Once again,the eyes of america are trained on a simple stage.
From that stage,a superstar will emergE.
It is time for the guys.
This is "american idol."
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American Idol Season 07 Episode 14
All right.
Welcome to "american idol."
We are looking at another outstanding show tonight.
Rickey and the want are ready to go!
And the ten guys singing tonight.
Here they are: Michael johns,
jason castro,
luke menard,
robbie carrico,
danny noriega,
david hernandez,
jason yeager,
chikezie,
david cook,
and david archuleta.
We have a good one tonight,gelemen?
The judges are with uS.
Once again,the very well-known randy jackson.
She has a hit song.
Paula abdul.
And the genius,brilliant,amazing king of all media,simon cowell.
all right,randy.
Second week on this stage.
Key it up for the guys tonight.
What are you looking for?
Hopefully,the nerves are gone.
Firsweek is over.
You have to bring it hard tonight.
Make sure you are in it to win it.
That is all I'm going to tell you.
Paula,how do you think the nerves will be this week?
I think it is going to be better this week.
Already,they are growing into their own comfort level.
Simon,last week you said three guys were worthy of your praise.
What do the others need to do tonight in your mind?
Be better.
All right.
Let's get started,friends.
All the songs you will hear are classics from the 70'S.
Michael johns is up first.
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I was always either in the finals,semifinals or winning it.
Tennis plays a big part in my life.
When you want to get away from the studio
or get away from writing or if you can't figure out,
how do i finish the song I'm trying to write?
A lot of my best songs have come from playing tennis or playing sport.
Tennis is is a really good way for me to take my mind off anything going on in this whole crazy idol whirlwind.
* Loving you isn't the right thing to do *
* how can i ever change things that I feel *
* if i could maybe I'd give you my world *
* how can I when you won't take it from me *
* you can go your own way *
* you can call it another lonely day *
* you can go your own way *
* go your own way tell me why *
* everything turned around sneet packing up shackin' up's all you wanna do *
* if i could,maybe I'd give you my world open up,*
* everything's waiting for you ,*
* you can go your own way *
* go your own way you can call it another lonely day another lonely day you caonely day *
* you can go your own way,go your own way *
All right.
Nice way to start it off,man.
I don't know if that was your best,man.
I kind of liked it.
Started a little slow for me.
You kind of got into it.
Nice tonE.
I was ready for you to,like,let go.
It didn't quite go therE.
But I liked it,though.
You could sing it.
Thank you.
You are consistent,consistent.
I think it was a great way to start off the show.
You have the whole crowd working.
You know what?
Yoare charismatic.
You are a seasoned performer.
And you are charming.
And I thin you are already there.
Way to go.
Michael,it was okaY.
It was by far,your weakest performance of the whole competition for you.
It was what i call coasting along,a song like that.
As randy said,there was no moment.
And it was a very weak choice of song for you.
That kind of song.
From a woman's point of view...
Maybe he was singing to the women,paulA.
All righT.
There is your feedback.
So what do you make of it?
Hey,it happens.
Was it the right song?
To sing a fleetwood mac song has been a dream for me.
For me,personally,yes it was the right song.
For michael:
Also,remember,they are 866 numbers.
Not 800 numbers.
Watch the fingers.Dial carefully.
Thank you very much.Good to see you,as always,my friend.
Good luck.
We'll be back with jason castro and luke menarD.
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You ready,sir?
Yeah.
All right.Let's do it.
One thing people would be surprised to know is that i really hate doing interviews.
I'm starting over.
Interviews can be frustrating and awkward.
I make a lot of stupid faces because i don't know what I'm saying.
I always have to do these,like,a million times.
I just really like to sing and I like music and anything that has to do with musiC.
There's been a lot more not music stuff than I thought.
Taking pictures and talking.
I'm not good at talking.
