American Idols Live 2012 – Ontario, CA Live Blog

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Live blogging the American Idols Live Ontario, CA show right here.


Photo: Michael Orland

American Idol musical director, Michael Orland, is at the concert tonight. Watch for his tweets!

Set List:

Top 9 - “Sing” by My Chemical Romance (Minus Phil)

Deandre Brackensick – “Master Blaster” by Stevie Wonder

Skylar Laine and Hollie Cavanagh Duet- “Undo It” by Carrie Underwood

Erika Van Pelt – Glitter in the Air by Pink

Colton Dixon, Erika Van Pelt, Joshua Ledet, Hollie Cavanagh (Group Number)– Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5

Heejun Han – “Green Light” by John Legend

Heejun Han, Deandre Brackensick and Jessica Sanchez (Group Number) - Party Rock by LMFAO

BOYS – “Everybody Talks” by Neon Trees (Minus Phillip)

Elise Testone – Whole Lotta Love by Led Zepplin

Elise Testone with Erika Van Pelt and Deandre Brackensick Backup – Rumour Has It by Adele

Colton Dixon – “Meant To Live” by Switchfoot

Colton Dixon – “Never Gone” (Original Song)

Colton Dixon – Piano Man by Billy Joel

Top 9 – “Just The Way You Are”/”What Makes You Beautiful” by Billy Joel/One Direction (Minus Phillip)

INTERMISSION

Jessica Sanchez- Best Thing I Never Had by Beyonce

Jessica Sanchez with Deandre Brackensick and Josh Ledet Backup – How Come You Don’t Call Me Any More by Prince

Jessica Sanchez with Deandre Brackensick and Josh Ledet Backup – Proud Mary by Ike and Tina Turner

Skylar Laine – Gunpowder and Lead by Miranda Lambert

Skylar Laine – Stay With Me by The Faces

Hollie Cavanagh with Elise Testone and Erika Van Pelt Backup – Rolling in the Deep by Adele

Hollie Cavanagh – Give Your Heart a Break by Demi Lovato

Joshua Ledet with Elise Testone, Deandre Brakensick, Erika Van Pelt Backup– Runaway Baby by Bruno Mars

Joshua Ledet – It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World

Joshua Ledet and Jessica Sanchez Duet – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me by George Michael and Aretha Franklin

Phillip Phillips – “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder

Phillip Phillips – Nice and Slow by Usher

Phillip Phillips and Elise Testone Duet - Somebody That I Used to Know by Goyte

Phillip Phillips with Jessica Sanchez (Duet/Backup)!- Volcano by Damien Rice

Phillip Phillips with Colton Dixon and Deandre Brackensick Backup – Home

GIRLS – Raise Your Glass by Pink

BOYS – Girls eventually join in – Glad You Came by The Wanted

 

 
  • Anonymous

    Thanks http://twitter.com/michaelorland for the behind-the-scenes look! Seems like a long time before this tour hits the East Coast… and love http://twitter.com/CavanaghAI11 !

  • Anonymous

    Thanks http://twitter.com/michaelorland for the behind-the-scenes look! Seems like a long time before this tour hits the East Coast… and love http://twitter.com/CavanaghAI11 !

  • http://twitter.com/mmcrell Michael McRell

    Seems like Michael Orland’s phone died….he took too many pics backstage before the concert! lol!

  • Anonymous

    Only three comments on the Idols live thread. Sigh #itsallaboutthejudgesnow

  • judes

    I agree roarpen I think its really sad that people are more interested in who will judge than the idols concert. For me its always about the Idols & I think this bunch is very talented & i like to see how they improve during the tour.

    Loved Michael Orlands enthusiastic tweets.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DJ4FPAE2BM4XDCNVQITJSS3S2Q Sue

    I’m afraid so. I won’t lie, I don’t care that much about the S11 crop. Unfortunately the way they were showcased didn’t allow me to connect, so I eventually tuned out.

  • Incipit

    “I don’t care that much about the S11 crop.”

    Same here, Sue. Only two of them, Erika and Elise, sing music in a style I am liable to buy later – but that’s later…if they even get the opportunity to put out material of their own.

    Eh – Same sort of thing happened last season – and I did buy CaseyA and Haley’s CD’s, but no one else in that season interested me either. Still, that was better than Seasons Eight and Nine – I didn’t buy anything, or follow anyone, for those two years. Well, almost CaseyJ, until he went too country on me. Heh.

    I hope they all have a great tour; they are a talented group, it just doesn’t translate to Entertaining, for me, and those Very Young People have a long way to go, and a lot to learn. I can’t work up any enthusiasm for posting about it more than sporadically.

