American Idol 6: Week 3 "Girls Night" Part II

Thanks for joining us again for the second half of Girls Night from Week 3. I think three of the strongest singers are wrapping up the night tonight, it will be fun to see how the show closes out.

Up next we’ve got Stephanie.

Stephanie Edwards
She’s been singing since she was 3-years old. Would always be asked to sing at family gatherings and she was very shy. This girl can sing! Great power and talent although a couple of notes and runs were very pitchy.

• Randy: gives an “A” for a valiant effort. When you choose a Chaka song, you’ll always be compared
• Paula: thinks she was darn near flawless. Slightly falling behind in the music
• Simon: one of the best we’ve got. Tendency to be a little copy cat. She has done 100% enough to sing her way into next week and the Final 12

LaKisha Jones
She is terrified of animals. Any animals. Uh-oh! She’s doing a Whitney Houston song, but this time folks you’re going to hear what it sounds like for someone that’s not the original singer to totally nail one of their songs. LaKisha is dead-on with this one. Perfect tone and inflection. WOW! She is the one to beat this season on the girl’s side of things, maybe even for the full-meal deal!

• Randy: “I liked that”. Don’t know if it was her best, but another great performance by the great LaKisha
• Paula: you’ve already made us love you, she’ll stay right here and work on being the next idol
• Simon: haven’t seen tonight, but she brought it was passion, talent and believability. Tonight she looks beautiful, as opposed to his comments from last week.

Gina Glocksen
Relies a lot on the lucky charms. She’s got a little troll, a stuffed pickle and special t-shirt. Not sure if I’m correct on this or night, but this reminds me of the group Evanescence. A quick Google search and it’s confirmed that it’s “Call Me When You’re Sober”. Absolutely her type of song.

• Randy: finally, finally the real Gina comes out. This is who he always felt she was
• Paula: completely agree, more or less who she imagined her to be, be careful not to oversing. This is the style that suits her best
• Simon: first time he’s seen her look comfortable. This was the girl they wanted in this stage of the competition. He really, really hopes she makes it through. She’s a breath of fresh air. She deserves to be there.

Melinda Doolittle
After the break we’ve got Melinda to close the show. We find out a little bit more about her, and that it’s her friends consider some of her quirks she has to be more OCD. This girl has personality oozing out of everywhere! She knows what her style is, similar to Gina, and brought it tonight. Singing “W-O-M-A-N” a little old-school rocking out song. How in the world was she ever just a back-up singer. I think it was all about confidence folks. Now she’s got it more every week and it shows in her performances.

• Randy: she is a consumate pro! She’s ready to go in a studio and just make a record
• Paula: she is so phenomenal, brilliant on stage, she just wants to see every week what’s next from her
• Simon: “you little tiger. I thought we had a pussycat”. It is very obvious and nice that she is actually enjoying every second of being on this show. 1,000,000% we’ll see her next week!

I may have to back-pedal a little bit on LaKisha being the one to beat, her and Melinda are throwing down the gauntlet and I don’t think anyone else can come close to picking it up.

I believe the poll may be right this week. I’m not sure if Antonella or Haley are going to make it through this week. We’ll find out tomorrow night, so be sure and come back and catch the results show.