This is your groove, yo.
To quote Randy. About the Big Band singing last night on American Idol.

Sadly, he isn't wrong.

It seems this year our American Idol will be a fabulous Big Band singer. Not necessarily good at any other type of singing. But since every pop/rock/indie/alternative musician these days needs to be able to sing Big Band, I assume having five Big Band singers as finalists is a good thing.

So, the contestants suddenly learned how to sing well over the past week. I was really only truly annoyed by Jasmine last night. Was it the outfit? The ever-present flower? The fact that she always looks like she's twelve years old and singing into a hairbrush in her bedroom?

Yes.

I'm not quite sure how I feel about the random talking in between songs this week. Usually at this stage in the competition each contestant performs one song, then they get yelled at by the judges, then they come back later and do another song, only to then get yelled at a second time in one night.

Last night, they performed both songs in one strange set, with random talking/explaining in between each song. It caught me off guard, as it did LaToya who forgot how to say 'Natalie Cole'. But at least we didn't have to hear them get yelled at twice in one night. Although Randy only lavished praises upon them, seeming to think they had all found their groove. Yo.

Bottom Three is hard to predict, but the power of The Alliance definitely helped LaToya rock, or 'big band', the best last night. She was definitely the best of the night.

Hopefully America voted accordingly.

Yo.

C.T.