Category : MooSic

AMERICAN IDOL UPDATES : WEEK 21 APRIL 2008

This week the contestants get to sing songs composed by the highly successful British composer Andrew Llyod Webber. Definitely a challenging week, as his music is made for the musical theatre. My favourite two performances this week come from Syesha & Archuleta.

 

Syesha was full of confidence, charisma and attitude singing One Rock And Roll Too Many. It was her best performance in the competition so far. I was glad to see Archuleta doing something different this week. Previously when the other contestants were trying out different arrangements and showing off their creativity, Archuleta was pretty 'stagnant' going on with his mellow-ballad approach week after week. This week, when the contestants are not brave enough to change the music arrangements of Andrew Llyod Webber, Archuleta gave a pop-version of Think Of Me, and I was proud of his attempt. Believe it or not Simon did not like it, perhaps Simon wants to see the angelic Archuleta being the boy-next-door, just belting out predictable ballad after ballad, yawn...Simon.

 

David Cook took on the my favourite ballad from ALW, Music Of The Night. I agree with Simon, he made the best he could with that song, but it was not vocally astounding or anything.

Two performances which I didn't like were from Carly and Castro. As usual, Carly screamed her way through towards the 2nd half of Jesus Christ Superstar, and was to me screeching at many parts. This time Carly screamed her way out as she was announced as the bottom two together with Syesha, and later eliminated. No more of her screaming next week onwards LOL