know Syesha was feeling that she might as well just come on stage and break wind through her armpits because she never got any credit for the good singer she was.

This made me chuckle, because my first thought was…Cook totally could have armpit farted and people would have dug it. Thanks to BWE, we have proof.

I admit I was not looking forward to Dolly week. I’m not a huge fan of the narrow “songs from Artist X only” themes to begin with (unless artist X is the Beatles or U2), and country week is usually another that I don’t dig, and this was a combo of both. Color me surprised when I enjoyed it. Dolly was adorably supportive of everyone, and there were quite a few good performances.

My favorites….

1) Michael… To put it simply, I always thought his voice was the sex, and it was nice that he FINALLY found a song to back that up. Loved. it. :smoke_tb: STILL can’t believe he’s going to get the boot one week later. Really, America? Really? After he’s proven he can bring the sexy? Why you do me that way?

2) Cook…Hello, Acoustic Dave. How you doin? And haircut, hey, glad you made it to the party, though I wish you were a wee bit longer. This performance clued me into Cook’s strategy in regards to song selection. Most everyone else went for either songs they loved or songs that could possibly be big moment songs. Cook, OTOH, started crafting a set list week by week, song by song, to show what he was made of, and what we could expect from a David Cook record and concert. It’s a philosophy he carried through to the end with this final three performances, much to Simon’s chagrin, and I think it was brills. Also, the studio recording of his Little Sparrow cover is so so purdy.

3) Jason…STFU, Simon. For reals. I really liked this performance, it was gorg, and you are such a tool this week.

4) Carly….see Jason.

5) Archie finally makes my top five. I’m not ever going to be gaga over his voice, but I liked this performance quite a bit.

As for the rest…. Much like Jolene, Brooke’s happy shiny-ness finally did her wrong, Rami was just lost, Syesha sang one of my least favorite songs ever, and I was so over KLC at this point. That hasn’t changed. I kind of wish Chikeze would have made it this far. CHikeze plus Dolly would have been a trip.

Favorite. Group. Performance. Ever. The Dolly shirt, the line dancing, Michael’s ass slapping and pointy pose at the end, Jason’s goofy whateverness, and the lolz of Cook serenading Paula with “you think about it, don’t you?” (cougar much?) are all made of ginormous cheesy win.

Carly and Michael were on the next rung for me. Michael hit it out of the park and made me feel that he had squandered so
many opportunities because Papa Johns did not know what to sing, this night he nailed it. Carly did it as well. This was one night that she should have been incredible proud. I know Syesha was feeling that she might as well just come on stage and break wind through her armpits because she never got any credit for the good singer she was. It must have been hard.

Frankly the only person who truly sucked was KLC, but then it goes beyond saying. When the best Miss Dolly can say is that your grandma would be proud, read between the lines. This could have been her night and she wiffed it big time.

Think I am going to go and revisit these songs on the old youtubby.

Archie sang one of my all time favorite Dolly songs.

This song is so beautiful. When I heard David was singing it my first thought was, PERFECT! My second thought was, oh no. No one can sing it like Dolly (her version will break.your.heart). I just loved David’s performance. It was clear during the intro package and through his performance that he must have been feeling really homesick that week, and the emotion came through – AND his vocals were virtually impeccable. One of my favorite Archie performances, for sure.

here’s the ETA:

ETA: I guess Ford wasn’t paying again for another round of their commercials to be shown…but please? Couldn’t AI have found a different sponsor for the rerun of their ‘Family’ show? All kinds of awkward.

I have a hard time picturing any punk band singing Little Sparrow in that style. It actually seemed kind of folk to me.

Sma11ie, thanks for the laugh today, because I actually did try to picture the punk/emo approach to “Little Sparrow”. Mercy!

I have to agree, that wasn’t even ‘Country’, it was ‘Folk’, and one more genre that the general audience would never have imagined DC singing in…WTF!Cook, again…kinda sorta like next week will be.

ETA: I guess Ford wasn’t paying again for another round of their commercials to be shown…but please? Couldn’t AI have found a different sponsor for the rerun of their ‘Family’ show? All kinds of awkward.

David Cook à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’  emos up a song again.

How was that emo? I have a hard time picturing any punk band singing Little Sparrow in that style. It actually seemed kind of folk to me.

LMAO. And last night there were two different competitor brands featured. Seriously, WTF?!

“David Cook à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’  emos up a song again.”

LOL^^ Not sure how you define emo, but maybe emo means something different for you. Randy Jackson’s definition perhaps? LMAO. Cuz I don’t know how anyone could describe that performance as emo, especially if you listen to the studio version of LilSparrow.

Anyhow, what lovely performances from the Davids – first time that both brought tears to my eyes on the same night. Archie sang one of my all time favorite Dolly songs. And the beauty and sensitivity that DC sang LilSparrow was just awesome. The others were just too karoake or just okay for me.

By now, the Davids are so clearly head and shoulders above the competition that I could understand why people were getting frustrated about Season 7. I mean, who other than the Davids were even in contention as a possible winner by the end of Top 9 results show? It really was the inevitable march of the Davids to the top 2.

Michael Johns stole the night and this is still my favorite performance of the whole season. What I truly appreciatiated about Michael Johns is he chose music all over the spectrum and did not sound the same week after week.

Jason Castro, contrary to the judges’ opinions, also picked the perfect song.

David Cook — emos up a song again. My favorite performance of David Cook’s is coming up soon — Music of the Night.

I was really hoping that Carly would sing Jolene, but it was not to be.

And can we just send Kristy Lee home already.

Looking back I realize she’s just a person who will always act exactly as they are feeling, but I just had a hard time in general with people who acted like they were being sent to their death everytime they were in the B3. Even though KLC and Syesha weren’t my favorite people, I could respect them for the fact that they managed to hold themselves together as many times as they were in the bottom grouping.

This was kind of the beginning of the end for Brooke. She just seemed more and more like she was having a breakdown as time went on, so even though I liked her voice and her style of music, I ended up wanting her gone anyway. Plus, as news got out about her essentially sobbing her eyes out throughout the end of this episode, and needing to be comforted by a fleet of people, including DC, whom everyone knew was ill and trying to hide it, it kind of hurt her in terms of people’s perception of her.

My favorite Michael Johns performance to date. That song, for him, was just…right.

Yes, I love “Little Sparrow” and the haircut, and stuff.

I did have to LOL at Syesha’s predictability. Everyone had been calling it all day long. “Oh, a Whitney song! I’m Whitney!!!”

Overall, I think this was a pretty decent night for everyone, Simon behaving like a petulant child aside. Ugh…