(03-22-2012, 08:29 PM)midnightblues Wrote: (03-22-2012, 08:13 PM)cherelann Wrote: (03-22-2012, 07:37 PM)Miguel Wrote: I don't feel like Haley got enough of a reaction from that performance on Twitter. 19 didn't help with that stupid #freehaley hash tag. Ideally, "Haley Reinhart" or "Haley" and "Idol" would have trended naturally.
She put forth a heckuva effort but I don't think it's a song that grabs a live audience if they're not familiar with it. Maybe if she had sung it in quieter fashion with less movement it would have sucked them in.
Let me preface what I am about to say. I love Haley, I will always follow her & I will ignore the haters. However, I was disappointed with this performance, mainly the performance part. Her vocals were spot on but the actual performance had too many bells & whistles for my taste. An understated delivery, IMO, would have been the bomb. She looked beautiful, I loved the dress but her hair seemed to overpower the song.
I guess the reason I am disappointed is because AI is such a huge platform....maybe I don't know what I'm talking about & she wowed America.
Please feel free to refute my observations.
Your observations are right. A lot of people are disappointed but I don't think it's Haley's doing. This is Hollywood this is live TV and this is America Idol. That's what they do they glitter and glam everything to the highest Hollywood is always done it and they always will. I really don't think she had much choice in what she wore, or the way her hair was done up, this is all a production thing. I don't think it's going to matter much people are in love Haley for who she. And at the end of the day she still Haley Reinhart the girl that we've been pulling for for over a year.
After a little processing time I think we had our expectations too high with all the anticipation of waiting months for this. The bird cage was distracting at the beginning, the hair was too VaVoom to one side and we really missed out on the "live" performance and a little post-performance Ryan interview.
However, compared to Lana Del Ray, she looks and sounds like a super star...which she is still on course to become. She has it...looked fabulous, sounded fabulous and this is all part of the process of rolling out the first album.
After listening to the new single, studio version, I am excited about her debut. She will do well with this single and Interscope is doing a great job handling our girl...their star!
Very nice PopCrush review:
http://popcrush.com/haley-reinhart-perfo...ican-idol/
Tonight (March 22) marked Season 10 contestant Haley Reinhart‘s highly anticipated return to the ‘American Idol‘ stage. She has a new album, ‘Listen Up!’ on the horizon, set to drop via Interscope on May 22. It was the perfect opportunity for the husky-voiced singer to offer up a live rendering of her new single ‘Free.’
Reinhart turned the sexy meter up to 11, thanks to her form-fitting hot pink gown, the piles of curls pushed to one side of her head and the fact that she performed in a lighted birdcage, sauntering inside of the bars as she sang. From her styling to the staging, it was a “Va va va voom!” performance from stem to stern. Haley was, in a word, hot. She has matured so much in the space of a year, coming across like a modern Stevie Nicks, with a little less gypsy and a lot more glam.
‘Free’ is a mid-tempo, semi-jazzy and totally soulful romp that sounds like it was penned expressly for Haley Reinhart, since it plays to her smoky strengths.
She may not have won the ‘Idol’ crown in 2011, but Reinhart’s career doesn’t appear to be hindered by that fact. Tonight’s performance made us anxious to ‘Listen Up!’
The Hollywood Reporter confirms Idol appearance by Haley
