Wednesday again and it’s American Idol night.
It is obvious now that the first 2 performance of the night is the front runner of the show…. The rest of the pack is really chasing.
Matt Giraud takes the show first for the Motown night and he did just that. With a Marvin Gaye spin to open to show to the former Motown glory. His sound just got that hook at the end of the note that essential for classic R&B and it’s hot. Even Smokey is amazed by it.
The person to follow Matt has to be better and Kris just did that with his guitar and How Sweet It is indeed.
The heat factor is off the chart and he totally got that Michael Buble sexiness on with a guitar…. And he is ready to move on to real recording.
With 2 big opening the next one would have to be huge so the person to suffer the after burn would be Scott. Not that he is not a good pianist or a good singer. But at this stage of the show, it is time to step up and Scott although did well on country night just did ok on Motown. He take on a faster tempo this week and refreshing style for he but the execution of the performance is just back to the old Matt a bit messy. And to have that at this stage would have a chance of sending him on the board.
Megan is up next, she looks totally gorgeous this week, the song started a little bit rocky, but the last part of it is amazingly executed. She just have to get hold of her voice together more.
Next up is Anoop, one of the redeemer of last week show. Will he be back to his former lost or go further this week. Oh Baby Baby is what he sang and oh Baby can he sing. This is what a soft serenade is all about. The voice is beautiful, the skill is phenomenal and you can tell he got the voice. And looks like he just books himself a ticket to the top with 2 consecutive solid performances in 2 totally different genres.
Michael Sarver is up next. It’s about a last chance with a woman. And this might just be the last chance for Michael. We love this dude. He is genuinely good. But the singing is just that at the spot there. He is confidence, thought he is not doing what Smokey was asking him to do exactly, he got the tempo up to right where it should be tough. He just needs to show some artistry here.
Lil Round is probably the most powerful singer of the whole lot. And the best voice of the girls, but I think the Heat wave have over heated her a little bit. To think that even Whoopi Goldberg’s version in Sister Act sounded better is bad for her. It is a lil bit old, we all know she is trying to pay tribute to the Motown but she got to heat it up a bit. There’s good control on the vocal while speeding on the fast lane though.
Next up is Adam Lambert, and it’s not all losses for the night. Looking silly classic in his tux tonight, he took on the monster and he conquer it with the softest he has ever been. Soft and controlled, 100% in his zone. And he finally, finally got the portion of his falsetto right. Just the right dose and just the right softness, not too sweet not too rough. Even Smokey acknowledges it with the judges by standing up.
Well, one big time front runner off and one more to go. Danny Gomey is up next and without following Smokey advice he ditch the last phrase of the verse for the background. I think it’s a really smart move because he ain’t got the lung capacity to run the chorus with his style of mixes if he’d go into unfamiliar gound with the first 2 verses. The run is great and the energy is fun it’s right on target for his. Though I see his originality, but I haven’t really been convince that those run could make top selling records though.
Last to close the show is Allison. She is not the strongest singer of the girls but she did one sassy performance tonight, hitting every note with the right heat and though I hope she can get more energy into her voice, it is still on par with the standard at this poit. Even the judges thought so.
So our ranking of the night.
Adam has come back up with his performance.
Kris is down one for lack of differences from his last week’s performance. (How can you top yourself when you are on the top is his goal now.)
and Matt is to follow close behind these 2.
The judges are right that the guys are in the zone here.
Anoop is to take the 4th spot if the night for a consistence performance.
Danny comes in with Anoop at the half way point. Anoop may be I the 5th seats for less popularity. But I think his vice is that much better than Danny at this moment.
And Lil Round will be cutting in in the middle with her big voice performance.
I think Allison is totally in the middle zone to tonight with a good run down.
As for the last three I’ll think either Scott, or Michael or Megan.
Probably will be Megan to go first because she is more outstanding among the group. But if all three of them didn’t up their act after this.
They will be going exactly in the order above. They are talented I don’t mean they are not. It’s just that the show is at the point of the reality that the lesser is gonna go one by one. And Megan, Michael and Scott style is just a bit limited at the moment and there’s no better light to shade on their potential yet.
Young Doon tries to explore the possibility with the girl that discover the box that enclose the mission within. And while on their discovery they realize that the mayor have been hiding food precious to the people for themselves. While trying to escape from him, they came across the portal and the passage to go back up to the ground.
As for the rest of the weekend, it’s spend with watching some of the stored DVD I have been waiting long to watch when I bought them on a discount.
Every people have a imaginary how the world is. And everyone is blinded from how the world perceive us.
Yet what I know is that peace for some are totally not viable or obtainable or is it?
Some people know exactly in their hearts that they are more than their current environment. Some is just too angry to bother, and some are trapped by fear.
We can choose. To walk the distance, to a strange land and totally start over again. Be it becoming a security guard, a fast food vendor or a venture in a new business. We do not really have to wait nor do we have to prepare. If it is an adventure, and all we have in life now is anger, loses, empty soul, and nothing but debts. Why can’t we just move on and do better? What are there to lose?
