American Idol Round of 11: A Horseplayer's Perspective

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Originally Posted by brianwspencer

1.) No. Gina is not consistent, but inconsistently good is always preferable to consistently awful. I know you're trying to be diplomatic about Antonella, but I mean really, she was just awful during the entire audition process save her very first performance at the original audition.

2.) I was actually excited about it. We were talking about the theme and we were hoping that was what she would sing at the beginning of the show. She just did a terrible job with it.

Well, Paint It Black is a tough song to do well! With her big voice, something from the Animals (House of the Rising Sun even) would seem a better fit. If she wanted to do Stones, even Satisfaction would have served her better I think....anyway, we do seem to pretty much agree with that one exception and since Antonella is long gone, it will be interesting to see if we continue to see things the same. What i think is gonna be interesting is the fact that we have three girls with big voices...Jordin, Melinda and LaKisha...it will be tough for all three with similar voices to make it through, Jordin is starting to carve a nitch for herself and Melinda has the polish and "likeability" things going...they probably deserve to be the final 3 but I think America will want at least one performer seen as "different"...pray to god it's not Sanjaya...I suspect that opens the door for either Blake or Haley.