What do you call the Tony Bennett style of music, is that Big Band? Stuff like "Mac The Knife" and "Stormy Weather." I've never loved this particular theme, they all come across like lounge singers. Phil especially.
Tony Bennett actually doesn't sing tonight, he has the flu. So he's replaced by Michael Boubl..boo…bubb…the Harry Connick lookin guy. How do you spell it? He actually gets in a shot to make a joke about still voting for Antonella Barba.
This week they do the "three groups of three" thing, but when they put Jordin, Melinda and Lakisha in one group you know that they're not going to pull a shocker and have one of them go home. The interesting story is that Sanjaya is in the middle group (with Blake and Chris), more on that in a second. The bottom group is Haley, Gina and Phil. At first I think Phil's going home since he doesn't have any sort of personality to warm up to, but then I remember that he's got a military background so that'll get him some votes. Sure enough he's safe. The question is whether it'll be Gina, who is the better singer, or Haley who is better looking. Turns out Haley's legs keep her around another week, and Gina totally breaks down when she has to go home. Ok, so, back to Sanjaya. He's in the middle of the pack, which should hopefully put to rest the rumors that he's way out in front of everybody else because of all the rigging that's going on. He's not. Every season there's somebody that doesn't deserve to go as far as they do, and this is no different. He may go farther than others because he's gotten more press, but he won't win. More American Idol stories… Technorati: American Idol