American Idol 11 Spoilers – Next Weeks Theme Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston?

By On 03/01/2012 · 63 Comments · In American Idol, American Idol 11

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Spoilers from @idolspoilers

  • For the first week of the finals, there will be separate themes by gender.
  • The themes for the males and females will be Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston, respectively.

By the way? What a horrible theme. Honestly, if I never hear another Stevie Wonder song on Idol again in my lifetime, I’ll be thrilled.

I know there are several big-voiced girls on the show who can handle Whitney. But still. NO. It actually would have been more interesting to have the boys sing Whitney and the girls sing Stevie..

 
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  • fuzzywuzzy

    Stevie and Whitney songs?  I can hear the massacring now.  Ugh.

  • Anonymous

    who is Davy Jones?

  • http://twitter.com/marymagdalenect Gretchen

    @Jaejae1:disqus 
    Davy Jones was one of “The Monkees,” an American version/spoof of “The Beatles”.

    Davy is the singer of the song “Daydream Believer”:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehJNw-T3gpo

    ****************************************

    These are who I equate “The Monkees” to “The Beatles,” and please let me know if I am mistaken…

    Davy Jones (singer) = Paul McCartney;
    Peter Tork (keyboards) = Ringo Starr;
    Mickey Dolenz (tamborine) = George Harrison;
    Michael Nesbitt (guitar player) = John Lennon…

  • http://twitter.com/TylerWV TylerWV

    Themes were selected before Nigel realized Idol was sinking, I suspect.  Stevie is so hard to sing its always a bad night.  Whitney, just no.  I dont like themes period.  Let them pick whatever song in whatever genre they want.   Get on with the makeovers please and find Colton some pants that dont accent his matchstick legs.  Tell Jessica to stop wearing black,  Why do these skinny gals wear black?  Trying to make themselves disappear?  Im tired of jiggling boobs in my face and now the skinny legs are making me irritated.  Think its a sign I should watch something else? lol

  • revcat

    Sounds like a train wreck!

  • Allison

    Now there can be no berating by Randy for choosing a Whitney song.

  • Anonymous

    “Now there can be no berating by Randy for choosing a Whitney song.”

    But there will be. Because, to date, logic has played no role in you-made-a-bad-song-choice-dawg judges’ comments. Ever. In all these seasons. heh

  • Incipit

     This has all the earmarks of a possible fiasco – so I went and did some checking at “What Not To Sing” (Love that site!) – to see just how bad it could get. It ‘could’ get pretty bad – OTOH, a few past contestants have done well. If someone has a fresh take, it could pay off, sung well – but straight up copies – not a good idea.

    In spite of Randy’s mantra, fourteen of Whitney’s songs have been performed a total of thirty four times on Idol in the last ten seasons – with scores ranging from 87 to 19. Looks like the ones to avoid are “I Who Have Nothing” – 6X, “Saving All My  Love For You” – 5X, and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” – 4X

    Stevie Wonder has had twenty-one songs performed – forty nine different times – and the scores here range from 84 – 14.  “Superstition” has had the most outings – 4X.

    I haven’t checked the Idol Cleared Songs list to see if other titles from either artist are available to choose from…these are just the ones that have already been done on the show; in a few instances, done to death.

    I still consider this a rather stale theme…and with the repetition factor, the contestants get to be compared to the original artist AND to whoever has sung the song well in seasons before – a double handicap on their first live performance.

    There may be some crashing and burning next week, with this Bright Idea. IMO.

  • Anonymous

    jessica is gonna own whitney

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IHIRO4P2ZPNQFGMK5KR57VH3E4 Nanc

    Now that just makes me sad….time to delve into some musical history….

  • Kesia Monteith

    Yes! Thank you for saying this. The show is in desperate need of new producers, especially ones that are younger. 

  • Anonymous

    I, for one, can hardly wait to hear Phillip sing Part-time Lover.

  • Anonymous

     ”jessica is gonna own whitney’

    There is a potential pitfall there, though, I think.

    When somebody is so much right in your style, and has similar vocal talents, it’s a lot harder to do a great job while also recasting the song enough to “make it your own.”

    I think that, had Jessica not ever heard Whitney’s songs, she might still sing them very much Whitney’s way. And she’s only going to have a few days to change them up to avoid veering toward karaoke — albeit, probably excellent karaoke.

    On a show like this, I think you’re often better off being asked to transform into your style stuff that wasn’t in your style to begin with because it can make it that much easier to get out from under the song as iconically performed to make it a song that really expresses *you.*

    I have no doubt she’ll do a technically great job on a Whitney song, but whether Jessica’s own personality and quirks will clearly shine through it, I’m less certain.

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