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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:29 am
That is why I asked. I think this is the first time that a Shania Twain song will be performed on American Idol. I don't even recall hearing any of her songs on Canadian Idol either. And, I don't want to jinx Carrie by saying this but Shania is a lot tougher to sing than most people think. By the way, Shania is very supportive of young and upcoming performers, so if she doesn't normally want AI to use her songs, it's not because of that.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:53 am
"Don't let the Sun go down on me" is one of my all time favourite songs. Bo could do a really good rendition of it. I can't help but chuckle to myself when I hear "Cryin'". Did anyone watch "Only Fools and Horses" back in the 80s? They had the guy with the speech impediment singing "Cwyin'". Probably very un-pc now but at the time it seemed hilarious.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 11:56 am
Well Elton John is very hard to sing. Remember the train wreck last year on Elton John night? Totally not digging the Dionne Warwick song. She's probably one of my least favorite singers ever.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:23 pm
Bo better NAIL Sweet Home Alabama. I agree it's in the same class as Free Bird. Don't mess with my Lynyrd Skynryd I tell ya!! (Fond memories of college float through my head!) BTW - the reinvented LS is playing here in June. We all want to go, including my 17-yr-old DS. Has anyone heard them since they lost so many of the original members?
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:29 pm
I'm with you Watching. Skynard is sacred - iffin you can't sing it right and do it justice - don't sing it at all. 
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:38 pm
If Vonzell does Dionne, I think it'll be good. Dionne has a lightness in her voice that Vonzell has, too--and a flair for the dramatic. She treats her best songs like little operas and reaches soaring climaxes, like on "Anyone Who Had a Heart." I think Baby Vee will do "I Know I'll Never" proud.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:39 pm
I read that Bo performed with LS on his whirlwind trip home last week. You know they will feature that when they show the triumphant Final 3 returning to their home towns!
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Rabbit
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:42 pm
Did Paula think she was picking a song for Constantine, instead of Bo. I imagine Constantine would have given us quite an interesting performance of that song. (Yes, I thought about saying Corrie instead of Constantine, but my impeccable good taste prevented me from posting that.)
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 12:53 pm
Watch: My daughter saw them in Tallahassee last month. Said it was a good show... but then again, she was born in the 80's......
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 1:14 pm
I am interested if it is Cryin' (arrowsmith) or Crying (roy orbison) I think that as much as I like RO, I love Arrowsmith, and would love to hear Carrie sing that song.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 1:17 pm
Escapee, it's the Roy Orbison version.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 1:27 pm
OIC. Hmph. I hope she does well.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 1:52 pm
Well, I am afraid that "cryin'" Will bring out the yodel in Carrie's voice. I believe that Satisfaction is a no win song for BO - Do it like the Stones and sound Kareoke, do a different version and it would sound "wrong". Don't Let the Sun go Down on Me requires more rangethan Bo has and if he brings it down to his key, it can become another snoozefest, like so many of his slow songs. Dionne Warwick songs are very hard to sing because they change Key and tempo so much. Good Luck Vonzell. Doesn't Clive want anyone to win? I think these are terrible picks and if they reflect the way he wants to take each of them, that could lead to no good. I wonder how much that settlement ofthe lawsuit is playing into it here? Where BMG took 19 into court because they would not let BMG sign Fantasia, they wanted to keep her for their 19 label. Some sort of deal was reached for future idols, and for Fantasia since she is signed to J records.
