American Idol Season 14
Apr 9, 2015 5:17:51 GMT -5
Post by 4Ms on Apr 9, 2015 5:17:51 GMT -5
'American Idol' Top 8 Night: The Road Not Taken
Lyndsey Parker | Managing Editor | April 9, 2015
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'American Idol' Top 8 Night: The Road Not Taken
At the start of Wednesday’s American Idol top eight show, Ryan Seacrest confirmed that there will indeed be an Idol concert tour this summer… while oh-so casually glossing over the fact that this year’s tour will, for the first time in the series’ history, only feature the top five contestants, not the usual top 10. (Ryan gave no reason for this, but I can only assume it’s a cost-cutting measure. I mean, last year, the tour didn’t even feature a live band.)
This news made the episode’s eventual elimination of Qaasim Middleton even more bittersweet.
No, Qaasim was not the best vocalist of Season 14. And no, the Judges’ Save probably should not have been used (some might say squandered) on him, when the show was only down to a top 11. But Qaasim was no doubt the best performer of Season 14. Maybe he didn’t deserve to win, but he would have been a major highlight of the concert tour.
Seriously, this was the performance Qaasim gave Wednesday when singing for the newly instituted Twitter Save. This was entertainment. Come on, I would have loved to see ice-cold Qaasim shake it like a Polaroid picture to Outkast’s “Hey Ya” at an amphitheater near me this summer:
But American Idol is, at its core, a singing competition. So in the end, Qaasim lost out in Wednesday’s Twitter Save sing-off to superior vocalist Rayvon Owen (who’d successful sung for the Twitter Save against Daniel Seavey just last week). I’m not saying America got it wrong here. Rayvon set fire to the stage with his “Set Fire to the Rain” performance. I’m just saying that Qaasim did more than enough this season to earn a spot on the summer tour. In every other season, just making it to a respectable eighth place was enough.
Oh well. Let’s recap the other six contestants who performed Billboard hits this Wednesday, and try to figure out which five of them will hit the road this summer…
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Lyndsey Parker | Managing Editor | April 9, 2015
www.yahoo.com/music/american-idol-top-8-night-the-road-not-taken-115924518376.html
yhoo.it/1HTKcmV
'American Idol' Top 8 Night: The Road Not Taken
At the start of Wednesday’s American Idol top eight show, Ryan Seacrest confirmed that there will indeed be an Idol concert tour this summer… while oh-so casually glossing over the fact that this year’s tour will, for the first time in the series’ history, only feature the top five contestants, not the usual top 10. (Ryan gave no reason for this, but I can only assume it’s a cost-cutting measure. I mean, last year, the tour didn’t even feature a live band.)
This news made the episode’s eventual elimination of Qaasim Middleton even more bittersweet.
No, Qaasim was not the best vocalist of Season 14. And no, the Judges’ Save probably should not have been used (some might say squandered) on him, when the show was only down to a top 11. But Qaasim was no doubt the best performer of Season 14. Maybe he didn’t deserve to win, but he would have been a major highlight of the concert tour.
Seriously, this was the performance Qaasim gave Wednesday when singing for the newly instituted Twitter Save. This was entertainment. Come on, I would have loved to see ice-cold Qaasim shake it like a Polaroid picture to Outkast’s “Hey Ya” at an amphitheater near me this summer:
But American Idol is, at its core, a singing competition. So in the end, Qaasim lost out in Wednesday’s Twitter Save sing-off to superior vocalist Rayvon Owen (who’d successful sung for the Twitter Save against Daniel Seavey just last week). I’m not saying America got it wrong here. Rayvon set fire to the stage with his “Set Fire to the Rain” performance. I’m just saying that Qaasim did more than enough this season to earn a spot on the summer tour. In every other season, just making it to a respectable eighth place was enough.
Oh well. Let’s recap the other six contestants who performed Billboard hits this Wednesday, and try to figure out which five of them will hit the road this summer…
more...