* For so long you and me been finding each other for so long *
* and this feeling that i feel for you is more than strong,girl,*
* take it from me if you give a little more than you're asking for,*
* your love will turn the key darling mine,*
* i would wait forever for those lips of wine *
* build my world around you,darling,this love will shine girl take it from me,*
* if you give a little more than you're asking for,*
* your love will turn the key and i say i just want to be your everything,*
* open up the heaven in your heart and let me be the things you are to me *
* and not some puppet on a string *
* oh,I if i stay here without you darling I will die *
* I want you laying in the love I have to bring,*
* I'd do anything to be your everything *
* I just want to be your everything,*
* open up the heaven i'd do anything to be your everything *
All right.
It is interesting to me,this one.
With the guitar,you singing with the guitar,it is all cool.
Because it is cool as an acT.
As a vocalist,if i take that away,
because this is a singing competition more than anything,
the vocals weren't that great,dude.
It was really just okay.
Sounded kind of karaoke almost.I don't know.
I don't think it was as bad as you heard it to be,randy.
I don'T.
You know what?
It is cute with the guitar.
-You know,charming. -It is cute.
I think he is cute.
Yeah.
I love the dreads.
Jason,i think you made a clever choice with the song.
I think it was a nice song.
I like the way you musically interpreted it.
It drew the song back to you.
But I would like next week,because i know you will be here next week,
to be without the guitar and allow yourself to be more vulnerable as an artist.
Good job,though.
Is that clear?
I thought the song was horrible.
Because it was too smoltsY.
Your vocals were weak on.
That randy was right.
It didn't go together this week.
The song,you,the guitar went together last week.
This week it was out of sorts.
You actually looked uncomfortable with that song.
With all the song choices available to you from this decade,
you chose a very average,as I said,type of song.
You didn't do yourself any favors at all tonight.
For jason:
Good lucK.Thank you very much,man.Okay?All right.
Next on stage,we have luke menard.
One thing america doesn't know about me,
I'm part of an a cappella group called chapter six.
We travel mostly to colleges.
We have been overseas twice.
We went to africa once.
Recently,we went to hong kong and did two performances over there.
It is not like having a band behind you at all.
You have to be flawless.
You can't make mistakes.
That is the one thing i love.
The challenge that it presents to the singers.
You can't miss a note.
Being on the road for six years and singing on so many different stages,
it helped for american idoL.
There couldn't have been any better preparation for me
than touring with an a cappella grouP.
* She keeps a moet et chandon in a pretty cabinet let them eat cake,*
* she says,just like marie ant with a net a built-in remedy for khrushchev and ken *
* I can at any time an invitation you can't decline caviar and cigarettes,*
* well versed in etiquette *****
* to avoid she never kept the same address,*
* in conversation she spoke just like a baroness *
* met a man from china went down to geisha minah *
* then again incidentally,*
* if you're that way inclined perfume came naturally from paris,*
* for cars she couldn't care less she's a killer queen,*
* gunpowder gelatin dynamite with a laser beam,*
* guaranteed to blow your mind recommended at the price,*
* insatiable an appetite any time *
All right,so,check it out,dawg.
A degree of difficulty definitely,you chose a tough song.
I like you better this week than last week.
I mean,this seems to be more,to me,like your wheelhouse.
Your vibe.You know what I'm saying?
I thought it was a pretty good.
A couple pitch problems here and there.
All in all,I thought it was pretty good.
I'm so glad that this week was a great week for you.
I think it was really great for you vocally.
You picked the perfect song.
The vocal performance,this is what makes me fight for people like you to get into the top 24.
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Paula is right.We owe a lot to you.Thank you.
Well,we all knoW...
Okay.Well,fine.
I'm going to judge that performance.
And I think it was a mistakE.
I'll tell you why.
Because you are...
Let me finish.
You are always going to...
enough.
You are always going to be judge with the original.
And the trouble is that the singer of that song had charisma and personality.
You didn'T.
So therefore,you suffered by comparison.
And randy is righT.
