AMERICAN IDOL had easily superior singers to last week's bunch, but other than the final contestant Latoya who was very good, I thought each of them had weaknesses.
Once again, the guys were outsung, and Hawaiian Jonah was certainly the worst singer of the night with a grotesque case of galloping melisma affecting his singing.
The seventh singer, Leah, who got very good reviews from the judges, was 17 years old but had a very old sounding voice with a much wider vibrato than any teenager has any right to have at this point in her singing career.
What seemed to be the overwhelming pattern for me tonight was that almost all of the singers had weak high registers in comparison with their chest voices.
Besides Latoya, my other favorite of the night was the Lumbee Indian Charly. Unfortunately, she chose "Chain of Fools" for her rendition, and it didn't do much to show off her powerful voice. I was upset that her line was not busy at all when I called for her. Latoya's line was constantly busy assuring her a place in the top 12.