American Idol 2013

[kaypea]

Candice's version of You've Changed was indeed beautiful.For the most part she took Harry's advice and didn't try and over do it.With a voice like hers you don't have to.And when she put her own spin on things it was tastefully done and she's able to make them all her own.

I loved Harry's tassle with Randy at the end of the show.-Give 'em hell Harry.

[Ronzoni]

Angie sang "Someone To Watch Over Me" last night.

I always loved Amy Winehouse's version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5--q2GPNo

[Himm2]

Candice's version of You've Changed was indeed beautiful.For the most part she took Harry's advice and didn't try and over do it.With a voice like hers you don't have to.And when she put her own spin on things it was tastefully done and she's able to make them all her own.

I loved Harry's tassle with Randy at the end of the show.-Give 'em hell Harry.

I prefer HARRY Reinhart to HARRY Connick. I was never much of a crooner fan.

[Tom22]

Candice's version of You've Changed was indeed beautiful.For the most part she took Harry's advice and didn't try and over do it.With a voice like hers you don't have to.And when she put her own spin on things it was tastefully done and she's able to make them all her own.

I loved Harry's tassle with Randy at the end of the show.-Give 'em hell Harry.

I prefer HARRY Reinhart to HARRY Connick. I was never much of a crooner fan.

I have Haley's albums, not Harry Connic myself ; ) (putting Harry R asside for now)


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On that crooning comment - it brings up something else that I've been thinking about (I'm assuming you're reffering more to the rakish swag of Frank Sinatra rather than the more gentle romance crooning of Bing Crosby... but maybe it's both)


I'm begging to have a theory about a little point of preference different people have in terms of style within a genre.

No-one is entirely on ones side or another of I'm going to try to describe but I think there is some partial pivot point.

- I think I prefer a Song and singer who's going to take an attitude that they're know some secrets about the world and are willing to sort of pass comment on the world or even tell us how the world should work or what is there but not seen.. with a little saunter or bearing that they naturally own the ground they stand on to comment on things.

- I think many others prefer songs and singers that have people sharing more about how they feel inside, not comment editorially on how they believe the world should be or something.

Of course, there often isn't a bright line between when a song is one way or another.

It is also funny when the same song is heard more strongly one way or another in degree depending on a person's preference.

I think I hear "Undone" from primarily my preference perspective -- Haley telling us about love's nature with analogies - (stars fade away they float off into space. like you and I). For me the sad situation is more of a springboard from which to philosophize.

I think others key more on how the singer feels in Undone (I'm sorry, I'm really a mess right now, I'm trying my best to keep it together somehow). The pain is key and the descriptions are just trying to flesh that out the singers state with any defining the nature of love more secondary.

The word "undone" itself might seem more heavily to me like a knot untied allowing boats sailing off in different directions (with wistful good-byes, perhaps, but intact) while the word to others might have more a feeling of something ruined or destroyed. There is plenty of support for destroyed sid the song too talking about "leaves a blackhole when it dies" (dies, emptyness emptyness inside) while I might try to understand(not entirely successfully) the a philosophical reflection and think of the point of no return and the dense place where matter is collected(which doesn't feel like a great description compared to it to Stars.. as they apply to our eyes in the sky and fade and return --- blackhole is interesting but you can't see it to have a visual picture separate from it's scientific definition I get hung up on- lol. than I move to "emptyness" and I'm like "this song isnt about emptyness to me.. you were on the good parts.. don't go back to the sorry parts lol.

The feeling aspect is probably more "correct" and of course I'm not trying to say that artists themselves consistantly are on one side or the other. Most song writers never mean only one or another but gravitate to words with multiple sugestions on top of the central meaning.

I guess its more funny how I warp what I hear into the more self-confident(self-absorbed ? lol) "tell us how it is" style I like.

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[alpha7388]

How could Ryan Seacrest walk by Haley and not say hello?

[Tom22]

How could Ryan Seacrest walk by Haley and not say hello?

I think its all contingent on time. They had her on the Aisle in the place they usually get comments from people so I'm sure it was on the board. All of those tussles between the judges ate up the time.

