Country Week!!

I; like Simon, HATE country music. Country week always sucks because Simon hates half the performances simply because they are country songs. Me too...and off we go with Randy Travis as our first mentor of the season.

Michael Sarver - does a fast song from the really popular country singer i cannot recall his name (yes, that's awful analysis). It sucks, its intelligible, Simon states as such, Michael says its ok because if he was perfect he wouldn't need the show. Yuck. It kills me because it probably wasn't bad but it's bad cause it's country!

Allison - Much better than Michael. Allison stylewise and personality wise is a million years ahead of where she was at the beginning. Can't say I liked it THAT much. Paula has real criticism. Simon gives lukewarm praise. Randy disagrees with SImon for the first time this year.

Kris - Wonder if his wife is there. GARTH BROOKS! That's the name i was thinking of. He's singing a slow song which I think is better for this style. Really good, Simon will like it as it's not country at all. And, he does!!! Kris gets super put over for this performance. Kris has joined the fray!

Lil Rounds - She looks much better this week. The contestants spend quite a few time together she says. She is going to hold back as to not R&B the song up. It's one of those obnoxious post 9-11ish american songs. LET FREEDOM RINGGGGGGGG...i don't love it at all. Simon hates it. Lil fights back. Don't fight back. Lil does say a good thing, that she'll pick better next time.

Ok, no more country. Take country, and change it.

It's Adam! Adam is super super nice. And he is doing RING OF FIRE from Johnny Cash, a strange arrangement with sitars and stuff. He tells Randy clearly he doesn't like country. Adam wins me over with that. Bizarre. Very well sung. Reminds me of a fallout boyish type thing, emo rock. I wonder if Simon will come across with the indulgent tag cause this is damn indulgent, but not bad because of it. The crowd LOVES it. Paula makes a Kashmir Led Zeppelin comparison. She is coherent or better cause of the drugs. Simon hates it to a large degree. Haha, he says indulgent. I have watched this show far too long.

Ok, i went through the rest on DVR.

Danny - Sang Jesus take the Wheel. LOVED it. He started out slow but he kills the power vocals. Really good, i may itune this. Looked like he was going skiing for some reason but aside from that I loved it.

Scott - Sounds real similar to last week. Pretty nice, nothing fantastic. Paula wants him to get away from the piano, apparently forgetting he's blind and will just be standing and staring. Simon calls her comments dumb. I agree. Lots of feel good praise today.

Alexis - Eh, Simon says we will forget her 10 minutes after she sang. We will. Nothing special at all. Alexis needs to step it up, all the momentum she had is gone.

Anoop - LOVED IT. He sang ALWAYS ON MY MIND which I like a lot. He sang it kind of R&Bish but not too modern. Simon praised him to death. It reminded me of Clay, in that he took what the judges said, used it, said he used it and it came over real well. To quote randy, ANOOP IS BACK!!!

Megan - If Megan can't do well at this she really deserves to go home. Sings a standard. Randy Travis likes it, although the way she looked during rehersal I think she could have sang anything. (She really looked great.) OH no, i hate the way she's singing. Her voice cracked and I don't like how she looked really. Everyone gave her great props though. Hmm....i totally missed the appeal I have to say.

Matt - Paula is sniffing Simon's arm. I liked this but it felt 15 seconds long. Kara is in the Paula role today, she loves everyone and everything. Simon things he outsang Danny tonight. WOW.

I think Danny wins today with Anoop and Kris not far behind. Matt a solid 4th. I think Alexis, Megan and Matt are in trouble. Despite what the judges say, I think Megan could be gone. Matt might be gone because he was so early in the show, who remembers that awful song?

BTW, have you heard Seether do Careless Whisper? Adam NEEDS to do that song and Kris Allen needs to do Deliah (by the 1,2,3,4's) at some point. Totally unrelated i know but he has too. 2 Perfect.

No more country music, yah. I just can't get into the fast songs.