TV Tuesday On Wednesday: American Idol

It's down to the final 12 with six guys and six gals competing. This week was the first time the show had access to the songs written by Lennon and McCartney.

My Favorites Of The Night
Brooke White — Let It Be
• She keeps knocking it out of the park. Strong, emotional, and added playing the piano to the mix.

Carly Smithson — Come Together
• She's performed it hundreds of times in her regular bar gig, so she was able to let it rip. Again, she was on the money.

David Cook — Eleanor Rigby
• Started slow but built to a big finish.

Chikezie Eze — She's A Woman
• I'm enjoying him more and more. It was a risky rendition but paid off.

Syesha Mercado — Got To Get You Into My Life
• She was quiet at first, almost overwhelmed by the band. The last few bars were awesome and she would have been the winner of the night if she had sang it all that way.

Ramiele Malubay — In My Life
• It was delicate and I like this one the best of all her performances. One of my favorite Beatles songs.

The Rest
Michael Johns — Across The Universe
• Slow and plodding.

David Hernandez — I Saw Her Standing There
• Seemed out of breath most of the song. I can't say it better than the reviewer over at MTV online:

David's pre-performance interview was chock-full of absurdity. First, he talked about working at a "pizza bistro" (when we all know he works at a sausage factory). And then he had the gall to start a sentence with "A typical day for me would be ..." without ending it with stripping for sweaty Asian businessmen." His "I Saw Her Standing There" was equally vexing, not only because the song is about falling in love with a girl who's considered jailbait in most states, but also because David chose to sing it with more melisma and neck snaps than an all-day marathon of "VH1 Divas."

David Archuleta — We Can Work It Out
• After forgetting the words and turning in a mediocre performance, we see that his victory is not inevitable.

Kristy Lee Cook — Eight Days A Week
• Tried a country-ish adaptation. I think it would have worked if the tempo hadn't been so fast.

Jason Castro — If I Fell
• Awful.

Amanda Overmyer — You Can't Do That
• The naughty nurse turned screaming Mimi. If she stays, at least her dad is hot. Paula said she looked "fantastic"...I'm now convinced that Paula is blind, has no taste, or both.

Worst Interaction
I've had enough with the judges carrying on. I've also had enough of the audience disrupting Simon with jeers and boos whenever he says something negative.
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