Idol "Rat Pack"

[mamadeb]

Kris - "The Way You Looked Tonight". I liked it. Three out of four judges liked it, too. Simon said it was wet.

Allison - "Someone to Watch over Me" . She looks lovely. Song works with her powerful voice - I liked it. All the judges liked it, but Simon thinks she could be in trouble tonight.

Matt: "My Funny Valentine" (shades of Melinda). Not bad. No one's BAD at this point. But not great. It felt - not off, exactly, but not right? Randy doesn't like it, the others, INCLUDING Simon, like it. Simon says he's brilliant.

Danny "I'm Going to Love You". I'm trying not to be biased against him. And seriously, he's not bad. Okay, he's good. Very good. Judges love it. Simon loves it. And I think Simon is right - so far everyone has been good. Which does say something for the mentor (Jamie Foxx. Who is delicious looking.)

Adam "Feeling Good". White suit, black shirt and DIAMONDS in his ears. I think he's the only one who exploits that stage's effects. And he makes the others look amateur. Again. The judges are blown away. I'm blown away.

Comments

[zvi]

Matt suffers deeply from Mariah Carey/Whitney Houston syndrome. He concentrates on R&B musical flourishes instead of just singing the song. In a lot of modern R&B, this is fine, because the songs are basically the chorus over and over again.

When you're singing American standards, you're likely to ruin the song, because it's already amazing on its own. I actually thought Adam did too much to Feeling Good (although, for Adam, he was surprisingly restrained.)

But, yeah, Matt's big problem is oversinging. (His second problem is that he's just not that good. R&B is one of the few fields where a white guy needs to be better than everybody else in order to get a paycheck, and Matt's really, really not. Sadly for him, he's a better R&B singer than a rock singer.)