGE!
Ramiele Malubay – sang “In My Life”…very….slowly. Ugh… I have heard this song a million times but NEVER have Iscreamed to myself “THIS SONG JUST WON’T END!!” but tonight, Ramiele made it so. I like her OK and she does have a good voice and horrible hair, but needed a much better arrangement and a lot more charisma.
Jason Castro – sang “If I Fell” and did a pretty good job, but he better watch out. pretty good is not enough. And it’s a bummer because I like this guy and think he could go far.
Carly Smithson – belted out a huge and awesome version of “Come Together” slightly reminiscent of Aerosmith’s version. She has some serious pipes on her and they served her well. She seems to be really proud of her tattoos on her arm. I wish she would cover them up once or twice, but oh well. Tattoos were meant to be shown off I guess.
David Cook – sang a daring version of the haunting “Eleanor Rigby” and I say he nailed it! This was a killer rocking version of the song and I bet his song gets a lot of downloads on iTunes. I’ll be looking out for the MP3 for sure. 
Brooke White – sang and played piano on “Let
It Be” and she very wisely stayed put at the piano and let her vocal and the simple arrangement shine. I think it’s a mistake for the contestants to do “diva” stuff for Beatles songs like Syesha did, but Brooke’s performance was perfect and she had her Idol moment tonight for sure. She was moved to tears by the end of it, since it was a dream come true for her.
David Hernandez – slaughtered “When I Saw Her Standing There”. Terrible, terrible terrible. Not even close to good. Opposite of good. Vacuum cleaner sucky.
Amanda Overmeyer – “You Can’t Do That”. Of all the Beatles songs to sing…you can’t do that and expect to get through to next week. But then again, votefortheworst.com is pulling for you, so you just might make it. And am I the only person who thinks she looks and sounds just like Rosanne Barr, give or take a couple hundred pounds?
Michael Johns – sang “Across the Universe”, one of my faves. He kept it simple and I thought he did an OK job. Nothing big happened, so eh. Like Randy says all the time, “it was a’ight, a’ight”.
Kristy Lee Cook – sang “Eight Days A Week” hillbilly style, which was an interesting idea, but it didn’t work. Simon compared her to Dolly Parton…hmm, let’s just leave that that.
Meanwhile, Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell were really getting ugly on live TV with the back and forth jibing.
David Archuleta – HE FORGOT THE WORDS!!! OH MY GOODNESS!! This kid is so talented, then he totally blows it with “We Can Work It Out”. He looked super nervous. He said he knew the Stevie Wonder version of the song…which leads me to ask myself..how did I get this far in life not knowing that Stevie covered this song?
So who takes away top honors tonight? I say the top 4 in order are:
- David Cook
- Chikezie
- Brooke White
- Carly Smithson
Who’s going home? If I have my way, David Hernandez. “Slider… (sniff sniff) you stink.”
:p
Dude. You’re so funny. I liked your review. I think you hit on every point just right but I place my top four differently.
I liked your use of “vacuum cleaner sucky” and there are no pictures of Kristy Lee Cook here! Sorry that your girlfriend sucked… vacuum cleaner sucky. She’ll be around for another week or two until people get tired of looking at her BOOBS! She really is out of her league vocally.
Brooke White was so good! Her voice was perfect for Let it Be. I’m glad that afterwards she didn’t try to explain in words what she was going through. It’s a performance like that that should say it all. I was moved.
Chikezie gave a great performance, but I just don’t like him… I dunno why. Same with Carly. She’s got pipes, but I don’t like watching her, either. So my top picks are David Cook, Brooke White, Michael Johns and Ryan Seacrest. Ryan was on some serious drugs or something…
Tonight is the first negative thing I’ve felt about David Archuleta. It doesn’t matter how little-brother-cute you are, you cannot go on TV and say you’re not familiar with the Beatles. That’s just wrong… his parents did not do him any favors by hitting only salsa and jazz, but he really looked hurt, you know? I can see him totally falling apart, forgetting who he is and losing the contest. He’s so vulnerable and I don’t want him to get pounded beyond return by the pressure of the business. I feel like he has the most to lose by losing in this game. And for goodness sakes, give that boy a Beatles collection!
Oh, and one more thing… good use of a Top Gun movie quote!
Well said, hon! Well said.
I know I’m a little late commenting…but have you seen “Across the Universe”? We saw it last night and it was actually pretty good I thought and very artistic…but it’s all Beatles music. Love the music.