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American Idol Movie Week Song List

2010 May 10
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by TopIdol

This week’s American Idol “song list” has been posted since last Thursday. I’m still not sure what purpose this serves fans of American Idol, iTunes or anyone else, except maybe people will download all of them and they’ll make yet another quick buck.

As per usual, 98% of the songs are beyond shitty. Even on the shiny new updated and expanded Songs of the Cinema list at MJs, which includes the Oscar-winning Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire. And as confirmed via Twitter a la “Crystal Bowersox,” we will be hearing DUETS on tomorrow evening’s show. Here’s a spoiler:

Crystal Bowersox + Lee DeWyze (Group 1)
Michael Lynche + Casey James (Group 2)

Ok. It’s really not a spoiler. But I’m willing to bet that’s how it goes down. Maybe Crystal will pretend to be Debra Winger and Lee can tap into his inner Officer and Gentleman for some Up Where We Belong. And then I just want Big Mike to sing the theme from Mahogany, not because he’s black, but because I can just see him singing Do You Know Where You’re Going To because it’s totally in his wheelhouse. Big Mike and Casey should totally duet to Islands in the Stream, mainly because that song cracks me up and I just want to see someone sing it on Idol.

Casey James should make me proud and bust out the God of all Movie Music, Kenny Loggins. Although I would totally have loved to have seen Aaron Kelly do Danger Zone. Do you remember Paige Miles? Yeah. Neither do I, but she would totally be the one to sing I Will Always Love You. (For chrissake, she sang Against All Odds!)

Crystal should go for a little Carly Simon with the ALWAYS AWESOME Let The River Run (from the film Working Girl). Just because its an amazing song. Lee should do Mrs. Robinson, but for some reason, I feel like he sang this song already. Did he? In any case, if the dude is smart he will know it is key to sing a song about being seduced by an older woman. If he does? He wins it right there. But did he sing this before or am I just imagining such things based on the fact we know he lives with his former high school teacher?

Jamie Foxx returns for his second stint as an Idol mentor. Last season, he did a pretty good job. I would also like to know when he’s gonna make that album with Kris Allen, but whatevia. I can wait.

What do you hope the Idols are singing this week? Check out the song list after the jump.

Songs of the Cinema Song List (And they wonder why the show has lost substantial viewership in the 18–49 demographic?)

  • (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – Bryan Adams
  • (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life – Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
  • A Whole New World – Brad Kane & Lea Salonga
  • Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In – The 5th Dimension
  • Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) – Christopher Cross
  • Beauty and the Beast – Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson
  • Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
  • Can I Have This Dance – Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron & the Cast of HS Musical
  • Can You Feel the Love Tonight – Elton John & London Community Gospel Choir
  • Can’t Fight the Moonlight – LeAnn Rimes
  • Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
  • Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
  • Endless Love – Lionel Richie & Diana Ross
  • Evergreen – Barbra Streisand
  • Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
  • Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
  • Flashdance (What a Feeling) – Irene Cara
  • Footloose – Kenny Loggins
  • Gangsta’s Paradise – Coolio
  • Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr.
  • Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky) – Bill Conti
  • Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman – Bryan Adams
  • I Believe I Can Fly – R. Kelly
  • I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing – Aerosmith
  • I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston
  • I’m Alright (Theme from Caddyshack) – Kenny Loggins
  • Into the West – Howard Shore and Annie Lennox
  • Iris – Goo Goo Dolls
  • It Might Be You (from Tootsie) – Stephen Bishop
  • Jai Ho – A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah et al
  • Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley
  • Kiss From a Rose – Seal
  • Let the River Run – Carly Simon
  • Live and Let Die – Wings
  • Lose Yourself – Eminem
  • Moon River (from Moon River) – Audrey Hepburn & Henry Mancini
  • Mrs Robinson – Simon & Garfunkel
  • My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
  • One Night Only – Jennifer Hudson, Deena Jones & The Dreams
  • Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland
  • Purple Rain – Prince & the Revolution
  • Separate Lives – Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin
  • Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
  • Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
  • Superfly – Curtis Mayfield
  • Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from Top Gun) – Berlin
  • Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
  • We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) – Tina Turner
  • Will You Be There – Michael Jackson
  • You’ll Be in My Heart – Glenn Close & Phil Collins
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  • muzikizmi

    Three years in a row, for three guys and one girl in the top 4. I think the judges will try very hard for Lee to win, with Crystal as the runner up, just for the sake of the Idol tour show. I can just see the Lee cougars, dashing for the exits during Crystal’s set.