It was a bit theatrical.
And verging on whiny.
Oh,it wasn't whiny.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say thaT.
Come on.You didn't say it.You said theatrical.
I said theatrical.That is good.
If you are at home watching trying to figure out what to do and how to vote,
that for me,would be confusing.
I mean,paula,you are going one way.
Simon,the other direction.
That is normaL.
There is a first.
Exactly.
It is confusing.
How do you interpret what they have said?
Last week,i was 0 for 3.
Tonight,I was two for three.
sameson putting words in your mouth,randy.
I said theatrical.
That is good.
I like this guy.
If you are a fan and you would like to vote for dawson's creek here:
Good job.Thanks,man.
Another one for you when we come bacK.
Robbie carrico is at your mercy.Stay with us.
All right.Welcome back.
It is "american idol."
Right now all eyes are trained on robbie carrico.
He is about to do his thing.
Robbie,simon has argued a little bit of the authenticity factor with your performances.
What do you need to do tonight to prove that it really is you?
You know,i get up there every time and i be me.
I be me?
I am me.You knoW...
I be me is more poetiC.
You have to undetand that there is so many different levels of rock.
So many different styles and all.
I guess he is focused on one and doesn't think that I'm the one that's in his mind.
Get used to it.
Fighting words.
All right?
Let's learn something new about you.
Good luck,robbie.
America would be surprised to know that i drag-race cars.
This is quite a rush.
Getting in that thing.
It is amazing.
The front wheels off the ground.
It is a heck of a ride.
The best part about drag-racing,that rusH.
You smell the high-octane fuel and the burnt tires.
Oh,man.
It is amazing.
I would recommend drag-racing safely to anybody.
Don't try it on the street.
But you know,go to a local racetrack and have some fuN.
* Well,i'm hot-blooded check it and see,*
* I've got a fever of 103 *
* come on baby do you do more than dance I'm hot-blooded,hot-blooded *
* if it feels all right,maybe you can stay all night shall I leave you my key,*
* but you avenue got to give me a sign come on girl,some kind of sign tell me,*
* are you hot mama,you sure look that way to me *
* are you old enough,*
* will you be ready when i call your bluff is my typing right,*
* did you save your love for me tonight *
* well,i'm hot-blooded,check it and see,*
* I feel the fever burning inside of me *
* come on baby do you do more than dance *
* I'm hot-blooded,I'm hot-blooded *
* every night,you looking so tight you've you're making me see,*
* such a sweet,sweet thing *
* I'm hot-blooded,hot-blooded *
it was interesting to hear you say there is different forms of rocK.
There really are.
But i have to agree with simon.
I don't know if the rock is real your thing.
I mean,that is,like,one of my favorite songs.
Foreigner,lou gramM.
It doesn't have enough to be a rock voice.
You did a pretty good job with it.
I was waiting for it to be like wow.
Nothing came out,dawg.
I was like,yo,come on,man.
It didn't quite go there for me.
It was just okay.
Okay.
I bet it could drive you crazy having someone say it is not who you are,
it is not authentic.
How does anyone know who you are but you?
You know what I mean?
Robbie,I think that in some ways,
though,you played it a little bit safe this week.
And when you play it safe,sometimes you lose your character and your personality.
And I think that you can get so wound up hearing what everyone else is thinking of you.
Before you come on stage,
you have to kind of like, just quiet yourself anD...
You know who you are.
Go out there and give it your all.
The thing is,too,one more thing,dudE.
Rock is like an attitude.
It is not something you have to prove.
Which is my poinT.
Why do I have to keep proving...
- You don't have to. - You don't have to.
You have to up the ante a little bit.
Now is the time you have to push through to make a difference to get through.
And keep going.
Okay.
Robby,you don't have to get defensive about it.
It is only an opinion.
I don't know you,as paula said.
Actually,I thought the vocal was okay tonight.
Thank you.
Simon and randy and paula were giving you their feedback.
