Idol finale 2014
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I’m not judging - they’re surely all being prepped by producers in any spare moment - I’m just saying.Īnd then Jena’s “Decode” sends us into her duet with Paramore, which I will call the high point of the night. The sound is made for the production mikes, the silent commercial breaks send everyone’s energy crashing (except the kids, which is why I won’t have kids), and Seacrest and the judges never address the audience. Seeing a show like this in person, you really notice how much it’s made for people to watch on television. Bummer! I really wanted her to underwhelm me tonight.
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All of the women of the top 13 join her, save for MK Nobilette, whose Twitter feed reveals she is out sick. Seacrest: “My buddy Demi Lovato!” All the kids know all the words to “Neon Lights,” and of course Ryan Seacrest is proud of being buddies with a 21-year-old woman. (And looking exactly the same: backwards hat low on the head, casual trousers.) Next up, according to Mr. does the best Carlton dance I’ve seen since 1992.Īloe Blacc sings “I’m the Man” with the boys of the top 13, and more than anything, I’m happy to see Ben Briley looking well. Also, throughout their performance, Harry Connick, Jr. The 6-year-old version of myself would be so relieved at how the KISS story turns out. And then his superfan brother Houston comes out with his face painted like the Starchild, and I’ll be damned if the whole thing isn’t totally heartwarming. Caleb joins them and looks like he’s in heaven. That’s how defanged and cuddly they are now: Even the kid with the Elmo backpack in front of me is loving it. I was a young boy at the mid-’70s height of their fame, and I don’t mind telling you they scared the bejeebers out of me. They are the Goofus and Gallant of faceography in their duet of “Wrecking Ball.” Watch and learn, young Idols.Īfter we all sit and watch the video of Jennifer’s performance of “First Love,” which I will Edward Snowden it up and tell you was pre-taped the night before, out comes KISS, to the apparent delight of all the children in our section.
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It is a stark contrast with her dead-eyed duet partner Jessica Meuse. She also makes the most batshit-crazy performance faces I have ever seen, and I have seen Este Haim. Sam Woolf kicks off the Idol/celebrity duet portion of the evening with a remarkably bloodless take on Phillip Phillips’s “Home.” P-squared joins him, then launches into his new single, “Raging Fire.” It’s the second time I’ve heard this song on American Idol! It’s also the second time I’ve heard this song.ĭuring the commercial break, a willowy, bell-bottomed nymph with a luxurious mane takes the stage, and our seats are too far back to tell who it is, but we figure it’s gotta be Steven Tyler, because who else has a figure like that? Well, it turns out Jennifer Nettles has a figure like that. Ryan says they look great, “especially with that sparking centerpiece in the middle.” Yikes women really have to take it on the chin in this finale. Our judges make their entrance, Harry and Keith looking fly in a velvet jacket and casual eveningwear, respectively, and Jennifer in a glittery silver dress. And when they reprise their duet of “It’s Only Love,” two things are clear: (1) they are evenly matched, and (2) Idol thinks we remember the duets from this season much more fondly than we probably do.
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The show opens with our top two doing a medley of “We Will Rock You” and “Just a Girl,” which is a little insulting (boys rock, but girls are just girls?), but the enthusiasm is infectious. He also asks who’s on whose team, and the Caleb cheers far outweigh the Jena ones. It’s gon’ be NUTS.” And you know what? He just might be right. And then he says the best thing I’ve ever heard: “We gon’ SELFIE all NIGHT. They go bananas at the mention of every upcoming special guest-star even “Jason Mraz is in the house” gets a Beatles-on– Ed Sullivan reception. The audience warm-up guy is really going to town as I work my way to my seat, and the audience (which consists disproportionately of children, like really, really young children, like just graduated from Radio Disney children) is eating it up. Live is positively on fire with excitement, by which I mean metal barriers and confused security people. Tonight! American Idol season 13 limps across the finish line like a poorly trained marathoner, wracked with sobs and bleeding out of its toes, and thanks to a contact at Fox who has apparently not read any of this season’s recaps, I AM THERE! L.A.