[Tusk]

Slezak and Amber making light of their earlier dust up about clothing

AmberAI12 Amber Holcomb 2h

WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT MY DONUT SHIRT!?(: @MichaelSlezakTV pic.twitter.com/TttQFV35WX

[Himm2]

Song List for the top 3...

Angela Miller
•“Maybe” by Emile Sandé
•“Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word” by Elton John
•“Try” by Pink

Candice Glover
•“Next To Me” by Emile Sandé
•“One” by U2 & Mary J. Blige
•“Somewhere” by Reri Grist/Barbra Stresiand

Kree Harrison
•“Perfect” by Pink
•“Better Dig Two” by The Band Perry
•“Here Comes Goodbye” by Chris Sligh/Rascal Flatts

and here is Harry Connick Jr's take on last week's "then" songs/performances:
http://www.nextavenue.org/blog/why-harry...uring-idol

[My Alter Ego]

Song List for the top 3...

Angela Miller
•“Maybe” by Emile Sandé
•“Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word” by Elton John
•“Try” by Pink

Candice Glover
•“Next To Me” by Emile Sandé
•“One” by U2 & Mary J. Blige
•“Somewhere” by Reri Grist/Barbra Stresiand

Kree Harrison
•“Perfect” by Pink
•“Better Dig Two” by The Band Perry
•“Here Comes Goodbye” by Chris Sligh/Rascal Flatts

and here is Harry Connick Jr's take on last week's "then" songs/performances:
http://www.nextavenue.org/blog/why-harry...uring-idol

•“Somewhere” by Reri Grist/Barbra Stresiand?? Really? On MJ's big blog, it said "Somewhere" from West Side Story, in which case it would Leonard Bernstein, composer, and Stephen Sondheim, lyricist.

Actually, I hope it's not a song from West Side Story. That's pretty dated and I think it could hurt Candice.

Oops -- Himm2 were likely referring to those who have recorded the song, not those who wrote it.

I still worry about Candice having to sing it for the same reason. It's rather sad that at the point when the contestants need to bring their A+ game, they get saddled with songs chosen by others -- and those songs are often really poor choices.

[Tom22]

thanks for the link Himm2 !:

here's a quote first about the show but even more interesting to me was the part about Barbara Streisand

As it turned out, her rendition was neither Etta nor Lena, nor even Kree. It lacked any personality or feeling. You could see Connick about to pop his cork. That's when Keith Urban went into the audience, took Connick by the hand and brought him to the judge’s table. Taking a seat, Connick proceeded to school a very defensive Jackson in the art of singing standards. The point Connick tried to make, which Jackson didn't want to hear, was that the show’s contestants didn't know these classic songs well enough to take liberties with their melodies and lyrics. In doing so, they were murdering the music.

To me this made an even bigger point. Since its debut in 2002, Idol has always put value on over-the-top vocal performances. Subtlety and intimacy gets you the boot. If minimalists like Peggy Lee or Billie Holiday were to compete on Idol today the judges would eat them alive.

I was friends with Hal Schaefer, a famous vocal coach who died last October. He’s credited with teaching Marilyn Monroe to sing. I once asked him what he thought of Barbra Streisand.:

“When she was a teenager she came to my apartment on Riverside Drive to see if I would give her vocal lessons,” said Schaefer, who was then living in New York. “I was blown away not just by her voice, but her knowledge. She knew who every composer and lyricist was. She knew the entire American songbook. I told her after she sang for me that I would not work with her. She didn’t need me. But I told her she had to promise me never to take vocal lessons from anyone, because what she did was completely right. Once in a while that kind of talent comes along.”

On a recent NPR interview Streisand talked about how, when interpreting a song, she never violates its melody or lyrics, even when putting her own distinct spin on it. That’s why she's so great. And that's why Connick got so frustrated with the Idol contestants.

He listened to them, but they wouldn't listen to him.

Aslo: I forgot the role Keith Urban had in bringing Harry up to shut randy up Whether or not Keith uses precisely the right words I've largely understood what he values and he's attempted to share what bothers him.. or bites his tongue a little when he hears a great voice with passon where he didn't think they did justice to how a song was written.

http://www.nextavenue.org/blog/why-harry...uring-idol