Crisis

Amber Holcomb "My Funny Valentine" - 7 (Alex, Richard, Lily, JC, Zoey, Diana, Kevin)

Breanna Steer “Bust Your Windows” - 6 (Alex, Richard, Lily, Zoey, Diana, Crisis)

Angie Miller "Never Gone" - 5 (Andrew, Chris,JC, Diana, QK)

Kree Harrison "Stronger" - 6 (Andrew, Chris, Sola, QK, Kevin, Crisis)

Candice Glover "Ordinary People" - 6 (Alex, Richard, Lily, Zoey, Kevin, Crisis)

Kree Harrison "Crying" - 3 (Richard, Chris, QK)

Kree Harrison "With A Little Help From My Friends" - 5 (Andrew, Chris, Zoey, Diana, Sola) 

Angie Miller "Yesterday" - 1 (JC)

Candice Glover "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"

Kree Harrison "Don't Play That Song" - 1 (Andrew) 

Kree Harrison "What The World Needs Now Is Love" - 1 (Crisis)

Candice Glover "Straight Up" - 4 (Alex, Lily, Sola, Kevin)

Kree Harrison "She Talks To Angels" - 2 (Sola, QK)

Kree Harrison "Stormy Weather" - 

Candice Glover "One" - 

Candice Glover "Next To Me" - 1 (JC)

Candice Glover "Chasing Pavements" - 

Kree Harrison "All Cried Out" - 

On 10/21/2021 at 7:43 PM, miss denise said:

Aww thanks.  

 

Oh, I did actually see that when I was doing my research and thought of him.   But okay, definitely didn't get the third clue. 

 

05. Fox/Wayne Brady: Fox was also a favorite of mine and my second favorite of the season! Nobody was going to top Rottweiler, but I still really loved him. He was definitely a great all-around performer. I also loved the costume.  LOL the highlight (or one of them) of his third performance being the judges dancing. Interesting point about Jamie Foxx (who needs to finally be on the show  ), but it would be funny if someone did perform their own song. I don't really remember there being controversy regarding Fox's win, although I did wish it was Rottweiler.  But Fox was also great and still one of my favorites overall from the show. 

Thought of what? Sorry, I'm confused here.  At least you know understand it!

05. Yes, Jamie needs to be on the show, if only for the panelists to stop guessing him every season.  It would be funny to see someone perform one of their own songs. I guess the controversy came from me reading a bunch of posts after marathoning the season stating Rottweiler was "robbed" of the win. I'll say Rottweiler was the better technical singer but Fox was more of a complete performer. In a medium such as this, I think performers have more of an edge. With that said, as I said before, both would've been worthy winners.

I'll try to have #4 posted tomorrow.

Cut Amber Holcomb "She's Leaving Home"

@rdhaley96 and I are cutting:

Devin Velez - "Listen"

Janelle Arthur - "I'll Never Fall In Love Again"

RIP this magnificent train wreck:

I still remember the thread about this performance being broken down.

Our last cut will be Amber Holcomb "My Funny Valentine (Reprise)".

#5!

5. Fox/Wayne Brady

Season 2: First Place

Fox - This Love

Fox - Hey Look Ma, I Made It

Fox - Every Little Step

Fox - Tennessee Whiskey

Fox - Blame It

Fox - This Christmas

Fox - Try A Little Tenderness

Fox Unmasking

At #5 is Fox. Fox was an entertaining and versatile act whose performances I’ve enjoyed in some form or another. I went back and forth between him and Rottweiler as far as my favorite S2 acts were concerned; in the end I gave Fox the slight edge. His costume is one of the best designed ones in the series. I liked the whole steampunk/Sherlock Holmes type of vibe it had going for it. In addition, it appeared to be part-cyborg, seeing that the right half of its face, especially the eye, was mechanical. With that said, onto Fox’s time on TMS.

