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Finalists Reveal Their New Singles
The two finalists revealed their new "singles" this week. One I liked; the other I hated.
First, the performances of the two finalists: Katharine McPhee and Taylor Hicks.
I've disliked Taylor Hicks right along and am still surprised he is one of the two finalists and further, with this missive being written BEFORE the winner is announced, Taylor might be the 2006 American Idol. At the end of the post the winner is posted but I write this early in the day, 5/25/06, that my prose and thoughts not be prejudiced by the outcome. Once the winner is announced I will post this on the Blog with these early thoughts still in place no matter the result.
Katharine McPhee began the three-song final performance with a song she sang once before. The title is "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree". I'd never heard of the song when she sang it before and now that I've heard it again, I still don't like it. Katharine evidently likes the song and I suppose it's the sort of current and happening song she'd like to sing should she be the winner of the 2006 American Idol competition.
Make no mistake that Katharine is a mainstream pop singer kind of entertainer and these types tend to get the votes. For now I am predicting Katharine will win the 2006 competition because of that mainstream thing and the fact that the girl is perfectly lovely, much prettier than Taylor Hicks.
Randy noted that Katharine's first rendition of the horse song was a better performance.
For her second song Katharine sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", a good choice as out of all the songs Katharine sang she performed this tune beautifully.
Paula rambled on about proud Dads after Katharine sang this Judy Garland classic. Simon declared it the "best performance of the competition."
Katharine sang her debut single, a tune called "My Destiny".
I didn't like it a bit nor did the judges. Which was odd in that the judges negative comments could depress sales, don't you think?
The tune had Katharine's voice all over the musical scale, with major parts entirely too low for her range. If Taylor Hicks should win, I'd argue that it was this song that killed Katharine. Taylor's debut single was much better.
Speaking of Taylor, he began his first of three songs for the performance finale with "Living in the City". I suppose this is Taylor's sort of song and it does fit his voice and performance style perfectly. It's a mainstream enough kind of tune to keep Taylor in the running.
As an interesting aside, much was made of the fact that on Taylor's initial tryout for the AI competition Simon turned him down. I'd argue that Simon was wiser than we give him credit for because there's been gazillions of contestants better than Taylor.
On to Taylor's second song, Elton John's "Levon", it was an okay performance.
It was Taylor's debut single that was quite good and could put him over the edge to win this thing. The title was "Do I Make You Proud?" and go with me on this, it was a perfect song to tease the older and wiser viewers just like myself into voting for Mr. Hicks to win.
Indeed it was a great tune, though hardly the sort of song in Taylor's repertoire but it could be a real hit on the pop charts.
For now I'm going with Katharine as the winner.
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