Idol Finals/Top2

Aah, Finals night on Idol…from what I read earlier (Courtesy of USA Today’s Ken Barnes), the evening was somewhat boring…and predictable…loved the shot of Stiller and Mandy Moore….like they REALLY wanted to be there…LOL…both Taylor and Katherine tonight are doing three songs…two(each) from previous performances this season and one new tune…the coin toss….and it’s McPhee up first….”Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”…good start, but predictable..nice to see her not SITTING down and actually moving a little this time…she’s on pitch, like the “play” with the drummers…she did a decent job….Taylor..WHAT? no commercial first? WHAT IS GOING ON….”Soul Patrol” is out so make sure you don’t get a ticket….he’s poised and it’s been amazing watching him “GROW” over the past month and a half…it’s been a lot of fun to watch what “Taylor” has become and it could be the next “Idol”…soulful, solid and a great performance…Taylor wins Round 1 minus the jacket(I agree with Simon on that one)..…Katherine’s next song..”Somewhere Over the Rainbow”..some “de javu”….but she blew the roof off last week…don’t think she can do it again, but we’ll see…she did a better job than last week, and she put some of her personality into it, which I didn’t hear last week…solid….very very solid…(the one thing I’m gonna miss are the “Daddy crying” shots) ..and she even started on the right key!...Taylor up next with his favorite song of the season, “Levon”….Taylor ate part of the first note…sounded like he couldn’t hear the playback from the band….managed to pull it out though…Taylor has always been soulful and solid…Round 2 goes to Kat….loved the Bucky shot…you couldn’t tell what he was thinking AT ALL….not at all…(  
  Next up..Katherine with her debut single…”My Destiny”…her sound is great..and she looks pretty good too..(I’m waiting for the whole, “big over the top bring in the chorus thing”…once again, as Simon would say, “the song was to BIG for you”…and major pitch problems toward the end…she’s trying to compensate and it fell apart…but it was the song and not her, I feel…Taylor up for the final time, “Do I Make You Proud”…ok..Taylor got the better song to sing and SANG it pretty well…Katherine is going to need some voting help…Taylor took the opportunity and made a “Moment” for himself…

  Wrapup: I’m not real sure on this one…could go either way..both are going to end up with record deals, but I can see Kat going further with the title than Taylor if that makes any sense. She seems more mainstream, Taylor will be a great soft rocker, the next Michael McDonald or Bob Seger….My vote…is for Kat…

  Phillips OUT!