If you check Myspace, those two already have albums out before AI I think

Kristy

Brooke


Heck, they even have music vids
http://www.rendleman.net/dvd.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJDtI4WClcg

This post has been edited by BurgaFlippinMan: Jan 17 2008, 11:11 AM

I think he's actually a comedian. lol

I liked the guy with the dreadlocks and the guitar.

Burga - looking forward to see the Janis Joplin nurse and the hot Kristy girl today

Burga2 - thinks Brooke looks a tad malnourished

Burga3 - still struggling to remember the names of the contestants.

I think the guys were solid overall, girls less so, and i really like the rock & roll nurse.

Burga - a Joplin fan

Not even close. Brooke looks pleasant, but she looks way too underweight. Not hot.

I didnt like the slowed down Imagine at all to be honest, good vocal that it was.

I like Castro..probably not the strongest singer per se but he has this indie vibe about him. Cool stuff.

I like Amanda generally, though I did not see her performance

i think at this stage this season has a better cast than the last. what was poor about this season were the audition shows. there was nothing to equal the Bush Baby Kid and Big Red of last year, and Simon seemed pretty much disinterested most of the time.

Curly hair looks good on her.

Nonsense! The Joplin nurse was better!

Racist!!

I think he is a fine singer, though he isnt the generic Idol vocal powerhouse finalist. I like his understated nuance.

I thought it was a fine performance. The sincerity was what made it special. The judges however, were definitely pimping that kid's (whatever his name is again) Imagine a week earlier. It was a horrible arrangement of the song and no amount of vocal acrobatics could save it, though I don't think he deserves to be kicked out yet of course

Carly owned it today by far for me. Cook was great once he got to the chorus, i thought the phrasing was a bit off earlier in the song

Burga - a huge Beatles fan

I think he should have started off a bit lower, so the high notes will be within reach. That said, I don't know whether he really couldn't reach them or he was just trying to give it a twist via nuance. That didn't bother me as much as the changes to the melody he did in the later part of the song.

No I don't think so. Like Randy said, every week can be Beatles Week.

Syesha and David A gets my vote for the best performances. Carly put in another great vocal demonstration but IMO, Blackbird is not a song which works when you go big with it. Its just such an intimate song

I did think that the performances this week were mostly mediocre though. The problem is those tunes are so ingrained into global pop culture that its very VERY difficult to do something different and get away with it. At least nobody tried to do a major melody and harmonic change like what Castro did last week. The genius behind the Beatles compositions is their outrageous chord progression and unconventional harmony which is at the real edge of falling apart and ruining the whole song yet somehow through some magic remains coherent. Tampering with genius simply doesn't work.

This post has been edited by BurgaFlippinMan: Mar 20 2008, 12:13 AM

Even by today's standards, the Beatles sound is more innovative than a lot of the current crap being produced nowadays. They are far from 'old school'.

This post has been edited by BurgaFlippinMan: Mar 20 2008, 08:52 AM

What's lamer is the incessant plugging of the full length tracks on iTunes (and the iPhone).

This post has been edited by BurgaFlippinMan: Mar 20 2008, 05:26 PM

Actually she was pretty good. It was a bona fide Americana song, which I dont really mind (though when Ryan announced it I thought she was going to sing the even more awesome God Bless America song instead...which unfortunately is a 1918 piece)

I dont get why many Malaysians do.

As for Ramiele, it was the right decision. She hasn't really been that good for the past few weeks. I feel that KLC is a tad underrated around here. Her performances overall have been mostly just enough to keep her in (similar to Castro). She did put in a good one last week, and a damned decent one a few days ago. And I feel that Ramiele's and Brooke's performances in Beatles Week #2 was easily as boot-worthy as Kristy's Eight Days a Week.

This post has been edited by BurgaFlippinMan: Apr 4 2008, 01:22 PM