Apr 15 2009
The three A’s sound the best on American Idol
“This is Quentin Tarantino … and this is American Idol!” Music has been central to the films of Tarantino and he is a great fan of American Idol. So Songs of the Cinema proved a good theme, with Quentin offering the mentor comments. For us, the three A’s deserved the A Stars.
Allison Iraheta (photo 1) started the show, singing Aerosmith’s I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing and even Paula and Simon were able to avoid their anti-girl rants and offer some praise. With a husky voice, bags of passion and a real star quality, Allison continues to inspire and impress.
Anoop Desai chose to sing the love theme to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Everything I Do by Bryan Adams, and gave without doubt his best performance so far in the series.
Adam Lambert rolled with a classic Steppenwolf number Born to be Wild and really impressed the audience. Although Simon compared it to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in a negative way, many could see it as a plus. Adam’s voice was straining in parts, but soaring in others. He still seems like a serious contender for the final.
Lil Rounds failed completely to listen to Quentin and fell back on her usual fault of shouting the big parts of the song, which on Bette Midler’s The Rose was totally not good. Her voice wavered all over the place as well, flat in parts, and really disappointing. Which made it easy for Simon to let rip with his anti-girl campaign.
See our exclusive American Idol scorecard (photo 2) below for a summary.
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