American Idol Season 8 – Top 3 Performance – VIDEO

GO ADAM!!!!!

Hope it’s a great night… after Eurovision I need something to clear my ears! And I’ll think twice before criticizing any of these 3…

” But he made à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Cryinà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  his à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“filthy bitchà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ .”

*drools with anticipation*

My stomach is in knots before a show for the first time this season.

Here we go!
That’s some drama^^

Knock them out of the park, Kris!!

Wow only 300 shows

So very excited. I just wish I didn’t have to sit through Danny first…

I always love Top 3 night!

Am I the only one seeing Danny copying on Kris’ style? Douche.

What is Adam wearing?! :laugh_tb:

I think Kris only owns pants with holes in them. LOL Cute as can be any way.

OMG they are going to show Streaker Girl tomorrow night~

OMG THEY’RE GOING TO MENTION STREAKER GIRL!

Hey, that’s the KISS guys!

did annyone understand what Paula just said

TEEHEE. Adam’s streaker got a mention….or what did Ryan say? Bumrush?

Ouch. He sounds like he’s pushing it again.

Either Danny’s voice is totally shot, or this really sux. Maybe both.

karagokey ewww…

Woo and do do do do dooo

Aha, so 5 notes in the song = “keep your voice in that magic spot”

LOL so the company line still is that his vocals are good… uh-huh

Man, his voice is shot.

Argh, no. He got in the do-do-do’s.

And more do-do-do’s lol.

I really hardly hear or see anything during the show. I’m too nervous. heheh Did you see Kris glance at Adam right when they walked out.

I don’t like this Little Sister song.

Here we are starting off with Danny shouting at us and doing his generic stupid dancing and singing bit.

What’s with the weird “doo doo doo”s?
Gosh, just go home, Danny.

Danny is shouting as usual and Simon calls that singing. I don’t get it. This is not pretty. I gues it isn’t supposed to be. He is giving it his all, I’ll give him that. I love the saxophone. The judges are going to heap on the praise because it is their last chance to put Danny into the finals with Adam.

Ouch. He sounds like heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s pushing it again.

He sure does. Sounded flat to me……but the judges will think he’s genius……

In the inimitable words of Danny Gokey”

“doot do do doot do”

They liked that

Ugh. Shoot me.

If this is the better one of the two(going by spoilers) I’m very uh…worried for DAnny.

Nevermind! What am I saying! This could send his ass home!

HORRIBLE DANNY

adaaaaaaaaaaam!!!

OMG I think Kara half redeemed herself.

At least he didn’t have many words to forget. I think it was a stupid song choice by Paula. Oh well… Kara and Paula….hiss, meow, hiss.

Too gyrating for Kara? Bah. There’s no such thing.

Paula looks kinda hot tonight

Damn. Wrong thread again.

So I repeat: That was AVERAGE.

GO ADAAMMMMMMMMMMM

This is ridiculous. I am getting ulcers over Kris Allen and it is already preordained that he will go home after tonight. I hate this. I hope he sings a good as I know he can.

Shut up, Gokey!

Kara called it correctly.

Is Adam going last again????? That makes me laugh and cry at the same time lol

Shut up Danny. Just shut up. You. Can’t. Dance.

Thanks Simon

Paula was right about one thing, that did showcase his 5 note range.

Put the GO in Gokey!!

Kara was so right, other than that Danny’s voice is just subpar. I hate that she was right on the money with Danny, though I do hope America sees that THAT’S the truth about that performance.

LOL Adam’s outfit is questionable compared to his previous outfits.
Anyway… poor Kris. Wait till he comes out with that acoustic guitar and shut everyone up.
The judges talk. too. much.

Kris wasn’t as good as i thought he would be

whoa, finally got back in!

I really liked Kris at the piano for Apologize. LOL I have no idea what the Judgery was up to, but not like I expected a serious commentary from them.

Also: lol at Paula and her “loud bum note” comment….uhhhhh last week, Danny? Kris gets no Aplus for effort?

Sorry for crashing the blog, MJ.

And Yay for Simon Pwn’ing Kara’s ass!!

Kris was really good. He’ll kill it with Heartless, I can tell.

Well, it looks like they are in faint praise mode with Kris.

Frankly the worse is Paula, she clearly has invested way too much into her Danny-Adal finale.

Kris was soooooooooooooooooo good!!!! What is wrong with judges minus Randy…

Poor Kris, he didn’t stand a chance against that giant charter bus that just flattened him. The judges spent more time arguing than they did critiquing him. *Sigh*

Kara was right on about Danny, but WTF about Kris. Simon was right (about her being wrong, but somewhat wrong on Kris). But I do praise Simon for at least saying Kris’s was competent. Still, you should’ve liked it!

Kris >>>>> Danny.

I think Kris is in trouble. I thought he was really good, but the judges are ridiculous. *eye roll*

Oh. So they had to get One cleaered, not WG? Wierd. Grrr…

Danny does mediocre karaoke and gets his usual ass licking. Kris does a fine job singing and plays an instrument and gets told he’s disappointing. Situation normal.

Meanwhile, Adam shows us once again why he should win.

I don’t know why we should listen to the judges tonight anyway. They’re way more interested in manhandling each other than they are in the singers. Disgusting.

OMG ADAM

Woah, Mad World lighting…

It’s okay. I think Kara set Kris up well. She said she wanted rearrangement…she is going to get it. Big time.

LMAO, he is going for the elvish look, but he smashes it like always.

The sway bots are back!

Holy Crap. I have chills

Yes! Toned down Adam! But not the high note!

I’m sorry, but I don’t like the gaspiness, otherwise it was OK.

I don’t know this song Adam is singing. The harmonies sound off.

Adam is ruining one of my favorite songs. Yikes, bad. I’m shocked. He’s usually great.

I liked Danny’s performance of “Dance Little Sister.” I thought that he did a decent job of it.

I thought that Kris was okay, he wasn’t as good or better than the original IMO. Also, did anyone else notice that it looked like Kris’s fingernails were painted? I thought that it looked like his fingernails were painted in his hometown video. Maybe he has been taking some tips from Adam?

The only positive thing to come from the ridiculous judge commentary on Kris was Kara saying that she wanted him to come out with his guitar and do something acoustic and surprising for the next song.

Um, bring it on…

eta: rbidol, you beat me to it

He looks like he’s gonna cry. But like fake, acting cry. Whatever. He sang his face off, I really liked it.

My only complaint: It was too short. The arrangement was weird.

I didn’t like that. still, waiting for tonguebath in 3…2…

lol and i forgot, simon song choice = automatic props from simon

Why so whiny Adam? I don’t get it.
Honestly, didn’t love One much.

Apologize was good, some bad notes and nothing special. But fine.

I didn’t even recognize what Adam sang. Did not like it at all. But I did like the less-glam look. Not as much eyeliner and he’s still pretty.

Kris sounded off key. Not a good performance.

Danny-ok
Loved Kris!
Adam-not so much..too screechy JMO..;)

Danny:
I think the theory that he’s imitating previous seasons holds water. Anyone else think he was trying to mimic Blake a bit there with the Sax?

And either I’m watching Adam’s videos too many times or Danny was totally mimicing several of his performances there (Black or White in particular).

Other than that, I didn’t *hate* it, but I didn’t love it eitherà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

Kris:
I had a phone call, but I thought this was also kinda dull. Liked it better than Dannyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s. And Simonà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s defending Kris! Nice.

Adam:
Unfreaking believable. That was awesome! I can’t wait for the studio.

He looks like heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s gonna cry. But like fake, acting cry. Whatever. He sang his face off, I really liked it
I don’t think it was fake, him being gay the meaning of One is HUGE

I love “one” and I loved the way Adam sang it!!! Great song choice!!!

LOL Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s outfit is questionable compared to his previous outfits.

How so? I can’t watch from here.

I missed Gokey’s first song. Hated the bus coming for Kris, and Adam’s meh performance. I hope their personal choices go better.

All 3 look damn pressurised tho’

I don’t think that Adam’s performance of “One” was that great. I am not really that a big fan of that song, and I don’t think that it really suited him well.

LOL Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s outfit is questionable compared to his previous outfits.

Yup. Is he wearing 2 completely different colors of denim? Sorry, Adam, but outfit = fail.

Let me know when Gokey’s over…

I thought the beginning of “One” was terrific, but the 2nd part was… weird. I dunno, it was okay.

Adam was great, but not *completely* *original*, contrary to Kara’s gushing–his rendition of the chorus came from Mary J. Blige’s version.

I thought all 3 of them sucked. What a mess.

Adam was as brilliant as always. As great as I imagined.

I found this live feed. Small screen, but watchable for those who can’t wait.

Live Feed

But seems like Adam and Kris are off their game tonight. Stress or no rest from the homecomings?

Adam was fine, but it was far from his best performance.

I dont think anyone was that great.I wonder if kara will say well maybe i was wrong about the guitar.Yes i did think of blake when danny hit that sax part.

I don’t think that there was really a clear winner in the first half of the show. I thought that Danny was decent, Kris was okay and that Adam’s song choice didn’t really fit him that well. Let’s see how the second half turns out.

whats with the ear monitors? lol Adam looks like a pixie… rofl..

Kris killed it and gos run over and backed up on….
hokey pokey was ok…
didnt like adams.. couldnt even tell what he was saying half the time.. o.O;

Dear judges: you are not cute or amusing trying to one-up each other. please focus and CRITIQUE THE PERFORMANCES otherwise stfu and stfdown.

Hmm. I don’t really love the song “One” and what I hoped would be a moment for Adam, even though he did give me chills, left me kinda eh. It was too short. He took the best parts of it and stuck it together, but the arrangement didn’t flow right for me. It just didn’t have the build it could have, or should have had.

I still loved it, but it felt a little off…. The beginning was better than the latter.

And I’m shocked to say that because I do love me some Adam but I wanted so much MORE.

I somewhat blame time constraints because well, that song is long.

I wasn’t blown away by Adam’s performance. For me, he had many others that were better this season.

Adam’s was beautiful!

Adam was meh AHHH NOOO MY EARZ. Okay, not really, but even though I’m not his fan, it wasn’t his best. Shoulda gone Mad World esque with this. Hopefully his next performance is like Feeling Good.

Kris did good, but there were some off points. Still, he’s never taken the baby grand, so it’s a good move by him.

Danny, meh, quite off.

Kris >>> Adam >>>>>>> Danny.

But the judge’s choice seems to always go terrible. Last year, it wasn’t very good either. Their choices should go better, although with David Archuleta, he had a strange choice and a decent execution. I liked With You.

Yup. Is he wearing 2 completely different colors of denim? Sorry, Adam, but outfit = fail.

Gee he’s human! I wear two different colours all the time.

Another brilliant performance Mr. Lambert!!

Simon called Bono personally? M’thinks he likes Adam just a smidge!!!!

Loved Adam as usual. He’s had several better performances but he is still in a class by himself. Also he looks sexy tonight!!

Btw, good job to Kris, love that song!!

When you do a song like ONE you walk a tight rope and Adam did very very well. You cannot over sing that song and he was very careful not to do that and to respect the song. He is a phenomenal singer and strategist.

He’s just plain awesome. It wasnt his greatest performance by a long shot but his worst performance is better than anyone’s best. JMHO. Apparently Im not alone.

Are they trying to remind people that they cut IGB this year? :blink_tb:

Gokey was boring and predictable.
Kris was great, didn’t get the credit he deserved.
Adam was good. I don’t like the sing though so that’s influencing my judgment.

Round 1 goes to Kris and Adam.

Yeah, I think Simon had good intentions but One is difficult to condense into a soundbite.

My ranking of the first round, based on my enjoyment of the performance is:

1. Kris – Competent, I loved the piano, vocals were good (but not spectacular), and it was very pleasant to listen to.

Tied for 2nd – Adam and Danny – I didn’t care for their tones. Danny was a bit strident, and Adam was a bit whiney, as someone upthread noted. Both showed problems with breathing technique. Danny’s choice of phrasing I didn’t care for, and I really can’t stand Adam’s gasping for theatrical effect.

Frankly, I was disappointed in all of their performances, but Kris bothered me the least, and is more like the style I’d listen to.

Another live stream. Hope this works.

Live Feed for AI

What’s the song ( before carrie’s) that was playing during the clip?

Hmm. Honestly, I was expecting more from them all. But it’s bogus that the judges hold Kris to a higher standard than Danny. Was Danny pitch-perfect? No. Did he did change up his song arrangement? No. And yet they criticize Kris for not doing those things, while giving Gokey a pass.

Oh well. Like you said, Cathy, situation normal.

Not impressed with all three performances. I guess Kris had the edge because he was at least musical and not OTT. I don’t know what Danny and Adam were doing with their atonal attempts to phrase a melodic line.

Meh.

Adam just hit it otta the park!!

Oh, I get it. They threw in the commercial so Danny doesn’t get completely outclassed by Adam.

Adam looked like a dark-haired Legolas if you ask me^^

I understand why other fans would be pissed at Adam, they’ve done everything except crown Adam right there.

Kris is not Matt on the piano – he should have played the guitar.

Carrie is not as good as Matt on “So Small”

Adam is amazing.

I thought all 3 of them sucked. What a mess.

Yeah… pretty much. Lets hope the second round is better.

They’re over again. Three songs plus commercials in 20 minutes with THESE judges? Imposible.

Adam and Kris were kinda all over in place. Danny…. was Danny

I really loved Adams “One” cant wait for the studio version

No way are they going to finish on time.

Theyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢re over again. Three songs plus commercials in 20 minutes with THESE judges? Imposible.

The Carrie thing should of been tomorow

Round 1
Decent, but not mindblowingly awesome.

Adam
Kris
Danny

What ya got next, top three? :3

Kris is not Matt on the piano – he should have played the guitar.

If they were doing only one song tonight, then I would agree with you – he should have gone with a guitar. But since he’s already got an acoustic arrangement planned for his personal song choice, I think playing the piano on ‘Apologize’ was a good move.

