It's American Idol

4 months ago 09th Apr 15:51

To mark "Idol Gives Back," the eight finalists were able to pick a song they considered inspirational this week. The two singers with the most at stake did the best job at picking songs that inspired the judges while in contrast others with a better history on the show failed meserably.

Jason Castro Simon Cowell’s target for his percieved lack of committment regards the show decided to sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" a serious risk given its history.

Credit to Castro he made it work. Randy Jacksons thoughts were, "Jason Castro is back in the hunt. That was crazy, molten hot." and Simon called the performance fantastic, so it would seem Castro did enough to make it through another week.

Kristy Lee Cook, who’s spent so much time in the bottom three that she’s resrved her own stool did all she could to earn her place on the comfortable seats of safety this week by selecting her song wisely and doing a nice job with Martina McBride’s "Anyway." It didn’t make anyone forget the original, but it also didn’t make anyone change the channel, has she finally sussed it?

Randy said that he loved it, and that "it was really good for you," but it was in a somewhat negative unenthusiastic tone.

Simon was good with it saying, "With a choice this broad, you have an opportunity to show who you are as an artist, and I thought you were very, very good indeed. You look like a star tonight, Kristy." so the undoubted talent is starting to show through Kristy should survive.

David Archuleta once again drew raves for his version of Robbie Williams’ "Angels." Always unpredictable in his song choices, the teenager made the right choice.

The rest though were at best bland at worst poor with five singers who will be particulary nervous heading into Wednesday’s charity concert and Thursday’s results show.

David Cook should be ok given his recent string of strong performances, but his version of "Innocent" by Our Lady Peace. The most original of the hopefuls most weeks, and in our opinion the most talented of the "Idol" finalists, struggled.

Paula Abdul as you would expect loved it, but Simon spoke for most in the audience when he said, "I didn’t like this performance very much at all. I thought it was a teensy-eensy bit pompous. It wasn’t anywhere near as good as the past two weeks."

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