For fifteen years I have been trying to learn one word.
Fatherhood. I have never been able to grasp the meaning of it.
I see people and how their father treat them.
Some are loved and caring, others beat them to death. And some simply train their children to be a soldier. Another soulless being with plenty of knowledge but an empty heart.
I have lost in transition for a loving family to the single parent-hood.
Does all death means the same? Does the death of one life through accident are as cruel and worthless as the death of being killed at gun point?
Death and loses have been away for a long while. And yet not a day goes by that I’m not grateful for the experience that brought me here.
They are the meaning of every minutes I live.
Some work for money, some live for worries, and some worries to live. And me I have gone down the bottom of the deep dark well and found the purest of all water and given life. Work is life no more, nor does money hold water. They are merely the means for me to live……… My Life. And be it loses, be it retrenchment, be it debts and bankruptcy. Now I know with even one single breath left I have the chips to get back on the horse and ride out of this forest. For on the other side of the edge is a golden palace and a vast pond named Atlantic waiting to be explore.
Walk I shall, work I will, till the rise of my breast is broken and I, granted my last breath by Thee. God.
This is the first night of the American Idol Top 13 finalist round.
Lil Round started the Michael Jackson Theme show with a bang in her old blues and classic R & B style make modern. She does have a bit of a Fantasia vibe working there.
Next up is Scott the Blind man and he totally rock the house on his keyboard in his most natural environment and element there.
Things started to get really interesting with Danny Gokey going on stage and deliver a flawless and energetic performance with some querky dance moves.
When Michael Sarver takes the stage it’s like the most pleasant moment there is in today’s show. There’s no doubt that he is one of the most likable guy on earth. The voice is good, the sound is ok, I just hope that there could be more higher range in the performance.
Anoop Desai takes the stage after that and took the first beating of the night by belting out Beat it. Well, it’s not really that bad. It does show his range and control, it’s just that it’s either the famously famous dance performance nor the rockin geeky Fall Out Boys rock style. And without a gimmick the songs proves to create a void in the performance and keep waiting to be filled but never did manage to.
Kris Allen. Wow…. What can you really say about this guy but wow. Totally comfortable on the guitar. A few riff off the note but the style and the performance is…..totally confidence on high level and the unplug version is totally digging it. Like Simon says, bringing out the wife later would proves to be tacky but he is totally heating up the show with his performance. He is probably the one guy with a contender quality that could consider sexy actually in this season’s finalist.
Jasmine took the show with a Mariah Carey remix in front of the producer himself. So….. it’s a bit weird. But she got a great voice and a good spin o it and hitting that high notes means there’s no fault in the performance.
Allison takes the stage with the run in on the rock style. I think it could be rockin more. But it seems that it’s enough to prove to the judges that’s good. I mean if there’s more high notes would be great for the performance in total.
Jorge has a great moves with a slow love song. The judges are right. There seem to be less emotions involve I this performance. The R & B vibe is still intact it’s just not really that close to heart as other performance. Maybe the English is finally catching up with the dude.
Megan is up next and this girl can really turn everything around.
It’s a bit of a childish performance but it totally suited Megan’s voice. The style of the melody is old, yet she is able to make it into an old-style pop fuse with a rocking country tone.
The next 2 performers is the highlight of the night. First there’s Adam Lambert that rock out in black and with with his signature sound of lows and highest range control. And the performance is totally confidence and professional. I still think that he ought to take some steam off the shouting. Once is good, twice is great but more than 3 times makes it become a bit over the edge and verging on crazy. So it’s better to do in some soft riff between the shouting really.
And Matt Giraud, look and sound totally in tune with everything on the piano. He got his snitch there. The tone is soft and sexy, there a shadow of Justin Timberlake vibe, it’s like watching him performing on a concert stage there.
The last person hit the stage is Alexis. Dirty Diana in Rocks is so dirty it’s almost unbearably fantastic. She rocks the stagewitha big bang at the end. Totally rock the house off it’s roof. I bet she og the best of the female follows by Lil Round.
As for the guys I say Kris lead the crowd with an overwhelm great performance and great attraction to audience on stage presences follow by Matt and Adam. Of course the judges is going for Danny, Adam and Matt in that particular order. But I think if I let Kris in…. Danny will be a bit weaker of the three. Still all contestant consider Danny is still one of the top 6 for me.
The girls might not find themselves on the bottom this week, and trailing off the guys Are Anoop and Jorge I think one of the 2 will be gone. Or both of them. There’s another surprise at the end of the tomorrow results round. By the looks of it, it seems the rumors is true that they are going more on a Dancing with the stars approach either the judges votes count like 40% of the votes or they are going to choose the last 2 or 3 finalist with the lowest score and the judges will decide who to go.
In a show with almost 3 to one male to female combination there’s bound to be some bad one from the guys more than girls.
My ranking for the night will be
Top 3
1. Kris Allen
2. Matt Giraud
3. Adam Lambert
Danny Gokey, Lil Round, Alexis in the middle with no particular order
Trailing by Jasmine, Scott, Michael Sarver, Allison in this particular order
And rounding off the lowest range by Megan, Anoop, and Jorge totally not in no any order at all.
