American Idol Top 40 Night

Tonight's American Idol presented tunes from the Top 40 hit list where some of the performers gave their best performances of the competition. In total, nine contestants remain on American Idol.

Anoop Desai was up first for the night but gave a disappointing performance which gave Simon Cowell "a headache" and was judged as "nothing original". Am not seeing Anoop as anything original and truly not what one would think of as "Idol" material.

Singing one of her favourite songs by Bob Marley, "Turn Your Lights Down Low", Megan Joy got herself into further trouble according to Kara DioGuardi, who's missing the full range of Megan's voice, its falsettos etc. Paula Abdul told Megan she “needs to surprise us now” to stay in the competition. Simon judged Megan’s performance as “boring, indulgent and monotonous” and “wrong choice of song”. Again. Megan came to her own self defence and thought she had pleased her “fans”. Me thinks, Megan needs a lot of fans this week to stay in the competition. She’s so gorgeous, but I think she’s missing her true calling – Hollywood needs her.

Danny Gokey gave his best performance so far in the American Idol competition. Randy Jackson judged Danny’s performance as the one where “tonight’s show starts right here”. I personally can’t remember what he sung because I don’t find him to be “Idol” material so I guess I won’t be downloading his tune anytime soon.

One of the very best, or perhaps, the best female performers in the finalists, Allison Iraheta, wearing a rather silly getup of the kind that 16 year olds since time immemorial have been putting together, accompanied herself with the guitar singing “Don’t Speak”. As usual, apart from the comments on her clothes by the judges, she was rated as “masterful”, “effortless”, etc., etc. … Simon couldn’t ignore the outfit either, and found Allison like a little girl dressed up like a rock star, singing a rock song and thought she “shouted the song”. Simon, she’s still amazing. Get her a stylist.

Scott MacIntyre, now slicking back his hair like Adam Lambert, again with his piano, serenaded us with a Billy Joel song, Carla claiming he’s chosen the right song, Paula proud of him and Randy saying that Scot was the best of the night. Not another song I’ll be downloading anytime soon.

Matt Girard sung “You Found Me” by the Fray. Matt is talented but chose the wrong song, let’s face it. Simon complained, “we don’t like you this week” and judged his performance “uptight”. Randy said Matt chose the wrong song. Cara finds Matt waivers between rock and pop, but he doesn’t deserve to go home. I agree. He’s better than some of the aforementioned American Idol contestants. He’s got talent.

Lil disappointed again this week with an old fashioned Celine Dion song. I’m sure she’s got it in her but me thinks she keeps choosing the wrong song. Damn! Randy agreed with me, Cara saw glimpses of what the judges had seen in the beginning with Lil. Simon, thought she’d chosen a safe song and gave a performance similar to a performance at a wedding.

Adam Lambert, already an American Idol who needs no training, no grooming, no dance lessons, no voice lessons, or style coaching, thrilled the audience and judges with “Play that Funky Music” by Wild Cherry. Paula rates him a “true genius” and compared him to the likes of Mick Jagger, although found his performance not as good as last week. Randy judged Adam “in the star zone” and Cara admitted she can’t wait each week to see what Adam will do. Neither can I. This guy, Adam Lambert has got the moves. Sexy or hot or what?

Chris Allen was last up on American Idol (one of the best places to be on a given night) and sung “Ain’t No Sunshine” beautifully. Cara, so seeking artistry in a performer declared “THAT is artistry”, Randy said he gave the best performance of the night, Paula said that song could be the first cut on his album and Simon found it a clever and cool arrangement. When Simon is nice to you, it means he likes you.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see who America votes until tomorrow night on American Idol.