Unless your 17 years old.....

many of them can do it much better than aretha. Its just that at the time she was a stand out lady for the talent pool available in her generation .People say similar things about all the greats of their day like Michael jordon for example but there are better players today or Michael Jackson but the talent pool is deeper now and its harder to stand out.

AI is a TV show and they have to have all the ingredients to make the show successful. Unfortunately that also means that the best singers wont necessarily get picked if they are too simmilar to other singers in the show.

The best singer there Aaron Marcellus/Sanders (IMO) did not even get any TV air time .

check him out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cdt3CGHMpU

It wont be to everyones tastes but it touches me.

This is my favorite for this season of idol..Jacob Lusk

Donny,

Due to websense blockers I can't see the photo at work. Are you referring to the guy who had a gospel background with the huge vocal range ?

Yes Dan thats him

I like that guy. I loved the scat singing in the "god bless this child" he did. The other guy with who plays the upright bass has been great too. Alot of talent this year.

Update http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/02/28/american-idol-top-12-guys-preview/?hpt=T2

I am disappointed already in the show. they had all that talent , probably the best pool they had had in many years of AI and then they picked the typical TV entertainment value top 24. I can fully understand why JLO cried when she had to tell some of the contestants that they had not made it through . She must have known in her heart that she was being compelled to make decisions based upon the TV show rather than a talent show.

I dont think i can watch the circus again this year.

"I am disappointed already in the show. they had all that talent , probably the best pool they had had in many years of AI and then they picked the typical TV entertainment value top 24"


I don't necessarily agree with this statemet. We are down to top 13 as of last night.

I'm not sure if I dig the new format to get to the top 13. But it is what it is.

http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season_10/



Casey Abrams & Jacob Luck & Pia Toscano are my favs. James Durbin is the dark horse.

Any thoughts ?

Jason, Kendra and Niema are my choices so far.