Maybe. As much as I think a handful of contestants who didn’t win from the past few seasons sing circles around every single one these S12 contestants, they did have full seasons behind their backs, which these people don’t have yet. Paul, Devin, Kree, and Angela have potential to at least contend with those contestants, I think. Also, in addition to Crystal, I’d throw Siobhan, Lilly, and Didi into the good S9 contestants who would kick these guy’s asses. At least, when Siobhan and Didi were on their game, because they had a lot of clunkers amidst some gems. But, again, that’s just at the scraping the surface level we’re at with these S12 contestants.

I keep forgetting how we still haven’t even hit the semi-finals so it’s still early in the competition, how there was so much fodder to get through to get to this point, and how there’s still so much fodder to get through before we get to the Top 12/13 (It is not going to be a Top 10. The season would end too early.)

I think Kree’s first performance was better than most of the girls you listed. Crystal’s first semi finals performance was good, but criticized by Simon when he said he could see anybody doing that at a subway station. Haley’s was mediocre and people were wondering how she got through. She didn’t really start getting better until Bennie and The Jetts. Siobhan also had her breakout performance the 2nd week with Think.

I like Kree, but I’m not even sure if she is the best singer this year anyway. That goes to Candice, Amber, or Vincent. Amber had one of the best semi final performances I have seen. Every year people talk about the whole season that there have been no “moments” yet, then when the next season rolls around there were suddenly many “moments” the previous season. Next year we will probably see people say “nobody has given a Hollywood solo like Angie yet” or “nobody has grabbed me like Amber did.”

Those performances were all later than the one we saw from Kree, but even then, in HW, Crystal had Natural Woman, Siobhan had Living in the City, and Haley had God Bless The Child. I didn’t think Kree’s Lights nor her Up to the Mountain were at that level, but that’s just me. However, all three of those performances were really early. And, for Siobhan and Haley, you’re right, they took a while to hit their stride.

I barely remember Candice and Amber other than “They were pretty good”. 

I really don’t remember too many performances from last season, so I’m definitely not going to be saying that “this season has had no moments yet compared to last season” lol. And I do see other people saying that about Amber/Angie next year. I don’t think it will be me unless next year’s HW round is really bad :P.

Yeah, still wayyyy too early in the season to say whether its the “best evah” or the “worst evah.” I see a lot of great potential in this group. Once we get to the top 10 show I think there will be a better idea of where this group stacks against the others.

I don’t care about anyone but Zoanette. All hail the Queen.

I’m definitely with those in that it is still far too early to write off this season.  Poor S9, but I don’t think we are in that sort of situation.  Unless somehow 10 of the most talented wind up getting sent home next week leaving us with the Charlie, Lazaro and Tenna’s of the bunch.  That said, at the same time, I still haven’t seen anyone either male or female, that I’m totally crazy over.  That doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of talent here, but some seasons there are just people that jump off the screen at me and I immediately connect with them before I even know how it happened. It tends to be cyclical.  Some seasons I find it.  Some I don’t, which in many ways I prefer.  On paper I was most excited for Candice based on last year, but admittedly I can’t see myself caring enough to actually pick up the phone and vote.  We’ll see how it shakes out.

I’m not going to follow any of them, but I went to check out there twitter pages, and Aubrey and Breanna may be the big re-tweeters of the bunch, so heads up on that :)

So far, Angela has 4 times as many twitter followers as any of the other girls, while Lazaro has 4 times as many followers as any of the other guys (whether that means anything, TBD). A few of the contestants have yet to tweet anything (including Zoanette, which surprises me — for some reason, I thought she would be a chatty social media person)

Instead of a wildcard to fill in the empty week….they could have a Scotty night and a P2 night.  One (1) hour each would suffice.

On the really small… I guess article thumbnail at the top of the page, Tenna (?), Amber, Kree, Adriana and Angela really looked like Fifth Harmony. lol

It makes me feel a little better than Zoanette only has 114 likes on fb and barely a thousand on twitter, no public support so far.  Last thur she only had 94 on fb and only a dozen more since then? Please Nigel stop making us endure her, she is not entertaining and she cannot sing, she is not funny so stop it already

Daang, Angela’s twitter followers went up SUPER fast last night. :-O  Guess she has a big following.  Although it’s weird that the other contestants don’t seem to have quite as much?  Maybe they have more now.