[Mystic Mock]

I've been checking out the first few Live Shows of Season 8 of American Idol.

The only spoilers that I knew of going into the Season, was who the top three were, and that there's two famous performances coming up from two of the top three (or infamous in the one case) but I am enjoying the performances for the most part, although there have been a few scary performances.

I will be doing my rankings of the performances on here, so for anyone else trying to also check the series out, and you don't want spoilers, it's probably best to click off the thread.

If you don't care about spoilers, then check my opinions of the nights out.

My rankings:

Live Show 1 - Michael Jackson - Rankings:
1. Adam Lambert - Black Or White
2. Allison Iraheta - Give In To Me
3. Alexis Grace - Dirty Diana
4. Danny Gokey - P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)
5. Anoop Desai - Beat It
6. Megan Joy - Rockin Robin
7. Matt Giraud - Human Nature
8. Michael Sarver - You Are Not Alone
9. Jasmine Murray - I'll Be There
10. Lil Rounds - The Way You Make Me Feel
11. Scott MacIntyre - Keep The Faith
12. Kris Allen - Remember The Time
13. Jorge Nunez - Never Can Say Goodbye

Live Show 2 - Grand Ole Opry - Rankings:
1. Adam Lambert - Ring Of Fire
2. Danny Gokey - Jesus, Take The Wheel
3. Allison Iraheta - Blame It On Your Heart
4. Megan Joy - Walkin After Midnight
5. Alexis Grace - Jolene
6. Matt Giraud - So Small
7. Anoop Desai - Always On My Mind
8. Scott MacIntyre - Wild Angels
9. Kris Allen - Make You Feel My Love
10. Michael Sarver - Ain't Goin Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)
11. Lil Rounds - Independence Day

Live Show 3 - Motown - Rankings:
1. Adam Lambert - The Tracks Of My Tears
2. Danny Gokey - Get Ready
3. Anoop Desai - Ooo Baby Baby
4. Allison Iraheta - Papa Was A Rollin Stone
5. Scott MacIntyre - You Can't Hurry Love
6. Lil Rounds - Heat Wave
7. Michael Sarver - Ain't Too Proud To Beg
8. Matt Giraud - Let's Get It On
9. Kris Allen - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
10. Megan Joy - For Once In My Life

Live Show 4 - Popular iTunes Downloads - Rankings:
1. Matt Giraud - You Found Me
2. Allison Iraheta - Don't Speak
3. Adam Lambert - Play That Funky Music
4. Kris Allen - Ain't No Sunshine
5. Danny Gokey - What Hurts The Most
6. Megan Joy - Turn Your Lights Down Low
7. Scott MacIntyre - Just The Way You Are
8. Anoop Desai - Caught Up
9. Lil Rounds - I Surrender

Obviously for anyone that knows how the votes played out in each of these weeks, knows that I have some strong disagreements with the American Idol public.

What did people on TIBB think of this series?

Live Show 5 - Contestants Birth Year - Rankings:
1. Adam Lambert - Mad World
2. Allison Iraheta - I Can't Make You Love Me
3. Danny Gokey - Stand By Me
4. Anoop Desai - True Colors
5. Scott MacIntyre - The Search Is Over
6. Matt Giraud - Part-Time Lover
7. Kris Allen - All She Wants To Do Is Dance
8. Lil Rounds - What's Love Got To Do With It

Live Show 6 - Movie Soundtracks - Rankings:
1. Adam Lambert - Born To Be Wild
2. Kris Allen - Falling Slowly
3. Allison Iraheta - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing
4. Danny Gokey - Endless Love
5. Anoop Desai - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
6. Lil Rounds - The Rose
7. Matt Giraud - Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?

Live Show 7 - Disco - Rankings:
1. Allison Iraheta - Hot Stuff
2. Adam Lambert - If I Can't Have You
3. Danny Gokey - September
4. Matt Giraud - Stayin Alive
5. Anoop Desai - Dim All The Lights
6. Kris Allen - She Works Hard For The Money
7. Lil Rounds - I'm Every Woman

Live Show 8 - Rat Pack (oh god) - Rankings:
1. Adam Lambert - Feeling Good
2. Allison Iraheta - Someone To Watch Over Me
3. Danny Gokey - Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. Matt Giraud - My Funny Valentine
5. Kris Allen - The Way You Look Tonight

Live Show 9 - Rock Music - Rankings:
1. Adam Lambert - Whole Lotta Love
2. Allison Iraheta - Cry Baby
3. Danny Gokey - Dream On - unpopular opinion, but I thought that Danny did the song mostly well, especially for a non-Rock singer. Yeah the scream could've been better, but at least he attempted it, rather than chicken out of doing it, plus I do think that he deserves credit for attempting the hardest song to sing on this particular night. And I do think that he sung most of the song well.
4. Kris Allen - Come Together

Live Show 10 - Songs Chosen By The Judges - Rankings:
1. Adam Lambert - One
2. Danny Gokey - Dance Little Sister
3. Kris Allen - Apologize

Live Show 10 - Songs Chosen By The Contestants:
1. Adam Lambert - Cryin
2. Kris Allen - Heartless
3. Danny Gokey - You Are So Beautiful

And let's face it at this point there's only new set of performances coming up, and because I've preferred Adam to Kris in 11 different rounds, I doubt that I need a 12th round to tell me who I think should've won.

No offense to Kris, as I'm sure that he is a nice guy, but he really shouldn't have beat Adam, Allison, Danny, Megan, Anoop, Matt, or Alexis in the competition, I'd also argue that Scott and Jasmine were better vocalists as well.

Kris tbf, had two performances that I thought were decent, but the winner? No.