Comments on: Idol: Rank ‘Em 1-to-12

By: MCQ

MCQ — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:28:15 +0000

I may not be the biggest R&B fan, so that’s probably why I don’t like Mike that much.

But I think it’s mainly because it seems like he’s already gotten old. I don’t think you can just apply the same R&B schtick to every song. It’s like smothering every dish with melted cheese. After a couple times, you want something without the cheese. Show me you can sing some straight rock. Sing a song without doing five to ten note runs on every measure. Otherwise, it just gets to be the same old cheese every time.

By: Dancewatcha

Dancewatcha — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:19:06 +0000

I thnk Big Mike is quite good. I think he moves the way he does because of his size, and because he is feeling the music intensely. I don’t get a programmed cheese-bot vibe from him at all.

Most people who don’t like him don’t like or don’t get R & B. Then again, Ruben Studdard was one of my favorite idol winners…

By: Susan M

Susan M — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:20:19 +0000

Yeah that is nice.

By: Chris Henrichsen

Chris Henrichsen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:08:17 +0000

I forgot, too. I like that it allows them to go out with one of their stronger songs, rather than the one they got voted out on.

By: Susan M

Susan M — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:22:35 +0000

I forgot about the whole “saving” thing. That’s just lame. Like they’d use the save this early in the competition.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:51:57 +0000

I think you got it exactly right Matt.

By: Matt Thurston

Matt Thurston — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:35:39 +0000

12.) Big Mike (nice guy, below-average voice)
11.) Katie (so, so boring… please send her packing)
10.) Lacey (nice voice, but uneven and unremarkable last night)
9.) Paige (sounded pretty good, actually)
8.) Andrew (if someone references “Straight Up” again I’m gonna puke)
7.) Tim (not great, but not bad either… judges unfairly critical)
6.) Aaron (sounded good, I guess… just not a fan of pre-pubescent boy singers like Aaron or Archuleta)
5.) Casey (good, but coulda been better… we judge pros like Casey and Crystal on a different scale)
4.) Lee (solid performance, not particularly memorable though)
3.) Crystal (shoulda been better, but she can sleepwalk her way through a song and sound better than almost everyone else)
2.) Didi (dug it… one of my favorite Stones songs)
1.) Siobhan (my favorite Stones song, and she nailed it, giving it the Evanescence treatment… she’s kinda a weird chick, kinda a Ghost-World-esque nerd-goth… dig her.)

By: Susan M

Susan M — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:18:29 +0000

I loved Adam’s screams. I didn’t mind her belting out on the Aretha song last week. But something about that scream this week seemed really contrived and just painful. Seriously, the song was giving me chills until she did that.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:15:28 +0000

Susan, when you are such a metal head, how do you not like Siobhan’s screams? I don’t think she’s that screamy, actually, but I would think someone who’s into metal would love that part of her schtick.

Personally, I thought the best part of her performance last night was after the scream where she stopped, brought it back down and gave the song a zeppelinesque ending. Very cool.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:04:10 +0000

I thought that was a good choice for her too, and she is beautiful and has a nice voice but I found the arrangement irritating, especially the end of the chorus where she sped up the tempo at “still I’m gonna miss you.” That really grated on me. I don’t think the arrangement was right for that song.

I wish she had stuck closer to the original tempo throughout and just made it a cool string version and used her voice to make it her own rather than playing with the tempo.