  • girl from mars

    They just should have had the three guys do All For Love from that Three Musketeers movie. That’d be an idol classic in a minute, and I’d barf like I’ve never barfed before.

  • Blue Eyes

    Something tells me I’m going to die laughing tonight, based on those song choices.

  • Pandora

    MJ posted the pairings…. big shocker. NOT.

    • Nich

      Actually IMO that is a surprise. I would have thought they would do like last season and split their front runners and put them with people they could shine with (aka look better than, except it backfired with Danny and Kris). I think Crystal is going to show Lee up. He would have outshone Casey easily and Crystal can hold her on with Mike, I think. But now?

      It’s definitely see ya, Casey. No way will anyone even notice him on stage with Mike.

  • caspar

    I remember reading that Jason Castro’s hometown (someplace in Texas) had their plans for his homecoming pretty far along by Top 4, too, so I wouldn’t assume someone from 19 gives these cities a hint. They take their chances, I think.

  • mozart4898

    Biggest thing I’m curious about – I’m just waiting to see how the pimping pans out tomorrow night. I’m thinking if they’re looking for a Crystal vs. Lee finale, tomorrow night they’ll return to praising her even if she would give a performance just like the last two weeks. They don’t want to run the risk of her getting the shock boot now if they’re really pulling for that finale. Either Mike or Casey will get thrown under the bus, and I’m figuring it’ll be Casey just going off the comments last week.

  • http://drlulzington.wordpress.com/ Doctor Lulzington

    There are a handful of amazing songs on that list. Sadly, none of them are likely to be heard on tomorrow night’s show.

    Though I’d love for Crystal to cover Purple Rain. Not the other contestants, though. I may have to cut a bitch if Lee fucks up Purple Rain and the judges ‘gasm over it.

    • CayKat

      I just imagined Casey singing that song and had a genuine physical reaction. Needless to say, it wasn’t a good one.

    • sybiltrelawney

      I can imagine Dweezel ruining Purple Rain all too easily. Someone brilliant at TWoP described him as “singing bravely through the proctoscopy.” So imagine Purple Rain sung like that. And then weep.

  • J

    If Mike sings Purple Rain I will cry. I loved that movie, saw it about ten times in the theatre. Big Mike isn’t good or charismatic enough to be allowed in the same room with Prince.

  • sybiltrelawney

    This list blows. Chunks. Huge ones. I guess Let The River Run is okay for Crystal. I can’t really bring myself to care about the rest, because I know it’s going to suck no matter what. Is there a song about child birth on that list? That’s what Big Mike will be singing.

  • jukejoint

    I call Lee and Michael doing a duet on “We Don’t Need Another Hero” from Beyond Thunderdome, and Crystal and Casey doing a duet from that Jeff Bridges movie. Or, ooh, ooh! Something from “O, Brother, Where Art Thou?” “Man of Constant Sorrow.” Roots music!

    If it absolutely positively has to be Crystal/Lee, is it too much to ask to get something from the Alison Krauss/Robert Plant album of duets? Is there nothing with any tangential connection to a movie on that album?

    Yeah, I know I’m whistling Dixie.

    Honestly, I can’t find one thing on that crappy list that I even want to hear. But it’s okay. I’ll be sitting in the 4th row at “A Little Night Music,” listening to Angela Lansbury tell me about her Liaisons. Burn!

    • mozart4898

      I just don’t think it’ll be Crystal/Lee for duets. I don’t think they’d pick that combo themselves, and I’d think TPTB wouldn’t do it for fear it could expose Lee’s weaknesses when he’s right there beside Crystal too. I think the two with the biggest personal connection are Crystal and Mike, and I think they’d sound good together too. Lee and Casey actually could be pretty decent too if they pick the right sort of song – although two guys singing a duet almost need to be less serious to make it work. (Others have mentioned it’d be interesting if they could do the Blues Brothers…I think that really would have worked for them.)

      • Mithra

        Mike and Casey as Jake and Elwood would be fun, but no songs are on the list. I’m still guessing that Crystal will do a gospelish version of Purple Rain.

        I think it will be Crystal and Lee. MJ has a couple of articles linked, and it’s clear that they are assuming (or will make them be) the top two. Arlington Park Racetrack will be where Lee’s homecoming is, not some high school. I doubt Duchossois would not bother with that unless he was pretty much assured by AI/19/Freemantle that it’s a done deal. Aren’t most of these held at high school football stadiums normally?