ETA: At this rate, they’ll probably go overtime… AGAIN.

seriously, one ad break after each song, carrie underwood little piece included?!?!?!

Im a west coaster, but it sounds like the judges are getting ready to run over Kris w/ a bus (a train, bulldozer, or a 747). I hope Kris rocks “heartless!” and shows the judges something different and current!

Are they trying to remind people that they cut IGB this year

I think that they are just trying to use of some of the spare time, they have. Last week they filled that time by letting the contestants do duets, this week they decided to use that time to showcase Idol Gives Back. That time could have been used towards letting the contestants have 3 songs each.

But I think that because the judges comments run long, there isn’t quite enough time to give the contestants 3 songs, but enough to have a segment on Idol Gives Back.

I agree with those who say that none of them have been that great yet tonight.

The problem I have with Adam is that, just as Randy said, he kind of lost the melody in the rearrangement. He did the same thing disco night. These songs with classic melodies…you really can throw them away. Glory notes without a melody…its just lacking something essential.

There are so. many. commercials. :wallbash_tb:

And the reward for waiting thru them: Danny. lol

I bet Adam’s studio version will be a lot better than the live one. You can’t really condense that song very well.

Hopefully Adam goes home after that screechy mess. Kris was good but God, what an awful song choice. Kara & Randy….wtf. Just because it’s a #1 on the Hot 100 doesn’t mean it’s a great song to perform live. Danny was OK.

tara8, it was Africa by Toto during the carrie video

Idol really fails at timing this year.

Ugh.

I was wanting to be blown away by Adam….I wasn’t. He was still good. I hope he has a “moment” with his last song.

Gawd, here comes Hokey again. Time to mute.

Of course there’s 20 minutes of commercials. As Mj reported the other day, ratings are down and profits are up.

Sadly, I think Danny’s performance was actually the best of the three (and it hurts me to say that). He actually got the worst song choice of all of the them and did the most with it (ignoring the dancing). Kris was mediocre but in retrospect, I don’t think it was a good song choice on Kara’s part . Simon’s song choice was the best, but I thought that Adam’s rendition was absolutely horrible. Randy was the only honest one.

I didn’t like any of those… wow. I love One, and did not like what Adam did with it, or the way he sounded on his upper register… it was not pleasant and hurt the beautiful lyrical interpretations. Kris was probably my favorite, but I agree with Kara that he should have interpreted it differently.

Can’t wait for Adam’s studio version too. Some songs do not sound well in reader’s digest format.

I have to admit I need to eat my words. Kris was the best that round. Adam = very disappointing

Shut those women up, for cryin’ out loud!! LOL!! I thought Adam was awesome, as always. No comments on the rest….

It’s going to go over…as always. Why can’t they figure this out??? GRRR

OMG! Danny brought tears to my eyes. Best of the night so far.

I LOVED ADAM. OMG!

WTF?

Oh God I’m callin it he will cry

I agree with lys..on the fact that Gokey didnt change it up and he got praise, yet Kris did a wonderful performance, and gets thrown under the bus…so not fair..

Oh shit. He actually sounds good

So Sprinkles interviews Gokey just so he can say it out loud that he rearranged the song. *rolleyes*

PS: Is my tv’s sound to low or he’s singing very, very low?

More band.

Oh, this is awful, even for Danny.

His voice is really screwed up. He needs rest and lemon water.

Loving Danny’s YASB. I.am.loving.it. Good stuff.

SCream Danny. Scream your voice off. Spoil the song!

Oh Danny, breathing in the wrong places, no breath support on the soft intro to the song. Not good in my opinion.

Oi vey Danny………..can I wake up now?

Woo. Hated that, Danny. You sounded like a great creeper.

He actually did kind of… well. *eyetwitch*

Get ready for that bus, Kris, my dear.

Dang it, I’m seeing how someone could consider Danny a good singer. Let’s hope this means he goes home…

Danny, that was worse than last week. Sorry.

Go Danny. I thought he did a good job with “You are So Beautiful.”

Probably his best

Man, I actually liked that. Not sure how modern it was or if that would be on the radio, but it was okay.

Thanks Thea.

That really wasn’t that great. No emotions evoked here, except disgust and confusion. Where was that magic you’re talking about, Paula?

shut up danny.

GO ALLISON! SAVE THE ROCKER!

-in deep denial-

Well – considering they had their homecoming and had to worked on two songs – so far so good.

OMG…Danny just got done and…. I love Joe Cocker and I actually had a simple and plain *bar band* singer sing this to me. OMG OMG OMG!!! They are praising him like crazy.???? WTF???? NOOOOOOO I just don’t hear what they are hearing?????? I give up….

Sigh. I hate this but he didn’t suck on that. OMG Paula can barely contain her squee…

I know ya’ll mostly don’t like Danny, but his second song was aaaaawesome.

“Mad vocals”? WHAT?! His vocals are completely shot. These judges…. AHHHHHRGH.

Frankly, I don’t know who gave you those spoilers MJ, but that performance was way better than I was expecting.

yeah, I kinda liked Danny’s arrangement of YASB and the vocals were good but not enough for me to vote for him…

Danny prob just made it to the finals….that was really hard to type

Ugh. The over-pimping just started. Poor Kris. I can hear the bus backing up already.

Are the judges tongues black from all the ass-licking yet? But dammit, he actually sounded quite good.

Kris and Adam, BUCK UP!

Didn’t love the rearrangement, but thought he sang very well. It’s going to be close tonight!

that was

Simon is a sell-out.

Pardon me while I make an appointment with my ENT as, clearly, my hearing must be shot to hell. Danny’s performance = a vocal masterclass. WTF?!

I can’t get much more of this. Never in the history of this show the judges comments bothered me as much.
It’s just beyond ridiculous.
I did not hate Danny’s performance, it wasn’t bad, but vocal masterclass???!! Who are we kidding?

Master class? That pitchy, breathless, breathy performance? Are we watching the same show?

Ooohhh!!! Pocket idol is wearing a sparkly shirt!

I did not mind that, unfortunately. Damn!!!

Off topic, why can I only post one time? I have to go and reload the site to do so again. Any ideas?

There seems to be a huge difference of opinion on Danny. I just don’t like the he – he – he that he did at one point in the song (putting breaks in a single syllable because he couldn’t change notes smoothly….sign of bad technique).

SO excited for Kris.

Vocal masterclass? Is that what Simon said?

Wow, did Danny cry? I don’t question that is emotions are genuine, but that was… icky to watch nonetheless. YMMV. The thing about Danny is that I always like his voice in parts of each performance, and I’m like, ooh! But he never has a good all around performance. Vocal masterclass, Simon? The lower verses are not well supported. Also, why is he’s talking/explaining soooo much tonight?

Wow. Kris sang both songs that Matt should have sung. Boo.

Kris’ voice sounds bad. Much as I hate to say it. it sounds pitchy, and not emotional like Danny’s YASB. But his arrangement sounds good. Doubt the judges would praise it tho’

Danny was good.

I may be in the minority, but I loved Danny’s performance.

For all those that criticize people’s facial expressions matching the lyrics, why is Kris smiling about someone being heartless and leaving him? I like Kris, but I’m just saying…

Kris sounds horrible too.

Loving Kris! This is the record he would make and that I would buy.

I can’t believe Kanye let them use his musis, didn’t like it kris

I got a sinking feeling that it is possible that Adam may not win afterall

Love ya Kris!!

Oh KRIS!

Kris was amazing!

LMAO the lyrics talking to the show. GO KRIS! Should I mute the judges now?

eta: omg they are not bussing him. Uh guys, might wanna let Simon talk

AWESOME JOB POCKET IDOL! no matter what happens he went out on a high note!

Yay thank you for the minipimp Ryan!

I am liking Kris! but just watching on small little in and out screen! argghhh! Adam was wonderful and Danny not to bad, Danny was just boring though – he never goes out on a limb, never reaches for the stars. Well, he tried last week and failed miserably didnt he? lol

Not loving Kris either. Not a Kanye fan, and I just don’t like this song. Still thought it was better Danny’s.

KRIS- HEARTLESS=AMAZING!!!!!!!

NO BUS!!!

OMG. Kris was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! With Heartless…not so much with the first song.

I thought that Danny was better vocally than Kris was tonight. I thought that Kris had an okay arrangement of Kanye’s “Heartless.”

The were some rough points in that.

The bad parts were pretty bad, but the good parts were awesome.

kris, hell yes! thank you randy and karrah for giving him the credit he deserves!

What did they hear that I didn’t – ugh. He rushed it.

At least he is getting praise

Kris was pretty awesome!!!

Ha, I love Heartless. Loved it. And his shirt sparkles!

huh? Randy loving Kris? Ah, Kara, SHUT UP! You screwed Kris over, and you’re blaming him?

Antipating Simon whacking. look at his face.

OH MY FUCKING GOD. Kris fucking tore it up!!

Yeah Simon!

I love the restraint comments from Paula, her agenda is showing.

this is hard to follow since i’m west coast. but did simon say danny shouldnt have rearranged yasb, but kris got dinged for not re-arranging apologize?

OMG YES YES YES

Kris fans, VOTE YOUR BUTT OFF like he just got run over.

A vocal MASTER CLASS??

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!

Oh come on.

I HATED the arrangement. That song needs to stay simple, pure. Ewwwwww.

They over pimped Adam and had to make up for it on Danny. Thats what happened.

That was AWESOME! Dare I say, best of the night so far.

kara*

i spelled her name the way i spell mine by accident

Now thats how you do it. What a risk, go Kris Allen!

Kris’s performance was the best of the night so far by a long margin! That was great!

Too late, Kris. You are still toast, I’m afraid.

STELLAR. BEAUTIFUL. AMAZING.
KRIS.
If that didn’t save you for the finale I’m gonna cry.

is anyone else sitting there and saying *shut up, Kara???* Omg…the woman can’t shut up. No wonder it takes it over. And, I used to complain about Paula. Kris did good. Simon even said so. But, the girls have to stop it!!!

OMG *stressed* to the major factor!!!!!!!!!!! ACK!! I’m too old for this..lmao!

I liked Kris’s performance, but would like to shoot the person doing the sound mix. The guitar needed to be brought up a little….definitely was not loud enough….just like the night that Archie performed and also when Cook performed. Come on sound techs, you can do better than that. It was as if Kris was singing without the guitar.

Now let’s see how it goes with Adam.

hate to say danny was better than expected.

kris’s Heartless was FANTASTIC

Kris, that was incredible. You are so going to do more amazing like that in the finale next week. I can’t wait for it. KRADAM is going to happen.
Sweet shirt.

I expected a bus with Kris but I didn’t think Paula would be driving it.

See you all later. Getting phones ready. Go Adam. Go Kris!!

dup

Oh God, that was one AMAZING PERFORMANCE!

Gokey was a mess…I just give up on why they praise.

Anyway…Kris. That was freakin’ AWESOME. I loved that!

Coming in late to the 2nd songs

Sorry, did Simon call Danny’s performance a vocal masterclass? The last time he used that, he used it for Elliott after A Song For You. I feel so insulted on behalf of Elliott. It was good but it was nowhere near Elliott’s A Song For You.

Kris’ performance was good too. Finally some decent comments from the judges. Simon however still managed not to give a compliment.

Kanye West Kris! Love the shirt and accessories! But I’m stunned, they praised Kris?!?!?! Just hope it’s not a tactic by the judges to make Kris’ fans complacent and not vote.

Go Kris!

*trembling for Adam*

choiceà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦If you arenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t in the final next week it will be one of the biggest upsets.

I hope I am wrong, but it looks like the bus might be revvin’ up for Adam…..

Kris was just okay. Not that good.

OHHH! The Pressure!!!

The reason people think Adam was disappointing is that we all have crazy high expectations for him, more so than usual on a U2 song. Give him a break he did great with what he was given.

Kris was awkward 2nd time around sorry. Didn’t like the arrangement.

Danny was actually alright for me his 2nd time.

JMHO

ETA: typo. I hate typing on my iPod. Btw I love the busy signals! I haven’t gotten thru once.

Too late, Kris. I think you are toast. Sorry

Ooohhh can I just say that this is such a slap to Danny if Adam pulls this off. Danny,here’s how you sing Steven Tyler. *slap*

Not an Adam fan, but it’s annoying that the BGVs are louder than him.

And then the screaching… that’s why I don’t like him.

Okay this type of song suits the tone of Adam’s voice, not U2, Simon! Haha, I love that this is like Adam’s F-U to Danny’s Scream On. This is how you do “early” Aerosmith (tm Kara haha).

Oh, Oh, that was a very bad note Adam. That’s the first time that I heard him off pitch.

He’s going too much over the top, in my opinion. He’s having an off night, and it’s a bad time for it.

Yeah, looks like Adam is off his game tonight. Shoot! So Adam’s fans won’t be vote splitting, and it’s headed for Adam/Danny final.

*Cryin’ for Kris*

Danny was so much beter than Kris and I don’t even like Danny. The Fray’s cover is 100% better that what Kris sang. Randy, I don’t know what you were listening to!

I love Adam, but tonight was not his best night. Not even close.

Those back up singers should shut up and leave the singing to Adam!

Ugh, the back-up singers were AWFUL.

Kris was just okay. Not that good.

I agree. I thought that “Heartless” was a decent song choice, but I thought that Kris was just okay vocally.

Wow the vote must of been close last week.

that was awesome, best of the night!

I loved Adam’s ‘Cryin’, but why the hell did he pair up with a back-up singer? Weird.

I don’t think that Adam was that great tonight.

I really liked Kris’ version of Heartless. I like my singer-songwriters more offbeat, so the slightly cracked sound to Kris’ voice was awesome to me.

Simon had a point there, reminding Adam fans to vote. So the bus is still headed for Kris.

Damn…who arranged Danny’s YASB? He actually sang it well, without the scream and high note.

Sigh….Adam/Danny final. Hate this.