When randy was speaking,you almost closed your eyes for a minute.
What was going through your mind at that point?
I don't know.
I'm trying to absorb it all.
You know,i keep...
every time,you have to up the ante.
Every week,step it up.Step it up.
- Thank you very much. - Thank you.
We'll be right back on "idol" with danny noriega.
Welcome back to "idol."
Remember,if you have anything to say about the show
you can head to americanidol.Com and blog away.
Maybe you have something to say about danny noriega.
America would be surprised to know that
I used to be in a punk rock band when i was in ninth grade.
I was the singer.
Like,my best friend was the drummer.
A lot of noise.
It wasn't too much to listen to.
We played one show.
It wasn't too good.
Like,nobody really liked it.
You know,we thought we were cool.
We did break up.
We realized we suckeD.
It ended from there.
It didn't prepare me for american idol.
Just a bunch of screaming and a lot of noise.
A bunch of rebellious kids playing instruments.
Danny,you know I'm a fan of yours,dawg.
You are a fun guy.
There was some problems with the vocal and the song for me,right?
On a song like,this you can maybe speed it up a little bit.
I felt like you were thinking while you were singing almost every part of it
and not letting yourself sing.
Off good voice.
You guys are the best 20 we found out of all these people.
Let it go.You can sing.
Don't think about what you want to do to it.
Sometimes let it go.
You know what i'm saying?
You've got amazing vocals.You really do.
tHank you.
And what randy said is truE.
You can't overthink iT.
You have to take a deep breath and forget about us.
As much as you caN.
Just perform.
You have to...
You have the ability.You have the talent.
When you let it go,it is magical.
I like the way you chose the carpenters' take on the song.
Last week was a disaster,as you know.
This was betteR.
It wasn't a fantastic vocaL.
You were trying so hard just to...
you are over con sen traiting on it.
What I do like about you is that you stand out in the crowd and you are interesting.
You look terrific on camera,by the way.
Thank you.
You seem to nod and acknowledge you know what they are saying.
You agree with them.
Yeah.
Last week was a disaster,i think.
I gave it a littlE...
you agreed with me.
Ish.
Very good,danny.
Danny,try and say it without moving your head.
If you agree with me.
All right.
For danny: Remember,calling until perform.
More 70's classics coming up right here.
It is "american idol."
We have david hernandez after the break.Stay with us.
Welcome back to "american idol."
Guys tonight.
Girls,by the way,performing tomorrow.
Results on thursday.
A lot of idol this week.
Right now it is david hernandez.
Something america might be surprised to know about me
is that i was in gymnastics as a little kid.
I was actually really good.
I could whip out a handspring like nobody's business.
It was pretty awesome.
I had to wear,like,this leotard thinG.
The guys wear these white pants that go over it.
It is kind of like what the girls wear.
It is really embarrassing when you first put it on.
I went to the grand canyon olympics.
I won,like,ten medals or something.
I don't remember what it waS.
I was pretty good.
It is kind of weird now.
You wouldn't think I could do a mean cartwheel.
Check it out,dawG.Check this ouT.
Now,this is the david hernandez that we fell in love with.
Right?
okay.Listen.
I was saying earlier,man,i hope this kid is good tonight.
You were so good when we saw you,dude.
That is how to put it down.
Show the personality you have. All those vocal skillS.
That was hot right there.
Very nice,dude.Very nice.
Your voice is so pure,it is like...
it pierces right through the heart.
Every note right in the pocket.
Unbelievable.
God,there were some notes there that were amazing.
It was so greaT.
Your personality really came out this week.
And you told a story from beginning to end.
You didn't overdo the song with the growling and everything.
It was just perfect.
- Thank you. - Perfect.
David,this may surprise you.
But in my opinion,that was the best vocal of the night so far.
David,this is what i like about you.
I like the fact that when you are given some criticism,
rather than sulking, you treat it as a challenge.