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American Idol: Top 12 Guys - ThinkBox Style
By Jeff | February 20, 2008
Let me preface this post by saying that I have never been a huge American Idol fan. Ask my wife. On the other hand, I love the auditions and watching idiots and inbreds make total fools of themselves. It never fails. The ones with the most confidence and most attitude are the worst singers that audition. Ridiculous, but strangely fun to watch.
I’m going to give my honest opinion on how the contestants performed and what they’re real chances are of winning the contest. My goal is to accurately predict how each week will turn out in regards to who gets cut. I may even post a sort of stat on how well I do. This is not intended to be a recap of the events or songs that were sung but merely my opinion on their performances. So I apologize if you missed the show and came here to find out what happened. I suggest getting a DVR. Anyway, enough boring you with mundane details, let’s get to Tuesday’s show.
David Hernandez
Good, but not great. Good song choice. He’s going to need a lot of work if he plans on winning this contest. Needs to work on confidence and showmanship. He’s got this head-jerking thing that gets on my nerves. Will probably make top 6 guys.
Chikezie
Okay, and in the words of Simon - forgettable. Didn’t blow me away. I immediately thought he would be voted off after seeing his performance. Although, I think a few more contestants did worse later on. I think he will move on this time only to be cut in a week or so. And Simon is right again - that suit was horrific. He moves on by default.
David Cook
I have not been a big fan of this guy ever. I don’t really like his sound, his hair, or his style. Nonetheless, his performance was great. He took the song to the next level, so to speak, and made it rather fun. He’s going to need to do that time and time again to get me to cross over into a fan however. Please dude, do something else with that hair. It looks stupid.
Jason Yeager
Boring. Sweet voice. Sweet father-son story. Sentimental mothers may be able to give him enough votes to move on, but teenage girls will not. I feel his love for his son. I think his vocals and semi-sweet family story will be enough to push him through to next week. He’s going to have to add some showmanship pretty soon.
Robbie Carrico
This guy intrigues me. I don’t get the JT reference that Seacrest mentioned, AT ALL! But for some odd reason, I’m digging the bandanna look with the long hair. Maybe I’m reminiscing of the Guns N Roses Axl Rose days. I’m not sure. (You can never go wrong with Paradise City, by the way.) He is a lock for top 6. Great song choice and great performance. Great job getting the audience involved.
David Archuleta
Solid performance. I’m not a music major by any means, but I didn’t feel the same enthusiasm for his performance as the judges did. It was good, but I think he has been one of their favorites from the beginning and they let him slide a little bit on this one. He is definitely going to move on. Hot soccer moms and teenage girls will make darn well sure he gets far in this contest. Although, it would have been totally awesome if when Seacrest mentioned that the ladies love him, he turned to the camera, lowered his voice and said, “And I love the ladies.” That’s what I would have done anyway. Maybe even add a finger point. Awesome!
Danny Noriega
Horrible song choice. Worst performance of the night. I have no doubt that he had fun, but he was the only one. His pouty faces were annoying, although his snap back at Simon was funny. I’ll give him that. His hair is ridiculous. Somebody help him. Is there a queer eye in the house? If it weren’t for another contestant’s boring performance, I would predict that he is gone. I fear that we will see another week or so of Danny. This guy just annoys me and I’m counting the days until he gets sent home packing.
Luke Menard
ZZZZzzzzzz What? He’s still singing? Let me go grab a drink. Obviously, I wasn’t feeling the song or the performance. Did absolutely nothing for me. Danny had a worse vocal performance, but better showmanship. Luke had no showmanship and that’s why America will forget to vote for him. I have nothing more to say. Luke is out. My first official cut prediction. This is the kind of performance that pisses me off that Josiah was not part of the 24.
Colton Berry
Wow! He does look like Ellen Degeneres. Well, that fact alone will keep him in the contest for awhile. This is assuming that many Ellen fans are also fans of American Idol. I’m betting they are. Good performance. Nothing to write home about, but he didn’t suck and that’s the goal of the first week. Decent song choice. He did his job of not being part of the very bottom performances.
Garrett Haley
What the hell?!?! Dude, the hair. It’s horrible. I don’t know why I’m on a hair kick lately, especially since I’ve lost some of mine, but seriously. He either looks like a drug addict destined to be living with his parents until he’s 40, or if he is a time traveler from the early 70s. He seems to have a skeleton face with some of the camera angles, so I kind of understand what Simon was trying to say. Scary. Nonetheless, the vocals were boring and the performance was non-existent. It’ time to make like a tree and bugger off. Wait… that’s not quite right. Anyway, Garrett will get cut with Luke.
Jason Castro
Here we go with the hair again, but actually, I can handle this. It’s different, but not stupid looking and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because he’s from Texas and I’m partial. I don’t know. The song choice was excellent. He is obviously talented musically with the ability to sing, play drums, and play guitar and who knows what else. He’s got an infectious smile but his eyebrows bother me. It’s not a uni-brow, but they seem close together. Not a big deal, really, but some waxing may be in his future if he plans on making it big commercially. Overall, great performance.
Michael Johns
I think the producers have big plans for this guy. Good looks, great Australian accent. What girl can resist that? Seriously? There are jealous guys with hot girlfriends all over America right now. The guy is truly a natural and is the odds on favorite of winning the entire thing. I have liked every performance so far and his Bohemian Rhapsody was an awesome song choice in hell week. He’s got a Pierce Brosnan-Mel Gibson-preppy-bad boy style going on - if that makes any sense whatsoever. I don’t know. What I do know - is that that particular combination makes all the sense to the ladies. Michael Johns is the contestant to beat and is a lock for the final two. Write it down.
Top Four Performances were in this order:
- Michael Johns
- Robbie Carrico
- David Cook
- Jason Castro
Top Four in Danger of getting cut
- Garrett Haley
- Luke Menard
- Danny Noriega
- Jason Yeager
I’m going to stick with my prediction of Garrett and Luke getting cut. While Danny’s performance was awful, he did show potential in the showmanship category. Garrett and Luke were just plain boring and I don’t think America will reward boring. Is your opinion different? Let me know.
Feel free to check out Jason of Inner 88’s opinion on this same show -
American Idol 2008 - Top 12 Men Performances for a slightly different opinion.
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Topics: american idol audition, american idol top 12 guys, american idol top 24, idol contestants, idol performances |
February 20th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Totally enjoyed Michael, but Garett…how hilarious is it that no one has even seen him up until last night?
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February 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Stupid.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Great write-up! I agree with all your analyses of the guys’ performances (haven’t watched the girls yet). I think the “JT” reference to Robbie Carrico is that he used to sing in a boy band? I’m pretty sure I saw a picture of him somewhere, looking more like JT than Bret Michaels. Not that I’m all that interested in AI, or anything (shuffles off nervously)
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February 21st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I also just realized that I typed Axle Foley instead of Axl Rose. I guess I just had a total 80s brain confusion. Anyway, what can I say?
February 24th, 2008 at 3:17 am
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