  • blackberryharvest

     What is there to say now? We all know their songs and how they are singing them.

    I also feel like a lot of people had something against Season 11 from the beginning. A lot weren’t willing to forgive the show after the poorly edited audition episodes that didn’t showcase the talent. Its too bad, because this season ended up so talented. But I think the first impressions of the season turned a lot of people off, unfortunately. I also think the buzz about the lower ratings made a lot of people assume that the show was doing something wrong.

  • http://twitter.com/raya4 raya

    I’ve been following the live tweets almost every night, or when I can, but again, what is there to say?  They perform the same songs night after night so unless something crazy happens there isn’t much to post about.  With a case like last night while you have Michael Orland tweeting, when I love him, you obviously know he’s only going to gush over his babies.  I certainly wasn’t expecting him to say anything other than how much he loves them all. 

    Also for all the doom and gloom, it seems like they have been drawing good crowds in California.

  • Larc

    This is the first year I just haven’t been able to get interested in the tour.  It’s really bad to think even the S9 tour kept my attention more.

  • getaway1

    I agree roarpen I think its really sad that people are more interested in who will judge than the idols concert. For me its always about the Idols & I think this bunch is very talented & i like to see how they improve during the tour.

    The tour is not going to define anyone’s career.  There really isn’t much to say when it basically is the same set every show.  And there is 40 something shows. The crowds in LA and Ontario sounded really enthusiastic. I am much more interested in Phillip’s video of Home and news about his CD.

  • getaway1

    I agree roarpen I think its really sad that people are more interested in who will judge than the idols concert. For me its always about the Idols & I think this bunch is very talented & i like to see how they improve during the tour.

    The tour is not going to define anyone’s career.  There really isn’t much to say when it basically is the same set every show.  And there is 40 something shows. The crowds in LA and Ontario sounded really enthusiastic. I am much more interested in Phillip’s video of Home and news about his CD.

  • Anonymous

    Been following Jessica’s and Joshua’s performances everyday to see how well they do. Joshua’s It’s Man’s World got so much better than it already was! Especially his Nokia Theatre performance. And he’s developing this appeal when he sings it. Jessica has started to do different runs at the end of How Come You Don’t Call Me. There was also a funny moment when Jessica came out for I Knew You Were Waiting. She left her huge hair clip on accidentally. She was all so serious until Josh pointed it out. They were smiling and laughing all the way through the song!

    I’m sure there were more moments with the other contestants but the J’s are the ones I’m following.

  • Anonymous

    I think there are less comments on these threads because you can just read the live tweets to see what’s going on. In the majority of the past seasons, MJ didn’t have this “cover it live” tweet thing, so there was a lot more speculation in the threads about what was happening at the concert.

    And honestly, after the first couple of shows, the novelty has worn off. Nothing really changes from show to show, so unless something unusual happens — someone gets ill, something goes wrong during the concert, etc., what is there really to talk about? 

    For example, during the S8 tour (the only one I have gone to see), there was the hubhub about Kris dropping NoBo from his set, the hoopla about whether Adam would or wouldn’t come out to the M&Gs, all the stuff about the various objects being thrown on stage at the Idols (mainly, but not exclusively, during Adam’s set), Kris’ grandmother dying, the whole “what pronoun will Adam use when he sings WLL” speculation, the discussion about what people thought of Danny’s little speech during his set, and then near the end of tour, pretty much everybody getting ill, resulting in Kris actually missing one show. 

    So far this year, there hasn’t really been that sort of stuff going on. As long as everyone stays healthy, what is there to talk about? Colton getting to play an original song is old news now, and since Phillip’s health thankfully seems to be holding up pretty well, there doesn’t seem to be anything going on to discuss.

  • Anonymous

    Reminder:

    The thread is not the topic here. 

    Please keep the discussion focused on last night’s concert and the tour in general, not on who is or is not posting in the thread. Thanks.

  • judes

    Great to see some more videos-thanks MJ. Can’t get enough of seeing Colton’s new single Never Gone. Had to laugh at Michael Orland saying he wasn’t going to tell any more bird jokes to Colton-[obviously referring to his hair]

  • blackberryharvest

    Glad to see how much Michael Orland supports ALL the contestants from idol. 

  • http://twitter.com/ninergrl6 ninergrl6

    I got a video of Colton (and the crowd) singing Happy Birthday to his dad in Ontario.  http://youtu.be/HQqtKmlNjY4  This was between Meant to Live and Never Gone.  The video is short and basically just the back of Colton’s head, but it’s still cute IMO.  I was in the front row stage left, and his family was stage right, but every once in a while I’d glance over at them.  It was fun watching them watch the show.