American Idol Top 11 - Country Night. Nightmare for some and FAbulous for others

Right Tuesday night In America, Another American Idol night.
This year, though there’s not one very out there fave on the show but there’s totally a lot of talent and no fault performance.
Michael Sarver Started the Country night with a Bang. Totally country with the Red Neck GOO Agenda (I mean Grand Ole Opry theme.) it’s like running water on the Mississippi. Non stop fun from the first word to the last and he cramp the whole 500 word in that 5 minutes. There’s not much big vocal showcasing here but good old country fun indeed. Sure enough Simon wasn’t all in for it. It’s country…
Next up is the 16 yo Allison, she did Blame it on the heart. It’s a very classic country sound, actually a lot like Miley Cyrus really. Good vocal and very GOO again.
But…. When it comes to Kris Allen, the shows actually hit up with the coolness he’d shown. It’s smooth and groovy cuddly tenderness he put in the performance of a Ballad spin on a very country song…. Just give him the perfect advantage. Though what I see in the vocal is that he does have the chops to do a very proper country sound song, his voice is very suitable for country. But he took a chance and it shows an even better and more perfection in the vocal.
From the time in top 36 to now, he’s been the dark horse of the race. Impression after impression and this time as Simon says….. I think he really have the chance to go all the way to the final 2 and be the real dark horse.
Lil Round came up afterwards, who’d know that an R & B singer can do country that well, the style is country for the theme is country and for a R&B trained singer to have a country sound is an accomplishment by itself. The judges think she should do a R&B twist but I think this is just the right choice to take on the giant by the…..
It is a bit short on the verse but she nailed it with high energy on the high notes.
Adam Lambert is on and he did a rock twist on a classic Johnny Cash with his signature and it turn out to be alternative style, it’s a bit awkward. It’s rockin but not rollin. And the exotic Middle East music makes it totally not country at all and if you let it soak, it even goes over a bit to not US style at all. So….. a little bit too over for Adam this time, which is a love/ hate choice for the audiences. Everyone is speechless of the weirdness of it indeed. My opinion, it is time that Adam thinks about toning it down this time than taking it higher. Go all Rockin or soft ballad-y, not the middle with high shrill. It doesn’t work well that way.
Scott McNamara is next, and finally Randy Travis has pointed out the obvious in his performance. There’s this little bit of unbalance in his vocal vs melody when he sang. And Randy totally straighten that up and right on target from him. The notes are all well on piano, the vocal is current, and the beat is rockin. Scott is finally, finally in the zone tonight. Flawless. The only thing the judges say is that Scott would need more variety on his performance.
Alexis did a Jolene ad the Dolly look a like actually make it more sassy than Dolly. And this time it’s far better than last year’s version of the performance. But there’s still some off key at the beginning, which is not quite country, not quite rockin and not really edgy either for Alexis. A little Flat indeed this time.
Believe it or not the show has just got started after 7 contestants. Danny Gokey is on, I love the dude but he is not exactly my top fave on the show, but this time the Carrie Underwood Jesus Take the wheel, I don’t know if it’s Jesus or anything, it probably is the most soulful performance of the night…. It started fantastic in my opinion. Deep in emotions and the chorus seems a bit shouty, which on the contrary to judges opinion they like the chorus more. And overall it’s good energy all round and when Simon’s only critics in on fashion you’ll know that he’d made it.
Anoop Desai, can he redeem himself from last week’s disaster?
I tell you what, he didn’t just redeem himself with You Were Always on My Mind, I’m sure after this night many would have him on their mind. Finally there’s the voice that we are waiting for. It’s even better than Lil’s. He’d gone from the bottom to the Top in just one shot.
Megan takes on her comfort zone, country is who she is. A bit old fashion with the song, bit I’m sure it’s totally suit for GOO.
There’s nothing more country than country in her performance this time. Right on the money even with a flu.
And the last to close the show is Matt Giraud. It’s another stellar moment for him and it’s fantastically wonderful about his performance and rally up everyone at the chorus. It’s another high concert quality performance of the night and very Michael Buble-esque. Top notch.
So now here’s the deal. While last year we are killing off everyone, one by one to just anticipate the moment for the final 2, (not a fair deal for everyone who is not the Davids) this year it’s much easier to choose cos you just have to pick one that is totally bad. One flops, they will get the boots.
And this week it’s a total shuffle.
Anoop goes to top 1 on my pick, then Kris Allen and Matt Giraud.
Lil Round is still on the second level close to Danny with Scott and Megan exactly in this order.
And the last 4 would be Alexis, Allison, Michael and Adam.
There’s 3 Aces here, and 2 of my last week’s fave is here, Michael still as likable and Allison just wasn’t that impressive. I don’t know how much people are going to judge from the night’s performances. But if it’s based only on tonight, I’ll say it’s either Alexis or Adam. If according to popularity, it could be Allison or Michael or even Megan to go. Or I guess it is harder to pick from the best the worst too. So we’ll have to see tonight.