Talk about singing For No One

[jlh]

Ryan looked really hot tonight. I love him in a button-down, and he looks great in black. Calm night for Rymon, but that's okay.

• Amanda, "Back in the USSR." Great song. Love the ironed hair and the vest and her ass looked sick in those . Ali wants to ride on the back of her motorcycle.
  
• Kristy Lee, "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away." Wow, that sucked.
  
• small David, "The Long and Winding Road." He sounded great, but I just sort of don't care.
  
• Michael, "A Day in the Life." That was so the wrong song to choose, because it's hard for an audience to get into. M says, you need to be high to appreciate it and she's right. I think you have to be really careful about singing Beatles songs after Revolver, because they didn't even sing them live.
  
• Brooke, "Here Comes the Sun." Aww, this is so her, and the yellow dress, she's really adorable, and without being twee, which is tough. It wasn't like, awesome? But it was loveable, which is probably more important.
  
• D.Cook, "Day Tripper." Okay, that was a little Peter Frampton, so those of you who have memorized the Sgt. Pepper movie will have to tell me if it was done that way. Simon isn't wrong that it was kinda gimicky, and D.Cook needs to learn a few new tricks, but I liked it.
  
• Carly, "Blackbird." I don't really get why he thought that was indulgent. I thought it was really pretty.
  
• Jason, "Michelle." Right, so Chad, not so much with the getting out of the "Beatles songs you sing when you first learn to play the guitar" box. Awkward and charming, those are good words for it.
  
• Syesha, "Yesterday." I found it really boring, and I like Syesha a lot.
  
• Chikezie, "I've Just Seen a Face." The slow part didn't work as well as it might have—I could tell what he was trying to do, but he didn't quite get there. The changeup was cute, but it sort of didn't work. But unlike last week, the two halves of the song actually went together with the whole country thing.
  
• Ramiele, "I Should Have Known Better." So, that was very Mickey Mouse Club, wasn't it? She was spunky, sure, but it wasn't that interesting.

[Poll #1156574]

After a great deal of consideration, I'm voting for Amanda, Brooke, Jason and Chikezie, but I really didn't love anyone tonight. What a low-energy show.