American Idol Top 4 Recap Season 8

It's Rock Night on American Idol, and I'm wondering if Adam Lambert has been practicing for this night, all along. Tonight's host Slash and, of course, his hair, oh my! I'm not sure what it is about Slash, formerly of Guns N Roses, currently of Velvet Revolver, but I have always had a thing for him? Must be his aura. The aura gets me every time, darn it.

Elvis performs Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," one of my favorite songs ever. Adam gave a great sounding, but emotionally disconnected performance. And he didn't make the song his own. Oh well, at least he's having fun with this whole Elvis thing. And according to my research, Elvis died in 1977, and Adam was born in 1982. Therefore, Adam could be the reincarnation of Elvis. But where's the pelvis?

Allison Iraheta performs Janis Joplin's "Cry Baby." "Cry Baby" is not my favorite Joplin song. Not only did Allison own the song, but her performance surpasses Joplin's by miles, probably due to Allison's purity and sobriety. Awesome!!!!!! The best tonight.


Listening to: Danny and Kris's duet,"Renegade." Um, now I know why Ryan explained how the dress rehearsal was interrupted: to imply a cause for their less than stellar duet. Kris is not on fire tonight. Danny was a little better on the duet.

Kris Allen sings the Beatles' "Come Together," and fell apart in a boy band sort of way, on the second half of the song. I have to admit I'm biased because I started reading my Facebook Friend's commentary and there were a lot of negatives said about Kris.

Kris is my choice to go too!

I hope my Facebook Friends are right, I hope Kris goes home. He doesn't have the talent the other three have.

Danny Gokey sings Aerosmith's "Dream On," yeah you guessed it, another favorite of mine. And I'm going with Danny ruined the song. Yikes! I think he's in serious trouble. I thought Kris was going home until I heard Danny. Wow, that was bad.

Listening to: Allison and Adam's duet of "Slow Ride." Adam just grabbed his junk! (Is that legal? Doesn't he know millions are watching?) Now there's a little modern version of Pelvis by Elvis. Adam and Allison were awesome, though Allsion had a shaky start on the vocals. Naughty, naughty, Adam.

My top two are Adam and Allison. Allison's performance was from the heart, while Adam's reminds me a little of masturbation. And I have nothing against, masturbation, but it's a little lonely. I have Danny and Kris at the bottom. Danny performed better in the duet, and that might help him with the votes.

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It's disco night on American Idol and I'm excited. I was a huge fan of disco and I'm not even slightly embarrassed to admit it. That's right go a head and laugh, I be shaking my booty to the disco beat.

Allison Iraheta gave a rocking performance of Hot Stuff. I like it! Totally modern and she made it her own!


Anoop Desai sang another one of my favorite songs, Donna Summer's "Dim All The Lights." Yikes! Boring, he needed to sexy up that song. He's at the bottom. Dancing is a metaphor Anoop.

Adam Lambert performs another favorite of mine, "If I Can't Have You." It wasn't my favorite performance by Adam, but it was still great. The arrangement of the song was so different from the original, it was like a totally different song. He's a beautiful power ballad singing rock star. Elvis is in the building.

Matt Giraud sang the BeeGee's "Staying Alive." I loved it! He made my fingers dance. He had big energy. He stays. Very inspiring! Thank goodness the judges saved him last week. Yay!

Danny Gokey sang one of my favorite disco songs, Earth Wind and Fire's September. I like Danny, but he was trying to do too much in one song boy band, bluesy, then gospel. I didn't like it and I think he's in trouble.

Kris Allen singing Donna Summer's "She Works Hard For The Money," from the man's perspective. Interesting point of view. I liked it.

Lil Rounds sang "I'm Every Woman," while attempting to inspire the audience. She faltered at the beginning of the song. Is her confidence wavering? She sounds like she knows she's going home.

My top three in order are Matt, Allison and Adam. My bottom three, not in any particular order, are Lil Rounds, Anoop and Danny Gokey. Two people go home tomorrow night. Who do you think it will be? By the way, I enjoyed all the Donna Summer flashbacks, she is the queen of disco.