He began his run with a strong performance of This Love, which is a song I don’t care for mainly due to it being overplayed. As great as Fox was, however, the best part was the dancer. She really got into character during the performance. He easily won the head-to-head against Penguin and advanced to the next round. His next performance Hey Look Ma, I Made It was a great case of showmanship, especially the dance breakdown in the middle of it. The subsequent performance of Every Little Step was more of the same, with the highlights being Nicole, Ken, and Triumph dancing () and the split Fox did at the end. I also noticed he wore different pants for the performance. The next time Fox took the stage, he did away with the dancing and performing and gave a smooth performance of Tennessee Whiskey. The performance was good enough for him to beat Butterfly in the head-to-head and advance to the next round. After that, he went back to a more upbeat performance with Blame It (I got a kick out of T-Pain saying it was a great song. I wonder why he thought that  ). The jazzy like intro was a nice touch before the rest of the performance went into gear. This is my second favorite performance of his. I also think this performance dispelled any notion he was Jamie Foxx because from what I understand no act has sung any of their own songs on the show thus far. Fox next took the stage and sang This Christmas for the Christmas themed episode. This Christmas is one of my favorite Christmas songs, so I enjoyed this performance a lot. In addition, I liked the holly he added onto his hat and chest. Finally, my favorite thing about the performance was the interaction with the dancer (who did her thing in her own right) from turning the imaginary knob on the snow globe and the hug at the end. I think this is one of the few times the act physically interacted with a dancer, so it was a nice touch. Fox would then advance to the finals and gave not only my personal favorite performance of his, but another one of my all-time favorite TMS performances with Try A Little Tenderness. He clearly pulled out all of the stops for this one. The most memorable part may be the rap verse in the middle, but the whole performance was great. Apparently that performance was enough for Fox to win the season which I had no issues with, although Rottweiler would’ve made a great winner as well. Fox was unmasked as Wayne Brady, who I kind of figured out early on. I believe there was some controversy over Fox winning, but as mentioned either him or Rottweiler would’ve been fine. All in all, Fox was certainly one of the most all-around acts TMS has ever had and one of the best overall.

05. Fox/Wayne Brady:

The Final Four:

Monster

Frog

Sun

Seahorse

#4 to come.

18 hours ago, jdanton2 said:

i see you had the right prediction for cupcake 2 weeks ago. it was not someone i would have thought of.

The funny thing is I completely pulled the guess out of thin air.  I remembered one or two of the Pointer Sisters had a really deep almost masculine voice and I thought of them outside of my two initial guesses. I couldn't remember which one it was, nor could I remember if that sister was still alive.

Speaking of The Pointer Sisters, it's too bad Ruth and Anita couldn't perform as a duo as they initially wanted to due to Anita's health issues. It was probably for the better since duos and groups tend to get the short stick on the show so far. Maybe Banana Split can change that.

I had a feeling Cupcake was one of the Pointer Sisters but couldn't determine which one; therefore, I'll take partial credit.  This is a stacked group, so the next elimination will be difficult. With that said, barring something strange happening I'll guess Mallard will be the next to go and feel that Banana Split and Queen Of Hearts are the best of the group.

As for Caterpillar, I don't have anything so far.

On 10/10/2021 at 6:53 PM, miss denise said:

 

I know.  But I can use it to excuse me for how horrible I am at keeping up with things these days.   

 

Yes!  Ugh seriously.  I need to see if there's another video.

 

Thank you! Ahh yes. I'm glad we agree and hope you enjoy my ~drama~.  Yes, these are all good points and what contributed to it.  

 

Thank you.  

 

Ahhh okay. I sure know it about life!

 

Haha yeah. I know they cheer everyone on but I didn't think she was as amazing as they said, although I don't remember the specific comments. It's just how I feel. Welp, the Queen of Hearts has some prominent lips on their costume.  Yes, I understand. 

 

Well yay me for that, I guess.  

You're excused.

Hopefully there is or the original is uploaded at the very least.

You're welcome.

Yeah, it can be the pits at times.

I guess we agree to disagree regarding her. I slightly expressed my complaints about the Queen of Hearts costume in the episode thread.  With that said, this one isn't as bad because it's not just lips.  Happy to see you do.

At least someone did. I'll most likely refrain from posting any more clues and just post the acts. Speaking of which, I'll try to have #5 up in the next couple of days.

On 10/10/2021 at 7:05 PM, miss denise said:

07. Bee/Gladys Knight: Ahhh I get the first clue now, but would have never figured that out. At least I still got her with the other clues.  Gladys definitely has a very distinct voice and even I could recognize it.  LOL your comments on the LooH performance. She was definitely a strong and consistent performer. "the main thing I noticed was her mouth moving underneath the mask’s mouth.   I don't remember. LOL at creepy looking dancers in her final performance. I also love the Kenan moment declaring it was her.   Ken is so silly, as always.  Anyway, Bee wasn't necessarily a favorite of mine, but she was good and worthy of making it to the end.

 

06. Rottweiler/Chris Daughtry: Okay, I thought of Chris for the first two clues... although not quite sure I have the reason for the second one. And sort of thought he fit the last one too considering his band, but I'm sure there's more to it. Anyway, I love the Rottweiler costume so much!  Definitely one of my favorites. I also love how he dressed for Christmas.   I forgot he was scared of rottweilers.   This was the first time I knew who someone was right away and before the show even started.  I heard him sing on a commercial and recognized his voice instantly. He was so consistent and I loved his run on the show. "Following that, he gave an explosive performance of Grenade (ducks tomatoes thrown at me) " Wait, why are tomatoes being thrown? I'm confused. But oh nooo, once again Someone You Loved was one of my top favorites of his. It was so good.   But yessssss, Alive was my other top favorite of his! That was such a moment. I already wanted him to win and thought that performance could have done it.  He's definitely among my all-time favorites and I was disappointed he came up short, although Fox was my second favorite. 

