Tonight the beautiful, lush-voiced Nadia Turner took her final bow in the American Idol Top 10. Singing “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” Nadia’s true tone and luxurious power vocals plunged the dagger of love straight through the heart. But, alas, too late.
Nadia said the most important thing throughout her AI gig had been for her to stay true to herself. She picked songs that were “her,” even if “off-beat” or “unfamiliar” to the audience. During Billboard #1 Hits week, she said she had had trouble finding a song that fit her, explaining that she preferred "artsy-fartsy" songs to those that made it to the top of the charts.
Artsy-fartsy is fine, but this is a pop music show. So maybe Simon is right: maybe it was song choices that did Nadia in. But there’s always more to it than that.
Bo Bice, the other contestant in the bottom three, tried to shrug off the sting of possible defeat, but let’s hope he feels the pain instead. He needs this wake-up call. He’s got too much to offer to give in or give up now.
Both Randy and Paula urged Bo on to greater heights through greater confidence, passion, believing. For once, hand it to the judges: good advice.
I would add: Bo, concentrate on singing. And, whether pretense or real, drop the close-to-lackadaisical attitude. This is America! Your brother is a Marine, for Pete’s sake! We like people who want to win.
When Bo - relaxed, full-throated, animated without slipping into schtick - let it rip on “Remedy” tonight, he blew away anything that has been done by anybody on this show at any time, any place, in any fashion. Bo’s potential swan song was one of the few armhair-raising sets of this entire season. If he keeps that up, he won’t be looking up from the bottom three again.
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
super job, some real insight into the process and "thinking" of voters - thanks S!
2 - Keefer
I found last night's show to be excruciatingly drawn out. Why now that there are less contestants do we stretch the show out to an hour? They must have signed on new ads...
Good point about the "ballot stuffing." That's what saved Scott's big butt. Reading the comments from Tuesday's show, he's become the current Mikalah. LOL I give him 1 more week. His performance last night annoyed me too.
3 - Eric Olsen
arise fans of Bo and all finalists who are not Scott!
4 - Sticker
Why the one-hour show for 15-minutes of content?
Well, catty rival producers said it was to try to bury the competition, "Revelations," once and for all by making it go up against the AI goliath, but FOX producers said they were only trying to give the best possible lead-in to Pammie Anderson's debut that followed.
Believe me, there's always a reason and it's always business!
5 - Temple Stark
This is Advanced now, too. Thanks. - Temple
6 - Sticker
thanks, temp
7 - Clays4Me
Nadia shouldn't of been elimated so soon. She was amazing, good voice and quite active. She should of been in the top three. If I lived in America she would of got my vote. If I could get her cd, posters etc I would, but not living in America is my downfall.