After some momentary panic about whether the show was recording (Beauty and the Geek lost) I decided I would rate each performer as a 1 (best), 2 (mediocre) or 3 (can go home).
Syesha sang "Got to Get You Into My Life" - not my favorite performance, I didn't feel like she injected enough of herself into it. Score: 2
Chickizie chose "She's a Woman" and absolutely blew me out of the water. Started out all bluesy, O Brother Where Art Thou and ended up rockin' it out of the house!! I was really a little surprised that he had that in him. Score: 1
Ramiele came out singing "In My Life" - even though this is hands-down one of my all-time favorite Beatles' tunes, and I know she does well with the ballads, it wasn't my favorite with her. She may have already peaked. Score: 2
Cutie Jason sang "If I Fell" - another one of my all-time faves! Loved his rendition and feel like he really can't do much wrong at this point. Score: 1
Carly chose "Come Together" - not sure how fair that was since she admitted she sings it almost every week in her other life as a performer at the bar she works for. Not suprisingly, she did a great job and made it her own. Score: 1
David C.'s choice was "Eleanor Rigby" - not my favorite Beatles' tune. . . until last night! Wow!! Great vocals, totally made it a David Cook song --- hit it out of the park! Score: 1
Brooke sang "Let it Be" - I didn't really care for it only because she reminds me of Stevie Nicks (and she's still seems really old), but Simon loved it. Score: 2
David H. chose "Saw Her Standing There" - another all-time favorite. Didn't love his rendition. David may also have already peaked. Score: 3
Amanda, although she lost points with me for admitting that she'd never heard the song, sang "Can't Do That" - again this week, love her when she can do her "Janis" thing but I feel like she has trouble with real melody parts. Can't understand how you can love/do music and not have heard every Beatles song ever written. Score: 2
Michael's choice was "Across the Universe" - another of my favorites recently made popular again with the movie of the same name. This guy's starting to scare me, he's performing as if he doesn't have any more to give or learn. Score: 2
Kristy Lee sang "Eight Days a Week" as a country tune. Although this song always had a slight country flavor and could have been sung with a country bend, she made it sound like a cartoon. Very frenetic and (agree with the judges) Dolly Parton-esque. Score: 3
Thinking that they had, once again, saved the best for last, out came David Archuleta. I knew in my head that, at some point, he was going to disappoint me. I guess my heart didn't want it to happen. He did warn everyone, in a way. He expressed some reservations about his upcoming performance of "We Can Work it Out".
Even when it happened, when he TOTALLY forgot the lyrics so early in the song, I didn't want to believe it. Did he just slur the words? Was it the cold he sounded like he was dealing with? No. The small but mighty David Archuleta actually forgot the lyrics. . . twice. . . no, three times. In any other season, this would have been an unforgiveable offense. However, due to the strength of this particular performer, I think he deserves at least another chance.
Even the better performances of the night had lyric "misses"; in David Cook's "Eleanor Rigby" it's "darning his socks" not "wearing his socks", in Kristy Lee's "Eight Days a Week" the lyric was supposed to be "always on my mind".
But David Archuleta's HUGE error was the brain fart heard 'round the country. I'm hoping he's allowed to stay until next week and learns a HUGE lesson --- no matter what, you MUST know the lyrics. I think if John and Paul were watching they'd agree he deserves another chance.
My score for David A.: 2 (hurts me to write that)
Send David Hernandez home --- I think he's shown us everything he has. And PLEASE send Kristy Lee home and put us out of the misery of having to listen to her again.
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