 

07. I pretty much agree with everything here, except she obviously is a favorite of mine.

06. The second clue were lyrics to the Method Man & Redman song Da Rockwilder. The third clue is a reference to Chris receiving an offer to be the lead singer of Fuel after his season of Idol. The Rottweiler costume was a great one.  My comments on Grenade was a bad pun because of grenades exploding.  I won't say too much about Alive because Fox hasn't appeared yet and want to expand more on that in his write-up.

Round 2

David Oliver Willis - Fever

Aubrey Cleland - Big Girls Don't Cry

Kree Harrison - With A Little Help From My Friends

Candice Glover - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

It's too bad the victory performances aren't eligible because I would've certainly advanced this:

Round 4

Vincent Powell - Cause I Love You

12 minutes ago, hayden98 said:

Round 4: 

Lazaro Arbos, Burnell Taylor & Devin Velez "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"

Darn, this was going to be my Round 4 pick.

1 hour ago, 1234567890 said:

One of the single most overrated Idol performances of all-time. Here we have BB Chez singing a song that requires a lot of passion and feeling, yet she brought none of it to this performance. She looked like a little girl throwing a temper tantrum over not getting the doll she wanted instead of a desperate woman trying not to lose her man. I laughed out loud at her trying to show emotion during this performance. I couldn’t believe all of the accolades this performance received because it was just average, IMO. The only reason this isn’t #20 is because Colton is in the finals. I’d rather listen to Ashthon Jones’ version than this. - @Crisis

 

It finishing first just made my point.

I guess I am asking for punishment, but I'll play S12 although I'd rather skip the next three seasons and go straight to S15.

I had a feeling Baby was Larry The Cable Guy!  Him singing the theme from The Flintstones was iconic!  With that said, he was the weakest and the costume was kind of creepy, so I don't mind the cut.

As for Pepper:

This is definitely my least favorite winner thus far. At least both of Elise's performances made the Top 5.

As for the Elise/Hollie fan war, Elise was my favorite and Hollie my third favorite, so I don't really have a dog in the fight. In fact, I would've like for both of them to have at least one more performance in the finals.

On 10/1/2021 at 6:05 PM, *Lily said:

Will add this here - Syesha has been reunited with her babies!!!  

Good for her.

I have two more write-ups to do. Mine should be sent within the hour.

Time for #6.

The clues:

- Fell short against its natural rival in another habitat

- Microphone checka, swingin' sword lecture; closin' down the sector, supreme neck protector

- Was invited to fill up a tank and hit the road with a band

6. Rottweiler/Chris Daughtry

Season 2: Second Place

Rottweiler - Maneater

Rottweiler - Love Runs Out

Rottweiler - Castle On The Hill

Rottweiler - Grenade

Rottweiler - Someone You Loved

Rottweiler - Mr. Brightside

Rottweiler - Alive

Rottweiler Unmasking

To paraphrase Baha Men, I let the dogs - or in this case, dog - out.  Barking and roaming his way into the #6 spot is Rottweiler. The costume is one of my favorites of the series. I liked the mask, coat, jeans, hat, and shoes. I also liked when he wore the Santa hat along with the Christmas sweater. What I found the most interesting was the reason he picked the costume, which was to help him overcome his fear of rottweilers. Outside of the costume, Rottweiler was a consistent act who gave his fair share of great performances on the show and from what I understand, considered to be a favorite to win the whole thing. With that said, on to the performances.