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 1:54 pm
I think they should give them some really tough stuff...like.. um.. Carrie - Slim Whitman's Indian Love Call Bo - Helen Reddy's - Angie Baby Vonz - Olivia Newton John - Have You Never Been Mellow I want to see them carry those off 
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 2:42 pm
Oh, Terolyn, not nearly hard enough - Carrie - What do you do with a drunken sailor Vonzell - 16 tons Bo - The song from Titanic.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 3:22 pm
Oh come on, Bo should be able to sing a passable version of "Satisfaction." Even BRITNEY SPEARS was able to sing a passable version of that, and she really can't sing at all. Bo just has some performance issues - he is not really that bad compared to other idols but since we have seen Constantine.... I *still* think that Aaron Kelly, who got eliminated prior to final 24, was the real heir to Morrison. He had a deeper voice than Bo and Constantine. Clive should have picked "Hello" for Bo. Or maybe "Cocaine" would have been more appropriate. The debbil in me would also like to see Carrie sing the "Slap Pat" song from my youth. You know the one - my momma told me, if I was goody, that she would buy me, a rubber dolly, my sister told her, I kissed a soldier, now she won't buy me, a rubber dollyeee - 3 6 9, the goose drank wine, the monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line, the line broke, the monkey got choked and we all went to heaven in a little row boat SLAP PAT! Pull that one off and you have my vote, sister! Vonzell - can anything save her from the midwest vote machine? I guess her best bet would be more big ballads. Amazing Race is over, Bachelor is over, Survivor is over, Idol will be over next week and BB doesn't start until July. How will I last??
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 3:28 pm
Alison - "Amazing Race is over, Bachelor is over, Survivor is over, Idol will be over next week and BB doesn't start until July. How will I last??" I have thought of the very same drought. This is my mantra and I hope you will adopt it, too (especially if you are a live feed watcher): "Get your shit done in June!" 
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 3:35 pm
From E.T. Online, regarding the judge's picks.... also there, you will find an interesting video interview with Clive Davis. He discusses his picks for each. It's Judges-Pick Night on 'American Idol' It's just BO BICE, CARRIE UNDERWOOD and VONZELL SOLOMON when "American Idol" airs tonight at 8 p.m. on FOX, and each of the Final 3 will be performing three songs: a judge's choice, a song that music mogul/producer CLIVE DAVIS selects for them and one that they pick. "What we try to do is find a song that we know will fit really well in their register or tonally sound great, but challenge them a bit, so they start working on a song that they say is hard, but will be rewarding once they nail it," judge PAULA ABDUL explains. "And that they feel, 'Man, I had to work really hard to get this song, but I had no idea I had that in me.' Hopefully, we as judges can find a song that will do that for them." Clive selected ROY ORBISON's "Cryin'" for Carrie; DIONNE WARWICK's "I'll Never Love This Way Again" for Vonzell and ELTON JOHN's "Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Me" for Bo.
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Rabbit
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 3:45 pm
That is my point Alisons, I see "Satisfaction" as more of a performance vehicle than a great song, suited more to a performer like Britney or Constantine than to Bo. I too was thinking of Clapton's Cocaine, but then I really wanted Tanya Harding to come out in a black leather skating outfit accompanied by George Thorogood's "Bad(t) To The Bone" during her famous Olympics appearance. That would have been good theater, much better than "my lace came untied". Sigh, we seldom get the good stuff.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 4:42 pm
Well Rabbit, this season we got the "People are racist of beautiful people" speech from Bachelor, can't get greedy. 
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Babyboo
Member
06-16-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 4:48 pm

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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 4:49 pm
ROFLMAO... ya'll are KILLING ME I tell ya... ROFL!! Terolyn - All my kids were born in the 80s too - all 3 of 'em...... so I hear ya! I also read that Bo sang with LS when he went home. Advantage anyone? LOL j/k... don't hit me!! heh heh I want to see them REALLY stretch! I want Carrie to do a Whitney song, Vonzie to do something really country and Bo... a major ballad with a huge range or Latin would be good. Or how about all of them sing "Baby Got Back." LOL
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 4:59 pm
I'd like to hear Beaux do "Straight Outta Compton." Failing that, he can do one of Yoko Ono's songs.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 4:59 pm
Babyboo, it was a classic TV moment on the Bachelor when one of the (as Kelly Ripa put it) "self assured" eliminated female contestants was explaining why she was eliminated. "If I were UGLIER like those other two girls I could have flown under the radar - people are just RACIST against beautiful people like me." (This went on and on.) A true classic, right up there with the rat and snake speech on Survivor.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 5:01 pm
I'm with ya Tish. Though after seeing System of a Down perform Mesmerize, I would put that one in the mix also.
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