American Idol Recap Top 8

Tonight on American Idol contestants sing songs from the year they were born.

Danny Gokey's singing "Stand By Me" from 1980, started out sloooow, elevator muzak. He busted out on the second half. Yays he stays.

Kris Allen sings an odd jazzy arrangement of "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" from his birth year,1985. The music sounded a bit odd, but he sounded great.

Lil Rounds singing "What's Love Got To Do With It" was so so on the first half, but got soulful on the back end of the song. Lil Rounds is trying too hard to please the judges. She needs to connect to her soul and herself.Dig down deep inside, Lil.

Anoop Desai singing one of my favorite songs ever, "True Colors." Just not my favorite version of it. He stays for now. The girls love staring into his brown puppy dog eyes.

Scott MacIntyre singing "The Search Is Over" without the piano! I liked the smaller hair, but the guitar didn't go with the song and seemed contrived. The second half of the song, vocally, was not so good. Scott exposed his belly to the lion when he said, "At least I'm versatile, I wanted to show that before I went home."

Allison Iraheta singing "I Can't Make You Love Me" blew me away, and gave me goosebumps. She stepped it up several notches raising her maturity level to that of the song, but keeping it fresh and young. The best of the night so far!

Matt Giraud singing "Part Time Lovers," a song I never really liked. Not sure about his song choice, but he nailed it vocally. Top 2 of the night so far.

Adam Lambert singing "Mad World," one of my favorite songs ever (I have a lot of favorite songs ever). And he knocked it out of the park. Again! Emotional. Powerful.

My top three for the night Allison, Adam, Matt. I can't decide who was better Adam or Allison, so let's just call it a tie. Bottom three Anoop, Scott, Lil, with Scott being at the very bottom.

American Idol Top 9 Recap

Before I get on with today's American Idol blog, I have a few other items to tend to. First, tonight we are going to the Mother of all Mommy blogger's book signing. The woman who inspred this very blog. Yes, I am jumping up and down with excitement.

"Bounce, bounce, bounce!"

"Um, you forgot to tell us her name," says someone from the Internet.

"Heather B. Armstrong of dooce.com," I say in my sing songy voice. Even better it's a date. Oh the joys, of multi-tasking.

Two, my friend is working on some Sugarland tickets for me today! Yes Sugarland in San Francisco this summmmmmmmmerrrrrrrrrrrrr. Perhaps we may even win some meet and greet tickets and I will get to ask, " Jennifer Nettles to "please, say something funny and inspiring for the blog."

Third, Stefan is freaking me out with his gargling. He thinks it's funny, but he's having a hard time laughing and gargling at the same time. Fail!

And why is he even still awake, see in my world it's yesterday, we have a big day tomorrow (today in your world). I don't want to watch Return of the Zombie again. Not on a date night anyways.


Oh wait, I'm getting a text message from Bel..... no Stefan. He texts, "hot pockets!" which is another blog, sorry.

Jesus, just let me finish my blog, please.

Okay here's the American Idol Top 9 Recap:

Anoop Desai performance tonight was his worst in my opinion and he's skating on thin ice. He started out all right, but went down hill fast on the chorus, lacking the umpf the song needed. He didn't handle the judges' criticism well either and it showed. He's better off singing ballads.


Megan Joy singing Bob Marley's, "I Wanna Give You Some Love," started off with her stylized vocals. Been there done that. Ho hum. She started singing better (without stylization) on the second half of the song, but I didn't care much for her version of that song. Maybe she could have just left the girl lyrics in and gone a little Katy Perry on us. Now, that would have been interesting.

Danny Gokey's performance was the first good one of the night. "Ah!" I love listening to Danny. He's got heart and soul. He reminds me of Johnny Lang, if he would just turn his sexy up a notch or five. One of my favorite performances tonight!

Allison Iraheta singing No Doubt's , "Don't Speak." Hmmmm. Gwen Stefani is amazing on this song and well Allison wasn't amazing. She sang great until she hit the chorus, where she lost momentum and emotional connection to the song. I believe Allison may be in jeopardy. The judges may have to save her tonight.

