Topic: Idol-Talk
This is my second Idol-Talk of season 8. In my previous post, I focused on the auditions. This time, I will focus on Hollywood Week. What I said last time still applies: I will list the names of singers from Hollywood Week (who moved on to the next H'Wood round) who I thought had good/great voices and who I thought were good enough to move on to the next round. The stars by some names show my favorites from my own list. So, here is Hollywood Week:
American Idol: Hollywood Round 1
Airdate: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 [8-9pm]
Before I list names, I want to mention that the contestants went through a Boot Camp with stylists, a vocal coach, and Barry Manilow talking to them and inspiring them to follow this dream of theirs. I think that was great that they went through a Boot Camp.
- *Lil Rounds [sang a Whitney song]
- Anoop Desai
- Jasmine Murray
- Stephen Fowler
- *Jorge Munez
- Jamar Rogers
- *Danny Gokey [Kiss from a Rose]
- Jeremy Michael Sarver
- David Osmond
From this first Hollywood Week episode, 104 contestants moved on to Round 2.
American Idol: Hollywood Round 2
Airdate: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 [8-9pm]
This is the group performance round, which always makes for great TV, since this is when the claws come out and we see the drama unfold.
- Matt Giraud
- Kris Allen
- *Danny Gokey
- Jamar Rogers
- Jeremy Michael Sarver
- *Adam Lambert
- Matt Breitzke
- Jasmine Murray
- Kristin McNamara
Unfortunately, Rose Flak was cut. She had a great audition, but stumbled in Hollywood. She was one of my favorites from the auditions. I hope she auditions again next year. And about 75 moved on to Round 3.
American Idol: Hollywood Round 3
Airdate: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 [8-9pm]
During this round, contestants were able to play with the band and could also use their own instruments
- *Adam Lambert
- Matt Giraud [he sounded like Elliott Yamin; played the piano]
- *Danny Gokey
- Anoop Desai
- *Lil Rounds
- Ju'Not Joyner
About 50 contestants moved on to the final Hollywood Round.
American Idol: Hollywood Round 4
Airdate: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 [8-10pm]
This final round took place in the "Judge's Mansion." I don't know why they needed a Judge's Mansion to do this, but oh well. Another new aspect to this round was the singoff. If the judge's weren't sure of a contestant, they could ask them to sing again against another contestant. I hope they keep this aspect, but it brought something fresh to the show. Since this is the round where the Top 36 Semifinalist are revealed, I will list the semifinalists in the order that they were chosen during the episode, no matter if I like them or not. But I will put stars by those who are my favorites in this group.
- *Anoop Desai
- Von Smith
- Alex Wagner-Trugman [singoff with Cody Sheldon]
- *Adam Lambert
- Taylor Vaifanua
- Jasmine Murray
- Arianna Afsa
- Casey Carlson
- Megan Corkrey
- Mishavonna Henson
- Stevie Wright
Joanna Pacitti[disqualified]- Kendall Beard
- Kristen McNamara [singoff with Jen Korbee]
- Alexis Grace
- Scott MacIntyre
- *Lil Rounds
- Jesse Langseth [singoff with Frankie Jordan]
- Allison Iraheta
- *Danny Gokey
- Rick Braddy
- Matt Giraud
- Ju'Not Joyner
- Jorge Nunez
- Brent Keith
- Stephen Fowler
- Nick Mitchell [aka Norman Gentle; he should have been cut a long time ago]
- Jackie Tohn
- Tatiana Del Toro [so annoying; like Norman, she should have been cut a long time ago as well]
- Nathaniel Marshall [singoff with Jackie Midkiff]
- Jeanine Vailes
- Kai Kalama
- Anne Marie Boskovich
- Kris Allen
- Matt Breitke [singoff with Michael Sarver]
- Michael Sarver [singoff with Matt Breitke]
- Felicia Barton [replacing Joanna Pacitti]
Well, there's our semifinalists for Season 8. Tonight is the first week of voting for the season (yay!). The semifinals are reverting back to the format that the show had during the first few years, where each week a different group would perform and only a few would advance each time. Group 1, performing tonight, is Anne Marie Boskovich, Ricky Braddy, Casey Carlson, Tatiana Del Toro, Anoop Desai, Stephen Fowler, Danny Gokey, Alexis Grace, Brent Keith, Michael Sarver, Jackie Tohn, and Stevie Wright.
My Idol-Talk post for Group 1 will be up either tonight or tomorrow before the results. See ya then...
