This ain’t no Brat Pack, this ain’t no disco, aaaahhhh, finally – an AI show I won’t fall asleep during: Rock Week! Finally, a genre of music that I know something about.
First up – Adam Lambert singing Whole Lotta Love. Great choice, I get it. He gets to practice with Guest Mentor of the Week Slash. If you nail Whole Lotta Love with Slash, someday his people will call your people about making an album. Adam did get it right, with Slash and on the show. If he wanted to have a little fun, though, he could have done Sweet’s Ballroom Blitz.
Next up – Allison, who did Janis Joplin’s Cry Baby, not a good choice. If I were her, I would have gone with No Doubt’s Don’t Speak or Kim Carnes' Betty Davis Eyes. If she had her heart set on a Janis Joplin song, how about Me and Bobby McGee?
The next performance was a duet by Kris and Danny, Styx’ Renegade. It was a great choice and well sung, but both seemed ill at ease during the performance. This is clearly not their area of specialty.
Kris then did the Beatles’ Come Together and was very mediocre. If he had his heart set on a Beatles song, how about A Day in the Life? He could have had some fun tinkering with the arrangements. If I were him, though, I think I would have done Bryan Adams’ Run To You or maybe Tommy James’ Draggin the Line.
Danny finished up the solo performances with Aerosmith’s Dream On which in a word was Cheesy, Cheesy, Cheesy, Cheesy! I get that he wants to do a classic, how about the Who’s Baba O’Reilly? Or Springsteen’s Born in the USA, or Born to Run or Glory Days? If he had his heart set on Aerosmith, how about Chip Away at the Stone?
The final performance was the Adam/Allison duet, Foghat’s Slow Ride. Brilliant choice, great performance. Simon commented that Adam may have saved Allison by teaming up with her, and I have to agree.
So who’s getting sent home? You could make a case for anyone but Adam. Probably Danny deserves most to go home, but he seems to have a voting block backing him that I don’t get. If there’s a Bottom 2, I’m putting Kris and Danny in it, with Kris hitting the road when it’s all said and done. Mathdude out.
6 comments:
I predicted that Kris will be voted out too. Now that I see you have, I might want to change my prediction. You know, because you're always wrong.
Except about Adam, of course. He rocks. He makes me wish I were a gay man.
I think Danny, like George W. Bush, has all the crazy Christians backing him.
That Styx duet was terrible! I had to FF through it.
You two and Mathdud are all dillusional. The Styx thing, while not my cup of tea (Mathdud's though) was pretty good.
Beck, you've gotta get real hear: Adam is a decent singer and might have had a shot making a credible record at one time, but by virtue of being on this idiotic show he is doomed to Broadway and craptastic fake corp. rock ala Daughtry, Cook, etc... If he had pulled out some Iron Maiden or Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio he MIGHT have won a shot at cred. I've got a buck his record sells less than 250K units. Who's gonna take my action?
Oh yeah, showers are over rated and Kid Rock rules!!!
BE: I'm always wrong? I noticed you didn't criticize my song choices. I'm like the opposite of always wrong.
red: Do you dislike Styx? I dig a few of their tunes, Renegade being one of them.
TA: Dude, you are so wrong, I'm disowning you!
I like some Styx stuff. It wasn't the song that bothered me...it was the singers.
Well, you were wrong, weren't you? Alas, so was I. I had a feeling that Allison was gonna get screwed, but I couldn't bring myself to predict it.
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