Re: [BigBrother_Survivor] A ‘disaster’? ‘American Idol’ finale gets off to rough start

 

The best part of Idol for me has been having Lionel as a judge, I know ABC paid Katy the big bucks, but I hope she doesn't return. I do hope the top 3 at least get new cars like they did when the show was on FOX! As far as a winner I have a feeling Caleb has been getting the most votes because he would get the young girls voting for him, but any one of them deserves to win.
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On Mon, 5/21/18, C G ceegee2006@yahoo.com [BigBrother_Survivor] <BigBrother_Survivor@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: [BigBrother_Survivor] A 'disaster'? 'American Idol' finale gets off to rough start
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Date: Monday, May 21, 2018, 8:41 AM























 
Would really like to see Gabby win this Maddie second and
Caleb 3rd. I like him  but he just seems to be too
bland. I guess it is ok but Katy didn't need to say out
loud who she was voting for.
A
'disaster'? 'American Idol' finale gets off to rough
start






A
'disaster'? 'American Idol' finale gets off to rough
start Katy Perry, finally
applying some Simon Cowell-style tough love in the
season's penultimate episode, called ...


A
'disaster'? 'American Idol' finale gets off to rough
start Lyndsey
Parker 9 hours ago Sunday was a big night on
American
Idol, as the final three (country singers Gabby Barrett
and
Caleb Lee Hutchinson, and indie troubadour Maddie Poppe)
competed to become the
16th Idol —
singing encore songs, hometown dedications, and
"winning"
singles.
I put that word in quotation marks,
however, as that coronation-song round, which kicked off the
night, was far from
winning. It was what judge Katy Perry — finally applying
some Simon Cowell-style
tough love in the season's penultimate episode — called
a "disaster." At one
point, Katy even yelled
at the top three to "wake up," and all three
judges noted that the contestants seemed uncomfortable with
the unfamiliar,
untested material. (It might've helped if these coronation
songs had actually
been good.
Just sayin'.)
Thankfully, things picked up in the
second and third rounds … especially when the VOCAL LEGEND
Steve Perry showed up
to play honorary fourth judge. (Can he please be an official
judge next year?)
This finale may not have had Jurnee, but it had Journey,
so I didn't
stop believin'. And Katy didn't stop believin',
either.
In fact, at night's end, Katy did
something almost unprecedented … and actually revealed
which contestant she's
voting for. ("It's not against rules," she told Yahoo
Entertainment after the
show.)
CORONATION
SONGS
Caleb Lee Hutchinson,
"Johnny Cash Heart"
This
soothing tune, co-written by Rascal Flatts's Jay DeMarcus,
boasted the perfect
vintage vibe for Caleb, and it would be a great deep cut on
his forthcoming
album. But a winning
single? NO. It was an underwhelming start to the
show, and the conspiracy theorist in me suspected that the
Idol
brass
sabotaged Gabby's toughest competitor by saddling him with
something so
forgettable. Furthermore, the laid-back Caleb didn't
perform it like a champion.
Mentor Bobby Bones had sympathy for Caleb (and for the other
two contestants),
but he pointed out that Caleb had flubbed the lyrics. Katy,
meanwhile, declared
this Caleb's "weakest performance of the
season."



Gabby Barrett, "Rivers
Deep"
This stomping gospel/country ballad, co-penned by
X
Factor alumnus Ella Henderson, was more typical
coronation fare, but
it was barely as good as "No Boundaries" or "This Is
My Now." Gabby tackled it
with her usual technical flawlessness, but she seemed
blank-eyed and, like
Caleb, disconnected from the piece. Her personality was
muted and wooden. "I
think you guys are just getting your bearings with these
songs," Katy
sighed.


