Canadian Idol Top 22: Results, week 2
For those of you who missed tonight's results show...
The bottom four boyz: Clifton, Dwight, Andrew and Brian
Now I'm gonna do the girls a little differently:
Three of the four bottom grrls: Scarlett, Naomi-Joy and Khalila
Then there were four girls left on the couches: Annika, Tara, Carly Rae and Mila... I figured it had to be Annika, maybe Tara, but probably Annika...
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Then Ben called Mila's name. What? I must have heard that wrong. But nope, Mila got up and joined the others on centre stage. What the frack is wrong with the voting public? And quite frankly, what the frack is wrong with Calgary? The first CI, we had Billy Klippert. Did Calgary show wonderful regional support? No! Season 3, we had Melissa O'Neil. Granted she won, but she was in the bottom three several times before Calgary finally stepped up and supported her as a city. But Calgary will support Annika? Are you kidding me?! < /end rant>
So the bottom four grrls: Scarlett, Naomi-Joy, Khalila and Mila
Before I get to the final results, I want to talk a bit more about Carly Rae Jepsen's performance last night, now that I've watched it again:
Carly Rae Jepsen - Sweet Ones
Uploaded by annanalickus
Compare that with Sarah Slean (thanks to Jaclyn of Once I took the Universe to dinner... for posting the link on her blog):
See, here's the thing. Carly Rae's quirky tone is not dissimilar to parts of Sarah Slean's tone, which is why she probably thought she could sing this song. But Sarah Slean... god, when I saw Sarah Slean live, the power in her voice gave me goosebumps and her sweet tone brought tears to my eyes. Unfortunately, Carly Rae completely lacks that power and, as Jaclyn pointed out in the comments for my last post, she growled her way through the song and lost the melody. Plus there's that whole song connection thing. When Carly Rae isn't connected to the song she falls in the cutesy trap. I believe that's part of what we saw last night. But I like this girl, I really do.
So here's my advice to Carly Rae, should she ever visit this way: "Pick songs not just because you like them, but because you have an emotional connection to them. And please be realistic about your voice. Norah Jones once said that her favourite singers were women who could really belt it out but that she had to realize that her own voice wasn't like that. Well, Carly Rae, neither is yours. Maybe you can develop the power but it isn't there now and growling doesn't make a good substitute. So please stay away from anything that needs to be belted out. It's one thing to challenge yourself, it's another to not understand yourself. Please don't make the latter mistake." < /end sermon>
And now for the final results...
The two boyz that went home: Clifton Murray & Andrew Austin
The two grrls that went home: Scarlett Burke & Naomi-Joy Blackhall
I can live with that.
The bottom four boyz: Clifton, Dwight, Andrew and Brian
Now I'm gonna do the girls a little differently:
Three of the four bottom grrls: Scarlett, Naomi-Joy and Khalila
Then there were four girls left on the couches: Annika, Tara, Carly Rae and Mila... I figured it had to be Annika, maybe Tara, but probably Annika...
Read more...
Then Ben called Mila's name. What? I must have heard that wrong. But nope, Mila got up and joined the others on centre stage. What the frack is wrong with the voting public? And quite frankly, what the frack is wrong with Calgary? The first CI, we had Billy Klippert. Did Calgary show wonderful regional support? No! Season 3, we had Melissa O'Neil. Granted she won, but she was in the bottom three several times before Calgary finally stepped up and supported her as a city. But Calgary will support Annika? Are you kidding me?! < /end rant>
So the bottom four grrls: Scarlett, Naomi-Joy, Khalila and Mila
Before I get to the final results, I want to talk a bit more about Carly Rae Jepsen's performance last night, now that I've watched it again:
Carly Rae Jepsen - Sweet Ones
Uploaded by annanalickus
Compare that with Sarah Slean (thanks to Jaclyn of Once I took the Universe to dinner... for posting the link on her blog):
See, here's the thing. Carly Rae's quirky tone is not dissimilar to parts of Sarah Slean's tone, which is why she probably thought she could sing this song. But Sarah Slean... god, when I saw Sarah Slean live, the power in her voice gave me goosebumps and her sweet tone brought tears to my eyes. Unfortunately, Carly Rae completely lacks that power and, as Jaclyn pointed out in the comments for my last post, she growled her way through the song and lost the melody. Plus there's that whole song connection thing. When Carly Rae isn't connected to the song she falls in the cutesy trap. I believe that's part of what we saw last night. But I like this girl, I really do.
So here's my advice to Carly Rae, should she ever visit this way: "Pick songs not just because you like them, but because you have an emotional connection to them. And please be realistic about your voice. Norah Jones once said that her favourite singers were women who could really belt it out but that she had to realize that her own voice wasn't like that. Well, Carly Rae, neither is yours. Maybe you can develop the power but it isn't there now and growling doesn't make a good substitute. So please stay away from anything that needs to be belted out. It's one thing to challenge yourself, it's another to not understand yourself. Please don't make the latter mistake." < /end sermon>
And now for the final results...
The two boyz that went home: Clifton Murray & Andrew Austin
The two grrls that went home: Scarlett Burke & Naomi-Joy Blackhall
I can live with that.
2 Comments:
Heh, thanks very much for the shout-out.
On the subject of Sarah Slean, which live show did you attend? It appears we are both from Calgary, so there's a good chance that we were at one or more of her concerts.
So far I've seen her three times (headlining twice and opening for Ron Sexsmith once.) I think my favourite concert was the one at the Rosza Centre. Just her and the piano was simply magic.
Aside from which, did you know she's going to be performing at folk fest?
I was at the Rosza Centre concert and yes, it was magical.
I didn't know that she was coming to the folk festival. Thanks muchly for the information... I wouldn't want to miss that!
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