AMERICAN IDOL...Season 12 & The Voice...Season 4

Hi sheila, hi Renee, some kind of surprise, wonder what it is?  That smokey stairway and Amber was a scream

That was an anti-climactic surprise, I hope Paul doesn't go, I like when he really let's loose and is theatric, so there Jimmy!

me either sheila.

I actually liked Jessica's song

Lazaro is being voted on by Vote for the Worst Idol.com   they are promoting him this year. 

Aww they might as well not even have had Paul sing they won't use the save tonight.  If it had been Devin or Amber maybe so...

There is an actual Vote for the Worst Idol site, so we have another Sanjhia situation?  Now that is cruel.

yes Karen, it's www.votefortheworst.com and if you go there you'll find they are promoting Lazaro as the worst.  They say he won't win but going to keep him around as long as possible.  Encouraged everyone to vote this week multiple times phone, computers, etc. To get points in for him since he clearly did the worst. 

I think the right person went home tonight, he had a nice voice but I agreed with Jimmy, he has not yet learned how to use it. I just felt there was something cruise ship/ amusement park about his style of presentation. Lazaro has some of the same issues.

Interesting that Amber was in the bottom three, since in theory she is commercial.

I read somewhere that the week before she was eliminated Jennifer Hudson was actually the top vote getter.

I thought the song the ladies sang together was BRILLIANT...one of the best group numbers ever on Idol.

Lazaro was off-key several times during his performance of "In My Life," but even worse, he failed to connect to the feeling of wistful remembrance of that song.  (To illustrate how big of a disconnect he seemed to have, I can only say that I have been in countries where English is not the official language but the youth know all the American songs and can sing them phonetically without even knowing what the words mean.  That is what Lazaro reminded me of.)  He was not Top Ten material, yet here he is. 

Candice and Kree have read the "How To" manual of this show, and (agreeing with Sheila) I was happy that Candice (someone!) picked an uptempo number.  This season has severely failed to rock.  I wasn't a huge Steven Tyler fan, but who the heck on the current panel is going to tell the contestants to let it loose and rock out already?  I also loved Burnell's performance this week.  He is winning me over.  (It's not that I don't like Janelle, but I have to disclose that I am not a country music fan.  She's good, but if she wins, it's just Carrie Underwood all over again to me.)

So, next week is Motown.  Since a few of these nippers didn't know their classic Beatles songs, is there even hope that they can channel some Temps, Tops, or beehive girl groups?  Cannot wait to find out.

Oh Ginger and Elimar you both said it... "snooze fest"  these ballads are giving me a headache  LOL! I really like several of the singers but I can't stand the constant singing of da.....da....da..... da..... bahahaha!!!!  I hope this week we here some upbeat Motown toons... a little Jackson 5, Supremes, Diana Ross, the 4 tops, Tempations, Gladys Knight, Rick James, Commodores, and upbeat Lionel Richie song and there are so many more to choose from... Hope they haven't picked the same old hohum songs from year after year.

When Adam Lambert sang Ring of Fire, that made me jump up and down!