American Idol Top 13
Now that the Top 13 of American Idol Season 8 has been chosen, it’s time for the finalists to battle it out onstage, win the viewers’ vote and be the next American Idol. For the first week of the finals, finalists were asked to sing Michael Jackson hits calling this week the “Michael Jackson week”.
Lil Rounds opened the night with full energy singing the song “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Judges Paula Adbul, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi loved her performance while judge Simon Cowell finds it to be a little lazy.
Scott MacIntyre chose to sing Michael Jackson’s “not-so-obvious” song “Keep the Faith” while playing the piano. Randy finds Scott’s performance to be “safe” while Kara and Paula have nothing but praises for Scott. On the other hand, Simon hated the song choice [Scott’s song choice].
Singing “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”, Danny Gokey impressed Paula saying that he’s on his way to the finals [finale]. Simon liked Danny’s performance tonight saying that Danny got great vocals but his dancing was hideous. Kara and Randy liked the performance as well.
“You Are Not Alone” is Michael Sarver’s song choice for this week. Simon said that he’s not the best singer in the competition but his passion and “heart” makes up for it.
Jasmine Muray sang “I’ll Be There”.
Judge Kara gave props to Kris Allen who sang “Remember the Time” for helping other Idol finalists prepare for the Michael Jackson week.
Allison Iraheta sang her own version of “Give it To Me” but struggled a bit towards the end of the song.
Judges think that “Beat It” is a bad song choice for Anoop Desai. Simon said that his performance was horrible and looked a bit stupid.
Jorge Nunez sang “Never Can Say Goodbye” but the judges didn’t like his performance. Megan Joy chose the song “Rockin’ Robin” and Simon said that it was a stupid song choice.
Fan favorite, Adam Lambert rocked the stage with “Black and White.”
Singing “Human Nature” while playing the piano, Matt Giraud impressed the judges.
Last to perform is Alexis Grace with the song “Dirty Diana” which Paula and Kara liked. However, Paula warned Alexis not to “oversing”.
Results would be out tomorrow night. Host Ryan Seacrest hinted that a big announcement would also be made tomorrow that is expected to change how things go for American Idol.
For Philippine viewers, watch American Idol on Q 11 or Star World on cable TV every Wednesdays and Thursdays.
I will surely miss Michael Jackson, he is really worthy of the name King of Pop and he is certainly one of the greatest musicians of all time…
Why is Simon Cowell going from American Idol? He produced it I think?
One year after Michael J’s death and i still feel sad.. He was the greatest!