If Dial Idol is to be believed (who knows?) Gokey gets more votes each week than Adam. My only theory on that is that Gokey is less...well, threatening. He's whitebread, Mom-and-Apple-Pie...American audiences, as a rule, don't like their entertainers to shake them up too much. Adam is nothing if not "Mr. Shake-em-up with his OTT (in a good way) persona.

I can understand why some people don't like Allison. Sometimes she makes the most awful song and wardrobe choices, and the hair -- ugh! Michael K (was it Michael K?) was correct to say that she looks exactly like one of those ugly little troll dolls. And her performance this week was atrocious. But I don't see the Christina comparison. Christina is a lyric soprano, for one thing, and she's a pop/R&B singer. There are a million like her...Allison has a very deep, bluesy, whiskey-and-honey contralto, which is very unusual, not just for someone her age, but in the current popular music landscape in general, and she (usually) knows how to use it to it's best advantage. She knows how to distinguish herself as an artist.

Her voice reminds me of Lulu's.

Christina is amazing, but she couldn't sing blues if she was 45 and had been through rehab ten times.




Edited 2 times by princesspeach Apr 25 09 12:08 PM.