American Idol Week 2 - Boys
Posted on February 27th, 2008 in American Idol
So I decided to follow American Idol as it was unfolding. I saved my comments and thought I would post them instead of the more brief recap that I normally post.
- Michael Johns - Not my favorite performance of his. In fact I think this is the worst one his performances yet. It was pitchy, forced and sounded like he was struggling through the entire song. Maybe a better, more rockish type song would have helped him out this week?
- Jason Castro - Probably one of his better performances. I like his use of the guitar and how he takes control of the songs vocally. My only problem with the guitar is that American Idol is a singing competition not a music competition. So while he can strum a mean guitar I a still left wit a desire to hear him sing. And I still think he needs to let loose a little bit. It was way too safe a performance.
- Luke Menard - Yeah right. Nobody can do Freddie Mercury. It just doesn’t happen. I didn’t like this dude last week and I don’t like him this week. It was cheesy, silly and not very good. We’ll see if he’ll be around to screw up next week.
- Robbie Carrico - Not bad Robbie. Not bad at all. I think the song fit his style and his performance appeared almost professional. I think he cut loose a little bit and I think it may score him some points. His voice is not as rough as a traditional rocker (Jim Morrison, Eddie Vedder, Jimmy Page) but he did a good job in my opinion.
- Danny Noriega - Why am I reminded of a Season 2 Clay Aiken impersonation? This kid has to go. He is not singing, he is replicating an original song. Ok, we get it. You have a silky soft voice. No matter how much you try to make love to the camera (or that microphone - that’s right, you heard me) you are not American Idol top 3 stock. In fact I would almost put money on you not making it to the top 12.
- David Hernandez - Man, that was disappointing. He tried to make it his, but screaming once in the middle of the song and changing the ending didn’t help his cause. I liked his Hollywood performance way better than this. He made the song his, but not in a good way, in my opinion.
- Jason Yeager - Dude, when is someone going to make the song their own and perform it? I don’t anyone wants to see someone sing someone else’s song. Adding a little something to the end or throwing a loud vocal somewhere in the middle is not going to do it. This performance was la-di-frickin-da.
- Chikezie - From a performance perspective this was my favorite of the night so far. This was a personal performance (at Simon maybe?) and he sang the heck out of it. Way to go Chikezie. I think you sold yourself into next week with this one.
- David Cook - Come on dude. Ditch the guitar, let the players play and the singer sing. You’re voice sounded bad even over the loudness of the guitar. I don’t know. Is this your last week here? Perhaps with a little stronger vocal this week you could have wrapped up a complete performance.
- David Archuleta - At first I thought that he chose the wrong song. Then when you hear him sing it his way you realize he hit it out of the park. I was wowed by this performance. It was top class from start to finish. Is this our next American Idol.
Overall I think my two favorites this week were David Archuleta and Chikezie. The two I think are going home: Danny Noriega and Luke Menard?
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