Tonight the 10 remaining Idol Girls compete, following a so-so 
Boys' Night. (Scroll down into the Top 10 Guys item to see video of the night's two best performances).
Bet the girls draw a bigger audience, if for no other reason than horny boys' interest in Antonella Barba after her nude photos swelled the Internet last week. She can't sing for beans but she'd get lots 'o dates.
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Gina Glocksen: No emotion, no life, self-conscious opening verse to Heart's 1987 hit Alone. Screechy chorus. Season 4's Carrie Underwood did this better, much as I hate to admit that.
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I wish Simon would start interrupting Paula and Randy when they speak the way they interrupt him. So rude.
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Alaina Alexander: Let's see, she loves, loves, loves her mother and dedicates her performance to her hard-working mom. Then she sings Not Ready to Make Nice! Clearly, she doesn't understand what this angry song is about. This is what you sing when mom doesn't let you borrow the car for a date with the school hottie. It also means something when Natalie Maines sings it. Leave it for Natalie. As for the vocal, it was a mess. All over the place. Randy's right.
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LaKisha Jones: After hearing her Midnight Train to Georgia, and comparing it to Paris Bennett's firecracking rendition last season, I'm convinced LaKisha blew it last week by featuring her biggest song, And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going. She was on the mountaintop last week and then with this lackluster performance -- not to mention the unflattering, hideous outfit -- the fall and her lack of taste was stomach churning. Disappointing.
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Melinda Doolittle: Very classy vocal, love her personality. Much better than LaKisha. I can see her playing the finest concert halls. Best, by far, so far. Even if she's singing an old chestnut like My Funny Valentine Melinda put a fresh spin on it and, like Simon says, her demeanor is "a breath of fresh air."
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Antonella Barba: Couldn't resist posting the dirty Antonella pix (left) because, really, who wants to hear her sing? Celine Dion's Because You Loved Me was noxious when Celine sang it. Antonella can't sing a lick ... but again, those pix!
Snotty brat, too. Instead of taking criticism with grace, this tart had the nerve to tell Simon he was wrong about Jennifer Hudson. The American public voted Jennifer off Idol in season three because, on Idol, she really wasn't very good. Simon had nothing to do with that. And Antonella, you're no Hudson. You're not even Alaina Alexander. America, please vote this girl off so she can go back to doing what she does best (see pix).
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Jordin Sparks:From the slutty Antonella to the delightful personality of Jordin (altho I could do without the blubbering intro video). As for her performance, Christina Aguilera's music is so dreary, Reflections is just an unpleasant song. Jordin can sing, tho. Not her best vocal yet, but second best of the night so far behind Melinda. Incredibly likable 17-year-old. Go Jordin!
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Stephanie Edwards: All this fake love going on. Please. You're there to win, not make friends. I can't believe any of these girls, even sweet Stephanie and Jordin, want to be friends with Antonella.
As for Steph's performance, love her elegance, she's just great to look at in her gowns and her lovely figure. Decent voice. Not crazy about the Dangerously in Love song but she's just as good as Beyonce and she's Top 3 tonight so far.
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Leslie Hunt: Way too cabaret. After the interminible slow intro, had the song turned into a disco or dance number it might have worked for me. But it went cabaret kitsch, then into some oversung whatever.
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Haley Scarnato: Fell a bit off-key on Queen of the Night. Reminds me of last season's Katharine McPhee in a way. Another girl who doesn't really know who or what she is and just sings whatever without any real conviction or understanding. Not the worst of the night but not inspiring. Her fiance won't have to wait long for her to come home for the wedding.
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Sabrina Sloan: Tackling All The Man That I Need, Whitney Houston's greatest vocal performance, sets you up for failure. And Sabrina just can't compete with that song. She can sing, shouted a bit too much and not a big enough soulful voice, and she'll be back but this wasn't a goosebump performance.
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Overall week: Best performances of the week, in order: Melinda Doolittle, Chris Richardson, Stephanie Edwards, Jordin Sparks and, in retrospect, Blake Lewis. Those are America's Top 5 Idols.
Here's predicting Antonella and either Alaina or Haley are the dumped girls Thursday and the guys getting the boot will probably be Sanjaya Malakar and Brandon Rogers since they were the two worst, joined closely by Nick Pedro in the bottom.
Howard, I'm from Miami and this is the first time I have read your work. You are funny as hell....great writing....keep it coming.
Posted by: Karl | March 14, 2007 at 03:48 PM
Melinda Doolittle will released her first album at the end of the summer and also Holiday one. www.mdstreetteam.com a website to supporting her You are very welcome
Posted by: Louise7 | June 17, 2008 at 01:03 PM