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Current mood:	jubilant
Entry tags:	ai, american idol, american idol: fic

American Idol Top Five
David Cook's adorable humility and awe in the face of suddenly being a sex god will never stop being, well....adorable. I love that he was right from the beginning a total rock idol onstage (allowing those few weeks before he learned how to work a televised medium and overdid it), and yet is such a friendly, personable word nerd in real life.



Neil Diamond is a hard animal to pin down. He's rock, he's pop, he's country...he's had the career that he's had because he's a chameleon. There's something for everyone there, and so far the only person who has missed a step (three songs in, but whatever, she's clearly the weakest link at this point) is Brooke. It was fun, and competent, but it wasn't special. Since it wasn't godawful like last week, either, and won't panic her fanbase, I hesitantly think that the person who deserves to go will be the one to bow out this week.

No matter how much he's rawking it up (and an appearance by Les Paul, hee!), David Cook gets that "I'm Alive" is a song about run-through-the-rain joy in spite of the fact that the world is so very imperfect, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm going to have a whole David Cook playlist by the time that he either wins or gets voted off.

David Archuleta: oh, baby. And I do mean baby. Technically perfect, completely asexual. And I don't mean that the seventeen year-old should be doing pelvic thrusts on the stage or anything, but I don't even believe that David has ever experienced puppy love based upon this. I mean, take a look at Jordin last year, who was also a youngun. She took songs about heartbreak and she made you feel them.

Syesha: Okay, last week was not enough to make me do a total 180 on Syesha, but it was certainly enough for a 135. Syesha, you're doing that shit again. It's not a cutie-pie song. And when I close my eyes, she's getting it, okay, but then I open my eyes and she's doing that smile that Kat McPhee used to do that drove me up the wall.

...oh my God, Paula flat did not realize that they were on the first song. And she's sober. This is a Top Ten moment in show history happening, right here.

Jason Redux: he's playing it very smart this week. I was not found of his first song-I just think that the lyrics are a little inane-but he's not going anywhere if this second song is anything to go by. He sounds good, he's playing to the soft, intimate thing that's his greatest strength, it's all good. Not fantastic, but good.

David C. Redux: I wasn't in to it until he started to really power through the notes, and then I reached the happy place. I love how he'll power up to the macho rock place, take it back down to soft and intimate, and then do it again without any noticeable strain whatsoever.

Brooke Redux: Better. I think that she's putting Syesha at risk, here, because Archuleta's fanbase is the thing that would not die.

David A. Redux: oh, sweetheart, I want you to rebel so hard, so much. There's an incredible voice in there that just needs an adult artist behind it. Yeah, he's singing about America. Brooke or Syesha is going down.

Syesha Redux: Hi, girl! I think-I hope-that this performance will save her. She's probably going to wind up B3 again, even though she doesn't deserve it, but this is just fun. Being barefoot brings out Syesha's super powers, apparently.



I am so glad that I have a job that only requires 15-25% of my brain at any given time. It frees up so much time to think about whether or not a "music soothes the savage beast" moment of David singing in the vampire AU would be too over the top (and then realize, shit, I'm contemplating a vampire AU, maybe the time to worry about being over the top is past), that if Michael Johns ever sings "You'll Accompany Me" I will hit the ionosphere, and that "Cherry Pie" is the best Dean/Woman song ever written. And now you know so much more than you ever cared to about my musical tastes (ie, about thirty years in the past).