Did I just hear Simon tell everyone to vote for Adam?

LOL Simon is asking people to vote for Adam, more than asking… begging! I think he’s really afraid Adam might not make it.

I don’t recall Simon going so far as beg people to vote for a contestant.

Kara is sometimes so dumb . After hearing Kris second song it was clear that he wanted to give his two songs a different vibe and she still goes on over the first song.

I was not diggin Adam’s performance of “cryin” but he still deserves to win…..

Hahaha Simon, very strategic and smart.

That was like, epitome of why I can’t cheer for Adam. Too much with the OTT and the (whatever you want to call it) high notes plus his timbre. But I’m sure he’ll make Finale.

Big question is…could Kris have Heartless’d his way into Finale with him past Danny’s pimping and invincible fanbase?

Oh Simon and judges, obvious much? They’re literally telling people to vote for Adam. Good gosh. That being said, yes thanks for reminding me. Will do (for both Adam and Kris). Sorry Danny, AC has never been my cup of tea.

I think that this is going to be an interesting voting night tonight.

I loved how Simon practically begged people to vote for Adam. So disgusting.

I wish Adam wouldn’t sacrifice a good tune for glory notes. It is not what music is about. I don’t get the judges.

WTF at simon…… heck to the no…. seriously… wtf… stuff it

Actually Simon it’s not strictly a singing contest, It’s part singing, part ability to enter the music business.

but with that said i haven’t seen it yet so what do I know!

Oh, I love my boy. Even gives credit to the others…what a guy. If no one else sees this, it’s ok with me. I really don’t care.

Adam…Adam…Adam!!!! Vote, peeps!!! He HAS to be in the finals and kick Gokeys ass..

Who can resist that laugh??? Really….

Ok, I’m done. Tomorrow is going to be a really long day.

I’m glad Simon made sure Adam’s fans don’t get complacement. I was worried about that.

Simon had a point there, reminding Adam fans to vote. So the bus is still headed for Kris.

I think they had the bus going towards him and Danny they were nice to Kris

I can’t get through for Kris

Circuits have been busy for Kris’ 05 this entire time and busy on 08!!! Argggghhh!!!

Someone please fire those background singers on Cryin’. They ruined that middle part of the song.

I love the restraint comments from Paula, her agenda is showing.

Yeah, after Kris finished Simon looked pissed and Paula looked like she’d been slapped. Even if Kris gets booted tomorrow, I’ll remember their looks with glee.

Liked it much better than One, but WTF at the background vocals? That was terrible.

The back up singer for Adam was atrocious. WTF was that??

Kris was the best tonight and deserves to make the finale. The other spot is wide open for Danny and Adam…whos got the most fans?? Danny has never made the b3..its going to be a fun night.

I loved Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‹Cryinà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢, but why the hell did he pair up with a back-up singer? Weird

I know…….I kept telling the backup to shutup already! They were overpowering him. He was still awesome!!!

WTH was up with the ear thingys and wires with him tonight? I’ve never noticed them before.

Good for Simon reminding people to vote!!!

if you are voting on vocals only tonight – Danny was the best. Better than Adam I think but still think Adam is a better singer. And, I am not voting because of looks.

I’m only through the first 3 songs. I absolutely hated Adam tonight. It was horrible and he ruined the song completely. I’m so sick of the judges’ and producer’s pimping with him. Kris was blah and doesn’t have the voice for that song. Danny was the only one that was good and it was a song I wasn’t familiar with.

I’m a bit surprised by all these “too little, too late” comments regarding Kris. If anyone fits that statement, it’s Danny. Kris has been a heck of a lot more consistent then he has. And if Kris makes it into the finale tomorrow, he’ll have earned it based on his overall consistency. JMO.

Well, Kris’s phone lines are crazy…I’m getting no busy signal nor vote confirmation most of the time, just silence. Only got 2 votes in so far.

All three of them were good tonight. It’s gonna be close for #2.

The back up singer for Adam was atrocious. WTF was that??

I agree. It was so distracting! He is still my fave though.

I did NOT like Adam’s Cryin’ and I wasn’t jumping up and down over his “one” either. This is the first night Adam hasn’t been outstanding for me.

He had moments, but over all, not so good. I blame time restraints on a lot of it. Cryin’ and One just don’t lend themselves well to be chopped up and shortened, so I also blame bad song selection. Sorry Simon, I don’t care if you called Bono…..if he can’t sign the whole thing it isn’t worth it.

Better go vote. His ass better be in the finale or I won’t even watch.

And the backup singer in Cryin….just needs to not help Adam. It was too screechy even for me there, and I don’t mind the screech.

This evening was an epic fail for me all around.

Although I still think Adam was better than Danny and only slightly better than Kris because I quite enjoyed Kris’s “Heartless” which totally redeemed his “Apologize” for me.

ADAM FTW!!!!

VOTE PEOPLE!!!!

My Ranking tonight (from watching online without my great receiver!):

Adam>Kris>Gokey

I’m pleased I’m not the only one thinking there was something up with the backing singer on Crying she totally ruined it .. also is that the first time Adam’s had earpieces on Idol .. he didn’t have them on the recap of Crying .. but did on the live performance .. probably wanted to block out the awful backing singer

ick. Adam and Danny were off tonight, actually i thought all their first songs sucked. well I did like “apologize” for Kris but he did NOTHING with it at all.
but it suited his voice very well.

I loved Kris’ “hearltless” and thats how he should have changed up apologize, made it different.

Danny is annoying.

Kara was really spot on tonight and i enjoyed her and Simon:)

paula ick.

id love to see a kris/adam finale.

like kara said “kris is a dark horse” and he is, he made it this far, i can see him making it to the finale.

I’m voting for Adam and Kris (yeah, I know). Haven’t been able to get through for Kris AT ALL … but am having no problems voting for Adam.

probably wanted to block out the awful backing singer

No kidding! Wonder why he chose to wear them tonight of all nights.

personally thought heartless was the shizz….. hope its on itunes… heck ill own up to being a danny hater.. but he was better than adam tonight….

did anyone notice, that danny got the crap spot lol. anyone who sings 1st on the top 3 in all seasons has gone home. please please go danny

I can’t tell you who had the best vocals, because I couldn’t get through 15 seconds of the treacly sap that was Danny’s version of You Are So Beautiful. I value the money I spent on my dinner and wanted to keep it for a while.

I’m finally starting to get through for Adam. FINALLY. And I’m not sure how I feel about that.

I think the judges did not slam Kris because TPTB have read the blog and watched Idoltry and know they went to far.

The new back up singers were horrible the whole season

brb, voting A BILLION TIMES for kris. PUT THE GO IN GOKEY!

1) Kris – Heartless – I admit it, I have never felt the Kris love before tonight. That was awesome, though – reminded me a lot of Castro’s Over The Rainbow moment last year, another of my faves. Absolutely fantastic. 9/10

2) Adam – One – U2′s an incredibly difficult band to both cover and sing, and I think Adam did a MUCH better job with his arrangement that Cook did with his U2 song last year. That blew me away. 9/10

3) Kris – Apologize – Frankly, I thought it was better than Archie’s duet last year. He didn’t do much with the arrangement, but why would he need to rearrange a modern song that fits with with his style of singing? 7/10

4) Adam – Cryin – Ugh, that screech is back. Not that different from any other Glambert performance we’ve seen. 6/10

5) Danny – You’re So Beautiful – His voice was seriously gone. Way too scratchy and gaspy. 5/10

6) Danny – Dance Little Sister Dance – Seriously, how did this guy make it past Allison? That sucked. Almost as bad as Dream On. 3/10

and wth at the ear monitors…. they didnt get them top 3 night last year..

Back up singers ruined “Cryin’” for me…..seriously, someone remind that woman that she is BEHIND the scenes, not the main attraction. Which is, of course, Adam

Voting like crazy for Kris because Adam’s lines are ALL busy. Getting thru a few times for Kris!

Carrie is not as good as Matt on à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“So Smallà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 

HAHA as much as I love Matt, nobody beats Carrie on So Small. Unless you’re talking about other things. LOL

OMG OMG Kris’ Heartless was KICK AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEE

I get circuits busy for all three of Kris’ lines. Not a single vote through yet. :help_tb:

Today show was just strange!!!

Nobody had MOMENT for me….I need to rewatch the performances….I think that adam was great but not amazing like last week… I was little disappointed he was doing his scream notes during “One”…but actually it work quite good in his “Crying”….

I really liked Chris…I didn’t get the judges comments…he was good, I don’t know the song by west but I liked kris’s guitar arragement….

Danny – the first song was only screaming for me…the second one was better but avarage….

This night was strange to me maybe because I had too high expactation after song spoilers and after super last week…

I hope America do it right! Adam in the finale….

Kris wins the night on the beautiful strength of Heartless.
Stellar. (I think we finally have another above 90 performance!)

Adam comes in second.
This was one of his more lackluster nights, but even then, he still shines.
But talk about back-up singer sabotage during “Cryin”! What was that woman thinking?!?

And of course, Gokey.
His first song was very Gokey-karoake.
His second song was much better – I enjoyed the performance – but the other two outshone him.
So GTFOkey.

In 16 minutes, I’ve only managed to get 3 votes to go through. Arggggh

My rankings:
1. Cryin
2. Heartless
3. You Are So Beautiful
4. Apologize
5. One
1000. That AWFUL Danny Gokey song that Paula chose

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Cryinà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  by Aerosmith – Adam says heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s not going to change it up too much. Those who arenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t fans of the rock wail wonà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t be happy here

Nah. I’m a fan of the rock wail when it suits the song, per Cryin’, but not when it’s jarring and distracts from the spirit of the song’s lyrics, like what Adam did on One.

I’m dialing on 03 for Adam(lucky number so that’s what I’m sticking with) and I’m not getting thru…

I was surprised to hear Simon begging for votes for Adam. That was abit weird.
I think Gokey goes tonight. I don’t think anyone was all That great though to be honest.

personally thought heartless was the shizzà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦.. hope its on itunes

Frog, you should know that if it’s anything like last year the worst one will end up on Itunes…

Tis ok, I’m getting all texts through to Kris on 3 :wub_tb: phones…I’ve only done this for Cook before and, while, I am not uber invested in Kris, I find him most deserving, and I learned how to do this last year…tis rather fun.

Kris was the best of the night for me. Incredible, intellegent, brilliant, well-thought out, came accross as humble… YES. And Adam, damn, he did great as always. Really hoping for an Adam/Kris finale. Glad that Simon ate his words. Danny… can’t even remember any of his freakin’ performances. Just dull, shouty, and… BLECH. Vote for Kris!!!! Vote for ADam! (But vote for Kris, LOL)

OMG OMG Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ Heartless was KICK AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEE

What is “kick awesome”?! :blink_tb:

I’m getting through for Adam every single time now and still have not been able to place one single vote for Kris. :idea_wp:

The only standout tonight for me was Kris’ Heartless. He deserves to be in the finals. Danny was mediocre and his voice does nothing for me. Adam had two awesome song choices and killed them (in a bad way). Now Simon is begging people to vote for Adam. This is not a good season.

Dial Idol is really close for all of them. I may have to change from Kris to Kris and Adam. I just don’t find Gokey worthy. He wouldn’t know music if it kicked him in the ass.

This feels like such a political race…and Kris is some sort of third-party candidate…

Totally voting for Kris…if I can ever get through.

Also…really wishing Allison would have had the chance to sing two solo songs. :/

Kick-awesome

Popular term in the Kris fanbase.

Coined after in one of his interviews Kris said “kick…. awesome”. Presumably, he was going to say kick-ass but caught himself and replaced “ass” with the more politically correct “awesome”.

Kris’ heartless was the performance of the night.

Gokey was actually pretty good tonight. YASB was outstanding.

Adam was good, but not as good as the judges made him out to be. As usual.

busy signals for Adam on two lines…not his best performances, but he still (imo) is miles ahead of the other two.

They’ve all performed better. Nerves?

Adam might be in trouble :S

I will NOW be happy with ANY combination in the finale.

Tonight I’d put them:

1) Kris “Heartless”
(gap)
2) Adam “Cryin’”
3) Danny “Dance Little Sister”
4) Adam “One”
5) Kris “Apologize”
(gap)
6) Danny “You Are So Beautiful”. If that was a masterclass, I’m flunking out. Sheesh.

“Frog, you should know that if ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s anything like last year the worst one will end up on Itunesà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦”

leome… dont i know that…… hahaha i still WTF over longer….

I’ve never bothered trying before but I feel the need tonight! Is there any way I can vote from up here in the great northland of Canada?

Agreed, no one had a moment and yeah I actually felt bad for Adam with the back up singer trying to outscreech Adam and doing a bad job, and there was some lame ass guitar work as well that made the song sound weird. Same thing happened on Apologize, they had a guitar doing a keyboard part or background vocal part which to me was distracting.

I am not a Gokey fan but he did better on both songs than I expected. Kris was adequate on Apologize, he should have slowed it down a bit and I think that would have also helped him with his nerves, but I did love his version of Heartless. I’ve always liked that song and it is better than the Fray’s version. I agree with Randy on that one. To me it was the boldest risk that paid off.

And I am sorry Simon, U2 will never approve a song for American Idol again. That verison of One, which started off well until Adam went all Sam Harris on it, which is a sacrilege. I actually agree with Randy again? wow, that he mucked up the melody too much – I couldn’t tell what song he was singing by the end there.

So this could be a horse race indeed and I am glad they didn’t totally throw Kris under the bus. So my American friends, vote vote vote for your faves because I am not sure anyone is safe tonight.

Getting lots of busys on Adam. I have only been able to get through a few times. Crazy!

Best of the night was Adam on Cryin’ followed by Kris with Heartless. The rest were okay..

I think “one” will be better on the studio when he has time to build it up.

I can’t get through for Adam , my daughters are texting their fingers off…VOTE ’till 11

I voted 10 times for Kris. His “Heartless” was the first time I’ve felt compelled to vote for someone the entire season (well, except for Felicia, lol).

