**American Idol Finals: Classic Love Songs

[GrannyMae]

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This week is a deal breaker for Chris. If he can sing any of Bocelli's songs, I'd be surprised, and I will likely lose a lot of $.

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good lord! there are a TON of rock, classic love songs.

[dengar]

Kat is 15-1 to go home on WSEX. I can't believe that think that highly of her. They have Pickler at 4-1 to go home. [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[llabb]

Hello all,

I got to go to the dress rehearsal today, and just got back. Here is the performance order, song selection, and my thoughts on each.


*** Spoilers below ***


1) Kat: "I Have Nothing" - Whitney Houston
Wore a beautiful yellow dress that shows lots of cleavage and leg. Sang fantastically, voice even more powerful live. Hit some big notes. Big audience reaction. Will get hurt from singing first, though, as almost everyone was good.

2) Elliot: "A Song for You" - Donny Hathaway
Wore a black suit with shiny blue tie, looked sharp. Mixed package, a little tough on him at times. Very good, but not powerful, not as climatic a performance as Kat. Bad singing position, mediocre package, very strong but not inspiring performance, could he be the one to go?

3) Kellie: "Unchained Melody" - Righteous Brothers
Wore an ivory tank top with gray pants, casual but nice look. Singing the Leann Rimes version, David Foster liked Kellie's version including a high falsetto at the end. Song was slow, a little boring at first, relatively safe and a nice song though. Good performance for Kellie. Live, she actually sounds pretty decent, with a clean and sweet voice.

4) Paris: "The Way We Were" - Barbara Streisand
Wore a black jacket, white shirt, white pants, overall classy look. Foster loved her voice, almost perfect in practice, but start softer. Song started a little slow, then went to tons of powerful notes throughout the middle. Huge voice that is even more powerful live. Audience loved it, first standing O from Paula (only judge at rehearsal).

5) Taylor: "Just Once"
Wore a black velvet suit...interesting. Foster thought he picked the perfect song and had the most charisma. A standard strong Taylor performance. A little like last week, kinda more mellow for him throughout, just singing the song, then picks it up at the end. Nice strong finish from him, although not quite as energetic as last week's finish. Not quite as much personality, a little nasally at times.

6) Chris: "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" - Bryan Adams
Wore a long black suit coat with tiny pinstripes over a shirt and dark jeans. Producers pimping him up bigtime. Not only last, but only one with instrumentalists on stage. 2 live guitarists flanking him on either side. Very strong, perhaps his best performance yet, for a general audience, since it's not rock, but was sung very well and with power.

[llabb]

Conclusion: Elimination still up in the air, will have to watch polling. Looks like it will just be based on fanbases, as most contestants were pretty good. But you never know, sometimes they're good in rehearsal, and flub it live. Still looks like Elliot or Paris, leaning towards Elliot.

Frontrunner conclusion: As expected Chris got pimped huge and should rebound well. Perhaps a market surge, with slight Kat and Taylor downturns, but this is harder to call.

[smartalecc5]

THAT YELLOW DRESS IS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING.

[kem]

HOLY BAJESUS

those are 2 very good ways to get votes out of the #1 spot.. way to go Kat! haha

[BK1248]

what a rack.

[splashpot]

I mean it wasn't as good as Whitney Houston, but I thought it was great in the reference of this competition.

[Brocktoon]

I'm not nearly as obsessed with Kat as many on here but OMFG she was really hot tonight.

That said she got absolutely murdered by the judges, and even Ryan! A quadrouple slam, her going would be fantastic as far as I'm concerned and that's the way to do it.

FWIW I thought the Seacrest "without the volume" backhanded compliment was more insulting than anything the judges said.

SEND HER HOME...

[smartalecc5]

I think Elliot is doing really well, ill wait to hear what the judgfes have to say