I am still at work, but I am recording the performances, and I may update this later (tomorrow?) with reactions. Meanwhile, pool predictions go here...
It's the next day, I've got it at work. I'm also primarily focused on doing my actual job, so I'm mostly just listening, with occasional glances at the 2-inch image in the corner of the screen.
Judge's choice:
David Archuleta: "And So It Goes," Billy Joel [Paula's choice]
Pleasant.
Syesha: "If I Ain't Got You," Alicia Keys [Randy's choice]
Nice.
David Cook: "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," Roberta Flack [Simon's choice]
Cool.
Contestant's choice:
Archuleta: "With You," Chris Brown
Ooh. This works. This works well. Excellent choice!
Syesha: "Fever," Peggy Lee
Hmm. Good performance of a challenging song, but she didn't really bring anything new to it. I dunno.
(was too busy working to finish, and I'm going home now... will watch the rest later)
Cook: "Dare You to Move," Switchfoot
Eh. S'okay.
Producer's choice:
Archie: "Longer," Dan Fogelberg
Pleasant. Again.
Mercado: "Hit Me Up," Gia Farrell
Not bad. But probably not good enough to carry her to the finals. She needed to hit one out of the park this week.
Cookie: "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," Aerosmith
Not bad!
I would so like to predict that Syesha will hang on another week and send Archie home, but the odds seem stacked against it.
Posted by Shmuel at May 13, 2008 8:38 PMDid everyone hear me yell, "GAVIN!" when he popped up on screen? No? Just me? Okay, moving on....
First, David Archuleta should NEVER be allowed to sing about "my boo" and baby mamas.
Second, I was SO pleased that David Cook's second song sucked because I still hate his stupid ass.
Third, GAVIN!
Fourth, Archuleta's first song RULED.
Fifth, Randy Jackson has finally become utterly useless now.
And why does Paula always choose the best song?
1. Archuleta
2. Effing Cook
3. Syesha
argh, with the diversity of songs, i thought syesha outshown both of them.
1. David
2. nasty mcnasty pants
3. syesha.
Clicking on "comments" still leads to "invalid request" FYI, I had to click on the time to be able to leave a comment, usually I have to click on the commentary, but since there was none..yeah.
Anyway..
Actually caught about half of the show, I think.
Shocking.
1. Archuleta
2. Cook (I really, really just strongly dislike him...really.)
3. Syesha (I did kinda like her performances that I saw, but yeah, I think she may be gone)
Posted by: Jesse at May 14, 2008 5:49 PMJesse, I'm so glad you're on the disliking Cook train. What an ass he has turned out to be.
Posted by: Pam at May 14, 2008 7:49 PMMore comments have been added to the main entry... much as I'm tempted to reverse the bottom two, I'm gonna go with:
1. Cook
2. Archuleta
3. Mercado
1. Cook
2. Archuleta
3. Syesha
Thanks for the reminder, Shmuel!!
Posted by: mo pie at May 14, 2008 8:35 PMOh, by the way... Pam, I'd just like to note that Paula was the one who saddled Clay with "Vincent" back in Season Two.
Posted by: Shmuel at May 14, 2008 9:05 PMDavid Cook sang "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and I missed it? Aww, man. That's one of my favorite songs. I'll have to listen to this soon.
Posted by: CRR at May 15, 2008 1:24 AM