I think he may have nabbed the casual viewer vote

First I just have to say I hate Kara, she’s so freakin’ annoying, she pisses me off.

Gokey’s 2nd song was alright, he played it safe. ‘ef’ for Effort.
Kris’s 2nd song was really, really good, way way way better than JokeyGokey and I loved his sparkly shirt.
Adam’s was good but wtf? I thought a background singer was supposed to be in the background.

It should be a Kris – Adam final, they were the best two tonight and have been consistently better than Gokey.

I’m having no trouble getting votes through for Adam. This is a big concern for me, because as much as I loved Kris tonight, I’m not at all sure I can tolerate a Gokey-Adam finale. I have thrown a couple of dials Kris’ way because of “Heartless”, but his lines are busy for me.

I think Adam’s in big trouble if his voting bloc doesn’t get with it. Gah.

I thought Danny’s first song sucked (see? I don’t even remember it). Kris’ first song (Apologize) was ok, but I did think it was a somewhat inferior copy of the original. I wasn’t jumping up and down over Adam’s first song, though it was good… I think I’m just so used to him being good that it would take a whole lot to blow me away now and that kinda sucks because… he’s really good!

Round 2 I actually thought Danny did fine with You Are So Beautiful, though after the first verse I was about to take a nap… glad it picked up a bit. Vocal masterclass, though? Nah. I loved Kris’ version of Heartless, bum note and all… I like that sort of acoustic-y vibe about him, and I still say he sounds a lot like Keith Urban. I was enjoying Cryin’ a lot and was in awe, again, over Adam’s insane range but… WTF backup singer? She was caterwauling right over his vocal!

Weird night, but this should be a close race. Hoping for an Adam/Kris finale. Don’t listen to a word the judges say, I go do laundry and cook dinner when they are yapping.

remember you can send “vote” as a text to both Adam and Kris multiple times in the same text!

I just checked on my phone and it works!

Save “vote” as a draft and send it to the (570…#s) Enter the number(s) of the people you like best up to 10 times per text! For example enter 5703(adam) x7 and 5702(Kris) x3 and save it.

Then keep on sending, and sending, and sending, and sending.

MJ if you see this please post it somewhere/ spread the word! Thanks! No vote splitting tonight!

Kick-awesome

Popular term in the Kris fanbase.

Coined after in one of his interviews Kris said à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“kickà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦. awesomeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ . Presumably, he was going to say kick-ass but caught himself and replaced à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“assà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  with the more politically correct à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“awesomeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ .

Thank you! That’s pretty funny.

Depends on who you want to vote for clearone…nah just kidding. I’ve no clue. I do know, however, that people further away from you vote. Just never needed to find out how.

What is à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“kick awesomeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ?!

It was a phrase that Kris used on his top 36 interview, and his fans have kind of adopted it as a catch phrase for him.

Getting through repeatedly for Kris. Over and over and over….

If DI is to be believed…..Adam is ahead of GoGoGokey by little more than 3 points, and only 1.2 points separate Danny from Kris.

Wow…
It might come to be a Danny versus Kris finale.
I really hope Adam still can make it to Top 2.

This is going to be a very exciting result show.
I still think Adam will make it but the second spot is going to be very tough, both Kris and Danny will be battling it out.

again, america got rid of Allison and we are stuck with a smug Taylor Hicks 2.0….

Please Kris, make it through

Adam choked tonight. He was extremely underwhelming. Dont know if he was very NERRRVOUS, or whatever, but I expected better. I liked Cryin more so than One. He ruined it when he did the vocal acrobat with One. That song would have worked being simple. The high notes worked for Cryin though.

Kris surprised me in a good way. I knew the Heartless song would be good if he arranged it to suit him, but he exceeded my expectations.

Danny was blah for me, like always. But I did enjoy his Beautiful song.

That was not the version of One I wanted from Adam He deserves to be in the finale based on the whole season of performances but it was not his best night tonight. Cryin wasn’t fun enough and he was too OTT for One. Adam fans should vote like crazy for Adam because I think there’s a real chance he won’t get through based on tonight.

Heartless was the best performance of the night by far IMO. That’ll be a great song for Kris to go out on. Competent was the right word to describe Kris on Apologize but at least his moment came later.

I thought Danny did a very good job on You Are So Beautiful and it will be enough to get him into the finals IMO. He was solid on both songs but I didn’t like the first one because it seemed amateurish.

I freaking LOVED Kris tonight. Apologize was my fave performance from him and then he came out with Heartless and nailed it. WOWWW! Save Kris Allen ppl. Get him to the finale. Adam was amazing as usual, but gotta admit Kris won me over tonight. Gokey was overrated as usual. Should have been Anoop/Allison in his place. They would have showed him what a real Top 3 performance is like.

I have to give the night to Kris. Heartless was really good. I already gave him the edge in the first round over Danny and Adam.

I liked Danny’s second song, but my dvr switched to Deadliest Catch and by the time I could find my remote Adam was finished. I hope to catch Adam’s performance later.

Okay I heard the other 3. Danny was so good, Kris was pretty good but still not special for me, and Adam just screamed.

Overall I liked Danny the best, then Kris with one of his songs. Hated Adam tonight more than normal. That first song was horrendous. :shock_tb:

So funny, my hubby and his friend were watching Idol w/me (and drinking beer) and they both were like “this isn’t even a competition, that Adam dude has it in the bag”. I laughed, knowing that he doesn’t have it in the bag. But, this is coming from two “metal heads” that travel to see Black Label Society and such. Their comments: the other two are boring. I made them vote for Adam a few times. Ha! I’m worried though…

I’m calling all of the numbers for Adam and i’m getting through every single time…. =/

i’m scared.

I voted 10 times for Kris. His à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Heartlessà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  was the first time Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve felt compelled to vote for someone the entire season (well, except for Felicia, lol).

I think he may have nabbed the casual viewer vote

That’s what I suspect as well. He certainly had the most current, recognizable choices.

Geez, I could only get through TWICE for Kris! Is this sabotage or something? Haha

ETA: Hopefully they didn’t cut down on the number of phone lines open for him. Though if they did, I wouldn’t be surprised. :/

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve never bothered trying before but I feel the need tonight! Is there any way I can vote from up here in the great northland of Canada?

Gizmo5!

Geez, I could only get through TWICE for Kris! Is this sabotage or something? Haha

Wow, I have to say that this was an odd show for me. No one really blew me away, yet the judges couldn’t stop heaping praise on each of the contestants. It was like they were totally trying to brainwash the audience, but I simply couldn’t be swayed. Danny’s 2nd song a vocal masterclass or something? Seriously? I thought he sounded so timid in the beginning and not in a good way. I liked Kris’ rendition of Heartless though – very creative, and I wanna give props where its due, but that might have been the only performance tonight worthy of some of the effusive praises the judges were giving out tonight. Wasn’t my favorite performance for Adam, the backup singer totally screwed him up and it seemed really rushed toward the end since Idol was running 3 min overtime.

Everything else just seemed kind of bland and safe, nothing new – we’ve seen this from them all before. Totally felt something was missing. That’s right… wish Allison could have brought it on tonight. ;_;

Simon chose a good song for Adam with “One”, but the damn soundbite was too short. It’s like Adam hardly began, one high note, then it’s over. Sheesh, the judges spoke way longer than the guys’ songs. The background singer should be fired. Did Danny bribe her or what?

Kara sucks big time. If she wanted acoustic guitar, she should have said so. WTF?

I was a bit stunned by the fact that the judges actually praised Kris tonight, but their ass-licking of Danny is really sickening.

Conspiracy theory – praise Kris, put Adam under bus, Kris-Danny final, Danny win. See the train of thought there? Sheesh.

But Adam was kinda off his game tonight. Shoot. *cries for Kris and Adam*
Danny pulled out his surprise trump card today. Where had he been hiding the guy rearranging YASB? He used up his clearance allowance on hiring that guy, is it?

I can’t get thru for Adam…guess thats good

Kris’ Heartless was so amazing that my mother is voting for him! My “Idol is a pox on everything real music is” mother. Holy crap!

She asks me how long we need to vote, and I said “um…four hours,” and she said “oh, okay.” Oh, okay! Oh. My. God!!

…back to voting and watching Fringe…Yay!

I think Danny has the least text votes. I think this race is closer than Dial Idol has a clue. They’ve been wrong so much this season. I’d not be surprised if based on Dial Idol results, Danny goes home (maybe it’s just wishful thinking). My only investment this year is that Danny goes away. I don’t care who wins if it’s not Danny.

It’s election night all over. Adam/Obama, Kris/Biden and Danny/ Palin(I hated her)

Clearone, all I can say is Gizmo, but I don’t understand how it works, when I voted in the finale last year it was set up for me by others.

Really, the show made it all about the judges being bitches to each other and not about the singing.

I’m so glad I decided to DVR the show and skip all the judges comments! Not only was I able to enjoy all the performances significantly more and relatively unbiasedly, I got the whole show down to about 20 min! Lol. Skimming over what they said, I don’t think I would have been able to keep my rage in check otherwise. At this point, what they say means shit to me. I know who I’m voting for and nothing they say can change it.

Impressions …

Danny - I only have one thing to say … “Doot Doot Doot Doot!”

Kris - I love him acoustic and at the piano. He did alright, but he’s definitely done better. Not that it matters. Based on his past performance I know I like him and his style and his musicality. I know I want to see more performances from him, and I know I want a record from him. ‘Nuff said.

Adam - Adam was Adam. That is to say he performed well, but it’s all too OTT for me as usual.

I miss Allison. :sad_wp:

Danny, 1st song: …and Lame-o is my name-o!
2nd song: very nice

Kris, 1st: okey dokey (not gokey–dokey)
2nd: Fantabulous!!! Loved it!

Adam: 1st: WOW!! (damn, he’s gorgeous!!)
2nd: Holy back-up singer batman! Were they TRYING to drown him out, or what? Even he pulled his ear thingy out…

I want an ADAM/KRIS Finale!!

YEAH BABY!

It would have been much better if each of them did THREE songs as they have for past seasons. I could have skipped all the dumb fighting between the judges. A third song would have really helped people decide in what could be a close race.

I agree Allison was missed tonight.

Dang… I’ve only gotten through 5 times for Kris in 30 minutes!
I’ve tried Adam about 5 times and got through once.

Crazy night – Idol, The Biggest Loser finale…hockey game….. ACKK

Why was Adam wearing an ear monitor for the first time? I could barely hear him sing tonight. I loved both of his outfits though. As always, he looked great.

I’m still praying for an Adam/Kris finale, with Adam winning. There might be hope for both after tonight.

Been voting 33 minutes for Kris, and managed to get 17 votes in.

Kara sucks big time. If she wanted acoustic guitar, she should have said so. WTF?

She can’t. The judges aren’t allowed to make suggestions about the arrangement, etc. Her point was that she was hoping Kris would change up the song like he had done for everything else this season because that is one of the things that really makes him stand out.

Got in about 50% of the time the last half hour for Adam, the other times it was busy, dont know what to think, do we get 2 or 4 hours of voting?

I’ve been getting through for Kris on 05 pretty much since 8:20…

Of the last twenty votes I’ve dialed in for Adam, only twice did I get a busy signal on 03. Holy cats, this can’t be good. Where the hell are his voters?

I hated the backup singer/s for Adam.

Got in about 50% of the time the last half hour for Adam, the other times it was busy, dont know what to think, do we get 2 or 4 hours of voting?

Keep going until they won’t let you

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m calling all of the numbers for Adam and ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m getting through every single timeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦. =/

ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m scared.

Me too.

Getting through for Adam almost every time now. My mom quit on Kris

Gotta go vote!

I miss Allison.

Oh yeah me too. She should have been there instead of Gokey.

I’m getting through for Kris no problems, got the busy signal just twice in the last 38 minutes.

Busy signals really vary per phone.

On my Verizon cell, I constantly get busy signals.
On my landline, I can get thru much more often.

“First I just have to say I hate Kara, sheà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s so freakinà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ annoying, she pisses me off.”

You know what most annoys me about Kara? The fact that basically all her mannerisms come from Sarah Jessica Parker’s character in Sex in the City. Has anyone else noticed this? It’s annoying in itself, but especially annoying since she’s always telling contestants to be *themselves* and to be *original*!!

By the way what was the bs Simon flung about calling U2 to get the rights to use One because it’s already been DONE on the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AivrvGd5B2g

And Elliott did it much better than Adam even if Mary J sung over him.

I’m getting through everythime for Adam, not good

Not one busy signal for Adam…Adam fans vote vote vote! Adam was not in the greatest voice tonight, but I want to see him in the finals! “Criyin” was good, but the band was horrible tonight.

I can’t get through on Adam at all

Simon begging did not go over well.My mom said she wouldnt pick the phone up for adam after that.I did for kris but i’m done now only my lava girl gets the whole voting time from me.

jpfan, I think it was cleared because it was Mary J. It probably wasn’t cleared by U2 for general Idol use.

I miss Anoop:( He should have been there besides Gokey. ugh.

Whoever said ‘One’ is dissapointing… I beg to differ. I totally disagree. In my humble opinion, it IS one of his best. I can feel his pain. I sincerely love it. Watch it again, it’s up on net now: Link

Sorry, Danny, Taylor Hicks kicked the crap out of YASB. You can find it on you tube. Didn’t like either of Adam’s songs, and I think that Simon didn’t either. Why else would he tell people to vote for him? Or was he afraid that the voters would get complacent since they all licked Adam’s boots. Yuck!

I absolutely loved Kris’s version of “Heartless.” Lines are busy off and on. It depends on the area of the country from where you’re calling. A lot of the time the operator says my call isn’t going through. Shut up, operator! I know TPTB have AT&T on the payroll, so why should I expect anything different? J/K.

They gassed up the bus and have it running for Kris. We haven’t had a shocking elimination yet this season, so hopefully, tomorrow night we’ll have one. One can hope.

