Originally Posted by ribtickle:
“The two J's have been my favourites throughout, and it isn't just about taste, I consider them technically the best singers too. This was a night where they both delivered and put themselves into a different league to the others.
Joshua's second performance was stellar, he is up to the same level as the best of Adam Lambert with a performance like that. It was the most vocally stunning male performance in Idol history for me, along with Adam's controversial Ring Of Fire. There's so much rich tonal quality in his lower range, a throaty voice with lots of control, and there's nothing waffly sounding, like it could be with others who need to start off in an uncomfortably low key so that they can hit the high notes, which come easy to him. He has that blinding dynamic contrast with his effortlessly powerful top end, its accelerative quality, and the cascading run at the end, with studio echo, was stunning. His first performance (Queen) was good too, and, as per usual, he was also the stand out in the group performance (Queen), where Hollie and Phillip merged into the sonic background.
Jessica's Dance With My Father was the second best performance, and this for me showcased her at her best. She can do the rasp, sing hard, but the sound is nowhere near as pleasing as this, where she has all this tone and poise. Unlike Hollie, whose voice is tonally hard-edged, Jessica's is only hard-edged enough to provide attack on a note and then she can use a beautifully soft underscoring to fall back on. On top of that she has all the technical ability, to an extremely high level for a schoolgirl. I was always a Luther fan, since the days of his Give Me The Reason album, and he left us this beautiful swan song. Jacob did well with it last year, and his was a very emotional and personal performance, but this was far better. I agreed with J-Lo that it may be the best cover (I'd say even better than Celine Dion's rather mannered version on the tribute album).
Skylar delivered 2 solid performances, so did very well on aggregate, but neither of them were anywhere near what the two J's achieved. I'd place her third best.
Hollie did well with her second performance, but I really cannot take to the tone of her voice due to that hard-edged, discordant, brassy quality. I think that's why she never seems to emotionally connect with anything or with the audience. It's a voice tone which is only well-suited to hitting big notes, which is all she seems to live for.
Phillip and Elise both chose the wrong personal choice songs. He sounds monotonous, as vocally constipated as he can be facially because of his poor range and he needs songs with a strong melody or a catchy groove to compensate. Hers was another busy-busy vocal of a song many people won't know. Both did better with their Queen songs, his a more a cheeky, fun moment, hers for the drama.”
I disagree. The judges on American idol have been trying to brainwash everyone into thinking Joshua and Jessica are the top 2 right from top 13 but they are not the best two singers. To be a singer you need to be able to sing songs not shout or screech through them like you are doing karaoke all the time.
comparing Joshua to Adam Lambert is ridiculous and such an insult to Adam Lambert. Joshua is not the best male singer ever on American idol at all far from it. He is one of the worst.
Jessica is nothing special as proven with being 7th of 7 a few weeks back. Also i am getting really sick of the sympathy card being played by her all the time and saying "i've worked hard all my life", hang on she is 16 not 60 right? And when she said "i'm worried for both of us" when her and Elise were finding out who was in bottom three just looked so fake and playing up for sympathy. Hollie has the better singing voice and in a singing competition that is the most important thing.
Phillip can sing and is better than Joshua but he needs to pick a song that is different to every other he has so far done on the show.
Skylar surprised me, i usually hate her country songs and shouting/screech combo. But she actually sang most of the songs with little shouting.
Hollie has the best vocal with her second song and i hate the song. She did it better than the disney girl though. I wish the judges would stop blacklisting her and give her the credit she deserves. I hate having to listen to such rubbish from the judges and the fake laugh from Who-pez just irritates even more.
Elise, picked wrong songs especially at top 6.
Something else, did anyone else notice the judges kept looking down at or under the desk like they were given a script to read off comments?
