"American Idol" -- and I'm going to differ a bit with DR MattH.
Fantasia was fabulous.
JPL -- he was just great until he stood up and started "moving" -- walking and dancing -- and his voice just started wavering with all his activity. He needs to plant himself and just SING OUT, LEWIS! He has not lived up to promise, but promise continues to show itself. There may not be enough time for him to salvage any of it.
I really liked Jasmine and didn't find her "pitchy" at all.
And that's the theme of tonight's show, by the way, "pitchy" this and "pitchy" that, pitchy, pitchy, pitchy.
DR MattH is much too kind about John Stevens' "performance." It was pretty good, I'll admit in the first minute, but after that it went to hell in a tatty handbasket. And I WOULD LOVE to surgically attach his right arm, hand and all his fingers to his right side in order to keep him from that asinine imitation of Sinatra. One doesn't snap one's fingers in a leisurely loungey sort of way when singing Elton John!
Camile nailed her coffin, I believe.
George was quite good, but he is starting to remind me of parrots when he does all his dipping. Looks like a parrots that raise and lower their necks really fast. He's a good performer, but I'm not sure he comes off as "youthful" or "idol-esque" enough.
Diana -- she keeps exhorting the audience to "Come on now" participate and I'm sick of it. And her songs are always feverishly paced. She needs a good slow ballad to get back on track.
I though LaToya was wonderful. How very ODD it is to me that when I found her performances sadly lacking, everyone was saying how brilliant she was. Now that I've found her last two performances truly special, everyone says how "off" she is. She was in perfect voice and her pitch was dead on.
The fershluganah trouble is the amplification of the freaking orchestra -- it's too loud and you can't hear the singers sing the low notes. To a singer, you CANNOT hear much of what they sing because the music is too damned loud.
Jennifer was powerful, but truth be told I could not make out many of the words she was singing -- she was in her diaphragm and had the husky breathing going on and it's too low for my hearing, along with the loudness of the music (which I heard just fine, thanks). She might as well have forgotten the words for all I got out of it.
This has been true week after week, not just tonight.
It was an okay night for me. Again, the show imposes a type of music on the singers rather than letting them find the music that is best for them -- or WORSE, not having music specialists find those songs and coach them in how to sing them.
Bottom three: Camile, John Stevens and either Diana deGarmo or Jon Peter Lewis. The latter two I have hopes for, but time may be up. Camile, though, and John, should be the next two to go.