American Idol - The Top 12 Girls

Tonight the Top 12 girls get their first chance to win the votes of America, and like the guys, they will all sing songs from the 60’s tonight.

Before the first note is even sung we are warned about some of the girls being sick. This is after all, one of the worst

Kristi Lee Cook, Ms. Amazing Grace, trains horses and had to sell one in order to fund her audition trip. “Rescue Me” the first selection of the night, and man it is downright horrendous. Vocals have no strength or personality, and all the movements look really forced. Just a weak performance overall. Randy and Paula acknowledge that it was not great, but let her slide a bit because she’s got the flu, and the poor thing had to go first. Simon aint going for the excuses and rightly calls her attempts at dancing as robotic.

JoAnne B, the beautiful plus size model, got the final slot in the top 12 girls, and does “Say a Little Prayer for You”. It has a rough start, and never really gets any better. Yup, it’s rough all the way through. The judges hum and hah about nerves getting to her, but Simon sums it up nicely as usual with the word “substandard”.

Alaina Whittaker is the youngest contestant on the show at 16, and her 17th birthday is tomorrow. “I love you More Today than Yesterday” is her choice. It’s one of my favorite songs, and to my surprise, she really knocks it out of the park. I think she has a chance to go far. Best so far, but that aint saying much. Simon hates the “corny” song, but that’s ok.

Amanda, the rock and roll biker nurse, got her car totaled by a semi truck since auditions, so shes probably pretty goddamn lucky to be alive. I’m glad she is as she rocks “Please Don’t go Down to New Orleans” or whateves. I like her attitude, and her voice is not spectacular, but I think she is a fantastic performer. I like her. Whether your average American American Idol voter will vote for her remains to be seen. The judges call her authentic and they all like her too. “Sorry I pulled out in front of you” are Amanda’s words to the semi truck driver, if he’s watching. Yipes!

Amy Davis, 25, is a trade show model and grad student, and plays geetar. Girls with Guitars are hot, like that cool song by Wynonna Judd. She seems humble and sweet, but gives us a pretty lame performance of “Where the Boys Are” or something. Straight up boring. Randy keeps it real by calling it pitchy and Paula says the camera loves Amy, but it was lackluster. Simon concurs. She’s gonna need to do much more than that to be competitive in this muthafucka.

Brooke White, the 24 yr old nanny, is the one who’s never seen an R movie. She’s pretty likable, and does just about as well as anyone can singing “So Happy Together”, but it wasn’t outstanding. The judges think it was good, but Simon finds it all just too damn squeaky clean, like some washing up liquid from the 60’s. That’s exactly what I was thinking Simon.


Alexandrea Lushington is absolutely adorable, and is absolutely a natural on stage. I love the oversized peace sign earring for a nice touch of the 60’s. Randy proclaims it to be the year of the youngsters, and praises her great performance. Paula loves the dope outfit and the confidence, but Simon just didn’t get it. Sucks for him. That was cool.

Kady Maloy is 18 from Houston, and does a scary Britney Spears impression. She’s the first of the ladies to start her song sitting on a chair, and does “Groovy Kind of Love”. Sounds good to me, she has a powerful voice but I think she could’ve done much better with a more appropriate song. I bet she’ll be around to watch in the next several weeks.

Asia’h Epperson is just about the cutest fucking little thing I have ever seen, and she has a ton of great energy to boot. “Piece of My Heart” is the evening’s first Janis, and she does the song justice. I like this chick. Judges love it as well and it was Simon’s favorite of the night. Word.

Ramiele “Big Voice for a Little Girl” Malubay is also cute as a button but her song choice doesn’t really do much for me. Good vocal, but I am looking forward to hearing her sing something else next week. Simon even says she outsung everyone tonight. Wow.

Syesha “The Scarf” Mercado has power vox and sings the rocking “Tobacco Road” like a pro. Crowd loves it, judges love it, voters love it, she’s going far.

Carly “Irish” Smithson had a record deal at fifteen, and is more modest than she should be. She rounds out the night with a real snoozer, but you can still tell she has mad talent. “The lucky coin in the pocket” (??) says Abdul, and Randy thought it was the best vocal of the whole Top 24. Simon, somehow, didn’t catch on to it. I thought it was brilliant, and love that we are so welcoming of this Irish lass and the Aussie gentleman.

Going home, its gotta be between Kristi Lee Cook, JoAnne Borgella, Amy Davis, and maybe Brooke White. The rest of them are all pretty awesome actually. This really is going to be a great season I think. Even so, I’m glad there are only 20 people competing next week, I have Big Brother to watch, for Chenbot’s sake.