Scott MacIntyre singing Billy Joel's "Don't Go Changing." Scott started out well and I thought he chose a great song. When he got to the chorus he had some pitch problems, but he pulled it out and got through the song. It wasn't the worst performace of the night, but it wasn't the best.

Matt Giraud performed "You Found Me," by the Fray. Go power ballad! I thought he was edgier this week, edgier in a good way. I liked it. I thought he took a risk going out of his comfort zone and I respect that.

Lil Rounds' sang Celine Dion's "I Surrender." I didn't care for the song(Zzzzzz), but she sang it well, especially the second half. Not sure if she stays, it could go either way. But her kid definitely got her a few votes. So cute giving Randy a hug. Aw!

Disco meets rock as Adam Lambert performed an interesting arrangement of "Play That Funky Music White Boy." He pushes the envelope every week and he's soooooooooooooo faaaaaaaaaaar ahead of everyone else. White boy is my idol! He may even have a bit of Little Richard up in him.

Kris Allen had his best performance tonight. He even made me like that song. Kris was on fire and the teeny boppers are going crazy texting votes for him. I can her their little thumbs right now, "tap, tap, tap."

My top 2 for the night were Adam Lambert and Kris Allen. My bottom two, Anoop Desai and Megan Joy. I can't wait to see who stays tonight.

American Idol Top 10 Recap

Last night, as I was getting ready to watch American Idol, while simultaneously writing today's blog, I heard a strange sound.

"Poof!"

Yes, poof! is exactly what I heard ,right before I found myself sitting alone, in a room of complete and utter darkness.

"But it's Motown night," I cry. "The top 10 are performing Motown songs. I like Motown. Wah, wah, boo, boo."

I attempted to send a reconciliatory email to the Power Angels, "Boo hoooo, no tivo. I promise never to take electricity for granted again. Now, please give me back my power."

It didn't work. So here I sit scrounging videos off of youtube.com while writing my blog, on an exceptionally slow computer.
All before my scheduled 10:30 AM dental appointment.

Here is my American Idol Top 10 Recap.




Adam Lambert is amazing once again! I loved his clean cut look, very handsome. And his face looked like he was crying, just like I was last night when, "The Lights Went Out In Georgia." Broadway baby.






Allison Iraheta gave a rockin' yet soulful performance of "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone." Definitely the second best performance of the night. She stays.

I could only find the audio of Danny Gokey's performance. I liked it. He's got a great voice with a sexy edge. He stays.

Matt Giraud got it right and honestly in my book who can go wrong with "Let's Get It On." Definitely not his best night, but he stays for sexy swagger alone.







Megan Joy started out weak on "For Once in My Life," but she got better in the second half of the song. She isn't exactly my favorite, but I thought she was better this week than the previous two. And better than some of the others.

Michael Sarver sang "Ain't Too Proud To Beg," and personally I love this song, but not when he sings it. He oversang the song and kind of ruined it for me. Stylistically, it sound like he was going for Jerry Lee Lewis or something. Definitely a weak performance.




m performed "You Can't Hurry Love." I enjoyed his performance more than the last two weeks, but his time is numbered. He stays for now. Though if he starts singing about God, Jesus and Angels he will soar up the Christian charts.




Lil Rounds' performace of "Heatwave," was definitely not her best. Honestly, I am surprised she didn't give a strong performance, and I think this could really hurt her. Lil started out great, but she failed on the chorus. She may go tomorrow night.

Anoop Desai sang "Ooh baby baby," beautifully, which isn't what I look for in a male singer. But he definitely stays. One of the stronger performances of the night, just not my type.




Kris Allen sang "How Sweet It Is," and he surprised me. I thought he gave one of the better performances of the night. He stays.



The best performance of the night was by far Adam Lambert. Then, of course the next strongest was Allison Iraheta. The bottom three for me were Lil Rounds, Michael Sarver and Megan Joy, in that order.

So Internet who do you think is getting voted off tonight? Tivo please don't fail me now. Oh wait, I almost forgot, I'm checking the results on Twitter. Follow me www.twitter.com/wendysurf