My bet is the top 3 will be my final pick for top 3 til the end of the show I think. Though I doubt they will lest male contestant dominate the last 3 weeks of the show. But they are the most talented in my opinion. With an exceptional take over from Danny or Lil Round and Alexis maybe…… just maybe. We’ll see.
It’s not the last 3 is a least talented, just that wrong song, or wrong timing with those singing or weak performance for the week.
I can say this time around the show have one of the most vocally and musically most talented bunch of all the season. Not the most diverse. Because previously there’s more country and hip-hop or even totally great crooner before. But this year there’s basically no flaws in all of the finalist vocal and the gap will be very very close. The performance for the night have no big upsets at all.
Inches by inches I walk towards the door down at the end of the dark alleyway. Alleyway….. who ever say that anymore. The only source of light is from the cracks under and on the side of the door frame that forms a perfect square. My heart keeps throbbing I don’t know why. There is no reason for me to be afraid. What’s merely behind the door is my destiny. I was after all here to discover that. I was so scared, I can’t keep my hand from shaking.
The darkness seems to creeps closer and closer as I was approaching the door. There’s this faint sound of dialog from an old TV show behind it. I was just standing there and not knowing whether to knock or shout or simply budge into the room.
The door is ajar. There’s no harm to just taking a peek before I say anything? I open the door slightly, the door creeks, “Hello!? Is anyone home?!”
“Come on In? help yourself I’ll be right there!”
The sound was so casual. Am I being expected?
“Oh!!! I’m sorry who are you? I thought you are….. Oh Never mind! How can I help you?”
“I am….. Jonathan.” I don’t think he knows who I am. He is standing right in front of me. I can’t believe it. He is always just a story? Just a shadow that have faded into the dimension of my imagination for all those years and he is now standing in front of me. It took all my energy to control myself from running over and catch him so that I can be sure that he is real, no more a dream, of my hallucination.
Dad…..
I’ve gone and take a run on Watchmen after the hype of the Jonas Brothers and almost fell asleep in the first quarter of the show. I don’t know about anyone in the business, but to have one person narrating and then keep explaining the history and the origin of the heroes seems so cumbersome when it’s done in an hour long. It’s just makes the movie loses the momentum or rather lack of it all together in this case. And the story about retired heroes force to reunite and come out to defend the world again makes the history talk to feel so much longer and makes the heroes seems so much older than they should be. If it’s not for the sex and the little bit of scandal and the fights in the end it seems the movie is going to become another one of those doomed doomsday superheroes movies. Fortunately the change of tone at the last quarter of the movie speed up the suspense and the fights looks good finally..jpg)
The real fun is saved for the last. The Readers proves to be not only a great performance from Kate Winslet, but a great story too. With the merciless sensors, most of the love scene is cut still you can feel the passion between the young kid and the woman. It is almost a simple movie. A woman, who can’t read ashamed to admit it, fall in love with a kid who reads. The twist comes when she become a Nazi’s concentration camp’s guard and sentence to life in prison with her love watching in the court. The redemption at the end for both person, and what love means that transcends time, age, politics and history and unimaginable shame and guilt and humane and morals. All that in the end are less important than the simple for letter words love. Though the world may not give this love a chance but it is in the end love the prevail never the less.
Jason Mraz rocks Malaysia yesterday. On stage, the Stadium is jam packed with late comer to the show. And as usual the tropical country give Jason the heat right away (apart from the fact that there’s no air-con in the closed stadium.), everyone scream their lungs out right from the beginning. This is the countless free concerts that I’ve been with now, thanks to a couple of my beloved friends in the business.
There’s no doubts that Jason is far far better an artist than he looks. And this year I think it’s slowly moving from casual, shy talent to sex appeal status HAHA!
Everyone in the house is hot for it.
Jason sound have always been the relaxing, free spirited, tongue tying fabulous. But to take it to the arena and the coming American and world tour, he literally Jazz it up a little bit with a three piece brass band. American can expect greatness from this guy. The recently Grammy Nominated guy from Mechanicsville, started the show with one string of his previous one-hit wonder.
Then there’s a break and a wardrobe changes after an hour of dancing, audience interaction (teaching the audience geeky dance moves that actually look fine with Jason….. and joke on people too cool to moves), and plenty of jokes along the way.
Return with a sleeveless I Love KL (the capital of the country and where the show is), showing off some skin to the crowd HAHA! And with a beautiful lady named Penny Dai for the Colbie Caillat duet. Though the Q from Penny to get on stage is mess up a bit but the audience compensated from the beginning of the song. As usual as any Jason performance, you just switch the audience on and they fall into the block right away. Casual, no stress, no fuss, pure enjoyment, which is why I say everyone nowadays should get a doze of Jason Mraztic sound to their life.
Anyway the show goes on even with un-choreograph and some choreograph dance moves with the band and the show ended as all foreign show…. Too soon after one and a half hour.
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