        • mozart4898

          The plans for Crystal’s homecoming have been discussed on TV here in the Toledo area for a week now at least. She’s supposed to first come to Toledo itself and they’re going to have a parade in her honor through the city, then a concert in a Toledo park. Then she’s going to a fairgrounds near her hometown for another concert from 4-6 PM. After that she’s supposed to be singing the National Anthem at Toledo’s minor league baseball team’s game. All in all a ton of planning and the potential between all of those areas for, no lie, probably 40,000 people easily to come out to see her, if not more. They’re playing it up big time on all stations here on TV, not just FOX but also CBS, NBC, and ABC.

        • mozart4898

          Just adding – if they do have Crystal and Lee duet together, I won’t be surprised at all if she totally shows him up. Just saying. Not sure how that’ll go over for his support (his fans will still vote for him but any casual viewers may see how totally obvious it is).

          • Mithra

            I’m actually kind of impressed with the video MJ has up of Lee doing an original, Anabelle:

            I’m finally seeing a little bit of tension and bashing between Lee and Casey’s frau bases. Like I saw with Siobhan and Crystal’s fanbases. I think Casey may edge out Mike for third, although Mike could be another Syesha 300, an it’s just Rickey voting for him :D

        • Mithra

          It sounds like they are also talking about it as a done deal, just like with the Daily Herald article about Lee. Arlington Racetrack is not a venue to be booked at last minute. It’s up in the air it seems just on Mike and Casey.

      • Pandora

        I don’t think it matters at all who they pair with Lee, because the judges will slobber over him regardless of who he sings with and how well/badly each of them do. He could forget every single word and fill the entire time with la-la-la and they will tell him he really showed the emotion of the song. And if he’s as off-key as usual they will probably blame his partner for harmonizing incorrectly.

    • ross

      I saw her in Gypsy when I was a kid. She was fantastic!! I also saw Margaret Hamilton (!) sing Liasons in A Little Night Music.

      • ross

        (I’m answering jukejoint. Referring to A. Lansbury.)

  • http://www.detailsinthefabric.tk/ Shosh

    All I want is for Crystal to sing Iris. Then my life will be complete.

    And for NO ONE to sing:
    Bohemian Rhapsody – If another Idol contestant butchers my favorite song eve I WILL HUNT THEM DOWN AND KILL THEM.
    Can I Have This Dance – Why is High School Musical even a choice???
    Can’t Fight the Moonlight – Just… no
    Endless Love – This song is so cheesy and Idol won’t help at all in that department. Unless Big Mike and Casey sing it to each other. Then I will simply die of laughter.
    Eye of the Tiger – I mean, really?
    Footloose – Again: really??
    Ghostbusters – They’d have to be out of their minds.
    Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman – If any one else tries to one-up Chris Daughtry, it isn’t going to work. Ever.
    I Will Always Love You
    My Heart Will Go On – I think we all could be spared the Celine and Whitney.
    Over the Rainbow – No one is ever allowed to ever sing this again on Idol. EVER.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Iris. So tired. I loved that song in 1998. I loved Everything I Do back in 1991. They still might be played way too much.

      I have a feeling at least one or two of the contestants will try and get other songs cleared.

      And we should all be THRILLED Siobhan was already sent home because she would have been the one butchering Let the River Run.

  • Dickory Dock

    OMG! I hoep one of the gais does Everything I Do because Bryan Adams is teh awesome and taht songz nevar been don on Idol before!!!!!11!!

    What is this fuckery? Is that list for real? I think they are legit trying to kill this show dead.

    Making picks from this list is like, I don’t know, trying to pick my favorite serial killers or something.

    Crystal: I like Let the River Run for her.

    Lee: Should totally do Gonna Fly Now. There is hardly any singing in that song, so that would be a great fit for him.

    Mike: God. These songs are already so cheesy, but add Mike’s particular brand of overly processed cheese product and the show might implode on itself and create a black hole, leaving nothing behind but a vat of 7-11 nacho “cheeze.”

    Casey: Like I said below, I want Casey to stand right in front of the judges table and sing Mrs. Robinson. To Kara. So she will die of shame and disappear in a *poof* of smoke.

    Duets:

    You know. I can’t even go there. Let’s just wait and see what fresh hell this list hath wrought.

    • http://www.detailsinthefabric.tk/ Shosh

      The Mrs. Robinson idea? GENIUS.

    • wino

      kara die of shame? puhleeze, it would only get her dried muffin juices going (sorry, Betty White’s SNL skit is still fresh in my mind).

