Tse Me

The Last Two

They opened the show with a silly coin toss to determine who goes first. Ryan touted controversy/mayhem during the toss. What happened? Ryan dropped the coin (a double sided jobbie with Carrie's face on one side and Bo's on the other). It fell down a grate on stage. It was so bogus, they even had stage hands come help try to lift the grate. 1) why is there a grate on stage? its not like there's a subway under it that needs venting.
2) it SOOO lifted! Both when Ryan (who weighs 3 lbs) tried and when the stagehands and Carrie tried.

What a lame skit. The so need better comedy writers.

Now on to the singing...

Bo: Long, Long Road - was his original song. It was nice, not powerful, but definitely melodic. The song was not great. When the choir or whatever joined in, they overshadowed his voice and they sounded like they were singing in a different key than Bo. I coulda done without their 'help'. As for Bo's singing. He's got a great voice. He really got the crowd going. This is one of those songs that may grow on me the more I hear it.

Randy weighed in and agreed... weird song. Ha ha... I could be destined for bigger things: American Idol Judge! whoo hoo! lol. Paula said a bunch of nothing. This is what I hear when she talks: wah wah wah, blah blah blah. And I have no idea what his reference to Simon's chemistry teacher has to do with anything. So I spent my time trying to figure him out and didnt' hear the rest of what he said. I think he said something similar to Randy - that the song was strange.

Carrie: Sang her original song. It sounded like her voice was cracking during the chorus. It sounds like she's stretching too hard to make the notes and a lot of them sounded off key. Randy and even Paula heard it. Simon chalked it up to her nerves. Perhaps it is. And he gave great advice that she needs to pace herself tonight. I agreed. She was really punching her voice to make it hit the notes and push out the power. Simon said she won out of the 2 songs so far.

I'm not so sure I'm lovin' this original song crap.

Now, on to Bo's favorite song of the season. God, I hope he doesn't sing that Black Crows song. I didn't like it at all. And since he just did the a capella song last week, he can't do that again right away. Hmmm what'll he choose? - ah Vehicle. Yes, that was one of my favorites of Bo's. It was one of the ones that swayed me over to his camp. His voice is excellent in this song. All the judges agreed

Carrie sang the Martina song, Independence Day. I think her voice is giving out from all the stress. When she did this the first time, it sounded flawless and today she sounds like she's shouting to get the song out. It still sounded good, but Bo won this round, to me. He was much smoother and didn't have to try so hard.

Randy thought she was great. Paula said, "Primo". Simon of course... agrees with Me. He said it sounded strained to him. Me, too! He also agrees that Round 2 goes to Bo.

Bo sings Inside Your Heaven as his last song. His voice sounded a little pitchy, as they say, during the chorus. Is this the same song that Carrie just sang? Maybe its just another bad song. Did Tamyra write this? I definitely like it better in Bo's version. But this is a hard song and makes both their voices sound off. Thumbs down to the song. And speaking of Tamyra, they didn't have Kelly on this season.

Randy loved it, gave him props. Paula really loved it. Simon said that Bo showed his nerves a bit -- hmmm -- what that it? Nah, just a bad song. I liked the compliment that Simon gave to Bo - that was sweet.

I'm about to go upstairs when I realize - oh! there's one more song to go! I completely forgot. To me, the competition was over. Bo sang his 3 songs. Done. LOL -- oops

Carrie: Angels Brought Me Here- I think she's still stretching her voice too much to sing this song, too. I can only guess that her voice is tired and stressed out. Then again... Randy gives her his only standing ovation of the season... huh? Paula said nothing useful (no surprise). Then Simon said she had a lot of guts. What's that mean? You enter without knowing who you're gonna be up against. So what if Bo was older and more experienced? Its not like she's gonna quit just because its down to 4 and Bo's been around more. What a silly comment. And then, I guess he had to support his previous comment, he said she did enough to win the competition. I disagree, I don't think she pushed herself as much as she could have earlier one. She was good all along, but showed no big growth.

Overall, based on growth, stepping out from their safety zone, originality of sound... Bo's the clear winner to me.

One final note here. I don't remember with seasons 2 and 3, but Meredith called this winner from day one. Same with Kelly. And to my mind, season 1 and 4 were the only ones really worth watching. Go Mere, you psychic, you!

posted by LTC @ 7:20 AM