Beatles Extension

Last week’s theme was actually McCartney-Lennon originals. This week’s theme extended to the Rolling Stone’s Topnotcher in its 100 Greatest Artists of All Time —The Beatles.


Black bird singing in the dead of night

Again, Carly Smithson rocked the house by singing McCartney’s 1968 opus ‘Blackbird’. It’s an F for Fantastic and another F for Failure since she was included in the bottom three. Indeed, it was an unexpected scenario for a lot of people.

In addition to the innovative arrangement, her husky voice gave her the right to own the song. The performance is totally NOT indulgent nor meaningless, contradictory to what Simon claims.

For Carly:

“Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life,

You were only waiting for this moment to arise…”

The Redeemers

The vulnerable Syesha Mercado is hailed for redeeming herself after singing the song with the most cover versions of any song ever written —‘Yesterday.’ With more than 3000 recorded cover versions of the song, Syesha gave justice to her own version by revealing her vocal prowess. Last week’s inclusion to the bottom three pushed her more to persevere in the competition.

Another contestant who redeemed himself from his last week’s VERY bad performance is David Archuleta. Singing The Beatles last #1 song in the United States, ‘The Long and Winding Road,’ he “has brought the hotness back to his game,” quoting Mr. Jackson.

Noticed the number of blondes screaming in front of the stage after this kid performed? WOW.

Just an advice, please do stay away from the coat and shirt stuff. Don’t you have anything else in your closet?




Please Do Spare Them

Finished with the best performances, here now are the so-so…

Amanda Overmyer’s rendition of The Beatles’ parody song of the Beach Boys’ ‘California Girls’ —‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’— was not strong enough to keep her in the competition. The I-will-never-sing-a-ballad contestant claimed her fame by being the “Rock and Roll nurse” of the season, as coined by Randy. True enough, it’s hard to stay in the competition if contestants are biased to the genre of music they loved to sing.

Her performances had been very predictable (from Simon’s vocabulary) for the past few weeks, and Paula was kinda wrong in her prediction that Amanda will carry on to the Top Ten (read: /tough/ /ten/ - in honor of Janina San Miguel).

Kristy, who desperately loves the bottom TWO, performed again a trying hard version of the Bob Dylan inspired 1965 Beatles song ‘You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away.’ It seems that she’s having a hard time looking for a song that would definitely suit her. Lets cross our fingers so that she would be able to survive the bottom TWO next week…

The 29-year-old Aussie, Michael Johns, messed his performance of the 1967 psychedelic rock song ‘A Day in the Life.’ To sum Paula’s meandering explanation the other night, Michael is not aware that he is out of tune. But the good thing is, he has a very decent wardrobe at home.