Maddie Poppe, "Going Going
Gone"
This was the best song of the bunch, written by
hitmakers Mitch Allan, Lindy Robbins, and Best New Artist
Grammy nominee Julia
Michaels. The rollicking, Mumfordian ditty had a
triumph-of-the-spirit feel that
the other two songs lacked, plus some country flavor to
persuade on-the-fence
Caleb and Gabby fans, and it was so Phillips Phillips-y
(right down to its
title, similar to P-Squared's "Gone, Gone, Gone"), I
experienced flashbacks to
the Season 11 finale. Maddie seemed like the winner to me.
That being said, this
was hardly her strongest
performance.


ENCORE
SONGS
Caleb Lee Hutchinson, "Don't
Close Your Eyes" by Keith
Whitley
Caleb redeemed himself
with this stoic and tender performance (Katy called it a
"light-year's'
difference") of a song that clearly resonated more deeply
with him. Lionel
Richie called Caleb's voice "solid as a rock," but
this was still too down tempo
and relaxed to compete with a spitfire like Gabby or a
maverick like Maddie.. I
think he should have encored with "When Doves
Cry."

Gabby Barrett, "Little Red Wagon"
by Miranda
Lambert
I've always preferred
Gabby in outlaw-cowgirl mode than when she's an
Underwoodian balladeer, so I
approved this song choice. Leather-sheathed, sassy Gabby's
boisterous
call-and-response performance brought some much-needed
energy to Sunday's
proceedings, and she finally seemed to be having fun.
(She even almost
cracked herself up at one point.) "There
she is!" Katy
exclaime


Maddie Poppe, "Don't Ever Let
Your Children Grow Up"
(original)
Original songs were
more prominent that ever this Idol
season; in fact, this Sunday's
episode featured original reprises by also-ran
contestants Catie Turner ("21st Century
Machine"), Harper Grace
("Yard Sale"), Jonny Brenns ("Blue Jeans"), and
Michelle Sussett ("I'm a
Dreamer"). But Maddie's self-penned Hollywood Week
tearjerker was truly

magical — "quintessential Maddie Poppe," as Luke Bryan
put it — so it was
wonderful to hear it in a more formal, star-making setting,
complete with a sea
of waving glow sticks. Could this be her coronation single
instead,
please?


HOMETOWN
SONGS
Caleb Lee Hutchinson, "Folsom
Prison Blues" by Johnny
Cash
Hey, he really
does
have a Johnny Cash heart! Lionel called this Caleb's
"comfort
zone" and "wheelhouse," but I'm not sure if that was
a compliment — Lionel may
have been saying that Caleb had played it too safe. This was
my favorite "Caleb
Cash" performance of the night, but as his last impression
on voters, it wasn't
quite enough to earn him a
win.


Gabby Barrett, "Don't Stop
Believin'" by
Journey
There certainly isn't a
more triumphant anthem than this, or a more ambitious
showcase for Gabby's
mighty pipes. But between Glee,
The
Sopranos, and the
Idol
Season 8 concert tour, I didn't really need to hear
another
version of it. (Couldn't Gabby have done the underrated
Escape
cut "Stone in Love" instead?) She sounded too nasal and
reedy —
she's no Steve Perry; but then again, who is? — but I
appreciated her
rocker-chick hairography and air guitar. And the
Steve Perry was in the
audience and seemed to approve, so as far as I'm
concerned, Gabby won
tonight.


Maddie Poppe, "Landslide" by
Fleetwood Mac

I knew
this
performance would be magical ad bittersweet, and that I'd
be a sobbing puddle by
the song's end. Her vocal was pristine, her authenticity
was undeniable, and her
maturity level was miles above the other two. Even her
nearly chipping a tooth
on the microphone couldn't ruin her moment. "I'm
voting for you," Katy announced
boldly. After this tour de force, Maddie should win by a …
wait for it …
landslide.


So now it's prediction time. Is
Gabby still a lock for
the win, or will she and Caleb split the country vote,
allowing Katy to get her
way as Maddie pulls off an upset? My guess is the former
scenario, but my
hope
is for the latter. Either way, I predict Caleb will have to
settle
for third place.
See you Monday, when Kieran dims the
lights and we find
out.




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