Check out the video; this kid, Elliott Yamin, can sing!
He may not win - okay, he’s not photogenic - but he needs a recording contract, he was on fire tonight.
Chris Daughtry sang his song like a man who knew what he was singing about - unlike most of the others. The video is here. He clearly benefited from the advice he was given by Bocelli and Foster.
The rest? Myeh. Paris sounded like Miss Gladys Knight (I love!) but still…kinda myeh. Katharine was gorgeous and so-so, Taylor was shower-singing and Kellie was shudder-inducing.
I know Taylor and Kellie have huge - and to me, inexplicable - fan bases; but as Buster said tonight, if tomorrow we learn that Kellie is “safe” and Elliott is in “danger” yet again, then what’s the point of even watching? If the thing is a singing contest and not a popularity contest, then Kellie needs to be gone, right away. Please.
And maybe I’d like Taylor better if just once he got thrown into the bottom three, where he surely belongs this week.
I can’t believe I am hooked on this stupid show. Ah, well…
Ann Althouse - as usual - has her excellent and fun recap. She too thinks Chris was the only one who seemed to know he was singing a love song.
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April 26th, 2006 at 10:22 am
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April 26th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
[...] Not surprisingly, Ann Althouse and The Anchoress are also singing in key with me. [...]
April 26th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
I didn’t see Paris, I didn’t see France, but I did see McPhees’s underpants.
Daughtry was the best yesterday.
Kellie Pickler has some kind of speech impediment - she can’t say “O”, it always comes out “oe”