I keep going back to Dial Idol to see if Kris has surpassed Danny. Yeah, I’m such a patriot and hope and expect for America to get it right, if not during this hour, during the next….I’m thinking I’ll be sorely disappointed.

Is voting open for four hours tonight? I thought that was only during the finale? But I’ve seen a couple of people mention voting for four hours tonight?

I’m not surprised Simon was begging for votes for Adam, he did that for Leona as well

Gizmo5!

Got it! Now how do you tell if it got through? I just got a clunk….

I really really think Danny is gone tonight.

TPTB must be thinking what I am thinking. Why would they want Danny as a runner up when they can’t market him? He is not marketable period.

Kris is a Jason Mraz type and that can sell. And Adam is just Adam and he will sell just because he is who he is.

Also, if Danny is gone tonight ,Kris might take the whole thing next week.
Who would have thought?

NO Vote begging. I’m going to start banning people who do it.

One actually was a lousy choice for Adam. So Simon can stop patting himself on the back for getting it cleared.

Simon begging did not go over well.My mom said she wouldnt pick the phone up for adam after that.I did for kris but ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m done now only my lava girl gets the whole voting time from me.

In general, Simon’s plea will help Adam.

You know why would Adam go OTT on One like that knowing he had a rock em sock em song like Crying to go OTT on? Either Adam has no impulse control and can’t himself – only on Mad World was he able to keep the OTT in check ergo my fav performance of his or I wonder…..

i am voting for adam like crazy.

i really dislike the song u r so beautiful But i liked danny’s version a lot. it surprised me that he changed it up. he did sound hoarse tho. i really didnt like the kanye west song by Kris at all.

adam is just so much in a different league. he looked gorgeous in the first song.

can’t really type right now. i hope adam is in the finale.

bye!

I think this is the closest a final three has ever been on idol!
as of now on Dial idol:
41.4=Adam-2= Danny-1=Kris=38.08

Still hardly getting through for Adam, even with alternating between his three numbers. Man, if he makes it through to next week, maybe I *will* get a go phone….

rbidol: i like the term ‘glory notes.’

LOL, I guess it’s all perspective. I didn’t think Adam went OTT on either song tonight.

You gonna ban Simon, MJ? I’d love it if you did…

I got like 40 votes for Adam so far. i’m getting through most of the time.

VOTE VOTE VOTE.

how long is the voting period tonight?

I don’t know if you can really blame the judges for a song choice. It is up to the contestant to pull it off, right?

oops sorry MJ! I meant Vote for who ever you want! just make sure you do so they don’t go home! it could be Danny, Kris, or Adam!

I’m having a hard time getting through for Danny on all three lines. I’ve only gotten about 3 votes in during 45 minutes.

gingerly
May 12th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
You gonna ban Simon, MJ? Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢d love it if you did

:clap_tb: :drunk_tb: :jittery_tb: :thumbup_tb: :lol_tb:

Maybe I’m just getting tired of Idol, but these 3 didn’t do much for me. Adam is a star, but tonight was not his best night. Gokey has a great voice and a weak stage presence. Kris – I guess he’s talented, but I doubt if he can sell albums or concert seats. Pretty boring semifinals.

Four judges is a really bad idea. Idol is 1st about the talent and then about the judges.

Just listened to Taylor sing “You Are So Beautiful” and it blows Gokey away. Yet the judges all praised Gokey. I think they overscripted tonight a little too much.

^^^ I just don’t want these threads filled up with posts about votes. Or people arguing about vote splitting.

Only 23 votes for Danny so far — his lines have been busy constantly.

adam 3 points ahead of danny kris one point behind danny

elliott did not do a “better” job than Adam on One…simple because he sang 2 lines then was ignored. He didnt sing the song. Elliott is a great singer but he doesnt fucking hang the moon in my world.

I dont think Simon was begging for votes for Adam but to tell people not to forget to vote becuase nothing is a sure thing right now….IMHO

OMG! Now I know why Adam looked so diff. tonight…he wasn’t wearing guyliner–at least not for “One”—he looks so innocent—and verrrrrrry cute!!

Adam–I wanted to like him. But I still find him screechy and affected. Too theatrical–a subpar performance.

Kris–Didn’t like Apologize. Liked Heartless a lot–full of nuance.

Danny–Didn’t like either performance. The guy has no sensitivity. Just not a great singer.

ZOMG Kris is out-trending Adam on Twitter! I’m gonna take a screenshot cause who knows how long that will last!

Will we get studio version for all performances?

Got it! Now how do you tell if it got through? I just got a clunkà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦.

Yeah me too. Only got “Thank you for voting…” twice or so. I think after the clunk the vote’s counted.

Oh mj, please don’t ban me. I’m just trying to help

‘how long is the voting period tonight?”

2 hours

the LOVE of (more) Money has led simon to beg for Votes for a contestant,,,,,,so SAD and sortA pathetic.

NO Vote begging. Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m going to start banning people who do it.

Please ban Simon.

It made me sad tonight that there was so little singing – about 12 minutes?

I hate the format this year and all the judges blabbering…..sigh

Obviously, Elliott singing it better than Adam is my humble opinion. And Simon was def grubbing for votes. I think he did it for Melinda Dolittle too right before she was voted off. He must be a tad worried.

We should all know by now that you can’t tell anything about the voting at this point, so why stress? We will know tomorrow. We can only hope for our desired results right now. It’s an hour before showtime here and I intend to vote for Adam the entire time. That’s all we can do.

yah i’m just a poor west coaster getting antsy about all the excitement! I’m looking forward to Adam’s “One” because i really like that song and Kris’s “Heartless” because I don’t like the arrangement of the song and want to hear a new version!

I hope iTunes makes all 6 of the songs available!

God these guys are boring! Bring back the rocker chick!!! Allison!!!

Whoa, I really, really liked “Heartless”! I can’t stand top 40 radio, so I’m not at all familiar with the Kanye West (or The Fray) version. But that was all kinds of awesome.

I loved how “One” started out, but then yeah… it didn’t need the patented Adam wail.

I liked “Apologize”, but then I like the song. “Cryin” was typical Adam…. I love Adam but not so much his OTT stuff.

I didn’t mind “Dance Little Sister” all that much, at least compared to other songs Danny has done. YASB is just a boring song, and I didn’t like what he did with it at all.

OK, tonight was a mixed bag.

First up, Dannyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’  Really didn’t like this at all, and the sax thing was a mistake, since the sax sounded better than Danny.

Kris with “Apologize” – He didn’t sell it very well. Kris needs to mix up songs like this, since his vocals are weaker. Very college bar…

Adam – “One” – This was the best performance of the first half, by a mile. Unique arrangement, but this song needs to build, and Adam didn’t have the time to really showcase the power of this song. The studio version should make up for it.

Danny – “You Are So…Meh” – It was a lot better than I thought it would be. Emotive without the sap…still not brilliant.

Kris – OK, I really liked this a lot, but I couldn’t help but be reminded of a street musician standing at a subway entrance. All he was missing was the guitar-case for tips. Still, nice turn on the song.

Adam – OK, not thrilled with the song choice here, but I am a die-hard fan. THIS is a vocal masterclass, Simon. Liked the props to his brothers in the back at the end, but his first performance was much better.

Rankings:
1. Adam – still squeaks by with the overall best showing tonight.
2. Kris – one hot, one cold. Sort of like his entire run in the show. But he ended on a great note (best performance of the night).
3. Danny – Go home, Danny….just….go….home…for the love of all that’s decent.

Kara is a space cadet.

OK-

So, Adam really changed up One. The small changes he made at the beginning were some of the best things i heard him do all season. His musicality fars exceeds the rest for me. The big parts- well, he “adamized” it. And i did love it. For me, round 1 he absolutely raped.

The second round i thought all 3 of them were amazing. I think tomorrow night Adam’s background singers should make a public apology on stage for ruining that 20 second interval of Cryin’ for Adam. The end of it was incredible. Especially that part he changed up where he sung it really high. wow.

I mean, all signs point to adam to win this whole thing. And even if he doesn’t, everyone will either be asking Why didnt Adam win? or Who is Kris?/Who is Danny? lol

I hope iTunes makes all 6 of the songs available!

I think they are, they have them up for pre-order at least.

ZOMG Kris is out-trending Adam on Twitter! Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m gonna take a screenshot cause who knows how long that will last!

Not surprised. I love Adam but, IMO, the “Heartless” performance by Kris was the best tonight … by a comfortable mile.

Kanz
May 12th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
God these guys are boring! Bring back the rocker chick!!! Allison!!!

8 DAYS :clap_tb:

Kris was good but I think Heartless was awkward and way overrated. Love ya Kris but I didn’t care for it.

Anyone that splits votes tonight is very very stupid.

Please remember to vote on the whole season, not just tonight.

nm

had no plans in voting this year…. just whipped out the phone for kris LOL

Kris Allen, according to Dialidol, is ahead of Gokey. 96.35 to 94.32. Sweet. Busy percentages, anyway.

When the “sheeple” are told repeatedly how amazing Danny is they believe the judges and as a result he is in the top 3 and potentially in the top 2.So when the judges tell everyone that Adam will make the finale they assume he will be and not need to vote. THAT, IMHO, was what Simon was saying

Milwaukee’s pride did just fine tonight. Will he win? Who knows! Kris was good (as always) and Adam … well, his OTT screaching was his own all right. Neither Bono nor Steven Tyler have to worry about their legacies wrt Adam.

My guess is the votes will be real close. No runaway winner (or loser) tonight.

edit: don’t bait posters

I think Kris heard about the show “Taking the stage” and the girl on there did an acoustic version of Heartless…. dang I forgot her name.

Kris did great tonight.

I feel like Danny is shouting at me. although he did pretty good with the second song. it pains me to say that.

i dont think that adam did a wail tonight…and after all fantastic performances, he should and deserves to be in the finale… i like kris..and danny is ok but they have never had the consistant unbelievable performances that adam has had.

he has earned the right to be in the finals and win.

well, it’s official:: i really fucking miss allison.

They gassed up the bus and have it running for Kris.

There was no bus tonight. They didn’t like his first song but it was meh. They raved about his 2nd one, even Simon. That is not throwing him under the bus in my world.

I doubt Adam will go home but he deserves it with these performances tonight. The arrangement of the first one was dreadful and in Crying he just screeched throughout.

I think Kris heard about the show à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Taking the stageà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  and the girl on there did an acoustic version of Heartlessà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦. dang I forgot her name

Mia

I wish I could vote but I have a killer flu, bad headache, etc and I got a new phone which is driving me crazy. It has these tiny little buttons. Anyway, I do have my nephew texting votes for me. For Kris.

I don’t think I have the stamina to hold out another hour. I though both Kris and Adam did a good job. I’m pretty sure Adam will take all. It’s Kris and Adam for finale. And let me say Adam is a very gracious guy and humble as Kris is too

whoever goes out tomorrow night is in a shit position. he has to stick around until after the finale. no press. no talk show circuit. a lot of nada.

as for going out second, who wants to be the “first loser”.

you’d better hope your guy goes the distance cuz to lose now gets you nowhere.

I think Kris heard about the show à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Taking the stageà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  and the girl on there did an acoustic version of Heartless

Mia! She’s awesome.

I doubt Adam will go home but he deserves it with these performances tonight. The arrangement of the first one was dreadful and in Crying he just screeched throughout.

If that’s the criteria for leaving, Danny should have been gone last week.

Isn’t the phone lines open longer tonight? Like 3 or 4 hours?

I honestly think Kris is doing better than his Dial Idol numbers. How many times did they show him last and he was safe. I’m still doing my bestest to make sure however. I honestly hope it’s Kris/Adam for the finale, but I’m only truly concerned at this point with Kris making it.

Thoughts

“One” was way too short. Can’t wait for the studio version, if there is one.
Smart choice of second song, if not his best. Again, it seemed super short. WTF???

Kris- I fear that “Heartless” will not be the right choice, because the older idol crowd will not recognize it. Not enough at this stage. 2 very current songs, that is not wise.

Danny, who cares? But yeah, he’s probably played right to his audience.

Adam’s got to make it!!!

Only 6 songs and they still run long?????

Isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t the phone lines open longer tonight? Like 3 or 4 hours?

Ryan said At Least 2 hrs tonight.

I really love an underdog, so it’s fun to root for Kris. Thought Heartless was brilliant. IMHO, it would be much more fun to watch Kris battle it out with Adam next week. Danny would be too predictable.

Adam looked STUNNING in One. I still cannot get over it.

Thank you Duke

Was Danny pitch-perfect? No. Did he did change up his song arrangement? No.
Ummmm, yes he DID change the arrangement completely! In fact he made it his own. Better than the original and better than Taylor Hicks (whom I was a great fan of). He has better vocal ability than Taylor.
Danny’s voice was not shot in the least. And great falsetto! In fact his voice sounded better than Adam tonight.
He knocked that one out of the park. That was his best vocal of the season. Lots of feeling and emotion,brought tears to my eyes because it was so good!
None of the 3 were pitch perfect. Kris was GREAT! Both of his songs were better than Adam.
Adam didn’t do so well tonight. Only the beginning of “One” was good, but then he screamed. Not good. The second song was terrible to me.
I have liked a few of his other performances better than these two songs.
I have to say that we have a competition. I think all 3 deserve to be there.
my rating:
Danny YASB
Kris Heartless
Kris Apologize
Danny Dance little sister
Adam One
Adam Cryin

Kris is ahead of Danny in the Busy Percentages on Idol. That Text votes = finale for Kris?

I’ll go ahead and predict that IF Adam “the screamer”, wins, it’ll be the end of AI as we know it. He’ll be one of the biggest flops in AI history in terms of record sales. Major changes will have to happen to keep the $$ rolling in due to so many sub-par finalists…

he sucks in every way imaginable….this ain’t 1982 and big hair, screamer rock sucked the first time it came around.

