American Idol: Week 6

This week was a step better than Beatles week number 2. What we learned over the last couple of weeks is that the Beatles are completely and totally out of the reach of an amateur performer for the most part. The songs do not translate to the shortened version of the songs that the AI performers must do. This week, however, gave us all kinds of 80's rock, a couple soul/r&b songs and America's cheasiest song EVER.

I am going to go ahead and call it out. Rich and I had this discussion. The only reason you pull out the Greenwood card and sing "Proud To Be An American" is to get the patriotic vote. Call me a nazi, but I despise the song. Absolutely despise. There is not even a patriotic bone in my body that goes "huh?" when it starts. Perhaps if Lee Greenwood didn't forget the lyrics to our ACTUAL national anthem when he performed it, it might not bother me. I would rather hear Ray Stevens personally. It wreaks of crappy country false patriotism and all Kristy Lee Cook did was get her to another week where the songs would be out of her talent, vocal and performance range. She did it cheap and I have no respect for that. Enough of that...

Performance of the night goes to David Cook. The Chris Cornell version of "Billie Jean" was amazing.

Here is the spreadsheet. I graded a little more rigidly this week. I missed it last week and gave you who SHOULD have gone home, but seeing as how Amanda wouldn't have made it past this week or next, its fine she is gone. I am tired of the 60 year old smoker's voice personally. Who ever said Janis Joplin was a good singer?!?!?! Great performer, yes. One of the voices of a generation? Yes. Great singer? What the heck are you talking about? The only comparible voice in modern time is Melissa Etheridge, who is a great song writer and possibly the female Springsteen in my generation, but not exactly a "wow" vocalist. Amanda was overrated and probably shouldn't have been in the top 24.

Jason is getting locked into these guitar ballads. His performance last week was hideous, but I took it as a joke. This week he did a Sting song and the performance was forgettable. Michael Johns tried the "cram a song too long for this spot" and it worked, however for me, his performance was more reminiscent of Paul Rodgers singing with Queen than Freddie Mercury. That doesn't work for me, so his QOP suffered. I also lessened the fan favorite points to 2 people. It now is the "I did a bad song but they will vote for me anyway" point. I am not sure anyone besides David A and Brooke could get away with it at this point without losing some votes. David did one of my favorite songs from the 80's, so while his choice of song was great, the performace was okay. After Rameal's job doing Heart tonight, I am officially adding Ann Wilson to the list of people you just don't try to sing on AI unless you have the pipes to do it. Here is that list:

1. Celine Dion

2. Mariah Carey

3. Whitney Houston

4. Freddie Mercury

5. Ann Wilson

This week its a toss up and I think it could be Rameal or Chikizie. Neither have a chance at winning and its about time to start shuffling the weakest links off the stage.