American Idol Round of 3: A Horseplayer's Perspective

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

I hope you're right, though as I expounded on in one of my Blake analyses, I think his sort of coolness factor might carry him into the finals.....at the expense of Jordin.

That terrifies me, I want it to be down to the two ladies.

Randy said it tonight and Simon in the past...if it comes down to singing then they will be...you are right of course, Blake has a following but he's a one-trick pony...take away the beat box stuff and he's rather average!

[onebadbeast]

Its A Slam Dunk. Melinda Wins Hands Down. She Is The Favorite And Isnt Favored For Nothing.

[SentToStud]

I guarantee Blake makes the finals.

Every girl in America is going to vote for him.

The two women will split votes to some extent.

I guarantee it.

[Buffymommy]

They are saying on the radio down here that Jordin is going to go home.


Blake should go. But I understand that the women may split the votes.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Buffymommy

They are saying on the radio down here that Jordin is going to go home.


Blake should go. But I understand that the women may split the votes.

I just think that the dynamic of the remaining three dictates that one of the ladies has to go home tonight, and as much as it pains me to say it, it will probably be Jordin.

I think it's clear to anyone without any sort of "OMG BLAKE IS SOOOOOOO CUTEZ!" investment in the competition that he is the weakest of the three remaining. But that sort of angle is very very important to little girls. I'll be crossing my fingers, but hey, if Taylor Hicks can win the whole damn thing, we obviously know that being the best means nothing on that show.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

I just think that the dynamic of the remaining three dictates that one of the ladies has to go home tonight, and as much as it pains me to say it, it will probably be Jordin.

I think it's clear to anyone without any sort of "OMG BLAKE IS SOOOOOOO CUTEZ!" investment in the competition that he is the weakest of the three remaining. But that sort of angle is very very important to little girls. I'll be crossing my fingers, but hey, if Taylor Hicks can win the whole damn thing, we obviously know that being the best means nothing on that show.

I don't think that it is "written" that we can't have two women in the finals, Jordin has a following and I'm not sure Blake is that strong...a lot of the "he's so cute" teenyboppers stopped voting when Sanjaya left I think. It would be a travesty if Melinda was voted off, she's been perfect every song and regardless of anything else, how can she not make the finals. Jordin is obviously the better singer, the only thing Blake has going is originality and that I think ran it's course...Blake has a future in the business but I suspect it may not be performing rather arranging. We will see...Randy was clear, he said if based on singing it would be the two women; I was surprised that Simon hedged a bit saying that Melinda was his only choice. it will be interesting!

[YellowSnowMonster]

I'm sorry, but I thought Melinda exposed herself last night. I couldn't understand a word she was singing in the Tina Turner song. I had been really looking forward to her doing Tina Turner too, I figured she'd be in her element, and she stunk. She showed that she has no high range. She just wasn't entertaining.

Jordin sounded awesome, nuff said about her.

And Blake was entertaining as always. I loved his Maroon 5 song.

I don't think Melinda will go tonight, but I'm hoping!

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

I don't think that it is "written" that we can't have two women in the finals, Jordin has a following and I'm not sure Blake is that strong...a lot of the "he's so cute" teenyboppers stopped voting when Sanjaya left I think. It would be a travesty if Melinda was voted off, she's been perfect every song and regardless of anything else, how can she not make the finals. Jordin is obviously the better singer, the only thing Blake has going is originality and that I think ran it's course...Blake has a future in the business but I suspect it may not be performing rather arranging. We will see...Randy was clear, he said if based on singing it would be the two women; I was surprised that Simon hedged a bit saying that Melinda was his only choice. it will be interesting!

I didn't mean to implay that we can't have two female finalists, but just that something in my gut tells me that Blake will make it to the finals just based on the intangibles advantage he has over the two of them. Given that I assume that will happen, I can't see how Melinda would go before Jordin.

But, we are at that point of the season where crazier things have happened, so really anyone could go tonight -- but I think we all know who should go.