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Wow. Wow. Wow. Most awesome Canadian Idol show ever. Well... most awesome second half of Canadian Idol show ever! The first 5 performers in the top ten sucked majorly (Is it just me or is Joshua Sellers the Canadian Justin Guarini? Bad voice, bad hair and all? And Shane Wiebe is not ga-.. single? He has a wife?!) And just when you thought he couldn't be more annoying, Ben Mulroney was totally yelling the whole night! But as soon as Ricky Martin.. oops, I mean Jason Greeley took the stage it was ON. On like... well.. like.. it was just ON!

I was so scared that Kalan Porter would be a Joshua Sellers repeat of a Justin Guarini repeat (bad voice, bad hair and all?) but he was SOOOO good! He has this shy-guy thing going on as if he's unaware of just how good he is, but then he turns around and delivers the most famous rock song of all time - perfectly. Do I even need to mention the blazer with jeans look? Or his Justin Timberlake curls? He's going to be the next Canadian Idol. I've said it here first.

Tina Fey, I mean, Theresa Sokyrka was exactly how the judges put it - captivating. Singing a Jann Arden song is tough b/c Jann is the toughest, most biting critic you will find. But I'll bet even Jann was hard pressed to find anything mean to say about that performance. She's pretty too, in the aforementioned Tiny Fey way, but did Ben really have to say that he finds her hot? Eww. Too far Ben. Too far.

And then Elena Juatco. Let's just say my filipino nanny just interrupted my blogging to ask me for Elena's voting number. If the words Mikey Bustos mean anything to you then you just KNOW the "Flips" will be hardcore dialing Elena's number tonight. I'm glad she learned to control her "wild Christina antics" (as my friend Gerry puts it not so nicely) and put together a nice, mature performance. I think her "kooky-ness" puts off a lot of people but if you pay attention to her singing, you'll see she's got a great voice.

As for Jacob Hoggard... the CTV cameras panned to a person holding an "I love Jake" sign as judge Jake Gold was speaking. But I'm pretty sure the sign wasn't directed to him. Jacob is so freakin' weird (emphasis on the FREAK part) but yet so oddly enduring. His performance was by far the funniest thing I have EVER seen on an Idol show. And I've seen William Hung. I've downloaded She Bangs on my computer. But Paul Anka? It took some guts to sing an oldies song but it did it and made "old school" cool again.

I have so much more I can write about, like how I thought there was only one black person in this competition until I heard Brandy talk (what is she? French? Half black? Fat?) or how Zack quoting Simon Cowell is bad enough without referencing Cowell by name.. but alas.. I shall contain my exciting comments till next week... Because next week, yours truly is going to be ATTENDING THE CANADIAN IDOL SHOW!!! Whoa.. calm down Tim, calm the heck down.

Until next week...


posted by Tim at 9:37 PM