J to the LO, she is from "the block" in case you didn't know, but I assume you did. You did right? Yeah, that's what I thought. So, instead of waiting for tonight, we'll just jump right in and do the running commentary on tonight's Idol "Latin Night" performance show.The Cast of "Drive" is in the house, or as I like to call it, the awesome dude from Firefly and some other people.
Ok, if I have to listen to Seacrest butcher the Spanish language all night this could be very painful.
Is it me, or for a "Diva" is JLO pretty down to Earth at times?
Melinda is singing "Sway" and she's "so excited" and "so not sexy". I like Michael Buble's version of this song. How old is Melinda? 40? Rocking some bling. Yeah, she was right, she's not sexy. It's like my Mom trying to salsa...this is a GREAT vocal but rather uncomfortable to watch visually. Paula thinks she looks lovely. Wow, they don't pay Paula enough for this great insight. Simon said much much older - YEAH! Simon and I think a lot a like. Scary.
Commercials. Here's a treat for you. Instead of commercials, I'll be "flipping" to the YES network to take in some of the Yankees game. Yanks vs Twins in Minnesota. Damon is back in the lineup full time, so rest assured. A man by the name of BOOF is pitching for the Twins. I'm not kidding. Boof Bonser.
Damon lined out to center.
Kiki gets the CocaCola questions.
Jeter hits a single through the 2nd base hole.
Kiki is singing Conga by Gloria Estefan. Oh man. Note - JLO is way into helping these kids out. I like it. My favorite mentor so far. Very involved. NOT a strong song for LaKiesha. Yikes. She can't belt and that's her strength. Randy loves her too much. Paula said she was lovely. Seriously. She should write a book. YET! Paula said it wasn't the best! YES!! I agree with her! Simon didn't like it for her either.
AROD smacked a 2 run homer! 2-0 Yanks. That's 6 homers in 7 games. Best start ever for a Yankee.
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Giambi grounded out to second, end of inning. Crap, that's commercials on both channels now. I hate it when that happens. It's the kryptonite of channel flippers. Andy Pettitte is back on the Yanks and I couldn't be happier. I hope he does better tonight than he did in his season debut. We shall see. If you're keeping track, the Yankee game went to, and came back from commercial BEFORE Idol came back. Wow.
Ryan is pushing the charity performance while Pettitte strikes out the leadoff hitter.
Chris Richardson is singing Smooth by Rob Thomas/Santana. They brought the band on stage with him. Who else gets this kind of production every week? Seriously! Come on! Why are they so in love with this kid? Listen to him, this is BAD! BAD PEOPLE! Fox is saying "People, look at the conga player, ignore the guy who can't sing this!" This is very bad Chris, yet Paula is up dancing. I haven't seen people trying to sell something cool that really isn't since Zima! The judges are on crack. Did you hear him try to sing? They really want him around. I don't get it.
MORE commercials
There are two outs and last year's batting champ, Joe Mauer, is up for the Twins. Grounder to second and Pettitte has a 1,2,3 inning. We like it. But now again both shows are in commercial. The pain! I have to choose between a Macy's ad for sundresses or the guy from "Dirty Jobs" selling pick-up trucks. Game is back on before Idol yet again. Yanks have an off-day on Thursday, so we're all free to watch The Office in real-time. Phew!
Jorge Posada flies out to center for the first out of the second inning. Robinson Cano doubles. Doug M moves him over and here is Melky walking to the plate and Haley walking to the mic to sing Turn The Beat Around. Blake comes into the rehearsal to give the beat. WOW, never seen that.
Haley is all legs again my friends. She's having fun, she's being a show woman. This song is right in her range. Great song choice for Haley. Hard with the FAST words, but she's doing it. Paula isn't up for this? WOW. They must all be sleeping with Chris Richardson. That was the most fun performance of the night. Hands down. Randy called it Karaoke, Paula said it's fun but in a mean tone and Simon agrees with my sell your legs, not your voice as Fox does a slow pan up her body. Yikes. Kid show people. Haley is going to cry again. Somehow Melky is on first and Cano scored. 3-0 Yanks as Damon breaks his bat and grounds out to end the inning.
Phil is chillin with Jennifer now. Phil is going to seing Maria by Santana. Ok, so Santana and Gloria are the only two Latin artists? Didn't they do a Gloria night in a previous season? Phil is the whitest guy to ever sing Latin music. He's like sickly Michael Stipe white. HAHA!! The guitar player blew the Santana solo with the camera on him. I think the judges are going to tear this apart. Phil was not made to sing Latin and he looks so uncomfortable and just cracked the last night like a 12 year old. Sorry dude. A whole lot of "ok" from the judges.
Commercials. Jordin and Blake are coming up. Don't go far. Lead off double for the Twins. Grounder to second. 1 out but Cuddyer moves to thirdbase on the play. John Krasinki from The Office is the voice on the Apple TV commercials. Jordin gets the CocaCola commercial she loves the 80s songs, being born in 89 and all.
HEY! Another Gloria Estefan song. JLo referred to her being like Michael Jackson. Ok. Out of Melinda, LeKiesha and Jordin, Jordin is by FAR the most marketable. She's so fun. I can't see if Paula is up and dancing or not. Yup, she's up. Somehow Jordin made this Latin staple a R&B song. WOW! It was great. Performance of the night. Say it with me people ... 17!! Randy said it was the Yo Factor on BLAM! I would have to agree. If I know what that meant. Pettitte throws another strike-out and gets out of the inning without a run scoring. Nice.
Blake choses "I Need to Know" by JLo's husband. Let it be known the best performance of the night is this band. They are amazing. Ok, on to Blake. I could NEVER pull off wearing a straw hat like he has, seriously. Could anyone not on TV? I don't think so. Blake is comfortable in any genre. That's a huge plus for this young man. At times he has a slight hint of actually sounding like Marc Anthony. Paula is dancing by the way. Randy loved it, Paula did (obviously), and Simon gave him the best performance award and said "so far". Ummm, only Sanjaya is left Simon.
Last Commercial and then "The embodiment of Latin passion" (as Ryan said) Sanjaya who I think just ate a chocolate Easter Bunny cause it's all over his face and looks really sill...wait? What? That's facial hair? Oh, my bad.
Yanks go 1,2,3 and I missed it all.
Sanjaya is singing Besa Me Mucho. Oh dear lord. Unless something happens, that's all I'm going to say about him. Randy said "really good". Paula said "very very nice" and Simon "sang like a 14 year old...wasn't horrible". He'll be back. Crap.
Ok, my favorite was Jordin and Blake and yes, Haley. The bottom three will be Haley, Chris and Phil with Phil going home.
Oh, Yanks got them 1,2,3 to end the third. So I leave you with the Yanks up 3-0 at the end of three. Have a nice night folks!
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I definitely LOVED the Yankee coverage during Idol - it made it MUCH more palatable. I was NOT impressed with any of the performances tonight - well except Jordan. She rocks. Oh, and JLo - I just wanted to hang out with her. I agree - Phil will be out, although wouldn't it be a great week for Sanjaya to fly under the "weakest link" radar and fail to get all the pity votes? The more they pick on him, the more votes he gets - the less negative comments from the judges, the less need to vote for him. What do we think about that??
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