Gokey, aka Taylor the 2nd….won’t sell anywhere near Hick’s modest levels…he ain’t nearly as good (?) as Taylor and certianly isn’t as believable as an “artist”.

Kris is the only one I could allow on my radio…..reminds me of Keith Urban….but then again, I already own KU’s CD’s, don’t need a wanna’ be……where the hell is Jesse when you need her?

edit: don’t bait posters

DLS–song choice–puzzled. don’t care about dancing. vocal good.
A–one bum note outta 200 isn’t all that bad. nice piano.
One–strange arrangement. good vocal. toned down.

YASB–actually, i thought the arrangement started oddly but ended up amazing. vocally one of his better performances of the season. solid.
Kanye–huh? but he did his thing with it and good for him. nice guitar!
C–what can I say? Adam will be Adam. Nice control, tasteful. Orderly. Smart.

STILL no Billie Jean, Hello or Imagine. Boo.

Kris or Adam is going home. Not judging, just predicting.

damn, there was no magic tonight. i wanted “moments” but there weren’t any. adam just didn’t do it for me tonight. and man, the votes from previous weeks must be really close for simon to order people to vote for adam. this isn’t a sure thing at all.

shocker boot in order – adam will go tomorrow night.

As we’ve hit the one hour mark, I’m going to take a break from speed-dialing for Kris…

1. Danny’s first performance was awkward and kind of icky. The sax player outperformed him, IMO, and his voice was showing the strain. Paula calling Kara out on the “I’m a choreographer” deal was funny and bitchy.

2. Kris’s rendition of “Apologize” was good, not his usual level of awesome, but I like that he stuck to the original arrangement because a) the original is fabulous and haunting/dramatic and I think he did pretty well with it and b) he reworked “Heartless” so much that the juxtaposition created a nice affect. I laughed out loud at the tension between the judges, especially Kara and Simon, they all need a break from dealing with each other, I think.

3. Adam’s “One” really left me underwhelmed and not because I’ve built him up so much that he can’t even live up to his own expectations, or whatever his superfans are saying. He’s just a man, not a god. The beginning I think I could’ve loved, with a longer arrangement, but the OTT of the top of it really left me wanting the Bono raspiness. Not bad by any stretch, but just not his usual standard with songs like “Mad World”/”Tracks of My Tears”.

4. Oh, Danny. Or shall I say, Oh, Simon. Vocal masterclass? Really now. He was decent, I’ll give him that. The arrangement was horrible, what were those random lyrics he threw in there? He was kind of gaspy and his phrasing is still horrible. He is the weakest link, sorry. At least he was better on YASB, but not deserving to stay.

5. Kris “Heartless” = best of the night! Seriously, I hate Kanye West and everything to do with him, as a general rule, but Kris made that shit work like crazy. KICK AWESOME fo’ realz. That song, in addition to his consistency throughout the competition, should get him into the finale. The guy has a gift for interpreting music, definitely on par with Adam’s mad vocal skills.

6. I definitely enjoyed Adam’s “Cryin’” moreso than “One”, shockingly enough, but it still fell short of Kris’s second song for me. The guy was off tonight, but it shouldn’t matter: he’s been the best all season, and Kris is my favorite. His OTT-ness was more at home with this song (sorry, he didn’t top Steven Tyler, however) and it was second favorite of the night.

Sorry I’ve written a novel here; I really enjoyed this top 3, once I got past the anger that Danny was singing instead of Allison. Hopefully America makes it happen and we get a Kradam finale next week, as that would be freaking stellar. Back to speed-dialing…

I have been an Adam fan all season, but think he’s had better nights. This was not the night to do two songs that required the rocker screaming. He should have mixed it up a bit. Even with that, though, he was the best.

I really liked what Kris did with “Heartless” and didn’t think “Apologize” was as bad as the judges seemed thin it was. Kris is the perfect underdog here, quiet, humble, but dogged and determined.

As for Danny, much as I hate to admit it, I liked his YASB, “Dance Little Sister,” not so much.

This is going to be a nailbiter. I have to stop peaking at DialIdol and vote!!!

I’m getting through for Adam about every 3 times. I change out numbers, when I need to. I totally missed the back up singer cause I was listening to Adam. I thought he did awesome. JMHO and don’t care what anyone else says. I’m old and have a right to my opinion..lmao! Back to voting. Major multitasking here. OMG!!!!

GOOOOOOOOOOO ADAMMMMMMMMM :):)

Been voting for over an hour and will continue til I can’t anymore. I didn’t vote this much for Cook last year and I love the guy!!!

I don’t know if not knowing the song is bad. I only knew You Are So Beautiful and Apologize. I’ve really never heard (or don’t remember if I have) any of the others. I thought Kris’s Heartless was amazing. It’s not just because (or even because) he changed the song. I just felt it. I felt it more than any song tonight, though Apologize would have to be my second. I didn’t love the entire thing but at the end he had me smiling. I guess what I like most about Kris is that he makes me smile. While I can recognize that Adam has a stellar range, his tone leaves me cold, almost all the time. Danny, well, I don’t even want to go there…

I… LOVED that show.

I wasn’t expecting it, but I must admit that I’m incredibly impressed.

Each of them gave their best performance yet in my opinion (One, YASB, Heartless).

Wow!

Weird. The “one time confirmation” that my test MSG was received isn’t coming through. Hope it’s all working right

Adam vs Kris..its gonna happen people…

The final 3 hasn’t been this close since Elliot, Kat, and Taylor

I think so soccerboi…I’m working to make it happen.

I am committing heresy as an Idol fan. Tonight, there was no bus. There, I said it.

That was actually a pretty fair show. All of the judges’ picks were decent choices. There was a stupid, stupid amount of judge horseplay–hateful and stupid and embarrassing–but their actual remarks did not carry out any really insane vendettas and manipulations.

Simon saying Danny’s middling 2nd song was a “vocal masterclass” was the only really out-of-touch with reality remark, but it was balanced by the fact that Danny for once got balanced criticism on his first song.

Judges’ reaction to Kris’ first song was inane, but because they were all shouting over one another cancelled each other out. And for once, for once, for once on this whole season Kris got the props he deserved for his stellar Heartless. I laughed with glee when I heard the choice and loved the absolute cool and craftiness. Personal favorite of the night.

Adam: I thought Cry was hot and fun; was there a bit of a tasteful revenge there for a certain recent bunch of hubris? *This* is who sings Aerosmith this year. Ahem.

“One” was elegant and interesting, but lost touch with the core melody. It was like Sondheim doing U2–I got it intellectually but it missed a bit in connection.

Voting for: Kris

“Adam vs Kris..its gonna happen peopleà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦”

it better!

Kris’ Heartless was by far the best of the night!! Apologize was okay, didn’t hate it or love it

Adam was totally overrated as usual….One started out great and then went to pot fast. Cryin was crap from beginning to end….sounded like a dying cat, just terrible to my ears….and I’m all about rock, I love Aerosmith and that song so that wasn’t my issue, it just wasn’t good for me!!

Danny was meh as usual….his dancing wasn’t that big of a deal in that song so I thought it was stupid for the judges to talk about it so much, it was a fast song he would’ve looked worse just standing there….although he may have gotten a little spastic I’m guessing YASB must’ve sounded better in person cuz it did not work for me over the TV.

crossing fingers Kris makes it through, he deserves it!! Already know Adam will be the other one…oh well!! I see Danny going the contemporary Christian route so who cares if leaves now anyway.

The final 3 hasnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t been this close since Elliot, Kat, and Taylor

Good call, terps. I also haven’t voted this hard since that season. Like I said earlier, got to love the underdog here. Would love to see a shocker show tomorrow!

Phone lines are jammed to hell.

Nostradamas
May 12th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll go ahead and predict that IF Adam à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“the screamerà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ , wins, ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll be the end of AI as we know it. Heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll be one of the biggest flops in AI history in terms of record sales.

Didn’t you hear about the iTunes leak where Adam led the sales of songs by a mile. He took 4-5 of the Top 10 downloads, Kris had 2, Danny had none or just 1, if I remember correctly.

Adam is the most downloaded contestant on iTunes. That’s why TPTB changed their tune, and Simon started predicting Adam for the win.

Kris is closing in on Danny on dialidol.

Adam – 35.96

Danny – 33.7

Kris – 33.16

I don’t recall dialidol ever being this close.

Weird. The à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“one time confirmationà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  that my test MSG was received isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t coming through. Hope ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s all working right

It took a while before I got my confirmation message for Danny.

i been getting through and now my line is busy for kris… lol

Kris is closing in on Danny on dialidol.

Adam – 35.96

Danny – 33.7

Kris – 33.16

I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t recall dialidol ever being this close.

it’s going to come down to texts, isn’t it? meep.

Nostradamas
May 12th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll go ahead and predict that IF Adam à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“the screamerà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ , wins, ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll be the end of AI as we know it. Heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll be one of the biggest flops in AI history in terms of record sales.

Have you seen the iTunes numbers for each week? Adam has one EVERY week for iTunes sales. and owns well over Half of the top 10 spots. That’s the only thing we have to go by now…and if you say he is going to FLOP, then i’d say the future isnt looking so bright for the other 2 either.

DialIdol shows Adam ahead in votes, busy signal percentages, etc., with Kris second, but on the graphs, Danny looks far behind. And on the Geoprediction map, Danny so far is the projected loser. Does this site usually get the predictions right? BTW,texts get through with no chance of busy signals, so I’m not sure why more people don’t try texting instead of dealing with busy signals. GO ADAM!!! Not my favorite night for any of them, but he deserves it.

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Oneà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  was elegant and interesting, but lost touch with the core melody. It was like Sondheim doing U2à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’I got it intellectually but it missed a bit in connection.

Your assessment is much kinder than mine but I love the analogy.

Perhaps more like a Fosse musical doing U2?

I really liked where Adam was going initially – I thought he was going to have the stellar moment of the night but then he lost me. But I might be a U2 purist.

Exactly… the best part of Dance Little Sister was during the “toy” sax solo when Danny wasn’t singing. Unfortunately, he even tried to ruin that with his silly Doo Doots.

Cryin has to be one of my least favorite Aero songs. I was very disappointed that Adam chose it. I would have preferred him singing Dream On and showing Gokey how to hit the last note.

I dislike Kanye. I can’t say I’ve ever listened to any of his songs in their entirety (including the Idol results show when he performed) but I could definitely listen to the version Kris sang. Very cool.

Kris and Adam are artists. Danny isn’t.

ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s going to come down to texts, isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t it? meep.

It that’s the case, Kris is in good shape.

GO KRIS GO!

What I find interesting is that the “non-invested” fans seem to be voting for Kris. I think it’s because he’s got amazing musicality, he’s not threatening and, for me at least, he always (always) ALWAYS! makes me smile. I’m truly unconcerned who wins this year (if his initials aren’t DG) but I’m voting for Kris for the grin factor.

right gingerly… totally not invested this year and picked up the phone first time tonight for kris… lol

Holy crap, this is INTENSE! I’m not going to let my favorite get eliminated at #3 again… (Elliott.)

I’m not going to psych myself up or anything…but it certainly feels like Kris has captured the casual vote and his regular fans are the texting bloc…we could actually make the Kradam finale a reality!!

This does not compare favorably with David vs. David. No real moments for me this entire season. I’m really bummed. On the bright side, I’m not sure it’s ever been closer at this stage. Kinda exciting.

Making the general assumption that Kris gets more texts votes makes no sense to me. Its like the people who generalized David Cook having all older fans and David Arch having all young fans last year. You can’t generalize any of the fan bases. They clearly appeal to a wide range of people since they are in the top 3. For me DI is bogus this year, and i think its pretty obvious that Kris’s generic voice (yes, in the context of Idol Kris is very generic) and small range could never makes him a Final 2 contestant.

Matt
May 12th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s going to come down to texts, isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t it? meep.

It thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s the case, Kris is in good shape.

It does seem he owns the text vote every week

I honestly do NOT know who will be going home. I’ve no clue.

I’ve gotta admit, THANK YOU SIMON for telling people to not assume Adam is safe. After the others said “See you in the finals!” I was screaming “NO. NO. NO!!”–voter complacency at its finest. So yeah, thanks Simon.

Cryin was crap from beginning to endà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦.sounded like a dying cat, just terrible to my ears

To be fair, did everyone realize that the backup singer was singing louder than Adam and she was offkey or clearly not in harmony with Adam, the fact she didn’t throw him off was a testament to Adam’s stage experience I imagine. I was pretty sure he was on pitch and she wasn’t.

Now some people just don’t like the rockstar wail but that’s another issue.

32.48 and 32.13 danny and kris

Holy crap, this is INTENSE! Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m not going to let my favorite get eliminated at #3 againà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦ (Elliott.)

Isn’t that an interesting way to look at it…revenge of the Elliott fans from Season 5…OK, I’m sure it’s actually different than that, but I can’t say I wouldn’t feel a bit vindicated as an Elliott fan if the one who was “thrown under the bus” as you are all saying made it through to the finale…

I think Kris’s Heartless was best of the night by a clear mile. Adam had his worst night ever possibly. You can’t change up One that much, it’s simple and elegant as it is.

Danny was OK on YASB.

I hate Simon pandering for votes.

Did Adam rip off one earpiece in mid song during Cryin’ or was I seeing things? Too busy voting to investigate.

Kris is above Danny in Busy Percentages. He was even behind Matt Giraud when Matt got eliminated. I think this is good for him.

ITA, gingerly, I’m not really invested this year and haven’t been worried much about who will win but I just don’t think Danny has the musicality and talent to win. I don’t hate the guy at all but to have him win the season and stand as the cream of the crop of season 8? That’s all kinds of wrong. So I’m voting for Kris, I’ve enjoyed his performances all season long and I figured I’d vote for someone whose music I would actually purchase after Idol. I mean that’s the bottom line isn’t it? lol

Honestly, iTunes sales for the songs sung on Idol do not necessarily translate into post idol sales. I still have no idea if Adam will do well post idol.

