When the twelve female American Idol finalists took the stage last night, it was quite a different story from the snooze-fest the boys offered on Tuesday. In fact, some of the singers were so strong — Sabrina Sloan, Melinda Doolittle, Lakisha Jones — it felt like we’d suddenly jumped to the middle of the season, when these kids stop sucking. The girls who really turned it out made some of the others look so lame by comparison that it will take a couple weeks to weed out the weakest of the bunch. So be prepared to endure another Wednesday night with Antonella Barba and the even more odious Gina Glocksen. We say the first round of loser ladies will be the two who are so bland they don’t even merit our hatred.
- Amy Krebs‘ vanilla rendition of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” was so boring that Simon compared Krebs to a hunk of wax. “You have the personality of a candle,” he said. “There’s nothing to remember.” I’ve got some pretty exciting votives that would take exception to that comparison. Krebs isn’t the worst singer in the lot — that’d be Antonella — but she’s also not pretty enough to skate by on sex appeal for another week.
- Haley Scarnato and dog-walker Leslie Hunt were equally terrible, but Leslie’s likely to sway the powerful pet-lover caucus whereas Haley has no such contingent. Plus, Scarnato’s feeble attempt at Meat Loaf’s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” lacked confidence and, as Simon noted, made her sound like a forty year-old singing at a “reasonably good hotel bar.” Even Paula couldn’t muster the enthusiasm for an undeserved compliment: She told Haley, “You did a good job and you look nice.” Nice. Ouch.
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