  • MissMyEm

    Gad I hate movie night. Yeah…I’ll hope for Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs. Robinson or anything by Kenny Loggins. I can’t stand Phil Collins, the song from Tootsie, or anything anymore from Bryan Adams because I overdosed on him years ago. I think Aaron already sang I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing…and besides…only Steven Tyler can sing that song. Some songs, I’ve never even heard of. Too bad Springsteen doesn’t clear his songs. Philadelphia is an awesome song. My bet is Casey WILL sing something from Kenny Loggins. Probably Danger Zone. Or something with good guitar riffs.

    Mike will sing My Heart Will Go On and I’ll barf. I swear it if anyone sings that song, I’ll upchuck all my food. I abhor (is that word strong enough) that song.

    • Pandora

      I would throw something through my TV if Lee massacred a Springsteen song.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        Springsteen hates American Idol, from what I understand. It may be why we’ve never heard Springsteen on the show. :)

        • peg

          Unfortunately, Taylor Hicks did do one. Probably why Springsteen hates the show now!

  • peg

    Casey needs to come out in a BeeGees Disco suit and launch into a Jimi Hendrix type version of Stayin’ Alive … as an electric guitar instrumental! Don’t even sing. That would be the ultimate “Go down in a blaze of glory FU” to this cheese fest of a show.

    • parsenip

      I love this! Especially if he played the end with his teeth.

  • naiya

    Are you kidding me with this list? I will throw out a few votes to whomever goes for the biggest Velveeta-drenched cheese on the list. Timmeh would have been a riot this week.

  • wino

    mike + casey would be an interesting pairing only to see which poor soul the judges have decided to toss under the bus. at this point, are they scared mike might pick up momentum? or are they afraid casey’s middle age fan club will carry him to the top 2? they are dying for a crystal-lee finale, so one of those suckers is DOA tomorrow night.

  • muzikizmi

    Lee always picks the easiest song on any list. So, I am predicting that he does ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’ by Simple Minds. It has a simple melody, within a tiny range of notes, with lots of places for rocker posing and growling.

    • Nich

      He can also repeat the chorus over and over without forgetting the words.

      • Dickory Dock

        Yep. “Don’t, don’t, don’t yooooou!” is pretty close to na-na-na or la-la-la or any of the other filler syllables he loves.

  • Mary

    WTF!! Why is Lose Yourself by Eminem on that list? Isn’t that song all rapping?

    • Nich

      They probably want someone to turn it into a ballad but I would love it if someone like Crystal just burst out doing it the real way, lol.

      • wino

        if lee was smart he would turn Em’s song or Gangstas’ Paradise (liek Kris did) into a ballad. at this point, someone , ANYONE needs to create a water cooler moment.

        • cc

          LOL. If he was smart, he wouldn’t choose that Fireflies and Lips of an Angel in the first place. J/k ;)

          • Nich

            I agree! That’s when he lost me. He sorta got me back with a really good Beast of Burden but I can’t overlook those two songs.

          • MissMyEm

            I am trying to figure out how to quote, but in case it doesn’t come out I’m responding to the comment about Lee singing Fireflies.

            LOL. If he was smart, he wouldn’t choose that Fireflies and Lips of an Angel in the first place. J/k

            Okay I’m about to duck. I hate Fireflies. I think it’s the snooziest song next to 21 Guns. No melody and monotonous. BUT…I actually thought Lee idd it well and I think that’s when I started sort of liking him. I know, I know…I’m the only one…but hey…that’s me. Always the non conformist.

          • wino

            whoever gave Lee the idea of Lips of an Angel should be shanked.

        • Nich

          But then that would probably backlash on him. If the judges overpraise it the media and people who watched last season will just go “snore, whatever, Kris Allen (WHO?) did it first, who cares anymore?” Or the judges could (doubtfully) call him out on doing the same thing Kris did and ask him to show more imagination than that. But that second choice would require the judges a) remembering Kris’s name and b) complimenting him.

          • wino

            i’ve given up hope on the judges. there could be a contestant named Chris with a guitar who sings Heartless and the judges STILL wouuldnt give the boy his credit. it aint happening LOL

      • mozart4898

        Nich
        May 10, 2010
        They probably want someone to turn it into a ballad but I would love it if someone like Crystal just burst out doing it the real way, lol.
        Pshhh…don’t joke about that, Crystal might be the most gangsta of all of them. After all, there’s that line in “Holy Toledo,” “my gun is half-cocked.” She might just come out and bust a cap in someone’s ass…lol.

        (Sorry if the quote thing doesn’t work right…me and HTML aren’t the best of friends.)

    • http://www.detailsinthefabric.tk/ Shosh

      Andrew Garcia would’ve been ALL OVER IT.

  • Nich

    I want to hear Crystal do “Let The River Run” because I love that song so much.