That’s it, I’m putting my pool points on Gokey.

I’m in Canada and can’t vote. Someone need to take up my slack and vote double hard for Adam!

Funny…. Adam is like a fine wine and improves with age (or repeated listenings).

1st listen – Not sure… was that only 15 seconds long?
2nd listen – Oh, now I hear that range. We get to hear a lot of the lower register at the beginning of both songs. In Cryin’ I think it may be the lowest we have ever heard him.
3rd listen – I’m choked up. I really feel his emotion in both songs. Cryin’ was freakin’ amazing. Can’t wait until the full version is out on Itunes.

Translation….. he will be huge as a recording artist. The first time you hear him, you perk up and catch a few bars. By the 3rd or 4th listen, you are up past your neck in the Kool-aid and breathing out of a straw!

Please, please, please America. Do your part for your Northern neighbours and keep Adam in the competition!!! I will be forever grateful.

Excuse me – I’m going back in for round 4.

This was the least respectful top 3 night ever.

Two songs, instead of three.

Judges antics.

No, “Thanks for voting for me, Adam (or whomever)”…

And I cannot begin to express my disappointment that Adam did not sing “Wicked Game”, no matter how stupid that rumor may have been.

How does everyone know Kris always leads in the Text votes

What I find interesting is that the à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“non-investedà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  fans seem to be voting for Kris. I think ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s because heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s got amazing musicality, heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s not threatening and, for me at least, he always (always) ALWAYS! makes me smile. Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m truly unconcerned who wins this year (if his initials arenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t DG) but Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m voting for Kris for the grin factor.

Gingerly, I have to agree with you 100% here. I have not liked this Season AT ALL. Didn’t really vote this year nor have an emotional investment. Unlike last year where I was totally Cooked and voted like crazy every night, the entire night and was stressed performance days and results days.

I am not a fan of Adam and can’t stand Gokey. Won’t buy either of their albumns but have enjoyed some of what Kris has done and might consider giving his a go. And as you said, I am voting for the grin factor. I want the underdog to come in and pull the rug out for the the other two.

I will be voting for Kris tonigth!! Kris and Adam Finale!

Gigi3
May 12th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Did Adam rip off one earpiece in mid song during Cryinà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ or was I seeing things? Too busy voting to investigate.

Oh- he did. Probably to save himself from going deaf by listening to those fucking off-key background singers. FIRE THOSE GIRLS PLEASE!

It occurred to me as I was rewatching Kris’ “Heartless” that Kris HAS to rearrange a song to get credit for it, while Gokey can just karaoke his way through anything and almost always get away with it. I know he has a more impressive sounding voice, but really? Ugh.

I got in about 80 votes for Kris. I think that’s the most I’ve voted for any one contestant. My fingers are sore, and I have other things to do, so I’ll leave the rest up to the rest of y’all Kris voters. Keep it up!

What I find interesting is that the à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“non-investedà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  fans seem to be voting for Kris.

Probably ‘cos he’s the only one with really current song choices that would appeal to the young ‘uns. He was smart and the best performer tonight, IMO. I’m quite sad over Adam’s performances tonight, and tremble for him. One was too short for a good soundbite, and the f-ing backup singer screwed with Adam’s Cryin’. I’d prefer that he’d dressed OTT and toned down the glory notes tonight. One song with glory notes should have been his maximum.

I played Kris’s Heartless for my DH as a goof because he haaa-aates that song so much. Almost as much as he hates American Idol. He liked it. A lot.

1) I don’t understand why people think kris would get more text votes than any other contestant;

2) Adam seemed off tonight but he still gets my votes for overall body of work and overall talent;

3) Kris did as expected with Apologize (he struggled on the higher notes every time). Second song? Much more appealing and I liked it.

4) Danny – I admittedly have a bias against him and cannot judge him objectively. But in no universe can his abilities fall into the realm of a masterclass, especially with that breathy delivery on the second song.

Did Adam rip off one earpiece in mid song during Cryinà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ or was I seeing things? Too busy voting to investigate.

Yes he did! It was probably to get rid of that backup screaching in his ear.

still have no idea if Adam will do well post idol.

He has the best chance out of this season, then probably comes Allison

Did Adam rip off one earpiece in mid song during Cryinà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ or was I seeing things? Too busy voting to investigate.

Yes, he ripped his earpiece out–prolly cuz the friggin backup singer thinks she is contestant #4—she was totally drowning him out & so was the band.. imo…

My ranking for tonight:

1. Heartless
2. One
3. Cryin
4. You are so beautiful
5. Little Sister
6. Apologize

Still voting, so going to stfu. Getting through everytime for Adam

edit: don’t lecture. Be polite. read my guidelines

It occurred to me as I was rewatching Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Heartlessà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  that Kris HAS to rearrange a song to get credit for it, while Gokey can just karaoke his way through anything and almost always get away with it. I know he has a more impressive sounding voice, but really? Ugh.

I hate this expression, but: RIGHT?! Kris doesn’t get credit unless he mixes things up because he’s set the bar that high. Danny’s bar is just above karaoke range so he gets away with a lot more. It’s stupid, but it proves that Kris is the better musician.

And don’t worry, I’m voting enough for both of us.

Watching the show a second time……Most of “One” was really good, just one part difficult to listen to. Sounds to me that this was quickly thrown together, given the late clearance.
“You are so beautiful”…Does Danny know about one million singers have performed this about one million times? Groan. But I thought he did fantastic on the first song-which I wouldn’t like no matter who performed it.

Kris? Sorry. Ho hum. Even with the Kanye song. He is a nice singer, but he puts me to sleep. I am sure there is a niche out there for Kris-the same people who love Bryan Adams. Just not me.

I have yet to get a busy signal for Adam, which does not bode well. But I feel that he is more auditioning for the lead singer in a band, not to be the American Idol. So if he goes home, I’m okay with it. He’ll probably be better off in the long run.

Oh yeah… and someone needs to kneecap Adam’s backup singer.

(and he deserves extra points for looking so fucking delicious during Cryin’…. in a non-gender specific, asexual way of course)

I guess I think that Kris’s text votes are more than some of the others because he’s been shown on the bottom on Dial Idol at least once and been safe. If that site has any credibility, and I don’t know if it does, I can’t help but think it must be text voting. I’m texting for Kris….oh and I’m 52 years old (lurves her 17 year old daughter who talked her into unlimited texting for the family plan).

lol MTV live blog mentioned David’s apologize was better

Nobody can “drown out” Adam, lol.

“That was actually a pretty fair show”

Oh, really? When was the last time Kris went last? How about Adam?

What does ITA mean?

Nobody can à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“drown outà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  Adam, lol.

That backup singer did. Hopefully she’s unemployed after tonight

ITA= I Totally Agree

lol MTV live blog mentioned Davidà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s apologize was better

This isn’t a commentary on either David or Kris singing better, but I don’t get it…I barely remember David singing that song with OneRepublic. Like, at all. If I hadn’t been reminded when the choice first came out…it would be of even less consequence than it is.

ITA means I totally agree…and sometimes I do…sometimes not so much. Depends on what ITA with

Danny has gotten a lot of criticism throughout the season, much of it deserved. He deserves credit tonight. He threw down, especially considering he was given the most hokey song pick by the judges.

Kris’s “Apologize” was worse than Archie’s, which I didn’t find to be one of his (Archie’s) best performances. “Heartless” was almost great, except it got too low for him at one point.

Adam: just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD. In other words, just because you can hit all those notes, doesn’t mean you should do it. On “One” in the beginning, you had me. Then you “Adamized” it and you lost me.

“Cryin’” was an indulgent, hot mess, and I can’t believe Simon didn’t say so. He could have motivated your fans to vote and ensured you made the final simply by calling it what it was: a performance that gives new meaning to the abbreviation OTT and possibly your worst one of the season

Kris has overtaken Danny

canucky
May 12th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Oh yeahà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦ and someone needs to kneecap Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s backup singer.

:lol_tb:

carolinacharms
May 12th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Nobody can à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“drown outà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  Adam, lol.

carolinacharms, meet Scream On…

WHAT THE FRIGGIN HELL was up with the background singers on Cryin? Holy God. Off key much? Don’t do Adam any favors people.

Whoever was running the mixxing board tonight and made the backup singers louder than Adam should be fired.

yep, numbers are 30.52 (Kris) to 30.33 (Danny)…first time Kris has taken over tonight? Correct me if I’m wrong…

Okay, Kris just popped ahead of Danny in DialIdol score. Time for me to keep adding to those votes. Kris deserves the finale, at least.

YES, Kris in second place!! I’m sure that’s the first time it’s happened all season…gotta love the minor victories.

IMHO this was adams worrst night of the whole show. Fortunately, everyone else was worse

Kris surpassed Danny on DialIdol! Please stay that way!!!

I don’t think you can compare the Apologizes due to the fact Archies was a duet with Ryan Tedder and One Republic, Kris’s was with Kris

Kris had passed Danny on dial!! woot woot

If Kris gets into the final, it’s on the strength of his consistency throughout the season, and the brilliance of Heartless. Awesome.

Random Thoughts….

Well, I guess tonight Danny proved that his is indeed NOT Taylor 2.0. Taylor sang the shit out of YASB, and Danny sucked. The judges of course continue to slobber all over every shitty note that guy spews out.

And, why does Ryan keep giving Danny 10 minutes after each performance to talk about himself? Yay Narcissism! Nice Soliliquies Danny.

Paula is just a huge fucking idiot. And, she needs to turn in her choreography card if she thinks what Danny was doing was dancing.

Kris – I admire the way you pulled yourself out from under that bus tonight. That was the best Fuck You the bus performance I’ve ever seen on this show. Not to mention, one of my favorite performances of the season. I’ll be buying that one. Your Kanye risk paid off.

I liked Adam’s first song, although not one of my favorites of his. Crying however, was totally kick ass. I agree with Kara – who the hell hits those kinds of notes? Tha kid’s go a gift. And, way to be gracious to your competitors Adam, that was a lovely way to end the show.

So, what was with Kris’s nail polish? Is this some sort of solidarity thing between him and Adam? Did he read the article about the “Thanks for not wearing nail polish Danny” signs?

Danny deserves to be in the finals. He was in a class of his own on that 2nd song.

Kris is closing in on Danny on dialidol.

Adam – 35.96

Danny – 33.7

Kris – 33.16

Yeah, and if you look at the predicted winner Geomaps, it’s pretty much taken over by Adam and Kris with a teeny tiny helping of Gokey. Don’t know what it means, but remember someone mentioning the Geomaps were important.

As for performances…

My two faves of the night were One and Heartless. I didn’t care about the losing the melody thing with One because that song is so ubiquitous that it might be boring to sing it straight, and anyway it worked for me artistically. I honestly could kinda smack Randy for the losing the melody comment because I think people are going to fixate on it and have a ROF type of outrage going on. Sigh. Anyway, here’s my impression of the night, in brief…

During One, Adam sang his heart out to the audience at large. Man, so very connected and heartwrenching. I *liked* that he transitioned from the quiet Adam to the OTT Adam because it fit with the lyrics right then: “we’re one, but NOT the same…” Kinda like, you dig me the most when I tone myself the hell down on these ballads. But should I do that to be accepted, ahem, brothers and sisters. No, so here I go. Guh, I just loved it so much, but I am askeered people won’t get the interpretation and equate it with the whole “you butchered a classic” ROF backlash thanks to Randy’s douchey comment. Douchey comment which IMO was really just a pissy thing directed at Simon for ragging on Apologize and had nothing to do with the performance. Come on America, come through for me and don’t listen to Randy talk out of his butt. I wanted someone to hug Adam after that song, or something.

ANd then there’s Heartless, in which Kris sang his heart out to the judges. At least, that’s what I got from it. Reminded me of Matt’s Gladiator crack way back when…are you not entertained? Great cover. Didn’t stab me in the heart like One did, but rather got my inner rebel goin “yeah, you tell the man what’s up, little hobbit.”

That’s the takeaway in a nutshell for me. Crazy was fun and definitely schooled Gokey despite the background singer’s ridic mic problems, Apologize was competent but I don’t like Kris at the piano nearly as well as I like him with his acoustic guitar and well I’m so effing sick of that song. If I could punch a song, I’d punch that song. Or maybe I would punch that last tune by Gokey. Gokey was cheesy to the velveeta power, both times. First he was uptempo trying too hard cheese, and then he was ballady cheese. Do not want.

Based on tonight’s performances it should be Adam and Kris. Total no brainer. But I’m bugged by the lack of praise directed at Adam’s performances rather than Adam in general, and worry that he was being subversively set up for a shock boot.

The top 9 kris was second

the finale will be kris vs. gokey, imo.

“I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think you can compare the Apologizes due to the fact Archies was a duet with Ryan Tedder and One Republic, Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s was with Kris”

aside from the fact LOADS of peeps saw it on tour…

dial idol means squat, IMO. I think Adam is gone. Kris vs Gokey finale.. barf

To be fair again it may not have been totally the back up singer’s fault but the sound people had her mike up too loud or Adam’s was not up high enough, I have seen that happen at live performances and you just want to yell “turn down the mikes on those back up singers” – after all I didn’t pay to hear them sing – that is what sound checks are supposed to be for.

I was relistening to the Aerosmith version and the harmonies sound so good because I think that is Stephen Tyler harmonizing over his own back up vocal.

ETA I see mitchellvii said this more succintly.

Former Allison voter here, thought I would be voting for Adam tonight, but no it’s Kris. Kris put on a great show.

W00t! Go Kris!

Of course, I don’t put much stock into DialIdol, but it’s nice to see such things anyway. lol

Also, I do hope my votes help Kris. As the last few weeks, all my votes went to Allison. So this is at least one powervoter that Kris didn’t have last week. Not because I didn’t like Kris last week, but I was trying to save my girl.

It occurred to me as I was rewatching Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Heartlessà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  that Kris HAS to rearrange a song to get credit for it, while Gokey can just karaoke his way through anything and almost always get away with it. I know he has a more impressive sounding voice, but really? Ugh.

