Spoilers for the “American Idol” Top 3 performance show coming up just as soon as I note again how pathetic the show is, in that they needed to schedule a 64-minute episode to fit in six performances (in a week when they used to be able to do nine) and they still ran a minute long!
With producer incompetence cutting a song from each contestant, we didn’t get to see what sort of music Clive Davis might have thrust upon these three, nor did we get to see the producers try to sandbag somebody the way they did with Syesha and that silly penguin song last season. Just one choice from the judges, and one from the contestants.
Judge’s Choice
Danny Gokey, “Dance Little Sister” (Paula’s choice): Paula’s made some really awful and/or cheesey selections for contestants in past seasons (”Satisfaction” for Bo Bice, “Roxanne” for Blake Lewis), but she makes a pretty good one for Danny, if you assume getting stuck with the most obscure song of the night won’t hurt him. It’s a fine match for his voice, and if it sounds like every other uptempo Danny performance, it at least showcases the more interesting side of his persona. He’s basically a more vocally-gifted, younger-looking Taylor Hicks, which may be a bad thing for selling records but seemed to do Taylor just fine on the show. (Read more here)
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