Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD Overall I thought the show was good last week and most of my favorites made it. The one exception being the other Lauren. I still can't believe she wasn't even given a chance to even sing for the wildcard. They have a lot of talent this year. Right now my favorites are Casey and Lauren A.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Yeah, Lauren -- she was compared to a young Bette Midler. My wife really liked her and was surprised she didn't make it.
Originally Posted By Labuda Ah, found on a blog that tonight's episode is pre-recorded (ARGH), but that they'll be performing songs by their favorite artists. That should be interesting to see how many do songs by the same artist they did last week.
Originally Posted By Labuda Oops, yep... and, according to fox.com, it will be live so the blog I read was wrong on two counts, else it was for last week's. My bad! Sorry, all!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Sort of Spoiler if you want to look - song selections for the 13 tonight. Some interesting choices and some very predictable. <a href="http://americanidolnet.com/american-idol-2011-top-13-song-spoilers/" target="_blank">http://americanidolnet.com/ame...poilers/</a>
Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD Thanks for the link Lisann22. Most of the song choices aren't too suprising. I am a little suprised at who is singing last as usually they put the favorites there.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Well, I think that person will become a favorite or I'm really hoping. Seems like you earn that spot based on rehearsals so I'm so excited to see the performance.
Originally Posted By Labuda Interesting song choices; I haven't even heard of one of the songs, and one other one made me mad simply because it's credited as a Celine Dion song when SHE WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL ARTIST. I get that maybe that just means it's her version of a song, but I still think we should credit the original artists or songwriters. And YAYCAKES that we're going to *finally* get live performances next week. W00t! Anyhow, less than 6 hours now until I turn the tv to Idol... (I always wait about 30 minutes and then turn it on so as to avoid as many commercials as possible)
Originally Posted By Labuda BTW, is Superstition the only "kill your Idol career" Stevie Wonder song, or is it all of his songs? That's one thing I'm wondering right now.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 You better bring your super duper A game if you are going to sing Stevie & Aretha.
Originally Posted By Labuda Yeah, ditto anyone trying to sing Queen. Maybe not everyone agrees with me, but for ME, Freddie was THE greatest voice this world has ever seen. What an amazing range! Yeah, maybe Joe Blow can sing one Queen song, but can anyone sing them ALL? Not likely. If they could, oh, how happy I would be!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I saw Paul Rogers with Queen in concert a few years ago. He's not Freddy, and to his credit didn't try to be. But he did quite a credible job of it. Of course, he's always had one of the better voices himself!
Originally Posted By Labuda Yeah, but you know who I REALLY wish had been the singer to join Queen a few years ago? No offense to Paul Rodgers since he does have a good voice, but I really will always wonder if George Michael couldn't have done a better job.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Why would he want to? I'm kind of a George 'fan' with a little "f", and he's got the world on a string already, career-wise. Besides, he writes his own stuff, and mostly it's dance oriented music. It wouldn't fit in well at all with the Queen catalog.
