Review: American Idol – From Group III To Top 7

Hey! Long time since my last Idol recap in the beginning of the season, so I decided to drop by and weigh in on what’s been going on this season.

Group III and the Wildcard

 

I thought this group was actually pretty good, and performed better than the first two, but once again my favorites didn’t make the cut. Come on, Felicia and Kristen were awesome, they deserved at least a spot on the wildcard show. About the Wildcard, Tatiana and Jasmine instead of Felicia, Kristen or Jackie Thon? Give me a break… and Jasmine instead of Jesse for the Top 13? Not fair at all, and that was proven when she was the first one to go, along with Jorge, any of these girls I mentioned would definitely do better than Jasmine, Jorge, M. Sarver or Lil Rounds. The change from Top 12 to 13 was pretty nice though.

From Top 13 to Top 7

 

At first I thought this year would be a train wreck, but little by little I started to like the contestants and now I think we will get an awesome competition with the 5 that are left. I think Jasmine and Jorge was the right choice for the first elimination, Jorge did well on his group night but not so well on Top 13 week. Jasmine I never really liked, and although her rendition of “I’ll be there” was by far her best performance, it wasn’t as good as the others (I actually loved it even though I didn’t like her before).

Next one to go was Alexis, if you compare her “Jolene” performance to Brook’s last year, you can really see how much last year's group was better than this one. Still, she didn’t deserve to go so soon, I feel like Sarver should’ve gone that week, and I think the only reason why the judges didn’t save her was because it was too early in the competition. The week after it was Michael’s turn to go, which to me was about time, he has a nice voice, but not good enough to stay any longer.

Then it was Megan’s time, really unfortunate to see her go, but at the same time I feel like she never lived up to her potential, and kept making bad choices when it came to song choice, talking back to Simon was also a bad call and destroyed any chance she had of being saved. Even so, I hope she gets to release an album, I’ll be looking forward to it. Scott was next in line, and it wasn’t a surprise since he also had a lot of so so performances though the weeks. Still, I think he deserved to stay longer than Anoop or Lil at least.

Finally we come to top 7 number one and number two. The first top 7 with the mentoring of Tarantino was a great week. Matt Giraud gets eliminated, but the judges come to his rescue and use the “judges save” for the first time ever. I think that was a good call, Matt didn’t do well that week but didn’t deserve to place last either. Then we have the top 7 for the second time last week with a double elimination in which Anoop and Lil finally got the boot. Thank God it wasn’t Allison, when it was down to her and Anoop I almost wished the save on Matt. Don’t get me wrong, both are good singers, but people who were better had already gone before them and I just didn’t feel like seeing that happen again.

What’s to Come…

 

This week our Top 5 sing songs from the “Rat Pack” (which includes Sinatra, etc), I think now we really have a great competition on our hands, every single one of the contestants left are awesome, and I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen tonight. The Top 4 will face “Rock week” with Slash as the mentor (can’t wait to see that!) and the Top 3 will sing songs picked by the judges and producers.

Adam to me is still the front runner, his rendition of “Mad World” and his performance last week, I think were the best two I’ve seen on this show, and there is no denying on how much talent this guy has. Kris, which I hated on his group night, grew on me through the competition, aside from Adam he is the most original contestant this year, and I really like the fact that he takes risks every week. Danny started out strong but I feel like he is just doing the same thing over and over, he really needs to step up his game, otherwise might lose his place on the finale to Kris. Allison is just awesome, there is not one performance from her that doesn’t leave me stunned at how much this girl can sing, her only problem is that for some reason I can’t figure out, no matter how well she does, she always ends up in the bottom three. Last but not least is Matt, great guy, great voice, but a little inconsistent, some performances are great, some not so much, and if he is not great all the time from now on, he might not stay for long.

Predictions

 

Who goes home tomorrow: Matt

Top 3: Adam, Danny, Kris

Top 2: I don’t have a clue. o.O

Winner: Adam