whew- someone finally got some sense (or borrowed the stones from that bass singer lady) and voted off maxx factor from the show. the beach boys medley is probably right up their alley but it seemed far too predictable. the so-cals hit the streets too, which i didn't completely understand. they have the horses to pull off the solos, and even switched the bass & vocal-perc guys around to further solidify their harmonies. journey sounded pretty good (another obvious choice) and i really dug their hazy shade of winter. how do they leave and voices of barf stick around? their michael jackson set wasn't too hot, although kudos goes to them for the arrangement that works the best. slim needs to pipe down about how they are supposed to interpret the song and instead take the time to look up the word 'interpret' in the dictionary (which i have just done, to be sure i'm covering my ass here.)
nota gets my vote for winning (and yes, i may actually bother to text that vote. that would definitely be a first for me.) doing the jackson 5 set was pretty solid, and the way that they took on the peter gabriel jam was very impressive to me, even though slim thought he needed to hate on them. i think he's just jealous (joel mchale had a funny line on 'the soup' last night, talking about how the boyz II men guy was judging this show because the local mall let him out of a couple shifts.) lead singing, vocal-perc, bass lines, the go-go whistle, riffs...nota is the bomb. as ben folds so aptly put it "it's like testing the A student."
the boy band from Tufts, the beetlejuicebubs (or whatever in the hell they're called) drive me to an early grave. the arrangements are straight cheese, so are their facial expressions, the colorful sweaters make me want to vomit, and the innocence they lather all over these lame arrangements is reason enough to have them kidnapped from the show. but you know what, they'll probably win because a bunch of teeny-bopper girls will think they are SO COOL and will text in votes for them like there's no tomorrow.
will i tune in on monday" damn straight, because bobby mcferrin is supposed to be on there. can you imagine what bobby would do for this show? he & nota? case closed. and i'm sure the pussycat doll lady will think that a hypothetical combined set with the most gifted singer of our lifetime and the best vocal group on the show would be hot.
Ummm... my vocal group was all set to audition for the show until we looked the contract. Go to LA for 5 weeks in November/December in exchange for room and board? My boss would not think that was a good excuse for missing the final third of the semester. I'm sure a lot of other groups were in the same boat. But the show gets, if not the best groups, certainly the hungriest, right?
ReplyDeleteFor your reading pleasure, check out the links below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/media/02reality.html
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/12/wolcott-200912