Thursday, December 15, 2011

"The X Factor USA" Season One Semi - Finals!

The "X Factor USA" semi-finals were last night. As I've stated before, the top four are all good artists in the making and have a chance to grab the $5 million dollar contract at the end. With that being said... the judges no longer have a say and America voted last night and the results tonight will send one person home and leave 3 remaining heading to the finale next week, where someone will be walking away with a $5 million dollar check. Some of the performances last night were just not worthy of a $5 millon dollar contract. Could have been better, but the good thing is that the remaining all have the ability to give awesome performances. Next week will be interesting.

Semi-Finals Performances:

-The first performances were from the "Pepsi Challenge", viewers chose what song each contestant would perform.

Marcus Canty

Luv'd it!

Chris Rene

Luv'd it!

Melanie Amaro


-This performance from Melanie was terrible. The range was off completely. Melanie can sang! Not sing.. but SANG. So this was ridiculous and I feel a deliberate lackluster performance was given because on her second song she blew it out the water. Don't like the gimmicks on the show. Just sing the song and give your best each time. For Simon to love this performance but crucified Marcus Canty's performance was pathetic.

Josh Krajcik

Awesome!

Second Performances:

Marcus Canty


Adore Marcus but I did not like this performance. (WHAM)/ George Michael's version of "Careless Whisper" is one of my faves. So when Marcus started I was like oh heck yes! But then the music sped up. I did not like the version in up tempo. When your fighting for a $5 million dollar contract. This is not what you want your final performance to be before America votes. With all that being said, Simon did NOT have to say such cruel words to Marcus. Especially after Melanie f'd up Mariah's song. L.A. should have had Marcus sing some Jodeci or something.. he could have torn up Usher's "Burn".

Chris Rene


Melanie Amaro

Excellent performance!

Josh Krajcik

Luv'd it!

Tune in tonight to find out who moves on to the FINALE next week!
Great performance!

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