American Idol Round of 8: A Horseplayer's Perspective

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

Again, all I can say is that I thought she did pretty well...I agree with Buffy that this simply was a poor choice of genre by AI, latin music is tough to perform well by non-latins. She picked an up-beat song and her performance was full of energy and charisma...she is sexy and it seems to come natural, sure the hot pants were a nice touch...her legs are impossible to ignore if you are male and alive. She sang on key, the only problem was a lack of projection...you couldn't hear the words some times. Haley doesn't have the voice of the other 3 female performers, but she's better than all the guys (OK, Blake was good last night but still his voice isn't on a par with the "big three"). I have to agree that, once again, she's in danger tonight...either Phil or her will probably leave. Seriously though, tell me that you prefer Sanjaya (I know you don't), Phil or Chris over Haley?

I don't prefer that any of them stick around longer than her -- but I'm writing these things and taking them one episode at a time, and I think that if it were based solely on one performance, she would be in great danger tomorrow -- for as bad as Phil was last night and as trashy as I think Chris is and for as bad as talentless as Sanjaya is, none of them were worse than her last night. I could count on one hand the performances this season that I thought were worse than her effort last night. And namely, they come from Sanjaya and Haley.