May 23, 2008
Last night - who would have believed - everything changed - completely!
If you were with us the first night, you would have walked away thinking you knew how this contest would end... Us judges even discussed who we thought would win it all - and Aike was considered by one of us to be the one who would win it all!
Flash forward to this week - and Aike was the one sent home!!!! I think we are all still in shock!
David proved he can listen as good as he can perform - taking the judges advice to heart - he came back strong and impressive!
Michele seemed like a different person - gone for me was all her charm and sweetness - that "Something Special" we had all commented on last week...
Lance slipped a bit - but with some work he could climb back up to the top - he certainly is an audience favorite. But last night was a bit too staged and planned - did I hear someone say "Drag Performance" (no offense to all my friends who are AMAZING Drag performers - but it is just a different style of performing...)
Sheila proved the most consistent - but still has yet to deliver what us Judges are looking (and listening for) which is something with more melody. Maybe next week we will finally get to hear that.
And the biggest surprise came from Zea - After last weeks "drunken" (not sure if she was or not - simply using that as a descriptive term) off pitch poor yelping performance, she showed she really wants to win this thing and came back a different person. A softer gentler vocalist appeared and we were all so pleased!
Aike never really got the chance to show us all he was capable of... Even thought it wasn't a great performance, it was ultimately the text voting that did him in. But Toddicus invited him back to sing next week - maybe he will wow us all with out the pressure of the competition upon him.
So all I can say - I'm in no place to call this thing at this point - everything I thought I knew going into last night changed and now it is anybodies race!
I'm looking forward to hearing the sound samples when they are posted...
'till next time,
I truly believe that it's going to be a close call between Shelia "G" and David. Although, Shelia "G" is still #1 in my eyes.
Shelia is a little "rough" but I love her voice. David also really surprised me with his "one more try" by George Michael. It was sad to see Aike leave when it was really close as to who was worse last week... Lance or Aike. Unless Lance can bring it back this week he is OUT!!!
--Tim
The sound system, or maybe the operator needs to be changed. The vocals are hard to hear over the crowd but the operator should know how to over come that if he would do his job, instead of drinking and texting at the console.
Okay, so help me understand how it is that the judges continue to praise Sheila after that "very hard to listen too" performance of "Get Here". Granted, Miss Sheila knows how to work the crowd I'll give her that...but when it comes to the overall performance which has got to include vocal ability, David has been clearly the front-runner. It astonishes me how very critical ALL of them are of David's performances when his vocals are so much better. Why do they use the term "show-boating" for his soulful-audience involved performances and then call Sheila a genius when she is jumping off the stage doing the same thing? Please don't get me wrong, I wish nothing but good things for Miss Sheila but honestly in my opinion, she just isn't in the same realm vocally as David. I will also have to say that the sound system in this club is horrible. The corded mics are much better than that awful cordless mic and the recordings prove just that. I would truly like to hear both David and Sheila on a clear sound system in a venue that caters to their performances and not to an audience just there to order drinks.
