After watching last group of top 36 contestants sang below is my personal view.
Last night I watched American Idol 8 3rd rop of 12 contestants and picked my favourites. There are just so many good singers and performers last night.
The best so far I would say is Lil whom I believe will definitely get a place in top 12. Others that I like Kristen, Alex, Ju'not, Felicia.
The ones that I feel alright but not my favourite like Von, Scott and Jorge.
There are just so many its pretty hard to choose. Below is what I predicted.
Most likely go to top 12 because of votes: Scott, Von
Most likely go to top 12 because of performance : Felicia, Jorge
I would specially liked to mention Scott the blind contestant performed. He was in top 36. But this week more than half the contestants performed well so its pretty hard to predict who are the top 3 that will go to final 12.While watching Scott who like Wei Lian is blind and also do not wear sunglasses and he has big beautiful eyes.
Looking at him you really not notice that he is blind. He sat on a chair in the middle of the small stage and then stood up middle of the song walk around then try to lower his body and then raise couple of times during performance when lyrics mention 'high' and 'low'.
He did put it a lot of effort to try his best to perform despite not able to see the audience. One set back though the song was not a well known song and I find it a bit boring. His vocals was not that great last night too. There are many other better singers. But I do wish him well and hope to see him going to finals.
I was rather surprised judges like Simon, Paula was calling for voters to vote for him and provide a lot of positive comments despite his vocals not as expected and very supportive of Scott. Despite having millions of fans watching worldwide the judges are not afraid of complaints that will come in for openly asking people to vote for Scott.
In Singapore for example if judges were to did this there will be fans calling for unfairness and injustice to the contestant they are supporting despite just having couple of hundreds of thousands fans watching. Do hope Singaporeans who watch this competition can learn something from these judges.Let's hope tonight Scott can go into top 12 for this season's American Idol.
Latest results announced and Scott has successfully went into finals:
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/03/idol-wild-card.html