The 5 boys are precisely the ones I would have selected, based on their voices/tones and also their televisual/ratings appeal and demographs. Paul has an interesting 'radio' voice of many tonal and crooner colours. Burnell sings very clean, but can sound too rehearsed. Devin sounds absolutely wonderful when he sings in Spanish but average when singing in English - it's like switching on the hispanic nitro. Curtis is there as this year's impassioned, overweight black guy with a powerful, free-ranging, emotive delivery. Lazaro has a warm voice, and also gets points for looking like a young The Fonz, especially in his left profile.
What's odd is the way they've screwed up the much stronger girl's category, and it makes me wonder if they have deliberately clipped their wings to give the boys more of a chance, making for more of a competition, or because they want another male winner.
I really cannot believe Breanna got the boot, and hope she can make the wildcard (apparently a top boy and top girl from the booted will join the Top 10, following a sing-off).
Janelle Arthur IMHO is just another blonde country & western singer, and one whose talent is less than those on Idol who have gone before her. Likewise Kree is another genre's notch filler. I feel Amber may turn into a one-trick pony, like so many girls who model themselves on doing a good Whitney karaoke, there's a chance she will now go downhill due to a lack of interpretative skills of her own unless "singing by numbers". Only Angie and Candice were worthy of guaranteed places in this category IMHO.
