AMERICAN IDOL....Season 11

I so don't like Joshua he is musically very good but it is his type of songs he chooses to sing... he never does anything up tempo and he always does ballad type songs.  Just don't dig him

Yes!!  Jessica seems a litltle full of herself, even though she pretends not to be. On a separate note, I really like the Elise/Phillip duet.

Elise and Phillip duet, gooood sound, PP cannot dance without his guitar, reminds me of Taylor Hicks trying to dance.  Poor Hollie, so many people to listen to, not a good job tonight, she does the same stomping across the stage as Jessica does. J Lo looks soo good in white.  In one of her commercials from Kohl's she wears a white outfit and looks dynamite.

Joshua and Jessica duet, this time almost the right amount of screaming, he needs to hold back a bit, not everything is a gospel song.  Poor Hollie is in trouble this week, she needs a few years to mature as a singer and to have confidence in herself.  She is a true 16 yr. old.

LOL Sheila ... extreme pain you made me laugh!!

so who is in the bottom 3 this wk...

I agree, she was dynamite, I had tears in my eyes too.  She did "knock it out of the park", I could listen to an album by her right now.  She makes you feel good when she sings.  I'd like her to do a duet with Kelly Pickler tomorrow, they would surely rock it out.  See you tomorrow ladies, always fun watching with you.  Bottom 3, Hollie, DeAndre and his hair, and Elise again.

I disagree with the judges tonight, I thought Hollie was excellent, especially during her duet. I think we'll see Elise leave this week.

Anne 

Tonight - Music from the '80s, ironically, when most of the contestants weren't even born yet...

Guest mentors: Gwen Stefani, and Tony Kanal from No Doubt.

First up: DEANDRE ("I miss my car") doing I Like It by DuBarge. Gwen: "You always look worried up on stage." Jimmy: 'He'll be in the bottom 3'. More falsetto, extreme hair flipping, judges amazed at his performance. Who were they listening to? Sure wasn't what I heard.

ELISE ("I miss my band") doing I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner. Gwen: "I got goosies! She'll have a magic moment up there!" The choir sounded good, as did the big chorus moments. But Elise has some of the same problems as all the girls with the big voices - they sound weak and flat in the lower, quieter ranges.

PHILLIP (forgot what he missed) doing That's All by Genesis. I really do like this guy, even if he DOES wear the same shirt every week, does the same stage moves every week, and sound exactly the same every week. Can't help it, I just like him.

JOSHUA ("I miss my family") doing If You Don't Know Me By Now by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. This guy can sure perform. He was MUCH more in control this week, and even though he admitted he had trouble acting out the song because he is only 19 ("I've had no love troubles") he can make the story line believable. Liked him a lot tonight.

JESSICA (I think she misses shopping and boys...) appearing tonight as her alter-ego BB CHEZ, doing How Will I Know by Whitney Houston. I liked her tonight, for a change. She seemed young and energetic, and not just trying to copy the greats. She acted her age on stage but sang like a champ. But Girlfriend - if you are going to wear those 5" heels, please learn how to walk in them. You looked like a big old Clydesdale clopping along.

HOLLIE ("I miss my family and my puppy") doing What A Feeling from Flashdance. Gwen: "You have to let people know you know what you're feeling." (Where have we heard THIS before?) On stage, she had the exact same moves as in her last song. And again, pitchy in her low ranges, thought about the technique too much, and WTH does a flapper dress have to do with the Flashdance story line? I think  it's time Hollie went home. I have never, EVER heard her sing a song where she connected to the lyrics.

COLTON ("I miss face painting" (?????) ; apparently  a family business) doing Time After Time by Cindy Lauper. I liked it. I like him. He did another band's arrangement of it, and it was good. He wanted Gwen Stefani to sing harmony with him on stage; why didn't he get another backup singer to do it?

SKYLAR ("I miss my guns and deer meat") doing Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler. She looked pretty on stage, and I was SO thankful that she didn't do her first choice of "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton. Yikes! I'm so glad she got out of her country rut, but I don't think she really understood the lyrics, because she tended to oversing it. The judges sure liked it, though!

DUETS

COLTON AND SKYLAR = Islands In The Stream by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. I thought a duet was a story sung by two people to each other. Not these guys! Mostly they were looking at the camera, the audience, and standing across the stage as far apart from each other as they could get. But they sounded good.

HOLLIE AND DEANDRE =  I'm So Excited by the Pointer Sisters. One thing Hollie was NOT was excited, at least by Deandre.  Again, it was as if she had no understanding of the lyrics at all. And those heels! Clomp, clomp, clomp! You're another one who needs to learn how to walk in them, Girlfriend! Somehow, they avoided looking at each other for most of the song, Deandre felt the need to flip his hair some more, and it was just boring for me. Perhaps this was the Disney version? Steven to Hollie: "You've got to find your soul." GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!!!!!

PHILLIP AND ELISE = Stop Draggin' My Heart Around by Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks. Thought they were good. Tom Petty songs generally leave plenty of room for missing the notes. Elise's do was better than her solo performance.

JESSICA AND JOSHUA = I Knew You Were Waiting by Aretha Franklin and George Michael. Now THAT was a duet, folks!!!! Great singing, and great stage presence by two very young performers. JLo called them the Dream Pair.

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OMG, Sheila - I HATED Randy's shirt tonight! I have CLOWN PHOBIA!!! 

Karen - You made me laugh when you said Bottom 3: Deandre, his hair, and Elise.
It was only later that I read "or Joshua." 

Thanks, Mimi!

Wow - I didn't understand about the "SAVE" limits....and it sure sounds like JLo has been promoting Deandre every single week, even yelling out "VOTE FOR DEANDRE!" after one of his songs.

Oh well, if he loses, maybe he can be one of her backup singers!