I would disagree. Danny has rearranged a lot of his songs but they never comment on it. I was annoyed at Simon tonight because he was basically telling Danny not to change his song but has previously criticised him for not changing up one of his songs. My issue with Kris is that he changes the songs to basically sound the same. I couldn’t distinguish any of his performances other than rock week which was bad.

Has dialidols #1 ever want home?

DialIdol is a joke. Don’t read into it. And AL has nothing to complain about. He got the best judges’ pick, the pimp spot, and he did a great job. That background lady’s mike was simply amped up. Poor mix. Not her fault. Didn’t hurt Adam one bit either. West Coast will be voting momentarily!

West coast voting hasn’t even started. I think Adam will be fine.

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Just gonna post my comments without reading anybody else’s so as to not be swayed, but this was like the dullest Top 3 I’ve ever seen. Maybe it’s me, but it’s just getting old. Danny was Danny — nothing horrible, just nothing I’d ever want to listen to unless I want to get slain in the spirit at church.

Adam was competent, and technically very good, but I just wasn’t feeling him tonight. Maybe because I thought he was going to perform my dream selection of “Wicked Game,” only to have it replaced by a rather monotone U2 song (great lyrics, but I want great music at this point) and another boring Aerosmith song. Why didn’t he pick something more current? I just don’t get it. I love the kid, and I think he deserves to win, but the OTT pimping is so ridiculous, and tonight, for me, for Adam, I felt like he was playing “rock star” and not really being one. This is the main difference between him and Cook (and Daughtry) for me.

Kris, Kris, Kris. I love you, kid. And I voted for you tonight. “Apologize” was fine, but I’m not sure how he was supposed to change up that song. I’ve heard several people cover it and nobody really changed it. I floved that he played the piano and the guitar tonight, though, because he proved he’s a real musician, and I thought he was fantastic on “Heartless.” Best of the night.

But, all in all, a very meh show. It’s like last year the kids were taking AP classes and trying to get into the Ivies, and this year a few of them were college prep and the rest were graded on a curve. Just a big disappointment.

Yay Kris is ahead of Danny on DI… I want a Adam/Kris finale even though I know what the result will probably be in the end.. but Kris deserves to be in the finale!!

Kris over took Danny for 2nd at Dialidol. Its been crap this year but……that would be awesome.

And those background singers for Adam really fucked things up. It was painful.

So, what was with Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s nail polish? Is this some sort of solidarity thing between him and Adam? Did he read the article about the à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Thanks for not wearing nail polish Dannyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  signs?

What article was this, Spense? I must have missed it.

Adam vs Kris…its gonna happen people!
Hokey Gokey is going home!

I like One but Adam just killed the song … in a bad bad way

put that final go in gokey!! LOL

Yes. Danny was in a class of his own tonight. A remedial one… :dunce_tb:

Kris fits the premise of the show best. Raw, undiscovered talent.

While I can appreciate Adam’s talent he has already performed with RENT.

Gokey had recorded some really bad Christian music.

Hands up anyone who is an Adam fan who thinks DialIdol is a joke.

Kris fits the premise of the show best. Raw, undiscovered talent.

Right on. Hadn’t thought of it that way…but right on.

Idol is loving this being this close. They can put the totals on the board like they did in season 5 and make us guess who’s is who’s. Ryan can do they whole “Less then 1million votes seperate second and third place”

I would disagree. Danny has rearranged a lot of his songs but they never comment on it.

I’m going to have to, respectfully, ask for some examples. Cuz I have to disagree with your disagreement.

This one Calliope

clearone
May 12th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Hands up anyone who is an Adam fan who thinks DialIdol is a joke.

*raises hand* *raises other hand*

Kris is a fighter, god bless ‘im. He refused to allow the crap hurled at him to get him down and turned in the best performances of the night. His choice was fresh and original and he killed it.

I am no fan of Danny’s but I thought he did better tonight than he has in the past, which is admittedly not saying a lot.

Now as for Adam, I don’t get the OTT praise. Adam has range and is an actor. He completely missed the boat in his arrangement of One. He massacred the song in my opinion. It is not a song one should screech. Simon practically begging for votes for Adam tells the tale. Simon is worried about Adam tonight because Simon knows he is not running away with this thing.

Gawd I’m still missing allison. This top 3 is just meh.

Gokey with that f*ckin’ grin on his face, very karaoke as always, I feel ashamed of myself for having him as my early favorite. I just hate his lack of phrasing and interpretation, he just shouts like there’s no tomorrow. I’m really sick of him.

Kris is a decent performer, he have had bright moments and nice arrangements. He has potential, and he’s the most bold contestant left, he picks the right songs and take risks. He deserves a spot in the finale (along with allison, my not-going-to-happen dream finale!!! LOL).

Adam, oh the favorite (not mine), I recognize he has a great personality and is likable, but speaking of a post-idol carreer, are the people really gonna buy 80′s glam-rock??? seriously? I think he belongs to brodway and he’s going to be huge there, but he has no potential in today’s market. I’m sick and tired of the tongue-out screams which makes all the songs predictable.

An overall weak season, there were not really stand-out performances, and the contestants weren’t so good, just a few good prerformances and a bunch of meh ones.

I’m really missing allison (again) and the last season (even more).

Phone Lines Now Closed On East Coast
Only 2 Hours Of Voting.

4 cells and one landline later. Done. Hope Adam is in the finals!

I didn’t like what Adam did with One (sorry – this is a classic to me, which means I have high standards for it). Cryin’ was ok, because Adam can do an Aerosmith song. He will be in the finals, probably.
Apologize wasn’t so bad, but Heartless was what Kris is all about. Maybe Kris is good with the songs that he has to modify to fit him. When he has to keep it close to the original he loses points. (By the way, I was excited when I heard he was going to sing Apologize, but I ended up think it wouldn’t be good).
I didn’t even see Danny’s perfomances. I think he annoys me now. I think the only good song he sang in the competition was PYT, so, if people vote for evolution and merit, he is out tomorrow. But he is going to the finals.

Okay West Coasties–take it away!
(Now I can eat my strawberry shortcake :bye_tb:

BTW..love love love the sarcasm in here….very entertaining to watch while I’m dialing….u guys crack me up…in a good way :jittery_tb:

I’m reading a lot of “I’m voting for Kris” posts. What happened to Adam’s voters?!?!? *Sniff* :down_tb:

Does the west coast start voting now or in one hour?

if you are texting, will it tell you when the lines are closed?

Yay for Kris passing up Danny on DI! Has Danny ever been their bottom person?

I think those of us who assume Kris gets the text vote is cause he’d been in the bottom of DI several times this season but never hit even B3 till Top 5. Since DI only measures phone votes, we assume he made up the difference in text votes. But yeah, it’s a black box so really no way to know. Just that the pattern is Kris usually fares better than his DI score indicates.

Hard to say against Danny though. His votes are truly mysterious

eta: if you are going by the maps, though, Danny just might be in worse shape than Kris… it’s really close this week!

I thought Kris was the best tonight and he deserves the finale and heck even to win the whole show.
I still miss Matt though, he’s another one with this incredible raw talent, I wanted a Kris/Matt finale but I know Matt will have a career regardless.
Adam will be HUGE in broadway and Danny will be a Christian singer.

Wow, dial idol has Kris ahead of Danny. Could it be true?

Adam didn’t do as well tonight as he has in the past. The 2nd song was too high-pitched and screechy. Not a sound I would want on my ipod. “One” had beautiful parts but was ruined for me by too much emoting in the middle. Adam, this isn’t a play that you are acting in. just fyi.

I think Kris won tonight. His 2nd song was pretty amazing.

Danny, eh, I liked that he didn’t seem arrogant tonight and to me he seemed more likable, but the singing is not that good imo. Don’t know what the judges are smoking.

Kara I know you are new but come on, tone it down. Way, way OTT every week. Hard to take.

I think this season has the best talent so far.

1) Adam- just wow. arguably the best idol contestant of all time. and he made the season…even if you didnt like his singing. you must admit he kept the season afloat as far as “chatter” outside the idol stage.

2) Allison- IMO, the best Singing 16/17 yr old girl on the show. Her studio recording of Cry Baby was like a 35 yr old divorced/alcoholic who has survived her whole life. and yes, thats a good thing.

3) Danny- yes he’s not my cup of tea, but he made quite a splash on the idol stage. and honestly, in the big scheme of things, he does have an excellent voice and its very very unique.

And i though the filler contestants, Megan, Matt, Kris, were all really good.

What article was this, Spense? I must have missed it.

Not Spense, but I saw it too. Looked like Blue nail polish on his right thumb. That or one heck of a bad bruise.

What happened to Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s voters?!?!?

Power voting like me?

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m reading a lot of à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m voting for Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  posts. What happened to Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s voters?!?!?

They were voting……..

I honestly don’t care what Adam’s background is, nor any of them. We could argue all day whether it is more damning to American Idol if they had a self-produced CD or where on another Television contest or spent time doing broadway plays. I truly listen to what they sing and how they sing it. Based on what I’ve heard this year, well I voted for Kris tonight for the entire two hours. I find his musicality so very much more amazing than any note Adam Lambert can hit. Yes, Adam is the vocal range maestro this year, he just has never made me care. I’ve never said that Adam’s vocals were OTT because if they were and they had made me feel, I would have loved it. I guess I am more concerned with who moves me and time and time again this year, it was Kris. I have to think that if David Cook wasn’t around last year, I’d have been OTT for Jason Castro. That this year I’m not OTT for any of them is, IMO, an homage to last year’s amazing group.

As Rock Week taught us, there is no winning based on performance.

Resurrect the ROCKER!!!!!!

What happened to Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s voters?!?!?

Power voting like me?

Exactly… Speaking of, did texters get the “voting is closed…” as usual? Cuz, ya know, I didn’t… Hum?

elw
May 12th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Wow, dial idol has Kris ahead of Danny. Could it be true?

DI has been off by almost 5 points sometimes this season. It sucks this season. ANYTHING could have happened with the voting this year.

I would LOVE them to release the voting totals at the end of the season just to compare it to DI.

I am stupidly excited about the DI polls. Kris is building a little bigger lead over Danny and now the Wisc. voters are in the mix. Adam’s lost a point in the last hour. Will the west coast boost Adam’s lead? Can Kris pull it off? This is fascinating. Incidentally, I was curious about Season 5 and dug into my article archive and found this:

Ryan stands in front of a huge billboard-type screen. The figure 33.06% is displayed, followed by 33.26% and 33.68%. This is, he tells us, the way the 50 million votes broke down. Wow. He then asks us whose name goes with what number. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Who is so close, but is going home?à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  There is dead silence in the audience. 33.06% is alone on the screen, and then Elliottà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s name appears. Elliott is going home.

I don’t think this season will be this close… this one was truly a heartbreaker. I still get irritated when I think about Elliott being eliminated three years later!

I’ve had an epiphany. Just now. No, seriously. I am a Kris Allen FTW kinda viewer now. He has come the farthest. He’s the most raw. He’s the most earnest. The nicest. The most hungry. The best looking. The most-improved. The arc is perfect with him. He’s THE all-American boy seeking his all-American dream.

Tonight did it for me. He sealed the deal. The others were fine. But Kris has taken the punches and came out swinging for the fences! Adam has not been punched, he’s been carried around in a golden cart sipping Dom and getting massages. Danny’s been pumped up and overheated(hyped) so much that’s he’s bound to explode like the Hindenburg!

Nay, it’s only Kris who has been kicked, beaten and bulled into near submission, only to rise from the ashes like a beautiful Phoenix. Behold!!*

Funnyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦. Adam is like a fine wine and improves with age (or repeated listenings).

This is what I’ve always thought about Adam and it’s what makes me worried for him with voting sometimes. Often when you first hear his song it’s so inyourface or different or not what you expected that it takes a few listens to really let it sink in. But he’s so damn good because he makes you WANT to listen again and again and again. I just hope people vote now and listen again later! LOL

Well, this guy here thought One was one of the best performances of the season (and ever, actually)… and just got done voting for Adam for 2 hrs. Whew!

I haven’t gotten the “voting is closed” yet either. still texting..

OK, on repeated listenings, “One” wasn’t really as far off the melody as I thought, and it wasn’t really too Adam-ized. The change is maybe a bit jarring due to the compressed time frame, but I like the performance much better than I did the first time around.

Blue nail polish on Kris‘s thumb during the homecoming video. Adam and Kris = BFFs. Back to voting for Kris – my cell phone is really getting hot, and needed a “cool down period”. LOL!

I power voted for Adam so hard my phone’s about to blow the hell up.

I just re-watched Crying and I wanna bitch slap that background singer. Holy shit she was wayyyy off key. No wonder he flung the earpiece out of his ear.

I thought Kris was the best tonight and he deserves the finale and heck even to win the whole show.
I still miss Matt though, heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s another one with this incredible raw talent, I wanted a Kris/Matt finale but I know Matt will have a career regardless.

Omg, I thought I was the only one who wanted a Kris/Matt finale!

come on kris!!!!!

Hi everyone, it took awhile for me to find the videos of the performances but I was able to get up to speed! I didn’t watch the judges commentary – I didn’t need to as MJ summed it up for us. (Thanks MJ!)

Lord, they all look tired. This Idol thing is such a grind, But, no trainwrecks tonight. A few vocal stumbles, a few lyrical snafu’s, but nothing epic. And not a single song about Penguins. Hooray!

My grades:

Adam – One – A
I loved it. Period.

Kris – Heartless – A
I loved it. I loved that Kris totally defied expectations tonight, and every night. One of, if not the, best of Kris’ season. The dude knows when to turn it on. Good luck Kris!

Adam – Cryin’ – A-
The backup singer(s) botched the words. And the harmony. But even so – this wasn’t as good as “One” but it was better than “YASB”.

Danny – You are So Beautiful – B
Oh how I wanted to h