'AMERICAN IDOL' | Last 3 numbers prove the guy can't sing, but he still has the edge over the more talented Jordin
May 23, 2007
BY DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic
Blake Lewis is a pad of butter. He is soggy toast. And yet, he may win "American Idol" tonight.
On Tuesday, like a broken record, he again "sang" and beatboxed Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name." (Painful.) Singing Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved," his voice cracked in and out of tune. He was flat. He was sharp.
On "This Is My Now," the new ballad chosen by online vote for Tuesday's faceoff, he vocalized more convincingly, all dressed up like a 12-year-old's idea of an emo punk, in white skinny tie, shiny argyle vest and short-sleeve green shirt.
But that was the only Blake performance the judges didn't like. To the contrary, Jordin Sparks was full-throated but flat or off-key throughout her interpretation of "This Is My Now." Then she cried. The judges loved it.
She also very capably covered Christina Aguilera's "Fighter" and Martina McBride's "A Broken Wing."
At the end, judges seemed swayed by Jordin, though they lit up as usual while critiquing Blake and grew quieter when they addressed Jordin. Why do they love him? He's so cheesy. Why are they reserved with her? She's way more talented.
But Jordin could be screwed with at-home voters. Ellen DeGeneres and women on "The View" have turned against their fellow female to campaign for Blake. Influential VoteForTheWorst.com is backing him, too.
Three prognosticators thought pre-Tuesday that Blake would wear the tiara tonight.
• • Blake was favored 60 percent to 40 percent among 1.2 million users of online social networker Quepasa Corp.
• • eBay said Blake-branded items were selling better, 486 items to 340 for Jordin.
• • And Yahoo said more people were Yahoo-ing for Blake. Yahoo claimed pre-teens and young teens favored Blake 55 percent to Jordin's 31 percent. Just 20 percent Yahoo'ed for ejected Melinda. Those crazy kids hated Melinda!
By the way, Illinois people don't care about "Idol" so much. The list of states where people are Yahoo-ing "Idol" is topped by Hawaii, Washington, Arizona, Alabama and Maine. Big Illinois is nowhere to be found.
BY DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic
Blake Lewis is a pad of butter. He is soggy toast. And yet, he may win "American Idol" tonight.
On Tuesday, like a broken record, he again "sang" and beatboxed Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name." (Painful.) Singing Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved," his voice cracked in and out of tune. He was flat. He was sharp.
On "This Is My Now," the new ballad chosen by online vote for Tuesday's faceoff, he vocalized more convincingly, all dressed up like a 12-year-old's idea of an emo punk, in white skinny tie, shiny argyle vest and short-sleeve green shirt.
But that was the only Blake performance the judges didn't like. To the contrary, Jordin Sparks was full-throated but flat or off-key throughout her interpretation of "This Is My Now." Then she cried. The judges loved it.
She also very capably covered Christina Aguilera's "Fighter" and Martina McBride's "A Broken Wing."
At the end, judges seemed swayed by Jordin, though they lit up as usual while critiquing Blake and grew quieter when they addressed Jordin. Why do they love him? He's so cheesy. Why are they reserved with her? She's way more talented.
But Jordin could be screwed with at-home voters. Ellen DeGeneres and women on "The View" have turned against their fellow female to campaign for Blake. Influential VoteForTheWorst.com is backing him, too.
Three prognosticators thought pre-Tuesday that Blake would wear the tiara tonight.
• • Blake was favored 60 percent to 40 percent among 1.2 million users of online social networker Quepasa Corp.
• • eBay said Blake-branded items were selling better, 486 items to 340 for Jordin.
• • And Yahoo said more people were Yahoo-ing for Blake. Yahoo claimed pre-teens and young teens favored Blake 55 percent to Jordin's 31 percent. Just 20 percent Yahoo'ed for ejected Melinda. Those crazy kids hated Melinda!
By the way, Illinois people don't care about "Idol" so much. The list of states where people are Yahoo-ing "Idol" is topped by Hawaii, Washington, Arizona, Alabama and Maine. Big Illinois is nowhere to be found.
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