#230 - motown week

thank you simon cowell! haha!

whoops, kinda fell behind on my blogging, i've actually done a lot of cool stuff during this past week and i meant to post, but i've kept myself busy (which is a good thing) with said cool stuff so i'll have to postpone it 'til later (maybe tomorrow, since the surf will be too big and it's my off-workout day and it's a holiday).

anyway, here's tonight's idol post: motown week, i don't really have a feeling either way about motown, but after tonight i'm gonna lean towards not liking it so much. is it just me or are the contestants picking the most obvious (and crappy) songs from each theme this year? here's what i mean:

1. matt giraud - let's get it on? really? yikes. well, surprisingly, i actually thought he did really good, he's moving up my list of favorites. plus, i really like people who can play piano and sing. VOTE.

2. kris allen - crap song. but there's something very likeable about his voice, it's very clear y'know? so i still like him, but if he's gonna keep picking songs like this then his stock drops. still... VOTE.

3. scott macintyre - another crap song, i thought it was gonna be kinda cool though at the beginning with him playing all slow... but then he went fast and it all fell apart for me. i just want to be able to sing a little better y'know? like one or two steps up of better singing would make him really good, now he's just kinda holding on and struggling. still, i like him at the piano. VOTE.

4. megan joy corkrey - where does her accent go when she talks? it disappears! haha, anyway, i'm not hating on her so much this week, because she just plain flubbed it. good song, but bad choice for her. she didn't do the washing machine dance SO much this time and her pronunciation of the lyrics weren't so weird. she could be fine without all that weirdness, but she had a bad night for sure... NO VOTE.

5. anoop desai - another good performance by anoop (good, not great). although he did look kinda bored or depressed while he was singing... he should not take randy's advice though (he told anoop to do something upbeat next week), everytime a contestant listens to that kind of advice they bomb because of it. VOTE.

6. michael sarver - EPIC FAIL! he just can't cut it anymore. also, i don't like it when they go and grab people's hands in the audience, lame. NO VOTE.

7. lil rounds - ouch. man she shouted the whole thing. but then when i heard the judges' comments, she actually did make it kind of like the old motown sound, they kinda sounded like that, radio blasting out of tiny speakers y'know? but, NO VOTE.

8. adam lambert - see? look how normal he can look. well, y'know, not "normal" cause he's still got some weirdness going on there, but not like emo-space-cadet-egyptian like last week. anyway, i kinda liked the song, but not his girly-high-pitched singing of it (although i do have to admit that he sang it well). but, this is a performance i can definately tolerate, not like last week. that being said, NO VOTE!

9. danny gokey - horrid horrid song! ugh, i hated it! but i'm putting him in the same category as kris, both of them have very likeable qualities to their voices, kris' being very clear and danny's with a little bit of gruff to it, but i don't like the choices that those two are making with their performances. i'm going to take a stand on that point and NO VOTE.

10. allison iraheta - i like this girl very much. great song to pick and she sang very well. of course, VOTE!

so this week i think that megan, michael, and either scott or lil can be in the bottom three... as long as michael goes home, enough of him already. but y'know what, other than him i can see merit for keeping everyone else in (even adam and, to a lesser extent, megan), so i guess they do have some talent eh?

shall we update my top 10?

1. matt giraud
2. allison iraheta
3. kris allen
4. danny gokey
5. anoop desai
6. scott macintyre
7. lil rounds
8. adam lambert
9. megan joy corkrey
10. michael sarver

ps - i had a great spring break day today, a little bit of everything, went to work for a little bit in the morning, went to workout in a relatively uncrowded 24 hr, got myself a steak & shrimp plate from foodland, went surfing (i tried yesterday, but damn it was freezing cold! the wind was howling and being wet and windy and no sun at chun's = shivering! i think i caught another mini-cold from that, but today the sun was high in the sky so i took a risk and went to ali'i, my favorite spot, because from tomorrow the surf's gonna be too big for me and i definately need to get some surfing in this spring break), it was cold, but not as windy as yesterday and the sets were nice a clean so i had a good time and caught some nice rides, played volleyball, then had dinner at kristen's with american idol. wow, i should be tired after that, i'm gonna sleep in tomorrow too since it'll be too big up north for surfing and it's my off-workout day. i'm gonna chill, go to yoga at night, it'll be great.