Emily Piriz took a big chance singing an upbeat Jennifer Lopez song but she only highlighted the fact that she is no Jennifer Lopez. Piriz to me always felt like she was play acting up there on stage. She was at best, a passable pretty pageant contestant with a decent voice but no star quality. […]

We had high expectations for this crew but so far, they aren’t reaching those levels. And tonight, with the theme “home,” was a tough night for even some of the favorites. There were a lots of middling to decent performances, nothing really mind blowing, nothing horrible. A lot of B grades in my mind. No […]

Kristen O’Connor seemed like dead weight to me. I have no idea why they even let her in for the wild card. They should have kept either pretty boy Spencer Lloyd or Bria Anai, the R&B Lithonia teen. And tonight proved me right. (I called it last night, though it was hardly a tough call.) […]

Did I rev up Sam Woolf too much this past week? Of course I did. There was no way he’d be able to meet the lofty expectations I created. And worse yet, he picked a Matchbox Twenty tune. Serious snoozer of a song pick. Otherwise, it was a hit or miss show, as first nights […]

Every year, I predict how the top 12/13 will finish on “American Idol.” Some years, I do pretty well.  During season 11, for instance, I actually picked the winner early.  But then there are years like season 8, where I notoriously predicted the first two to be eliminated as Kris Allen, followed by Adam Lambert. […]

TMZ claims “Idol,” with its drooping ratings and high costs ($15 million each for Ryan Seacrest and Jennifer Lopez, for instance), may lose money this year for the first time. Obviously, it’s not a cheap show to produce and they haven’t made any blatant budget-cutting moves. In fact, they clearly spent a lot just re-doing […]

“American Idol” has been dominated by the South for its 13-year entire run. Nine of 12 winners are from the South (if you count Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma as the South per se but even without them, it’s still 6 out of 12 from the Southeast). A much higher-than-normal number of singers among the finalists […]

The top 10 from the public vote were announced relatively quickly. Then five of the remaining 10 singers were given a shot to sing for the other three judges’ spots. Quick observations: – All the favorites got in, though it took C.J. Harris a wild-card pick to make it. The favs included Sam Woolf (our […]

After the disappointing night we had last night with the ladies, the guys picked up the pace and gave us a fun night overall. The men in general are a more seasoned group and that may have made a big difference. They also had the advantage of seeing the women the night before and that […]