Tonight's episode of American Idol gave us the Top 5 performing the music of Frank Sinatra while being directed and mentored by Harry Connick Jr. The only person who seemed comfortable performing this type of music was Big Mike and he probably gave the best vocal performance of the evening. Unfortunately, he is still Big Mike so we had to watch him lovingly listen to the praise from the judges which always makes me feel ill. That makes me rank him number two for the evening to Lee Dewyze who is a much more likable person since he always looks like he does not believe any of the praise he receives. Lee made his Sinatra number seem more like a Lee Dewyze song unlike Mike who changes genres like a chameleon. Crystal tried again to switch her style again this week with her Sinatra song, and she performed well but not great with another laid back performance. I would rank her third for the evening with a solid performance but nothing amazing. She was still better than Aaron or Casey though. Aaron looked like he was dressed up for a "grown up" event and his performance was okay but not very believable. But he still performed better than Casey James who was the consensus bottom of the evening. He did not look comfortable, missed a lot of notes and made a lot of strange faces. Since he was in the bottom two last week with Siobhan after a much better performance last week, I think he is very serious trouble. Here are my numeric rankings for this evening:
1) Lee Dewyze - 7.0/10 Made the song his own and performed with some emotion. Plus he took the judging well without looking like smug Mike.
2) Big Mike Lynche - 6.5/10 Best vocals of the evening, but his attitude before and after his performance just do not impress me.
3) Crystal Bowersox - 5.5/10 Nice style change but not an exciting performance. Two weeks in a row of pleasant but not exciting have not been good for her.
4) Aaron Kelly - 4.5/10 Pretty solid vocal performance for him but not much stage presence.
5) Casey James - 3.0/10 Shaky vocals, and not much stage presence. Not very pleasant to listen to or watch.
My big question for tomorrow night is who will be in the bottom three. I am pretty definite that Casey will be there, but the other two depends a ton on their fan support. My guess is the only one who is safe this week is Lee. Crystal might be named in the bottom three, but I still doubt it since I believe her fan base is huge. I even think Aaron's fans may be powerful enough to put him in the bottom three but not the bottom two. Mike Lynche has proven not to have the strongest voting support so I could see him in the bottom three as well. The best pick for who is leaving tomorrow is Casey, based both on his performance tonight and his proven weaker fan support. However, I could still see Aaron or even Mike leaving tomorrow based more on voting preferences than their actual performance tonight.
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