hat’s why, when 27-year-old Adam Lambert, this season’s consensus front-runner, sang a down-tempo acoustic version of The Miracles’ The Tracks of My Tears, then followed that with a falsetto, slowed-down rendition of the Bee Gees’ standard If I Can’t Have You, Cowell credited the theatre stage singer with taking a different approach to a familiar song. Lambert, for his part, credited Idol associate musical director Michael Orland for helping him with the arrangements, but the message was clear: The way to win Idol is to take the familiar and make it unique. As Idol’s judges keep reminding the contestants, Idol is about personal growth and “showing who you are.
Adam Lambert Feeling Good Rat Pack Songs Theme AMERICAN IDOL April 28 2009 TOP Adam performs Feeling Good and has a really high note for a long time and I can't believe it.
Adam Lambert at the American Idol Top 13 party
Iraheta is the only woman left in the competition. More important, she has a preternaturally mature voice and an old-soul vibe — more rock queen than pop princess. Clarkson has said the key to performing well on Idol is staying determined, being authentic and refusing to compromise, even when the popular winds seem to be blowing the other way. And Iraheta is by far the most unique, uncompromising singer of the final four, even as Gokey and Lambert appear destined to go all the way to the end.Lambert is still the overwhelming favourite to win — his landing in the bottom two this week was likely a one-time anomaly.
His talent for working the crowd, his Freddie Mercury-tinged vocal stylings and his canny song selection — Johnny Cash, Tears for Fears, Queen, Steppenwolf — give him the edge.This season’s consensus favourites are Lambert and 29-year-old church music director Danny Gokey, but Clarkson’s choice is a more unlikely pick: just-turned-17 long shot, Allison Iraheta.
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