- I voted for Jason on principle because he sang a Bob Dylan song, even though I should have just held back because he mangled a Bob Dylan song. Fox needs encouragement to clear more lyrically-centered tracks… though it doesn’t help if the contestants then forget the lyrics.
- White boys, and actually most black boys too, should never touch Bob Marley even with a 20-foot pole.
- David Cook‘s take on “Hungry Like the Wolf” was pointless, but “Baba O’Riley” was fantastic, and the second best song choice of the night to “Mr. Tambourine Man”.
- The pimping of David Archuleta jumped several notches last night from “mildly irritating” to “vomit inducing” to “a salient reason not to watch next season”. In terms of generational appeal, he’s sort of a reverse Barack Obama: someone Baby Boomers adore whose appeal most folks my age I’ve talked to just don’t see. Like, at all. I mean, he seems like a nice enough kid, so nothing against him personally. It’s just that the hype is so heavy-handed and so obvious.
- “Love Me Tender” sung by a teenager? Ick, no.
- I have to hand it to her, Syesha knows how to step up her game when it counts.
- Still, did she really compare her place in the Top 4 to the Civil Rights movement? Ugggghhh.
- All in all, a waste of what could have been the best theme night of the year, not counting Jason’s choices (they were good songs even if they weren’t good for him) and “Baba O’Riley”. What, no “Rock Lobster”? Only somewhat more seriously, no “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (my new favorite Dylan song)? And of course, no “Sunday Bloody Sunday”? Sure, taste is subjective, but the choices mostly fell flat to me.
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