Fox TV Show
Season 7
The Top 3 Show!
05-13-08 Our Take
Song Theme For The Night Was:
"Choice Night - 1st Song Choice By the Judges, 2nd Song Choice By the Contestants, 3rd Song Choice by the Producers"!
Last Night it was the 'Top 3' who performed! Here are our AVERAGED 'scores' of ALL 3 songs performed by each 'idol', (based on 1-10, 10 being highest), with the 4th column showing the difference between Michael's score and Tina's score. The 'contestants' are listed in order of performance appearance during the night, NOT by numerical score:
The Song Choices Were:
David Archuleta -- "And So it Goes" by Billy Joel. "With You" by Chris Brown. "Longer" by Dan Fogelberg.
David Cook -- "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack. "Dare You to Move" by Switchfoot. "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith.
Syesha Mercado -- "If I Ain't Got You" By Alicia Keys. "Hit Me Up" by Gia Farrell (from "Happy Feet"). "Fever" -- originally by Peggy Lee.
(No #) | Name of Contestant / Songs Perfomed | Michael's Take | Average Score Difference | Tina's Take |
1 | David Archuleta | 6.0 - 6.0 - 8.0 Avg= 6.67 | 1.16 | 8.0 - 7.5 - 8.0 Avg= 7.83 |
| 2 | Syesha Mercado | 7.5 - 8.0 - 8.25 Avg= 7.92 | 0.58 | 8.5 - 8.5 - 8.5 Avg= 8.5 |
| 3 | David Cook (pictured at top right of post) | 9.5 - 7.0 - 7.5 Avg= 8.0 | 1.0 | 10.0 - 8.0 -9.0 Avg= 9.0 |
General Show Notes:
Once again the 'Top 3' Show, as in previous years, showed the contestants in their home towns and being notified as to what song their judge had picked for them. It seemed that those segments were shorter than previous years... Once again each song was limited to the amount of time actually singing the song..
Tina's comments:
on David Archuleta - As first song is sung..."Now I know why I don't like his style. David A has to blast everything he sings".
on Sysesha - No comments were made on her. She sang a solid 8.5 on each song in Tina's opinion!
on David Cook - First time this Season 7 that Tina awarded a '10.0" to any contestant. This was on his first song.
on Randy - WTH was that! (Her reaction when Randy said Syesha, 'you're standing there at #3' before the 3 songs were even over!) Also... "He's drinking Paula's soda again tonight!" (Her reaction to his comments on David C's last song.)
on the Producers - Their song choice for David A was so horrible. Such a sappy song for David A to sing! Then again, David A's father has been getting 'difficult' and was banned from being backstage.
Michael's comments:
on David A - Just tired of him... except he did better on the 3rd song.
on Syesha - IMHO she gave David C a run for the money tonight! Only 0.08 difference in average score! However the favoritism from the judges and the producers choices probably skewed the voting process afterwards... She just isn't what 'they' are looking for in an 'American Idol'. She has really come out the last few weeks and given it her best shot!!
on David C - Really Hit It Out Of the Ballpark on the first song! But with the next two songs allowed the other two contestants a chance to catch up with him! His song choice was poor IMHO...
on Paula - Really subdued tonight for Paula....
on Randy - You can tell he wants a 'Battle of the Davids' IMHO!
on Simon - Looked like doesn't want the actress/singer to go further.
on the Producers - Once again this "Producers' choice" for each of the contestants to sing seems to skew the performances, thus possibly / probably affecting the voting process? The contestants had to work very hard on those poor choices made for them....
Our Take:
What we normally do this far into the process is to vote for our top performer for the night per the average score we gave them.
HOWEVER, once again it appears that the process is skewed to have a "Battle of The Davids", which Tina and I would have possibly been okay with weeks ago.... but Syesha's performances were so much better than David A's last night and the week before, IOHOs. So we both voted for David C and Syesha multiple times.... Will it affect the outcome? Probably not... but it did make us both feel better!! LOL!
So who's going home?? Michael and Tina both feel that David A should go, based on Syeshas stepping up to the plate and doing better... but it will probably be Syesha tonight due to the 'popularity contest' this Season 7 has ended up being for the past several weeks!
In conclusion, both Michael and Tina believe that the judges and the producers are being partial to David A and David C because 'they' want to see a 'Battle of the Davids', which would help the ratings for the Finale as the season's ratings are supposedly down from last year... Could it be the Season 7's ratings are down because the American public is seeing it the way we are this Season.... that it is toooo much of a 'popularity' contest this year???
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For those that missed our previous blog posts on this TV Show.... Please see the following link for our previous blog post. We have been blogging about Season 7 since the first week when the auditions were shown:
05-07-08 CLICK HERE For: American Idol Results Show 05-07-08 Our Take!
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