Chris Daughtry – I’ll Be There for You – Songwriters Hall of Fame – Video

Blake Lewis - Blender Interview and Star Power Interview

Interview: American Idol's Blake Lewis Talks Potty Humor, Natalie Portman
http://www.blender.com/news/comments.aspx?article=10242

Excerpt:

B: On AOL's Sexiest American Idols list you were ranked fifth, one above Carrie Underwood and one below Chris Daughtry. Do you think you're sexier than Carrie?
BL: She's pretty sexy.

B: That's what we're trying to say — no offense to you or your sexiness.
BL: No, no. I definitely don't think I'm sexier than Carrie Underwood.

B: What about Chris Daughtry?
BL: Well, I have hair. Hair is pretty sexy.

Star Power Interview - Blake Lewis Part 1

Blake Lewis Part 1

Star Power Interview - Blake Lewis Part 2

Blake Lewis Part 2

Canadian Idol - Final Result Show

It is ON!!!!

The show starts with the Top 10 performing a Bon Jovi Medley. Starting off with “You Give Love a Bad Name.”, the Top 10 launch into “Blaze of Glory”, “Livin’ on a Prayer”, “I’ll Be There For You.”, “Making Memories”, “Always”, to finally end the medley with “You Give Love a Bad Name.” The group sing was pretty decent. I missed seeing Greg on my TV, and well, this was great for that. They really showcased him a lot during the show.



Avril Lavigne and her band performed two songs, her new and third single "Hot" and the second single "When You're Gone". Avril seems really happy to be performing on the idol stage. She sounded really good, adding some nuances to her singing that really suited her songs. And of course, her guitarist and back up singer, Jim McGorman was singing and he too sounded amazing (see "http://randomlyyoursbouffe.blogspot.com/2007/09/jim-mcgorman-with-avril-lavigne_12.html for videos of Avril performances).



After some blah blah blah, each idol sings part of their favorite song they performed while on the show:

Mila performs “I’m Going Down.”, Khalila sings “Family Portrait”, Martha sings “Power of Love” (of course), Greg sings “This Love” while playing electric guitar - yum!, Tara sings “Suspicious Minds”, Matt sings “Whipping Post” (even better than the first time), Dwight d’Eon sings “Smooth”, dressed in bondage black pants and playing the electric guitar. He's a god guitarist, I must say!, Carly sings “Sweet Ones”.



Jaydee and Brian sing “Waiting On the World To Change.” The rest of the Top 10 join them.



Bon Jovi perform 2 songs (“Lost Highway” and “It’s My Life”) and sounded pretty darn good.



In their last performance together, the top 10 sing “A Song For You.”

Eva Avila takes the stage and performs her single “Falling for You”. Eva looks great and seems much more comfortable on stage. I don't care for the song tho...



In his final peroformance of the night, Jaydee sings “Johnny B. Goode.” He does sound great when he sings that kind of songs.

For his final performance, Brian chose to do “Karma Police” and blew it out of the park, just like he did the first time.

Jaydee and Brian sing a Medley starting with “Break on Through to the Other Side” . Not to sure what the rest of the songs are ..... :)

Ben finally announces the winner - BRIAN MELO!!!!



Greg Neufeld was my favorite all season, and I really was rooting for him. But Brian was my second choice, so I am happy he won. :)

American Idol - Top 6 Take 2

That was the best show this season. I really dreaded it - after all, none of the last 6 are rockers... But they all did well, some better than others, but it was a really good show tonight. I actually really enjoyed ALL the performances, because each and everyone of the singers give it their all. They just threw themselves in there and went for it. :)

Jon Bon Jovi was awesome. He seemed truly interested in all the contestants, he had great advice, he was enthusiastic and helpful. LOVED HIM!

Phil Stacey — Blaze of Glory - Excellent choice for Phil. It's the third week in a row that I enjoy his performance a lot. Tonight, he was awesome. His voice really suited the song, the song really suited his voice and the new little country flavor he's adding to his voice. It's just too bad he went first. This was his best performance of the season, I loved it! When he starts with the chorus again - "Shut down!" - wow, that was awesome!

Jordin Sparks — Livin’ on a Prayer - This was a bad performance for Jordin. Wow was she out of her element! It really was all kinds of bad. But I didn't hate it, because as I've said before, she still totally went for it. I loved the interaction with the guitar players, that was great. I didn't like her look.

LaKisha Jones — This Ain't a Love Song - At fist, I thought Lakisha was in trouble. But then she regained control of her song and she delivered a very believable performance. Her vocals were great, and finally she performed the way we know she can. Loved Simon's reaction to it all! And the kiss of course. :)

Blake Lewis — You Give Love a Bad Name

"Take these songs and make them your own" - Jon Bon Jovi

If there was ever an advice that a mentor gave and was followed by the pupil, this was it. OMFG, fucking Blake Lewis was fucking amazing! I was SO freaking nervous when I heard Jon's comments... I got even more nervous when I saw Blake's fucking black hair!!! The second he opened his mouth - a huge, fucking big ass grin appeared on my face and never left during the whole performance. I actually got tears in my eyes it made me so happy. LOVED the drummer! This song is HUGE, HUGE, HUGE for any Bon Jovi fan - I love Richie's guitar on it. I didn't even miss that tonight. Fucking Blake Lewis is fucking back! I have not read any comments yet, and I don't care if any of you hated it. I FUCKING LOVED IT!!!!!

Chris Richardson — Wanted Dead or Alive - What a downer after the high of Blake performance... Chris was so totally out of his element, it was not even funny. Like Jordin tho, I didn't completely hate it, as Chris really swung for the fences and went for it.

Melinda Doolittle — Have a Nice Day - Melinda showed us tonight that she can sing anything. ANYTHING! I agree with Randy and Simon - shades of Tina Turner right there. For the first time tho she was a bit pitchy here and there. Again, loved the interaction with the guitarist. Melinda worked the song within her own style, and it worked. She was great!

VERY good night tonight!

Best: BLAKE BLAKE BLAKE!
Worst: Chris and Jordin

Going home: What a tough call, what with one of the best night of the season AND the freaking votes from last week counting! I'd guess Chris and Lakisha, but seriously, who knows???


*****EDITED*****

I don't know how this happened, but I was actually sad to see Phil and Chris go tonight. Phil went out on a really high note. And he sang the heck out of that song tonight. I loved the raspy note he held at the end. :) I thought Chris did awesome on his song tonight. I felt last night he was trying way too hard to be someone he's not... And tonight, he really did the song HIS way, and it worked much better, IMO. Poor Blake was crying. :( They were both total class acts in how they handled their elimination.

On another note - how often are they gonna beat us over the head with "poor jordin was punked last week about her elimination"? Boo freaking Hoo!!! Get over it already. Geez.

What is the deal between Simon and Paula? He can't stop teasing her!

I think it's very sweet how great friends Chris and Blake have become, and how open they are about it all.

Maybe that's why I felt a bit sad to see Phil and Chris go - the remaining 6 are very likable, have great personalities, and they all seem to get along so well.