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LMAO Jesus Christ "don't let Simon dress you anymore" "actually she dressed herself" fucking brutal but hilarious because Paula doesn't have the balls to give out real talk.
 
LOL, Paula with the truth taser.

But other than the outfit, Drew was immaculate tonight. The sound issues continue to plague her performances - I could barely hear her during the chorus, but what I did hear was flawless.
 
JCX said:
As much as I dislike when my favorites go home early on idol, I do not trust those judges to pick correctly. The Judges' Save has never been used on someone worthwhile.
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The judges pick based on marketability, not skill. On one hand I understand it, but sometimes it does suck.
 
I can just imagine what Idol would be like if their performance budget was any where near X-Factor's. Some of my favorites would have been immortalized ^_^
 
Leona Lewis said:
But other than the outfit, Drew was immaculate tonight. The sound issues continue to plague her performances - I could barely hear her during the chorus, but what I did hear was flawless.
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She mostly certainly was not. She was flat on quite a few notes in the beginning.
 
Drew was solid. Back to the lullaby mold, and even then she was pitchy. Can't sing loudly. She's got a Taylor Swift type personality, which is cool. But she'd be a risk for a label being 14 and singing melodramatic songs. It's hard to sell that.
 
Another solid song decision for Leroy. If Nicole. picked that, then I have to say that it was EXTREMELY smart, appropriate, and well-thought out. Redemption after that "Queen of the Night" disaster.
 
Delio said:
What song was Drew singing btw? It did sound pretty.
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Fix You by Coldplay one of their best songs imo, judges are so condenseding to Nicole and rightfully so.
 
Lakoda Rayne sang really well. This was their best performance so far, but I guess they're stuck in the country mold. I thought they were at their (previous) best when they were dressed their age and sang a pop/dance song right after they were made a group, but other than the old clothes they killed it tonight.
 
Noooo, my stream died right before Lakota Rayne. This show needs an official live stream like the UK version, how else can I watch teh Americuhnz? :-(
 
Already calling his fans "Astronauts".
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Judderman said:
Already calling his fans "Astronauts".
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I figure that his fans came up with that, similar to how Idol fangroups name themselves after their contestants using some sort of wordplay.

Carrie Underood had "carebears" *barf*
Adam Lambert had "Glamberts"
Taylor Hicks had the "Soul Patrol"

and so forth.
 
Red_Man said:
I have a really hard time taking a 14 year old rapper seriously.
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This...just comes across as a lil boy playing in daddy's slippers. You need a certain amount of experience and just flat out number of years on this earth to project the kind of...bravado, his attempted style needs.
 
OmniGamer said:
This...just comes across as a lil boy playing in daddy's slippers. You need a certain amount of experience and just flat out number of years on this earth to project the kind of...bravado, his attempted style needs.
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Exactly the subject matter of most rap can't be conveyed through a kid.
 
WTF is wrong with LA Reid? Not every singer is going to be a Kelly Clarkson-esque genre chameleon, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I hate how truncated the songs are, though - are these performances even 2 minutes long? The sudden shifts to the songs' bridge section are always jarring, and the singers never really get the chance to let the song develop and unfold.

Older X-Factor seasons in the UK (season 4 and before) had performances that were 3 minutes long on average, and it really made a difference. Imagine if performances like this or this had been cut by a full minute.
 
Ain't no other man.....

LOL. Sounds like they're serenading other guys, considering the original lyric.

EDIT: L.A. doesn't recognize that song??? WTF And he's a record producer @_@
 
MIMIC said:
Ain't no other man.....

LOL. Sounds like they're serenading other guys, considering the original lyric.
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Seriously,when I first heard the song start to play I was like. "um what?"

Team Stereo? :O
 
Going strictly by appropriateness of song choice and delivery, here's how I'd rank them so far:

1. Astro A+
2. Leroy A
3. Melanie A-
4. Drew B+
5. Marcus B
6. Lakota Rain B
7. Stereo Hoogz C
8. Stacey D
 
Ducarmel said:
they should of changed the lyrics to "aint no other girl"
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I didn't think they would change "man" considering the strength of the word in the lyric and how much it rhymes with the rest of the verse (and maybe they would some how say WO-man....but then realized how stupid that would sound, lol), so I eagerly anticipated what they would do.

But keeping it the same made it even weirder.

EDIT: Or...."ain't no other girl, in the world...." could have worked, too.
 
IMO, tonight:

1. Astro A+
2. Leroy A
3. Melanie A-
4. Drew B+
5. Josh B+
6. Marcus B
7. Rachael B
8. Lakota Rain B
9. Chris C+
10. Stereo Hoogz C
11. Stacey D
 
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