Just caught Taylor's appearance on the Tonight Show with Leno. Kevin Spacey was also on the show, and Taylor was very complimentary of Spacey's biopic of Bobby Darin "Beyond The Sea" and came off as a very likable guy. They also showed Spacey's opening monologue on SNL when he was poking a...
My jaw dropped when I saw Chris Daughtry on the MTV Movie Awards show in a short segment spoofing the Davinci Code (singing "You had a bad day" along with a few others).
I had AI in P-I-P (while watching Lost) and didn't realize it when Clay showed up either (but that was just right after all those really bad performance clips showed up, and I thought Clay was one of those really really bad wannabees, like the Michael Jackson guy, etc).
Kat brought out the pups tonight for her duet with Meatloaf. Let's just be grateful that Meatloaf did not display his moobs in his performance with Kat.
1st round: Kat - totally safe song that didn't really need to be re-sung. Taylor - used the song to announce that he wasn't taking any prisoners by singing a song suited to his strengths. Taylor 1, Kat 0 2nd round: Kat - I don't think lightning struck twice, plus I think singing while...
Kat won't be packaged as "pop", instead, her niche is "Adult Contemporary". The problem with Kat is that she doesn't have a signature voice that's easily identifiable for a solo singer. Elliott might find a niche in R&B. Taylor just seems like a man-child in his expressions and...
Elliott's 3rd song seemed a little self-indulgent, and I don't really enjoy his riffy style of singing. He might be in trouble this week. Kat's 3rd song would make me wonder how would you market her for today's radio market. Taylor's 3rd song was okay, though it seemed he got a little...
Elliot's second song was more in-line with his groove, but still not too inspired. Kat's second song started well, then got really Zzzzzzz, but then she got a second wind, though the sitting on the floor still looks odd to me. She does sound better with less instruments backing her. Her dad...
Elliot was a bit scared on his first song. Kat murdered the melody of her first song. Taylor is almost unwatchable when he sings angry, nice to see Paula channeling Courtney Cox on the stage behind the judges.
It's called drama, Seacrest delivered the news to Chris with exactly the intention of eliciting the reactions he wanted from both Chris and the audience. It gets the talk going around the water coolers. This is also the main reason why Brian Dunkelman (who?) decided to pass on co-hosting...
For the most part, Simon was echoing my thoughts on the performances. Taylor - spazzy first performance that just undercuts his momentum, but he made up for it in a more focused second performance, though he still has those strange body tics that encourages me to close my eyes when he sings...
Too bad Kat didn't have that roll-around cart that Eddie Murphy was riding on in the beginning of "Trading Places" as an injured war vet. She'd been able to move around a little better without killing her knees.
Elliott: 1st song - picked an okay song built for his vocal range. 2nd song - singing a song that sends out subliminal messages of wanting to go home is a horrible song choice. Plus, it was a boring performance. Paris: 1st song - she's too young to be singing "Kiss", bad song choice...
I was spot on with the judges liking Kat's performance better once they watched it again. It makes you wonder what it really sounds like in that auditorium.