thales

I'll take a stab at it.

I agree that Scott did well and his performance might well lift him out of the bottom three (it certainly lifted him out of my bottom three). The obvious loser of the night was Anthony...God he sucked. I also thought Anwar version was mostly out of tune and he should join Anthony in the bottom three.

But if Scott's not in the bottom three, who should join Anthony and Anwar?

My choice is Carrie. Yes she is one of the better singers in the competition, but sometimes that's not enough. Her problem last night was (i) song choice and (ii) she was "pitchier" last night than ever before. But that wouldn't necessarily be enough to drop her into the bottom three.

What does get her in the bottom three is that the woman seems to have no emotion. She smiles and acts all "cutesy", but I always get the feeling that she's working too hard to hit the notes and less so on connecting emotionally with the song she's singing. There are many examples of successful recording artists who only have OK voices, but can emote. There are very few examples of such artists that can't connect emotionally. The eventually find themselves singing on cruise ships and wondering why they never made the big time.

Do I think Carrie should be voted off this week? Not at all. But I think she should be in the bottom three.