jlh | He represents Texas; she was raised out in Memphis (Reply)

Now that Ryan has his beard in place (in more ways than one) apparently he can go back to flirting with Simon in that patented seventh-grade manner we know so well. Poor Simon really was showing his jealousy . . . of Teri Hatcher! "Ryan darling, why can't we snog on the public beach in Malibu in front of photographers?" I'm pleased that this was the night that Carrie watched so she could see this for herself. So cute that Simon really wanted to not be booed. See, he really IS a marshmallow. He just puts on the tough.

Could Kenny Rogers be more useless? Could he have had more work done? They didn't give us the names of the songs consistently this week, and as I don't really listen to country there are some I didn't know so I left them out entirely.

Taylor. Wrong fucking song. Yawn, yawn, yawn. You know, they used to start this show with a bang and the middling crap would be, well, in the middle, and then the end would be great. What happened with that?
Mandisa. Oh, man, that was remarkably dull. Why did you pick Shania? Why? WHY?
Elliott. was really quite good and actually didn't oversing it. I'm pleased.
Paris. Wow, go Simon. I thought she sounded good, really good, as usual, but she never did make the high note on "survive" because she refused to use her goddamned head voice. Pull it out of your chest, honey. Good song choice though.
Ace. Well, he was kinda pitchy. He finally picked a good song, but some of it was so flat that it drove me nuts. But I don't think I have to worry about him this week as much as I feared we would.
Kellie. Okay, I fucking LOVE THIS SONG. And she sounded great. She really has to stay away from the cute and the namby pamby. It does her no favors.
Chris continues to rule me. He sang something slow and sweet and did a great job.
Katharine finally said what someone should have said at the start, that Simon doesn't like country music. He never has and he always gets grouchy on country night and it's so dumb because like, dude. It's country night. Deal. Anyway, she was fucking awesome, totally sexy, and I'm sure won't be in the bottom three this week.
Bucky was surprisingly mediocre, wasn't he? Next week he'd better be gone.