I've watched the first two Live Shows of American Idol Season 10.
I'll say that there are some talented acts this series (one of them being in the bottom three in both weeks) which just baffles me if you hear some of the other contestants in the line-up.
Because that's the issue so far, some of the contestants are absolutely woeful so far, I don't know what the **** is even going on with how bad some of them are.
And the "good" ones are definitely talented to a point, but a couple of them could do better with the song choices imo, like **** me with Celine Dion and Whitney Houston being done by a Diva singer in the first two weeks for example.
Anyway here's my rankings.
Live Show 1 - Personal Idols
1. Haley Reinhart - Blue
2. Jacob Lusk - I Believe I Can Fly
3. Pia Toscano - All By Myself
4. James Durbin - Maybe I'm Amazed - another contestant that definitely needs to push himself more. But good voice.
5. Casey Abrams - With A Little Help From My Friends
6. Lauren Alaina - Any Man Of Mine
7. Paul McDonald - Come Pick Me Up - I am not sure that he can particularly sing that well, but he is more entertaining than the people that I'm placing below him on this night imo.
8. Naima Adedapo - Umbrella -
9. Scotty McCreery - The River -
10. Thia Megia - Smile -
11. Stefano Langone - Lately -
12. Ashthon Jones - When You Tell Me That You Love Me -
13. Karen Rodriguez - I Could Fall In Love -
Live Show 2 - Contestants Birth Year
1. Casey Abrams - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Jacob Lusk - Alone
3. Pia Toscano - Where Do Broken Hearts Go
4. James Durbin - I'll Be There For You
5. Lauren Alaina - I'm The Only One
6. Haley Reinhart - I'm Your Baby Tonight
7. Paul McDonald - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - Whoa!
8. Scotty McCreery - Can I Trust You With My Heart -
9. Thia Megia - Colors Of The Wind -
10. Naima Adedapo - What's Love Got To Do With It -
11. Karen Rodriguez - Love Will Lead You Back -
12. Stefano Langone - If You Don't Know Me By Now - What the heck!
Live Show 3 - Motown
1. Haley Reinhart - You've Really Got A Hold On Me
2. James Durbin - Living For The City
3. Jacob Lusk - You're All I Need To Get By
4. Paul McDonald - The Tracks Of My Tears - He is oddly growing on me.
5. Casey Abrams - I Heard It Through The Grapevine - it weren't his best performance, but I still can't believe that the public were going to eliminate him at the top 11, have they not heard some of the contestants in this series? I mean it's really hard to stay respectful about what I think were the bottom 3 or 4 performances this week.
6. Pia Toscano - All In Love Is Fair - Pia is talented, but her song choices are very uninteresting to me.
7. Lauren Alaina - You Keep Me Hangin On - I personally don't think that the song choice suited Lauren very well personally.
8. Naima Adedapo - Dancing In The Street -
9. Scotty McCreery - For Once In My Life - Surely he'll stop joking around soon.
10. Thia Megia - Heat Wave -
11. Stefano Langone - Hello - This has got to be one of the most painful vocals that I've heard throughout my watch of American Idol, what the absolute ****!
Live Show 4 - Elton John
1. Haley Reinhart - Bennie And The Jets - Haley's best vocal so far.
2. Casey Abrams - Your Song
3. James Durbin - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - It's probably the most fun James performance so far imo.
4. Pia Toscano - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - As cliched as the song choice was for Pia, she did sing it well tbf, which is like gold dust in this series.
5. Paul McDonald - Rocket Man - His weird performances are interesting to watch.
6. Lauren Alaina - Candle In The Wind
7. Jacob Lusk - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - I feel like the song didn't really suit him imo.
8. Stefano Langone - Tiny Dancer - It was still terrible, but he did improve a little bit, which I like to acknowledge.
9. Naima Adedapo - I'm Still Standing -
10. Scotty McCreery - Country Comfort - He'll show his talent at some point, surely!
11. Thia Megia - Daniel - Her performances were consistently dull imo.
Live Show 5 - Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
1. James Durbin - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2. Casey Abrams - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
3. Haley Reinhart - Piece Of My Heart
4. Lauren Alaina - You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman - She sung it well tbf, but it was nowhere near as riveting to watch as my top 3 for me.
5. Jacob Lusk - Man In The Mirror
6. Pia Toscano - River Deep Mountain High - Definitely not Pia's best performance.
7. Paul McDonald - Folsom Prison Blues - I like Paul, but it's definitely starting to get noticeable that he is really starting to fall behind most of the competition talent wise.
