I was rooting for Chris Daughtry to be the next American Idol but I still am clueless as to what actually happened... I mean first it was Mandisa, then Paris... then Chris. These three were my favourite... and none of them ended up in the Top 3. Sometimes reality sucks!
Well moving on... we have now arrived at the finale... and as Ryan Seacrest always says: "This is... American Idol!" Shown in most parts of America live from the Kodak Theatre, 2 finalists, 3 songs each, 3 phone lines each and 4 hours to vote. No forgetting the 3 stooges... I mean judges.
Katherine opens the show with a repeat of "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)". Randy says she was doing her thang and having fun; wasn't that super-exciting but this one was better than the last time she sang it. Paula says it was a fun way to celebrate why she was there tonight and there is more in her and much better to come. Simon says he’ll give that a good with a small "g". He thinks the occasion tonight is bigger than that song. It was a warm up. And you know what... Simon is almost always correct!
Next is of course Taylor’s first performance for the night! He chose “Living For The City (Stevie Wonder)” first. Randy begins by saying he loves that he doesn’t care who sings the song’s he’s chosen, because Taylor makes it his own. "That’s a hot one right there!!" Paula likes his outfit, she’s got his dance down, everyone got that dance down. Way to go! Simon says the audience hated him lol, just joking. Smart choice of song, good way to open the show, ugly jacket though lol. I think Taylor just won the first bout.
Katharine is up again this time with “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” which she performed to high praises last week. Randy thought it was anticlimactic when he heard she was doing the same song, but she worked it out! Paula says she is possessed with god given talent. Simon says Round 1 she got slaughtered, and now she’s come back with the best performance of the competition so far. I think that's probably the only mind-blowing performance Katherine can ever come up with and she has Simon to thank for.
Taylor's song number 2 is the Elton John classic “Levon”. Randy says it was a nice song, but it was a little pitchy this time. Paula says what’s pitchy to Randy is the essence of Taylor. Randy says it wasn’t as good. Paula doesn’t believe it was pitchy. Simon says it wasn’t as popular as the first song. He’s won the first round, Katharine has taken the second round, so it comes down to the third.
Katharine McPhee's last chance to heat up the McPheever camp! She sings her debut single “My Destiny”! Randy says he has 3 things for her. She looks amazing, she sounded really good, did not love the song though she sounded good. Paula says she is brilliant. Simon says he’s sorry, she went from brilliant to quite good within one song. She is a great, great potential artist, he’s delighted she’s in the final, he tells everyone who wants to vote for her to vote and remember her second song.
Last but not the least, Taylor closes with his own debut single, “Do I Make You Proud”! Randy says based on the song, it was slightly better, but he loves since day one, Taylor knows who he is, no matter what the song is, he knows how to make it into his own. Paula couldn’t agree more. He is better than the song, everything that is Taylor exists in that song. Simon says assuming he was right, the show was tied, than he has just won American Idol.
I am surprised but happy that at least both of them each get their own new singles unlike in previous competitions. Especially in the last season, the shared new single was so country-ish that I felt it had given Carrie an unfair advantage over Bo Bice whom I felt was much more deserving to win the Idol title. Anyway, my bet this year is on the Soul Patrol - TAYLOR HICKS!
How about you?
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