The Top 7 finalists took the American Idol stage last night to pick their favorite songs from the 21st century. Haley Reinhart chose to go with “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele. This was a really solid performance from Haley.  She’s got some mad pipes, I’ll give her that.  I would pay good money to [...]

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The Top 7 took the stage on American Idol last night to belt out some tunes from the 21st century.  It should come as no surprise that rocker James Durbin chose to wail away on Muse‘s “Uprising”. Man, who is this guy sleeping with?  Last week, he got to bring out a special guest guitarist [...]

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The Top 7 contestants took the stage last night on American Idol to sing popular songs from the 21st century. Our country crooner Scotty McCreery came out singing the LeAnn Rimes song “Swingin’”. Really, could Scotty have chosen a safer song?  He pretty much took no risks in picking this one.  When will Scotty get [...]

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James Durbin decided to go out on a limb last night and sing Sammy Hagar‘s “Heavy Metal” from the epic, 1981 movie with the same name on the American Idol Season 10 Top 8 live show last night. Yes!  Throw up your rock fist, baby…this was HOT!  He even brought legendary guitarist Zakk Wylde with [...]

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Jacob Lusk sang Simon & Garfunkel‘s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on the American Idol Season 10 Top 8 show featuring songs from the movies last night. Well, that was disturbing.  The dude can sing, but I’m going to have nightmares about this performance.  Did we just see his O-face?  What is up with this guy? [...]

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Haley Reinhart performed Blondie‘s smash hit “Call Me” from the film “First Monday In October” on the American Idol Season 10 Top 8 live show featuring songs from the movies last night. Wow.  Finally…a performance that was rocking out!  The beat was driving, the vocals were kicking, and the outfit was smoking!  This is probably [...]

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It was movie night last night on American Idol, and the Season 10 Top 8 finalists each chose music that had been featured on the silver screen. Casey Abrams went with “Nature Boy” (WOOOOOO!) by Nat King Cole from the movie “The Boy with Green Hair“. What the hell did I just witness?  That was [...]

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Last night was movie night on American Idol and the Season 10 Top 8 finalists each picked songs that were featured on the silver screen. Scotty McCreery chose to go with George Strait‘s “I Cross My Heart” from the movie with the same title. As I mentioned before, I usually don’t tune into Idol until [...]

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Last night, American Idol Season 10′s Top 8 took on songs from the movies. Stefano Langone, or as I like to call him, “The Big Ragu” (I’m Italian…I can get away with it), decided to perform “End of the Road” by Boys II Men, which was featured in “Boomerang”. First things first…fix your shoes, dude. [...]

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Last night, American Idol Season 10′s Top 8 took on songs from the movies. Lauren Alaina decided to perform Miley Cyrus‘ “The Climb” which was featured in “Hannah Montana: The Movie“. This performance wasn’t too bad, but Lauren has got to learn how to breathe.  You can’t take breaths in mid-phrase like she did repeatedly [...]

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It’s mid-April, which means this is about the time I start tuning into American Idol to see who’s left and who I think is going to win. Let me assure you of this, it will NOT be Paul McDonald. The season 10 Top 8 finalist took to the stage last night to perform his version [...]

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Wait, what? Can you say that again in my GOOD ear? It sounded like you said Pia Toscano was voted off of American Idol last night. Believe it or not, that’s how it went down last night. Despite being favorite of the  judges and the fans (or so we thought), 22-year-old Pia Toscano from New [...]

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