RE: Pia Toscano Parts Ways With Interscope, 19 Management
I really haven't been dissing this singer's performers but I think I expected them to grow more ...or do what they were already very good at better.
Listening to Pia's river deep mountain high I'm really wondering how good this year's contestants are after all. At the time I was put off by Pia's performance which I thought missed all meaning (no matter what she wanted it to mean it had to mean something other than a running vault). All she had was "Determination" which is a fine emotion yet...um.. well.. I need more... seriously it was like the emotion of an Olympic gold medal vaulter has when they're addressing the appraoch, making the run, spring and tripple axle and planting a finish. Like excellent but ?
Now though, at least she had one truly heartfelt and expressed emotion and a stellar voice... to me that performance is looking as good as any we've seen this season allowing for stegnths in some areas and weaknesses in others of the good ones we've seen.
As much as I like to enjoy each season for what it is, season 10 was truly special. Scotty wasn't bad musically .. I think he can use more voice for sure, but I feel like he made real succeful efforts to relate to his songs and other than a lack of range made graceful transistions and made great choices with this phrasing. I'd say the same for Alliana other than her voice was much better but she was having a harder time finding songs that matched her life expierce (actually so did scotty, but he managed to someone make them work sincirely by turning the meaning around to be clean songs about his grandma and followed the pretext logially from start to finish )
As we've seen with James he's a true musician.. .. I suspected it strongly but its kind of cool hearing what he can do lately. I think he might be on par with Casey and Haley in terms of "getting" music .... like I bet he could sing a Bach chorale arangment or something as it was written without a sweat or affectations that didn't belong.
Jacob lusk needed more training and discipline yet what a voice and what true emotion and audience directed empathy. Stephano ? he's really a pretty natural Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr type guy brought forward to today's pop music. lol
Pia was damn good compared to many years.. just there was so much charm and knowledge in S10 a great voice that could execute close to flawlessly wasn't enough.
PS
How does a guy like Michael stay straight draping that over that girl in her skivvies if that! I would be (cough cough) very straight if I were where he were standing
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