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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Friday, May 06, 2011 - 1:47 pm
I think JLo is gorgeous and always watch her when the three judges come out to see what she's wearing. I don't even SEE Randy & Steven, sorry. I was mildly entertained by her video, but I wouldn't buy her music. I can, however, see dancing to that song if I was still young enough to go out to the clubs. It was definitely a dance song, not a listening song. I enjoy her much more that Paula, just wish she'd stop interrupting Randy and allow the man to have his own opinion. He's also a "judge," after all.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Friday, May 06, 2011 - 11:54 pm
My co-worker had the "oldies" station on at work yesterday and I could hear Haley singing most of the songs. We're talking Motown oldies, which never go out of style. She has that soul vibe to her voice, while at the same time sounding very current. There is a lot of potential with this girl, and I think America is getting it. Premature to say, but I hope Haley takes it all.
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Northstar
Member
09-29-2008
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 - 2:05 am
I think all of the remain contestants have huge potential. If they could be mentored by someone in the business within their genre, work on breaking bad/amateur habits and hon it up, they could build a nice career. Truth is, I'm a bit enamored with all of them.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 - 10:48 am
Me too, Northstar. I've not been able to post in the order your faves thread because I really don't know who I want to win. Maybe James but it's a close call with all of them.
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Northstar
Member
09-29-2008
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 - 11:07 am
Well, if it helps, I didn't post in the order of my favs, but instead I based it on how well I thought they sang in this last round.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 - 11:25 am
So there's a small controversy going on about JLo's "live" performance Thursday...the controversy being that it wasn't live at all, but Fox went through a tortured bit of stagecraft to try to convince viewers it was. It's amusing, really, because nobody reasonably expects JLo to be a great live performer--it's not like she's Streisand or Auntie ReeRee, after all--so why the pretense?
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 - 12:07 pm
Tish - I posted in the general Idol thread about this. Do you mean the entire number live or just her voice live is the controversy? Her performance was taped a week prior. I'm on the ticket list and got an email invite - they filmed after Idol finished the live show with new audience. You were supposed to plan to be there for the JLo taping from 5-7pm, or something like that. I passed on attending as her thing is not my thing. That stage was so elaborate there was no way they could have gotten it back in order during a commercial break. The "Jennifer is changing clothes" line that Ryan said was laughable. They pre-tape so many acts I don't know why they would bother to feed Ryan a little white lie to say. lol
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 - 12:43 pm
I sort of take for granted that she doesn't sing live. At the very least, she sings to a pre-recorded track. But the problem with the performance is that it's obviously from multiple takes. Here's the Gawker article on it: Gawker And, yeah, Seacrest with his "Jennifer is changing clothes" was one of the more egregious things about the whole sham.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 - 12:51 pm
Hahahaha, that Gawker video is priceless!!!
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Sam
Member
05-02-2004
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 - 1:06 pm
When she reappeared in her chair, slightly out of breath from all the "live" dancing and clothes changing, her makeup was just like it was prior to her "live" performance. Gawker video notwithstanding, the clincher for me was that it would've taken her an hour to get all the glitter off her face.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Saturday, May 07, 2011 - 4:23 pm
Her hair, clothing and makeup were exactly the same as before her "live" performance. Besides, I'd already read that it was pre-taped. How stupid do they think we are? 
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-16-2003
| Sunday, May 08, 2011 - 3:10 am
i guess i'm the only one who didnt like what haley did to one of my all time favs. House of rising sun. too rearranged and i hate it when she smiles thru the song inappropriately. I think jacob got a bad set up for both his songs. the background singers were flat and it really emphasized how he was flying all over the map with his notes. it clashes. Then he got royally set up with the NAzareth Version of Love hurts. WHY did they say that? he sang the Gene Pitney arrangement NOT the nazareth arrangement again, it is one of my all time favs and i have it done by various artists. jacob did an excellent gene pitney version but if anyone thot it was SUPPOSED to sound like nazareth, they would be horribly disappointed....and not vote for him.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, May 08, 2011 - 6:28 pm
I commented on the fake live performance the next day. When she screamed at the crowd, her voice was so obviously not the same voice that had just been singing. Besides, if she was really singing, she'd have been out of breath and she wasn't. I think what is disturbing is how they think we think it's live. Just admit you lip synced the entire performance and move on.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, May 09, 2011 - 7:16 am
I thought that was ridiculous too.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, May 09, 2011 - 8:08 am
I agree that was pretty stupid of them. A bit insulting to their audience. If they had been having fun doing it then I could see it being okay but it appeared that they were actually trying to fool people.
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