American Idol Top 10!

Alright! We are getting into the goodness of the competition. We had a surprise vote off last week with Alexis so lets see how this week turns out! Last year my favorites at this time were Michael Johns "We are the Champions" and Ramielle Mallubay's "Alone" by Heart, So this week I was anticipating the 10 stepping up their game for MOTOWN week,m I'm a big Motown guy, and most of them did the genre justice. Just like last year I have to favorites and they could have been Best A and Best B cause they were spectacular.... (Coincidently enough, last week we had Matt and Adam's performances in this collumn and this week we have them both back, and for good reason... here you go)
(Matt Giraud doing "Let's Get it On" by Marvin Gaye
(Adam Lambert doing "Tacks of My Tears" By Smokey Robinson)

On To The Results

Great
Matt G. (Lets Get It On) - WOW, Matt is the man, on Jay Leno, Seacrest, Randy Jackson, and Simon said that the final three would be Danny - Adam - and Lil Rounds, I think you have to put Matt G in the mix, he has been consistently good ever sense the Viva La Vida mess up, he has been great every week sense then, the judges loved it and I am so pumped he went away from the piano in the middle of the performance, the judges respected that too!

Adam Lambert (Tracks Of My Tears) - This kid is a contender, If he did just screaming bit every week I think he would get far but maybe not to the end, this week he showed that he has AMAZING range, he sang in his falsetto a lot of the song... which is so hard to do... and he did it perfectly, it was a slow melodic song... perfect.

Kris Allen (How Sweet It Is - Marvin Gaye) - Again with the guitar, again I loved it, every week he seems to get better. When he was voted into the top 12 I was sooooo mad. But he has proved me wrong every week, he did this like Jason Castro or as my sister put it Jason Mraz would have done, it was nice, chill, and right in his range, this kids good at arranging songs and if you can do that you can go far in this competition. I still don't think he will win this, but who knows he got 9 weeks to prove me wrong again.

Good
Allison Iraheta (Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Temptations) - Ok, ok, ok, I give Allison a hard time cause shes annoying and stuff, but she can sing. For a 16 year old, or for whatever age she can just sing! Again she feels so comfortable on stage and I LOVE my temptations i usually don't like people messing with the temp's but she rocked it out.... goood goood, she might be the last girl standing if she keeps this up.

Danny Gokey (Get Ready - The Temptations) - How can you NOT love Danny, he's the man. He has so much fun on stage. Simon called it Amaturish and stuff, not the best vocals of Danny's career at American Idol, I think he kept it safe and fun instead of Wowing us.... so not great... but Danny is still good.

Megan Joy (For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder) - She is single... and I dont know how that is, she is beautiful, fun, and corky, and can sing! She picked the wrong song for her this week, but i did feel the judges gave her way too much crap for it. I don't think it was as pitchy as they thought... but yeah... wrong song Megan, I still love you though, and I hope Vote For The Worst helps you out!

So-So
Little Rounds (Heatwave - Martha and the Vandellas) - Two weeks in a row for Lil Rounds being in this spot! And Simon said she will be in the top three?!? Not if she keeps "honering the songs" like she did with country and did with Mo town. if she was "honoring" R&B it would work, but she wasn't country enough to just honor the genre by sticking to the song last week and she doesn't have enough soul to sing this song the way it was written. Serena said as soon as it started that she started loud and didn't give herself anywhere to go after she started, it stayed the same volume/tempo/range the whole song... so... boring... sorry.

Anoop Desai (Ooh Baby Baby - Smokey Robinson) - I like Anoop, this was a hard choice because he was closer to Good then Lil Rounds was this week, but he was still boring and still doesn't have the vocals to win this thing. I dunno, but he is very likable, if he would done Ain't to proud to beg or something I think he coulda killed it!

Bad
Michael Sarver (Ain't To Proud To Bed - The Temptations) - Speaking of that song... it is one of my favorites, my boy Hunter Farrow sings the lights out of this song. Michael Sarver made a mockery of the song, I wanted him to stop in the middle it was so bad. He is always giving a cheesy grin, his run's in his voice are mis placed, and he doesn't have stage presence. Nice guy... not American idol though.

Scott Macintyre (You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes) - Sorry Scott, he can't sing with the rest of the people in this competition. As my buddy Nate said, this song was to big for him. He changed this song up in a terrible way, this is one of the best Motown songs of all time and he rearranged it into something bad... awful... so with all that said we have your conclusions here.....




Bottom Three
Michael, Scott, and My girl Megan

Home Sweet Home
I'm Thinking Michael... here's why... he sucked... AND he was in the bottom 2 last week... so... i don't think he got better this week, so it just seems rational, but this show never is on vote off nights.

Runner Up
Danny Gokey - He got pushed back this week... I just don't see the victory anymore... and its cool that we just don't have David Archuleta and Cook dominating this top spot could easily be Adam Lambert or could be mister consistent with...

Your American Idol
Matt G. - Maybe I'm stretching here, maybe not, all I know is that Adam, Danny, and Matt are the best three right now and last week they didn't like Adam, and this week they didn't like Danny, and Matt has been so great sense Viva la Vida if he keeps getting better and staying consistent he can be this years Idol.

I dunno... keep watching, I will.

Enjoy,
Arod