He started his impressive run with a great performance of Maneater. Along with the strong vocals, he showed some nice swag when moving with the dancers seeing that he isn’t much of a dancer normally. As with Bee, I was familiar with the voice from the beginning, especially that unmistakable vibrato. The performance was enough for him to beat Tree in the head-to-head and emerge from Group B. The next time Rottweiler took the stage was the fifth episode in which he sang Love Runs Out, which was a performance very similar to Maneater. Next, he took on the Ed Sheeran single Castle On A Hill, which was another solid effort on his behalf. Following that, he gave an explosive performance of Grenade (ducks tomatoes thrown at me) that I enjoyed despite being tired of hearing that song. That performance won him the head-to-head against Flower and allowed him to advance to the next round. There he stepped away from the up-tempo performances and sang the Lewis Capaldi ballad Someone You Loved. Unfortunately, this is my least favorite performance of his; however, it has nothing to do with Rottweiler himself. On the contrary, he sang the song and emoted it really well. Also, it has nothing to do with being a ballad. It’s just that, like I mentioned in Turtle’s write-up, I am not a Lewis Capaldi fan and I like Someone You Loved even less than Before You Go. OK, enough of my Lewis Capaldi grumblings, time to move on to the next performance which was Mr. Brightside. This was a rather interesting performance. It started off as a ballad, and I thought the rest of the performance would be the same. However, it became the more up-tempo version it’s known for during the chorus. Regardless, it was still a strong performance and it was enough for him to advance to the finals alongside Flamingo and Fox. There he gave, which was not only my favorite performance of his, but one of my overall favorite TMS performances with Alive. It helps that I love the song (funny enough, not when Sia sings it). In addition, the dancers were both great and hilarious, especially at the beginning of it. It was certainly a great final performance of the season and one that would’ve been worthy enough to win it all. Nonetheless, he was the runner-up to Fox and was unmasked as Chris Daughtry. I was surprised none of the panel got him; I like to think they were unfamiliar with him because anyone who was familiar would’ve known it was him from the first performance of the season.  From what I understand, there were complaints about him not winning the season, but it is what it is. Regardless, Rottweiler is one of the best TMS acts when it’s all said and done.

06. Rottweiler/Chris Daughtry:

The Fab Five:

Monster

Fox

Frog

Sun

Seahorse

#5 to come some time.

11 hours ago, 1234567890 said:

Tamyra, Fantasia, Carrie, Chris, Melinda, David Cook and Crystal have also all had 6.  The contestant with the most representation in the finals was Kelly with 7.

I meant in general.  I would have three, maybe four Jessica performances in the finals, not six. Personally, I would have no more than five performances per contestant in the finals. I understand Kelly and Tamyra in S1 since they carried most of the season, and I expect Candice to dominate S12 and the same for Trent and La'Porsha in S15.

13 hours ago, Weedy_Speedy said:

^ Yeah, the Jessica fans really took advantage of all the other fanbase in-fighting. Touché to them.  

I expected Jessica to be targeted more than she was and a Jessica/Hollie fan war for some reason, but Jessica got through pretty much unscathed.

12 hours ago, *Chris said:

Regarding Cupcake - I can see why people think those two. One is way too big of a star atm to be afforded to be on this - could it be someone who replaced him on a certain Broadway show? Maybe.  Regarding the other one? The other one refuses to way drag in public so I don't think he would sign up for the show  

Well, I'll go with my left field third guess if it's not my first two.

9 hours ago, *Wallace said:

I was surprised about Dalmatian being Tyga. Robin was guessing Nelly, but I didn't get a Nelly sound from him at all, lol.

I noticed Robin don't get the people he worked with or was associated with in some form or another.  He didn't guess Robot or Giraffe correctly despite collaborating with the former on a couple of songs and was a childhood friend of the latter. Now he add Dalmatian to the list.

Steve Harvey?!  Seriously Jenny?!  I thought Nicole's guess being one of the Lil rappers was absurd.

It was a solid group, for there were no obvious weak links here. With that said, I thought it would be between Cupcake and Dalmatian. I had no idea who Dalmatian was, but the clues made sense looking back at them. 

As for the surviving acts of Group B:

Colton Dixon "Decode" - (3)  Andrew, Priscilla, Kevin

Joshua Ledet "I Wish" - (1) Crisis

Skylar Laine "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" - (2) Hayden, Richard

Erika Van Pelt "New York State Of Mind" - (7) Alex, Andrew, Derek, Hayden, Kevin, Megan, Crisis

Colton Dixon “Piano Man” - (2) - Priscilla, Richard

Skylar Laine "Gunpowder And Lead" - (3) Alex, Megan, Crisis

Phillip Phillips "Still Rainin'" - (1) Kevin

Colton Dixon "Love The Way You Lie" - (2) - Priscilla, Richard

Phillip Phillips "U Got It Bad" - (6) Alex, Andrew, Derek, Hayden, Megan, Crisis

Jessica Sanchez "Try A Little Tenderness" - (2) Alex, Priscilla

Skylar Laine "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" - (1) Kevin

Jessica Sanchez "Proud Mary" - 

Joshua Ledet "To Love Somebody" - (2) Derek, Richard

Phillip Phillips "Home" - (4) Andrew, Derek, Hayden, Megan

Battle 5:

Jessica Sanchez "Dance With My Father" - 11 (Andrew, JC, Richard, Wallace, Lily, Hayden, Akshar, Weedy, Amanda, Victoria, Priscilla)

Jessica Sanchez "Proud Mary" - 14 (Alex, Elliott, Steven, Diana, Zoey, Chris, QK, Megan, Derek, Sola, Nico, Gigi, Andy, Crisis)