What were the odds that Shania Twain night would provide some of the best performances of the season on American Idol, and one of the least thrilling Crystal Bowersox performances? That’s not to say the Crystal was bad, just that everyone else was finally up to her level, so we’re actually a little worried for her this week.
Considering we’re really only familiar with the “Man, I Feel Like A Woman”/”That Don’t Impress Me Much” portion of the Shania songbook, we didn’t really she actually has written some tolerable songs as well, which Big Mike, Casey James and Aaron Kelly all nailed. Lee DeWyze turned in a really nice performance of “Still the One” too, it was just the girls’ performances that left us colder than the rest; Crystal went too country with “No One Needs To Know” and Siobhan Magnus was a punk-country-high-note hybrid for “Any Man Of Mine”.
It’s getting down to the portion of the show where we’re really going to be sad to see these final contestants get kicked off. However, we can’t be too sentimental about the episode – there was a lot of dirty talk going on. Sorry to work blue here, but we found enough sexytime talk to compile into a montage. Who says this show is only about the singing?
