4/4-4/5 - American Idol 19 All Star Duets and Solos

Grace was pretty good last night, as were a few others.

I wasn't a fan of the girl with the eye patch, and the one guy who sang country was really kind of bad. Like, how did he even make it to top 24 bad. Yikes.

I enjoyed the guest singers, too - Brian McKnight gave me some 90's flashbacks.

FireWoman - you crack me up.
Cecil was so bad. I’m still bruised over Murphy’s elimination and think he should have had a chance over Cecil.
Alana, Alanis, Andrea, Annilee...they all run together for me. I remember the year Fantasia won, some really wonderful singers split the votes and were gone too soon. I think this will happen here. I wonder why they didn’t split them more evenly over the two days.

I loved Murphy, and miss his voice AND his bigger than life smile... but I wonder if it was a choice of his sight over moving him along.  He mentioned how the stage lights were already making his sight worse in his one eye.  Murphy is a far better artist/talent/singer/musician than Cecil and would have done FAR better in the vote than him as well so I have to think it was a choice made out of caution?? 

I have thought about it and can not come up with any reason why they made that choice of the last male to be in the top 24----

I’m curious how they’re going to handle this week’s cuts. Will we vote during the show and then learn at the end which four were cut from each night? Give us the results of last night’s voting at the beginning of the show? I can’t imagine they will keep the ones who were cut around for an extra week to make the reveal next Sunday. But they have done that before. It just seems cruel to have 8 people all prepared to sing and never get the chance.

I forgot about that....that they didn't have a large part of the country vote due to the early announcement. Hopefully, they got rid of that bug too.

They did not do Cecil any favors selecting him for the top 24 when he was so much less talented than just about everybody else. It was a puzzlement to the fans and brought the strangeness of the selection to a very obvious point. The judges did not look good.

Katy looks completely different tonight - she's such a chameleon.

Tori Kelly has a wonderful voice, which I learned on the Masked Singer instead of her original appearance on a singing competition show (ahem, AI!!). The only thing I have to say, though, is she seemed to outshine Madison when singing the duet. I don't expect the stars to NOT sing well, of course, but to really go all out seems like showing off a little bit. I think the other stars have done a better job of showing their talent while also helping show off their mentee's talent. Maybe it will be different with her next contestant. Again, I like her and she's a great singer, but it seemed a little much. I didn't feel that bad for Madison, because she's just not that strong of a singer, IMO.

Last night, I loved Willie's voice and his duet. I'm not decided yet on Grace's voice, maybe she'll grow on me.

Beane and music teacher Jason were really good tonight so far.

Chayse has an appealing voice; I could listen to that gravelly rough kind of singing all day!

He's not hard to look at, either.

In the duet, he actually made Brandon's own song sound better! 

I enjoyed most of the duets, especially over the solo performances. The mentors just sounded awesome; they got good ones this year for sure!

So everyone prepares to sing on Sunday/Monday but then they'll not sing? That will be disappointing! But it's good experience, I'm sure, for them to be there rehearsing and learning.

Just watching on HULU now and tears are flowing after the Ava - Josh duet. That song always brings tears of memory, but their interpretation had me wiping my cheeks.