8. Scotty McCreery - That's All Right - I honestly don't understand the support for Scotty on the Show where I'm currently at with the Show. He has a really weak vocal imo, nearly every male singer left in the competition can sing better than him in my view.
9. Stefano Langone - When A Man Loves A Woman - One of the few male singers in the competition that's admittedly weaker vocally than Scotty imo.
Live Show 6 - Movie Soundtracks
1. James Durbin - Heavy Metal
2. Haley Reinhart - Call Me
3. Casey Abrams - Nature Boy
4. Jacob Lusk - Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. Lauren Alaina - The Climb - I really don't think that the song choice suited Lauren very well imo. She struggled to hit some of the notes I thought.
6. Scotty McCreery - I Cross My Heart
7. Paul McDonald - Old Time Rock And Roll
8. Stefano Langone - End Of The Road - What the flipping heck!
Live Show 7 - Music From The 21st Century
1. Casey Abrams - Harder To Breathe - I'll controversially say that I think he did a better version than Maroon 5, I really enjoyed the performance personally, and the grunts definitely add character to his performance.
But seriously he did a really good job.
2. James Durbin - Uprising - A very strong second favourite on the night for me, he weren't as good as Matt Bellamy imo, but he came closer than I expected him to. It was definitely a very strong effort from James.
3. Haley Reinhart - Rolling In The Deep - The gorgeous Haley Reinhart. I would say along with Casey and James, all three of them are making great cases as to why they should win the Season imo, it should be absolutely criminal that someone with Haley's vocal has been in the bottom three FOUR times! When there has been some shocking performances by some contestants this series.
4. Jacob Lusk - Dance With My Father
5. Lauren Alaina - Born To Fly
6. Stefano Langone - Closer - Definitely my favourite Stefano performance, it actually was an okay performance, I feel like this would probably be the kind of Music that Stefano would sing in the charts, rather than some of the more bizarre numbers that have been given to him throughout the Season.
7. Scotty McCreery - Swingin - Going into the top six, I would honestly say that I believe him to be the weakest vocalist left in the competition, it's really bizarre how he is getting so many votes.
What the absolute **** was going on with the public during this Season?
Live Show 8 - Carole King
1. Haley Reinhart - Beautiful
2. James Durbin - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
3. Lauren Alaina - Where You Lead
4. Scotty McCreery - You've Got A Friend - I can only say the same thing so many times lol.
5. Casey Abrams - That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) - Tbf to Casey, the song choice was terrible. I don't think that anybody could make this song impressive to listen to.
6. Jacob Lusk - Oh No Not My Baby -
Live Show 9 - Round 1
1. Lauren Alaina - Flat On The Floor - My favourite Lauren performance so far. It was fun to listen to.
2. Scotty McCreery - Gone - Definitely Scotty's best performance by a country mile (pun intended.)
3. Haley Reinhart - You And I
4. Jacob Lusk - No Air -
5. James Durbin - Closer To The Edge - Did James catch Alex and Caleb's Bronchitis from Series 13?
I mean tbf this performance isn't James usual standards, but it was a car crash performance imo.
Live Show 9 - Round 2
1. Haley Reinhart - The House Of The Rising Sun -
2. James Durbin - Without You
3. Scotty McCreery - Always On My Mind - He has a weak vocal imo.
4. Lauren Alaina - Unchained Melody - This song should never have been given to Lauren, it felt awkward watching her trying to sing it.
5. Jacob Lusk - Love Hurts - I don't know what's happened to Jacob, but his last three performances have been really poor imo.
Live Show 10 - Round 1
1. James Durbin - Don't Stop Believin
2. Haley Reinhart - Earth Song
3. Lauren Alaina - Anyway
4. Scotty McCreery - Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
Live Show 10 - Round 2
1. James Durbin - Love Potion No. 9
2. Haley Reinhart - I (Who Have Nothing)
3. Scotty McCreery - Young Blood - A fun Scotty performance in fairness.
4. Lauren Alaina - Trouble
Live Show 11 - Round 1
1. Haley Reinhart - What Is And What Should Never Be - The fall is meme-worthy.
But I do think that she easily out sung and outperformed the other two in this leg.
2. Scotty McCreery - Amazed
3. Lauren Alaina - Wild One - I can't even remember the performance that well.
Live Show 11 - Round 2
1. Haley Reinhart - Rhiannon - Again easily ahead imo.
2. Lauren Alaina - If I Die Young
3. Scotty McCreery - Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not
Live Show 11 - Round 3
1. Haley Reinhart - You Oughta Know - Again, way better than the other two on the night imo.
2. Lauren Alaina - I Hope You Dance
3. Scotty McCreery - She Believes In Me