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Yes, seriously...she listened to Simon. Before last week she was lost in the crowd, good voice but not on a par with the "big guns" and stage presence was unremarkable. She tried last week but got hurt by lapse in memory which then caused some pitch problems...Simon giving her a decent review I think gave her self-confidence, I suspect she thought if he thought that performance wasn't so bad then maybe...! She came out last night and sang her absolute best to date, the outfit would have been over the top for most but with her figure, she pulled it off! The way she moved...especially the little upper torso shakes HAD to get the attention of EVERY male not on the Bob Doyle mailing list! This was a great performance...naughty yet wholesome, full of life with vocals surpassed only by Melinda and Jordin! I thought this would be the week that would make or break her...how would she react to last week? In my opinion, she knocked it out of the park!
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03-21-2007, 01:52 PM
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03-21-2007, 01:53 PM
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And she could have botched it if it wasn't handled right. Like you said wholesome but naughtly.
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03-21-2007, 02:20 PM
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03-21-2007, 02:24 PM
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Brian, She was good enough for top 12 I think but no, she wouldn't have won. It turns out that Haley has a bigger stronger voice than her. Certainly Antonella was better than half the top 6 guys...at least!
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Sorry to interrupt, 1st time caller, Long time listener...She may be cute, her voice may carry, but don't you think she should have sang on key...don't you think that is why she no longer is on the show? Her voice definitely was not a strength. That's all, Good Day!!
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03-21-2007, 02:37 PM
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1.) No. Gina is not consistent, but inconsistently good is always preferable to consistently awful. I know you're trying to be diplomatic about Antonella, but I mean really, she was just awful during the entire audition process save her very first performance at the original audition. 2.) I was actually excited about it. We were talking about the theme and we were hoping that was what she would sing at the beginning of the show. She just did a terrible job with it.
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03-21-2007, 02:48 PM
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Well, Paint It Black is a tough song to do well! With her big voice, something from the Animals (House of the Rising Sun even) would seem a better fit. If she wanted to do Stones, even Satisfaction would have served her better I think....anyway, we do seem to pretty much agree with that one exception and since Antonella is long gone, it will be interesting to see if we continue to see things the same. What i think is gonna be interesting is the fact that we have three girls with big voices...Jordin, Melinda and LaKisha...it will be tough for all three with similar voices to make it through, Jordin is starting to carve a nitch for herself and Melinda has the polish and "likeability" things going...they probably deserve to be the final 3 but I think America will want at least one performer seen as "different"...pray to god it's not Sanjaya...I suspect that opens the door for either Blake or Haley.
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03-21-2007, 02:52 PM
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I don't think Antonella was experiencing pitch problems any more than several others....I think the major factor for her was she simply did nothing to stand out! The internet pictures may have hurt her...or they may have helped or had no effect, impossible to say. Antonella has talent, perhaps she held back because of the pictures, perhaps not...I thought she could have made top 12, I fully agree she was not gonna win against 4-5 women with stronger voices!
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03-21-2007, 02:56 PM
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You're right. I'm willing to entertain lots of opinions about Idol -- Antonella being a passable vocalist is simply not one of them. I think you're right here about those top three, and at first I feared that Jordin would get the short end of the stick, but with every week she seems to carve into Lakisha's hold on a top-two spot. I think that Jordin is coming into her own at the right time, and poses a big threat to Lakisha's chances to get to the very end. I would say that Blake is the most likely person at this point to round out the top three. As for Haley, let's not get carried here just yet Somer. So she had a phenomenal night last night. I wouldn't disagree with that in any way, I had her ranked top three last night. But let's not get ahead of ourselves and say that she's somehow injected herself into the frontrunners race. If she can come back next week and repeat that performance and carve her own space as the sort of sexy, playful contestant with a great set of pipes, then she's got every right to move into that group. But I'm not ready to annoint her a contender after just one good performance following a series of pretty mediocre ones. I want her to show me that last night was the rule, not the exception...and based on prior performances, I fear that it was not the rule.
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03-21-2007, 03:10 PM
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Oh I agree, Brian...she has a lot of work to do! One performance does not an Idol make, but the fact is that now we know she CAN do it! We've known the top 3 girls CAN win for awhile...the dynamics will be critical, I have to admit...I don't like Blake, there is something about him that just rubs me wrong. He takes different types of music and adapts the arrangement to his style...so far he's done so extremely well but I wonder, if forced to actually go outside his comfort zone, how will that voice hold up? It's easy to fall in love with Jordin, every week she seems to perform and look better! Right now, I say that LaKisha could be odd man out when crunch time arrives...time will tell!
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QUESTION IS: DID ANY OF YOU THAT ARE "TALKING" ABOUT HER ACTUALLY VOTE LAST NIGHT?
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For what it's worth, I was interested in how the "phone-in votes" ranking system I've been using would rank the final 11 based on their performances since I started ranking them, which was the round of 20 I believe. These are the cumulative totals and rankings through four weeks of ranking them. I think it's pretty darn close to how I feel overall -- the top is very obvious, the bottom couple are very obvious, and everyone in the middle is a crapshoot!
Totals: 1. Melinda -- 39.0 phone-in votes 2. Jordin -- 38.0 phone in votes 3. Lakisha -- 35.0 phone-in votes 4. Stephanie -- 32.0 phone-in votes 4. Blake -- 32.0 phone-in votes 6. Chris S. -- 30.5 phone-in votes 7. Gina -- 30.01 phone-in votes 8. Chris R. -- 29.0 phone-in votes 9. Haley -- 27.0 phone-in votes 10. Phil -- 26.0 phone-in votes 11. Sanjaya -- 21.0 phone-in votes
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Well, the only problem is that this will come down, as most contests do, to what have you done lately. I was bored today so I went to some news sites that had articles on last night, some interesting things I noted...those who wrote in (and I assume folks writing in are likely to vote)...mentioned Sanjaya more than all the others combined...about 60% favorably (the other 40%, in touch with reality, saw him for what he is). I'm afraid that this kid will be around awhile...he has a huge teenybopper following! A lot of attention to the little girl crying with lots of insulting remarks but one poster who claimed that she was there as part of Make a Wish Foundation...wonder how folks who see the necessity to poke fun at her will feel if that's true? Then again, they will probably feel nothing...as usual. People making fun of Melinda for not having a neck...interesting! All in all, it appears from the comments that Phil, Stephanie and Gina could be in trouble tonight...we'll see!
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