Check out American Idol Season 9 Hollywood Contestant singing acapella version of Beyonce's Scared of Lonely.
This week marks the half way point towards crowning this years Idol 
winner. Alicia Keys mentors the finalists this week as they all take on inspirational songs. First of the night was Casey James with Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop. Overall I felt like this song had no melody. My initial reaction was that he was trying to imitate a Lee DeWyze performance. We obviously know that Casey is a great guitarist however, this is not guitar Idol it's American Idol therefore, he needs to step up his vocal. After Casey was Lee with his version of The Boxer. Throughout his performance you were able to tell that the song meant something to him. Ithink conveying that type of emotion is an incredible task which he was able to perform. Congrats Lee. Tim Urban took the stage with an odd choice of Goo Goo Dolls, Better Days. After this decent performance I was much confused like the judges as to what type of artist Tim was. I wouldn't be surprise if he is in the bottom three. Aaron Kelly tackled a big song; R. Kelly I Believe I Can Fly. This song was way to big for him. Felt very karaoke and I felt like I was watching a really good high school talent show contestant. First lady of the night Siobhan Magnus. First off WTF is she wearing-Did you get dressed in the dark again? The whole song was out of tune I felt you sang it all just above the actual notes. You also changed the duet When You Believe too much that there were sections where it was entirely unrecognizable. 
Will you ever sing in tune??? Note I said sing not yell cause apparently that's all you do. Yelling somewhat in tune must be your forte. Next was the incredible Michael Lynche with Hero. Horrible song choice for this evening. Yet, Big Mike's vocal was absolutely incredible. And last by least the most incredible performance of the night. Crystal Bowersox chose Everybody Get Ready. Which was so emotional she was moved almost to tears. Compared to everyone else Crystal makes her performances seem effortless. She is definitely a true artist and is going places. So I almost fell out of my chair when they announced the results. Tim is finally gone. My Idol dreams have come true -LOL
Check out American Idol Season 4 Top 44 Contest JR Aqunio's cover of Billionaire (Remix).
Check out American Idol Season 9 Hollywood Contestant Ben Honeycutt's cover of Cold Play's Lost.
Okay IdolPhenomena followers I know Blake is not an Idol alum but So You Think You Can Dance is totally part of the 19 Entertainment family. So I figured I could let this slip one time ;-). Check out Blake singing John Legend's Ordinary People.
As American Idol and its Top 7 move into its Inspirational Songs week under mentor Alicia Keys their French counterparts of Nouvelle Star are moving into their Top 10. Having already cut the group from a Top 15 down to a Top 10 I thank the internet and all of its resources for allowing us in the US to view clips and such from Idols international counterparts and plus now that they are past their auditions I might be able to understand a majority of the songs these people perform.
Nouvelle Stars Top 10 of 2010 Includes the following : (L to R) Annabelle, Benjamin, Dave, François, Luce, Lussi, Marine, Ramon, Sacha and Stéphanie.
These are the contestants that have already been eliminated: (L to R) Ambre, Anna, Lucia, Manon and Siegfried.
Hopefully I will be able to give you my input on this current running Idol season as well ;-)
Check out this Jerrica Santos video for her track Stay Awhile. For those of you that don't remember Jerrica she was a Canadian Idol Season 2 Semi-Finalist. She is also part of the Get It Right Music Entertainment family.
IdolPhenomena would like to wish American Idol Season 2 Semi-Finalist Sylvia Chibiliti a Happy Birthday. We hope that its a great day spent with family and close friends :-)
Check out Olivia Geller singing a cover of Beyonce's Resentment. For those of you that aren't familiar with Olivia she was a Hollywood Contestant on Season 9 of American Idol.
Here are two more Idol contestants that are auditioning for Glee. Give It Up For The GLEEKS!
Check out Antwan Michael (Season 9 Hollywood Contestant)
Check Out Nathaniel Marshall (Season 8 Top 36 Semi-Finalist)
Click on their images to get to their Glee Audition Statements and Song Clips.... Give Them Some Gold Stars Cause They Deserve Them......
Would also love feedback on any other Idol Contestants auditioning for Glee..... So we can post links here :-)
