Y2K Falcon

PLEASE NOTE: I CHANGED THE POLL TO VOTE FOR YOUR BOTTOM THREE.



As always, make your song predictions!


The Finalists (alphabetical order)


Fantasia Barrino - 19 (High Point, NC)
Previous songs: "Something To Talk About" (Semi-Finals), "Signed Sealed Delivered" (Soul), "Always on my Mind" (Country), "Heard it Through the Grapevine" (Motown), "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" (Elton John), "Summertime" (Movies)


Diana DeGarmo - 16 (Snellville, GA)
Previous songs: "I've Got The Music In Me" (Semi-Finals), "Think" (Soul), "A Broken Wing" (Country), "Do You Love Me?" (Motown), "I'm Still Standing" (Elton John), "My Heart Will Go On" (Movies)


Jennifer Hudson - 22 (Chicago, IL)
Previous songs: "Imagine", "I Believe In You and Me" (Semi-Finals) (Randy's Wildcard), "Baby I Love You" (Soul), "No one else on earth" (Country), "Heat Wave" (Motown), "Circle of Life" (Elton John), "I Have Nothing" (Movies)


George Huff - 22 (New Orleans, LA)
Previous songs: "Always & Forever" (Semi-Finals), "Lean On Me" (Wildcard) (Simon's Wildcard), "Dock of the Bay" (Soul), "I Can Love You Like That" (Country), "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (Motown), "Take Me to the Pilot" (Elton John), "Against All Odds" (Movies)


LaToya London - 25 (Oakland, CA)
Previous songs: "All By Myself" (Semi-Finals), "Ain't Nobody" (Soul), "Ain't Goin' Down Till the Sun Comes Up" (Country), "(Oooohhhhh) Baby, Baby" (Motown), "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" (Elton John), "Somewhere (There's a Place For Us)" (Movies)


John Stevens - 16 (East Amherst, NY)
Previous songs: "She's Always A Woman" (Semi-Finals), "Lately" (Soul), "King of the Road" (Country), "My Girl" (Motown), "Crocodile Rock" (Elton John), "As Time Goes By" (Movies)


Jasmine Trias - 17, (Mililani, HI)
Previous songs: "Run To You" (Semi-Finals), "Inseperable" (Soul), "Breathe" (Country), "You're All I Need to Get By" (Motown), "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (Elton John), "When I Fall in Love" (Movies)



Gone:
Leah "Pack Your Bags" LaBelle - 17 (Seattle, WA) Voted off 3/17/04 (Paula's Wildcard)
Matt "Rose Bowl" Rogers - 25 (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) Voted off 3/24/04
Amy "Pink Hair Isn't as Cool When Mom Does It Too" Adams - 24 (Bakersfield, CA) Voted off 3/31/04
Camile "B.M." Velasco - 18 (Haiku, Maui) Voted off 4/7/04
John Peter "Spazz" Lewis - 24 (Rexburg, ID) Voted off 4/15/04 (America's Wildcard)

Previous AI Season 3 threads through the start of the Semis:

Movie Night
Music of Elton John Night
Motown Night
Country Night
Soul Night
Wild Card Night
Semi-Finals Group 4
Semi-Finals Group 3
Semi-Finals Group 2
Semi-Finals Group 1
Announcing the Semi-Finalists

Patman

So who's gonna butcher "Mandy"?

das Monkey

Always good to see people voting before the show.

As for predictions, I predict this show will be painful.

das

Y2K Falcon

JPL was the perfect candidate for "Mandy".

Now...

I remember all my life
raining down as cold as ice.
Shadows of a man,
a face through a window cryin' in the night...

DeGarmo or Trias will sing that with a silly grin on their face.


For some reason, I see Huff and Hudson fighting over "Weekend in New England".

Red will do "Copacabana".




Oh, and I don't know if I mentioned, but vote FOR YOUR BOTTOM THREE. (preferably after the performances)

Gil Jawetz

ohdeargodwhy?

El Scorcho

Who's gonna do "I Write The Songs"?

(which Barry, ironically, didn't write)

lucasorion

I predict that I will be switching to other channels often during this particular show, maybe there will be something good on C-SPAN.

twikoff

woohoo!
Im the first to vote for the first and last option


<small>as well as picking 3 people</small>

sinned

Mods need to reset the poll

the aftermath

Jasmine looks smokin' tonight *




















*not a pedo

das Monkey

Diana
Ears
Bleeding

das

gettinbranded

George might be voted off...

LaToya and Jennifer are at another level.

das Monkey

OK, was there something wrong with my audio? Diana sounded terribly flat and pitchy, but Simon gives her a huge compliment.

das

gettinbranded

When Fantasia starts singing---I forget she's an amateur, I stop thinking critically---she just flat out entertains.

Win or lose AI --- she's gonna still be around 20 years from now...

johnglass

I thought the same thing here.

das Monkey

George has another bad week with an average karaoke performance.

Jennifer's main problem is still there: she has no control in the soft parts. She's fantastic when she needs power vocals but on par with Camille when she needs softer and smoother notes. For all her growth, this still stands out as a huge weakness. On a side note, terrible outfit.

das

das Monkey

Oh, I get it ... this is the part of the show where they are down to enough people to put out an American Idol 3 album, so they're not telling the contestants how much they suck. Jasmine was all over the place and received not a negative word.

das

Mad Dawg

I thought early on that those runs of George's were his weakest point. He seemed to give them up, but they came roaring back. Very unfortunate. I didn't think it was a "mess" though. Average for what he has been doing.

AndyB976

My bottom three: John Stevens, Diana DeGarmo, and Jennifer Hudson.

das Monkey

La Toya showed why she's so far beyond Jennifer early in the song as she was as strong at the beginning as she was at the end. As a fan of hers, though, I think she tried for just a little too much. I applaud the effort in going after this competition, but she was slightly off on one or two notes, leaving the door open for Fantasia.

das

Mad Dawg

Yeah, either she hit the brown note at least once, or I'm getting old. She was flat, flat, flat.

das Monkey

John was simply John, but to his credit, he wasn't terrible.

Fantasia didn't overtake La Toya as I was expecting. I'm not sure if she beat Jennifer either. It'd be very close. Missed opportunity for her, but she'll have more chances. I'm afraid La Toya is just too good to win this competition. She's too mature and comfortable with her talent, and I don't think America will respond to that as much as they'll respond to more colorful personalities.

Based solely on tonight, I'd probably drop Diana, Jasmine, and George. Tossup between George and John, but George was more annoying, while John was just more average.

das

Goldberg74

I like the way Barry did them way back when... but I appreciate his effort to introduce his old material to a new audience.

To Barry

BTW: What did Paula do to her arm?

Jadzia

Diana sounded horribly nasal. I too was stumped by all the praise she received.

I thought John Stevens was much improved and seemed to have a lot more confidence onstage. Surprised he got such a lukewarm response from the judges.

c-moon

Why can't any of them just sing the freaking song? I swear I couldn't recognize half the songs -- ESPECIALLY It's a Miracle. In the same way that Kenny G's endless scales and arpeggios do not impress me, neither do screaming and screeching with no hint of a melody.

I couldn't hear a melody during John's either, but that was for entirely different reasons.

I am really beginning to like last year's American Idol more and more.