She also looked beautiful, as usual, but I’m not jumping on the stylist bandwagon just yet. That dress was hideous and did nothing for her.

The anchor dude seemed to have quite the crush, though. LOL.

One thing I’ve learned from various YouTube clips is that Jordin is not shy about putting herself out there vocally without a “safety net.” I’ll bet if someone asked her to sing Battlefield with just her acoustic guitar she would do it! Talk about fearless – watch her sing an unrehearsed duet of Bridge Over Troubled Waters with Josh Groban at Celebrity Fight Night.

Definitely plan to buy her CD tomorrow, and have been previewing songs the last couple days. My favorite song by far is The Cure, which she co-wrote. I really hope that this one is released as a single, but am afraid that it could get lost in the shuffle. Interesting that the reviews coming out now in the press are so mixed. One reviewer likes half the songs, hates the other half. Another reviewer likes exactly the opposite. Put me in the column of liking them all for the most part, but especially the ones that she co-wrote, such as Was I the Only One, Faith, and, of course, The Cure. I hope this is the direction she will ultimately go in.

I was skeptical before watching this bacause I was thinking ‘how could this girl win and Allison Iraheta could barely stay out of the bottom 3′ ³. But that’s not fair, and I actually came away from this video a tentative fan of Jordin. She is Beautiful (LOL at kelly needing her stylist, but I must agree. Image is half the battle for artists these days) well spoken, and the song is pretty catchy. Good luck to her’ ¦

I think Jordin’s power-ballad, pop style is probably more universally liked by an Idol audience — especially coming from a teenager — than Allison’s rock-girl aesthetic.

And then there was the little matter of who Jordin was competing with, compared to who Allison was competing with. The only really great singer among Jordin’s competitors was Melinda. (Allison was competing with the likes of Kris, Adam, Danny, Anoop, at least, who are all great singers in one way or another) Plus, among the top singers in Jordin’s group, nobody was really gorgeous or highly sexy (compared again with the same list) — that was, in fact, the sort of plain jane year that they quickly followed up with Seasons 7 and, to a lesser degree, 8, where pretty much everybody in the top 12 could have a shot at some kind of modeling contract. Jordin’s good, but she was in a very different competition than Allison was in.

ITA Tess, Kelly needs to at least look like she’s trying.

Hear, hear.
We can’t all be Carrie U., but we can try to be OUR best. Jordin looked absolutely lovely, and a great role model in that she shows you don’t have to be stick-thin. OTOH, I think Kelly has one of the best pop voices out there, but (and don’t hate me) she needs to take care of herself, too.

There are vocals on Ms. Sparks’ backing track. Significant vocals. As in, if she and the background singers walked off the stage, you will still be able to sing along quite nicely.

They don’t call them synthesizers anymore. Keyboards are music production synthesizer workstations. The difference is that, in your day, studio recordings were not done on computers and could not be carried to the stage and played on a laptop computer, interfaced to a music production synthesizer workstation.

It’s not “phony” to sing along to a fully-produced backing track. It’s just “singing along to a fully-produced backing track”. It is what it is.

Apparently, season 3′s Leah Labelle is one of her backup singers. I didn’t hear her caterwauling off key, though, so I’m skeptical.

The issue is not whether Jordan can sing live or not. We’ve all heard that she has a good voice. The issue is whether or not she and the band can produce THAT performance — the auto-tuned and doubled voice layers, the processing, the choir, the strings. They can’t, which is why they peform along with a heavily produced backing track. It’s no big secret that this is the way much pop music is performed “live” these days.