At first I thought it was just me, but after checking most blogs and comments tonight, it seems most other people agree. It seemed like we were back to inspirational night or Billboard Top 100 night again when it was Crystal Bowersox and everybody else again. All of Lee DeWyze's performances tonight were pleasant enough, but he never seemed to even be there to compete. And Crystal just nailed every one of her performances, with "Up To The Mountain" ending the evening with the best performance of the season. The amazing thing is that Lee could still win this thing tomorrow due to the power of power texting teen girls. I do not understand why so many people complain that Crystal is not contemporary enough. They say this when I hear current teens listening to hits from the 60's, 70's and 80's all the time. Plus who says that people over 30 do not buy any albums? We buy tons of albums and we actually have the cash to do it. I can see a lot of people in their 30's, 40's and older buying a Crystal Bowersox album and they (we) may even buy her second and third one. It will be a lot tougher for someone like Lee to sell his second or third album when the next new "cute, gravelly voiced guy" shows up next year. I do think Lee is pretty good and will sell some albums, but considering the whole season, I would find it really sad if he wins over Crystal just because of a bunch of over energetic girls and their AT&T cell phones.
Going back to tonight's performances I will give my opinion on ranking them all:
1) Crystal - "Up To The Mountain" 9.5/10 - Emotional, powerful and near perfect. Wow...
2) Crystal - "Me and Bobby McGee" 8.0/10 - Better than the first time she performed it which was already great.
3) Crystal - "Black Velvet" 7.0/10 - She had to push it a bit sometimes with the accompaniment being too strong, but she still delivered.
4) Lee - "Everybody Hurts" 6.5/10 - Not too bad, but he sure does not have much passion in his delivery tonight.
5) Lee - "The Boxer" 5.0/10 - Hey, it wasn't as good as the first time he did it. DeWyze is supposed to have more "confidence" now. Where did his confidence go?
6) Lee- "Beautiful Day" 4.0/10 - Ouch, that is a great U2 song and Bono delivers it with such power. Lee sang it like he was half asleep. The accompaniment was too much as usual. Someone has to learn to tone down all the background singers so the lead singers can sing!
The whole thing almost seemed staged with Lee being oversold last week and then this week they decided to be honest with him and go back to praising Crystal. Sometimes I do not understand the judges at all.
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