Only the top 3 are really anything worth watching, The rest have a lot of work to do to impress me.

Oh, I forgot to rant in my last post that I didn’t think that “Drops Of Jupiter” was a “bold choice” for that model to sing, as the judges kept saying. That annoyed. Then again, most of the show annoyed me, really.

Pearl Heart started off the show pretty well, although I agree that that they didn’t need to harmonize every note of the song.

I was interested to see what Navy boy Tommy would be like when I saw the quick glances at a couple of his auditions. I wasn’t blown away, but I think he has potential. I think he has good energy, even though his energy last night was quite awkward. I look forward to seeing what else her can do.

Laura & Sophie did a fine job with their song.

I was disappointed by the amount of “classic” (as you guys would probably call it, I was going to say “old”) songs that were played. I’m a fan of the newer country music, so Elvira and All My Exes Live In Texas don’t really do it for me. Plus, I really didn’t like Third Town, especially the whiny voice of the guy with the purple hair.

Link: http://www.myspace.com/hewittsisters
Or check them out on the cool OMG samples page:
Link: http://www.omgnashville.com/samples.htm

I like “Girl In a Car” and “Caribou Road” better than most of Taylor Swift’s music. Hopefully Ashlee will redeem herself after singing that Colbie Caillat song that didn’t go over so well here at The 9513…

PS – Here’s a tidbit from Paul King’s latest Ashlee praise-fest at Nashville Hype:

“Ashlee had initially performed an original song for the judges, “Georgia To Set Me Free” – which led to her getting her pass on the show. All judge John Rich could say was, “Touchdown!”. And Jeffrey Steele – one of Nashville’s most successful and prolific songwriters said, “it was the best original song he’s heard” from any other contestant who tried out.” We’ll see……

I’m embarrassed that this show was on NBC, because this is something that’ll represent country music to the TV viewing masses, assuming that anyone will be watching it, which is doubtful.

Like many of you have already said, I’m sure they didn’t pay attention to actual talent, but rather back stories, which were pretty lame anyway. It was extremely and painfully obvious that they were really reaching to exploit some of these people’s backgrounds and stories, which I didn’t even find compelling.

Like Lynn, the one piece of advice that I thought was good was the lead singer advice. I would site my lack of interest in LBT as being the same as Lynn suggested. On one hand, I commend them for actually sounding like a group and not just a lead singer with background singers who could easily be interchanged. On the other hand, however, their lack of a lead singer kind of makes them sound like those jingle singers, which can be pretty boring. That’s probably why I always think they sound better live than on record.

I hope this show improves, but I doubt it. If their intention is to show progression, they’ve really messed up the plan, because I doubt that many people will tune again to witness the progression after this horrible episode.

The only one who I even remotely liked was Ashley Hewitt. It’s hard to believe that this show will produce anyone nearly as good as Miranda Lambert and Lambert didn’t even win the show. None of the performances on last night’s show even came close to matching her.

For the good of country music, I hope this show is cancelled.