America’s Got Talent – The Finale!

WINNER is…Landau Eugene Murphy
2nd place is…Silhouettes
3rd place is…Team ILuminate WTF!!!!
4th place is…Poplyfe

And…another singer wins America’s Got Talent! Landau Eugene Murphy is a 3rd rate Sinatra impersonator. He’ll make one album–maybe–and be dropped by his label. He’ll probably end up headlining a “legends” show deep in the bowls of Vegas. But it beats washing cars in West Virginia. So there’s that. Howie was right, Landau had an advantage, because he had a personality and backstory viewers could identify with. As it often is in voting shows, his talent was secondary.

Team ILuminate was TOTALLY ROBBED people. They were the act most likely to flourish in Vegas. Their combination of dance and technology was hard to beat. Like Sharon said, they never failed to entertain. I can’t say that for the rest of the Top 4. That Silhouettes placed ahead of them had everything to do with Emotion vs Technology. Those kiddies pulled at the heartstrings, and the team’s choreographer is a shameless panderer, milking patriotic images for every last bit of emotion. Blech.

Poplyfe had no business being in the Top 4 as it was, so they deservedly earned 4th place. But who knows, if they hadn’t chocked on Wednesday, maybe they would have knocked Team Iluminate out of 3rd place. SMH.

Who will win the million dollars and Vegas headlining gig? Poplyfe? Team ILuminate? Landau Eugene Murphy or Silhouettes?

The finalists will be performing with some of their heroes. Poplyfe with Stevie Wonder, Team ILuminate with Cobra Starship, Laundau Eugene Murphy with Patti Labelle, Silhouettes with Leanne Rimes

Performing tonight: Tony Bennett, Queen Latifah,   Def Leppard, last year’s runner-up Jackie Evancho, One Republic,   and Cirque du Soleil.

Landau meets Patti and couldn’t be more excited! They sing “You’re All I Need To Get By”. I guess they couldn’t talk Tony into duetting with the crooner? Couldn’t get Michael Buble? This is completely different style of singing than we’re used to from Landau, and he’s slightly under pitch. Patti comes on stage in a Keely Smith wig, and proceeds to riff all over the place. Not sure she even knows the words. Landau takes care of the lyrics, Patti sings circles around him. Patti invokes the name of the late Nick Ashford, then orders Landau to take his bow. She’s a little crazy, but very gracious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWO2fF1vVlE

Def Leppard. Not sure what they’re doing here.  Are they time traveling from the 80’s?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mPHzri36L0

Nick explains what went wrong last night.   The Silhouettes were about to take the stage, and the doors wouldn’t open!  They finally fixed it a couple of minutes before 10 pm. The show still ran over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upb0qeG19GU&feature=player_profilepage

Team ILuminate performs with Cobra Starship (They sing “You Make Me Feel”). This is really weird. The band members are wearing Team Iluminate costumes. Finally, the troup takes the stage to dance…but with the lights on. Ho ho. This doesn’t work exactely. Although the jumping up and down is sort of cool. Still, Team ILuminate need the lights off for the full effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3fFp7CwVo

Erm a group medley from the “Audition All-Stars”. That was interesting. The “Screamo” girl was my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrMeAZJl7XY

Lee Ann Rimes (she sings “Give”) and Silhouettes perform together. Lee Ann is so moved by the little panderers, dancers, that she almost cries when she meets them! Aw look at the kids dragging out the American flag and spelling the word America!. This routine is like the “best of” Silhouettes”–a bunch of their tableaus thrown together like a medley. The crowd eats it up with a spoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLJA1SUuKJ8

Filler! A video all about the judges. Gee. Piers and Howie hate each other (Fake Feud).

Next it’s One Republic singing “Good Life”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fn_t-k_BX0

So there’s an hour left of this? Zzzzz

Oh look. It’s Jerry Springer. They’re adding more acts to the show, including last year’s winner, Michael Grimm. Guess the show isn’t selling very well?

Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah take the stage to sing “Who Can I Turn To. Queen looks very elegant!

Poplyfe meet Stevie Wonder! Hey, Stevie started in the biz as a preteen. He really did. “Higher Ground” is the duet. The lead singer, K’laine is sounding better than she has all season. She’s still a little bland for my tastes. And I think Piers is right. She needs to ditch her band. Stevie is, of course, tremendous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC6YD_B9k_U

Next, it’s the cast of Elise.

The first result! Finally! In 4th place is Poplyfe. Well that’s no surprise. We had fun! We sang with our hero! Piers says they are young and talented and should be proud. “Win the next competition you enter, ” says Piers.

MORE RESULTS. Comining in 3rd is Sill…. TEAM ILUMINATE. What the f*ck? This is total bullsh*t. Sharon says week in and week out, Team ILuminate never disappointed us. Uh. YEAH.

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

Scary child singer, Jackie Evancho takes the stage to sing Nessun Dorma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOH5yUkPOvM

Now, it’s down to Landau Eugene Murphy and Silhouettes. And the winner is…Landau Eugene Murphy. Oy. Another singer. And 3rd rate at that.

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

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