American Idol 12

First auditions were at New York. New judges were Mariah Carey, new star Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban. So J-Lo has left and her shoes are hard to fill. While Steven Tyler seem to be better at the end of last year, he still decided  to quit. Still there was room for improvement I  guess. If my dreams are true then  Madonna would have been a better choice as judge - Mariah   may have had a troubled life. Another good choice would probably  have been Carrie Underwood. For the male judge, it is harder to choose  - possibly a better one would have been David Archuleta. One could choose Casey James or Heejun Han  I guess- but they don't have really that good record sales. I heard Heejun did judge a K-pop competition last year though.

Quite a few of the videos  on my blog  seem to be removed from time to time. Hopefully I can replace them but it may take some time.

There were  some great voices but not great performances (not the ones like Phillip Phillips and Jason "Wolf" Hamlin last year) in the first episode. There were still some humour and touching moments in the show- basically Idol is still worth watching even at its 12th season.

I felt  the performances for those who got to Hollywood, were better at the beginning than at the end of the episode.

The funniest performance was probably by Albert Chang. Nicki Minaj said his range is better than Mariah's!



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American Idol 11: Phil holds the edge but it will be close

I have been taking a break from this for some time. Donna Summer and Robin Gibb both passed away this week. Tomorrow will be the results of this year's final.

Phil has been improving the last few weeks and seems less one dimensional in his performances. Jessica has already broken one record in being the first Asian American to feature in the final. As for Skylar who went out a couple of weeks ago, she actually did not improve that much after "Shameless", so she was actually more of a dark horse than a dream idol.

It looks like Phil did better in the final song. Also the majority of people voting seem to be young girls who would most likely vote many times for him. Such has been the scenario for the last few years that there has not been a female winner for quite some time. It will be close but Jessica could still win it.

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This week both Heejun and Skylar were in the bottom three but Heejun was the one to go. What Heejun sang was not really the genre that I like but the vocals were probably one of the best in the history of American Idol. The judges gave a standing ovation but it looks like that did not count much when it came to the final decision. This seems to be unfair and in the future, it should be made a rule that a standing ovation should be an automatic save. Seems like J-Lo wanted to save him but the others disagreed. Anyway here is his performance.



I thought Skylar performed very well and should not have been in the bottom three. Even though she has a nasally voice, her last two performances have been good. Will be the one to watch in the next few weeks - if she stays long enough.

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This week was a surprise indeed - as Heejun had ended up in the bottom three. I was also surprised that Deandre was also in the bottom three. I felt that they were both entertaining. It looks like Heejun's chances of winning this is not very strong and he may be sent packing next week. Here is the video of him singing Billy Joel's "My Life"



I felt that this was one of the best performances of the night. Except for Phillip Phillips, Diddy did a good job with most of the singers. Phillip had changed a lot of the song and it sounded almost nothing like the original. I was surprised the judges did not comment about this- it was like they have not listened to any Billy Joel songs at all! Colton Dixon was the other singer that I felt could have ended up in the bottom three - his voice was just too whiny for my liking. Why the judges and mentors never comment about this while people in the internet do - is a mystery to me. Jessica Sanchez did a good job with " Everybody Has A Dream" but for some reason I still don't think she is ready to win it. So if Heejun goes off next week, who is the next best choice to win it? Skylar Laine?

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Heejun has made it into the top 10 of American Idol. This week he sang "Right Here Waiting"



Two singers were sent home this week - "gentle giant" Jermaine Jones was disqualified due to some legal issues while Shannon Magrane was voted out.

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Jeremy Rosado was sent home this week.

Here is Heejun singing " All In Love Is Fair".

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Heejun Han made it into the top 13. Here is his cover of "Angels".



"Gentle giant" Jermaine Jones was the wildcard in the top 25 and he surprisingly made it into the top 13.