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In my Idol absence, guest blogger Jeff Otto gives us the run down on Wednesday's "Girls Night Out" ...

#1
Kristy Lee Cook, aka “Amazing Grace,” sounds thin and probably shouldn’t have sold her favorite horse. Very blah. Total karaoke. Perhaps she should be on one of the other shows you are watching cause she isn’t a contender in a singing contest.

#2
Joanne Bordello, who seems to identify herself as “the plus-size model,” didn’t look like a plus-size chick in her very flattering outfit, but didn’t seem like she gave it her all. Left me feeling like there was something missing.

#3 Alaina Whitaker 16 year old who has a real chance based on her performance tonight. She was comfortable and confident and even Simon liked her though he hated “I Love You More Today Than Yesterday” She either lost a sleeve on her shirt or those silly early nineties clothes are coming back


#4 Heavy Metal nurse Amanda Obermyer opened her act doing a cross between beatboxing and scatting which was closer to scat (in the animal kingdom sense) than music Randy and Paula loved her Simon asked if she forgot the words, thus the scatting. Evidently Simon doesn’t listen to much music because this was the second song of the night that he didn’t know. Amanda has a voice and a persona of someone twice her age and was dressed in something out of Edward Scissorhands closet


#5 Amy Davis Got her hair done got a make over and evidently didn’t have time to spend with her singing coach because her version of “where the Boys Are” was horrible - so bad that Laura said “poor girl” upon her conclusion.


#6 Brooke White “The Nanny” Sang “Happy Together” She has a great voice and although she started shaky she quickly recovered and found her groove and was comfortable and happy singing. She finally got some eye makeup and no longer looks like a pink-eyed rabbit. Simon accused her of being too sunny and happy.



#7 Alexandrea White - I was putting Lilly down so I had to rely on Laura for the critique on this one She sand Blood Sweat and Tears’ “Spinning Wheel” In Laura’s words “she was the bomb” Randy thought the same and surprise, surprise, Simon “Didn’t get it”


#8 Katie Malloy contestant number 8 Blonde number 5 sang groovy kind of love and to quote Laura “Blah, Blah, Blah” Randy seemed to agree and it never happened for him. Paula gave her the curse of “You look really pretty, tonight” and Simon said “it was night of the living dead” By the time Simon was done Katie could have killed him with her glare.


#9 Dead daddy's girl Asia’H Epperson did a version of Janis Joplin’s “Take another piece of my Heart” It was her own and she rocked it out. It was Simon’s favorite of the night and the other two agreed.


#10 Oh the misery of a slow song and too much drama “You Don’t have to Say you Love Me” by Ramiele did not do her big voice justice. Randy and Paula disagreed with me (the nerve) and poor Asia’H was dethroned as the night’s best just one singer later, by Simon.


#11 Shyeshs Mercado did “Tobacco Road “ and she has some pipes but it wasn’t the best song choice. She was praised for her consistency by all three and she didn’t do her best but has nothing to worry about.


#12 Tattooed Carley Smithson from Ireland did a strong lounge act performance of a lame song. She did a good job Randy declared her the best of two nights Paula loved her and Simon dissed her hard. Song too old performance too cabaret and basically said her talent was wasted and likened her to Kellie and Fantasia

Overall the guys were a better show and at 8:35 we were ready for the thing to be done. We still had two to go . Have you noticed that they all have the same color teeth? Laura suspects a group teeth whitening notes