This week on American Idol 2014, the Top 10 finalists will be doing… the Top 10. Yes, apparently the American Idol season 13 producers thought this would be an amusing song theme and force us to write “Top 10” a ridiculous amount of times in one week.
Apparently the contestants themselves also find it as silly and tongue-twisting as we do in the preview video for this week’s performance show above. Especially since the American Idol Top 10 find themselves forced to say “Top 10” about as many times as we’re going to have to be typing it this week!
For their song choices in this round of the finals, the singers will be performing songs from any of the Billboard Top 10 charts. That includes the country charts, R&B, you name it. If you want a sneak peek at the song spoilers for this week, we have them for you over here. We think it is going to be a very interesting show…
Last week was the starting gate and this week the competitors musical
personalities are off and running! It’s intriguing to watch and hear.
Jena’s become a ferocious front contender and giving her strongest
counterpart, Caleb, a real run for the finish is exhilarating! Her song
choices have been smart and spot on! Her command of the stage is so
polished and professional it makes her the one to watch. Harry was
right–again–when he first named Jena the ‘sleeper’. Who knew this
petite, exotic beauty was such a power-house singer, musician and
performer? Malaya’s coming up roses with each new performance. This week’s song
choice was not only smart but smartly sung–her musical choices with the
lyric and melody were beyond her years. She’s blossoming into a
musician to be reckoned with. Other
notable performances of the night were Alex with his deft musical
precision and interpretive skills; Jessica, although better tonight,
remains defiantly within the ‘comfort-zone’ and refuses to challenge
herself to stretch beyond her own limits. Again, Harry was right to
point out that she did nothing to bring out the lyric–which is the
whole point to the song she chose, “Pumped Up Kicks”. MK appeared
more confident but, her commitment to the song wavered, and Sam did an interesting arrangement of the song “We
Are Young”, with very musical harmonic choices in the chorus. Not surprisingly Harry was, once again, right in his
critique that Sam needs to break out if he’s to stay in the race–having
a ‘good voice’ at this point in the competition is just not enough to
remain a force to be feared.
On a
different ‘note’, J.Lo needs to chill-out with the hostility she’s
projecting toward Harry Connick Jr. She needs to respect his critique
and judgement–especially since he’s a consummate, highly respected
musician among musicians. Superimposing her opinion as the absolute
final word to disprove his critique then following her arguments by
making faces and sticking out her tongue is disrespectful to her fellow judge, imbecilic, immature and has
nothing to do with the objective of a judge–which is to help the
performers improve their performances and competitive edge.