Danny Gokey did a fine performance, and certainly has the producers and judges telling America he is the one to beat right now. What's up with the tremendous amount of air-time this Robert Downey Jr. Jr. is getting? One has to imagine that his decent set of pipes + interesting/sad back-story + David Cook-ocity is the perfect formula to create a Pop Idol. However, his back-story makes me NOT TRUST this guy. Who auditions for reality TV four months after the wife passes away and gives the producer intimate home-videos to help schmaltz up the story? Furthermore, I loved David Cook, but one of my favorite parts about Idol is how all the winners are so incredibly different. We've got Fantastic Burrito: the R&B soultress, Carrie Underwood: country superstar, Kelly Clarkston: pop powerhouse, and David Cook: alternative rocker. I'm not saying that the winner can't fit into one of these genres of music (hello: what's left?), but maybe not so much a back-to-backer with the rocker dude.
Alexis Grace was the best out of all the "meh" women. I think it's weird how focused the judges seem to be on sexin' this girl up. She did, afterall, have a baby at possibly the age of 18 or 19, so let's maybe not play-up the whole gettin' busy element.
Ricky Braddy I'm throwing in as the #3 because he sang very well and there is a Clay Aiken fan-base. He seems boring to me (although, not because of lack of star-quality) in the same way that any balladeer like a Gayken or an Archuleta bores me.
As for the rest:
- Holy hell Casey and Stevie were DISASTERS.
- I liked Jackie Thon! I don't think she was the best singer, and she certainly doesn't stand a chance tonight. However, I hope she is able to use this experience to land more acting gigs. Looking at her IMDB page, she has already had appearances on some great programs including Veronica Mars and It's Always Sunny...
- Props to Tatiana. She was the next best female singer out of the group (maybe- it's hard to sort through the mediocrity), and she didn't do the little crazy-girl monkey dance that the producers wanted her to. The judges were genuinely surprised that she sang well (what an insult to all of the decent female singers who have already been cut!) and that she didn't fall to her knees in a psychotic fit. They had only kept her to be a water-cooler topic and she dissed them by taking this opportunity seriously. Well done!
And lastly:
- I liked Kara. I think she had some really valid critiques and furthermore, I believe she encouraged Paula to be more articulate! Paula had some incredibly thoughtful things to say last night. No longer will there just be a "beautiful, fabulous" tasteless meat between our "Aight Dawg" and "Rubbish, Hotel Singer" sandwich.
- Unless a High School AV team was in charge there was NO EXCUSE for the piss-poor production on this show. Wonky, accidental camera throws, faulty clip-cues, and no one could have fixed Kara's mike after it became apparent that she was going to deep-throat it throughout the evening?
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