  • deez

    At least Aaron’s gone, I’m sure he would’ve chosen “Falling Slowly”. (that seemed to be the path he was on…pick a song that’s been done either last year, or the year before) Actually, I REALLY HOPE somebody picks that, I’m daring them to finally acknowledge Kris’s existence.

    • Nich

      I doubt they would. Simon would probably say “that song has been done over and over before on this show…” and then go into a fake fight with Ryan over something Kara said.

      • Pandora

        Randy would say that he doesn’t think he’s ever heard it before. Last year it was totally obvious that he didn’t know it at all.

        • Nich

          That was so weird for a music guy to not know that song. I never even saw the movie but I knew that song. It won an Oscar! The video was VH1 a lot! It was everywhere.

          • cc

            As I remember, in one of his interview, Rickey Minor said that he didn’t know the song. So, yeah, I wouldn’t held it against Randy even though I wanted to smack him that night. At least the it gave us the for me, for you thing, right?

            As for duets, I really don’t know but I feel like that Mike and Crystal will be paired together and Casey with Lee. I can also see Mike choosing Endless Love (with harp?!? Nah.) for a big cheesefest. Ick.

    • MissMyEm

      I figured the quotes out. ….does happy middle aged dance.

      As for duets, I really don’t know but I feel like that Mike and Crystal will be paired together and Casey with Lee.

      Wait…I thought the duets were Casey and Mike vs. Lee and Crystal? Did I read wrong?

      • cc

        There is no confirmation yet what are the pairings. I think. *brb check MJs*

  • the tard king

    The list can’t be right, they’ve left out that awful song from “Armageddon”.

    Will Big Mike sing “Kiss from a Rose” because in his mind he’s already Seal or will he sing “Purple Rain” because in his mind he’s already Prince?

    • Nich

      Aaron already did the Armageddon song.

      I really hope Mike destroys Kiss From A Rose and stays the hell away from Purple Rain.

      • Mithra

        I’m guessing Crystal may do Purple Rain. I hope Mike doesn’t…

        • Nich

          If Mike does SuperFly I will laugh and laugh but not vote.

          • Pandora

            I would totally vote for him if he sang that. And the only person I’ve voted for this year is Timmeh.

          • erinnthered

            I will vote for Mike if he does Superfly. I’ll vote for anyone who does Kenny Loggin, because Kenny Loggins is awesome, and not at all a California vagina sailor.

      • the tard king

        D’oh. For the life of me, I can’t remember a single thing he sang.

    • auntieaimee

      I’m thinking Mike will go with Endless Love, and Lee will pick Iris. Not sure about the other two. Crystal will find something appropriate, I’m sure. Casey, I dunno, man. If he’s smart he’ll try to go off list and do one of the tunes from Crazy Heart. The show seems to be done with him, though, so they won’t help him out too much by getting songs cleared.

      • Nich

        Casey should avoid anything that sounds like he can do the original version and do it well. Like with the Power of Love performance and they complained that it was too soundalike. Which means he needs to stay away Kenny Loggins.

  • maturin

    I can’t help wishing that Casey would put on booty shorts and sing the Pussycats version of Jai Ho.

    Or Lee, with his soft, paintman middle lapping delicately out from a belly shirt. With a bindi. And Hinder voice.

    • deez

      ACK!!!! Thank you Maturin, now pass the brain bleach….

    • http://www.detailsinthefabric.tk/ Shosh

      LMFAO. BRILLIANCE.

  • LittleMissCynic

    Who do I have to sleep with so that someone performs Ghostbusters? Even better if it’s done as one of the duets. And the second person only sings the “Ghostbusters” line.

    • Nich

      I loved that song as a kid. I had it on record…and there goes my age.

    • Jean

      This. Can Big Mike dress up as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man?

      • Mithra

        No one can touch Jedward doing Ghostbusters:

        • deez

          Lol. Awesome. I wish Timmeh had a twin brother!!!

          • Kathy

            Jedward=awesome

        • LittleMissCynic

          Wow. I had only heard of the famed “Jedward” but never actually watched one of their performances until now. Wow. Just wow. What in the world was that? And why were the “monsters” in the background doing some mashup of the Thriller dance and the Beat It dance? And what inspired them to pick Ghostbusters? Do they have theme weeks on X-Factor? Or did these two just pick it?

          Wow. So many questions. My mind is just blown.

          • the tard king

            I know, right? Somehow, until now, I’ve missed out on the pleasure of seeing Jedward perform. I need a couple of minutes to process what ever the hell that was.

          • Mithra

            You guys need to check out their other great performances on youtube. I actually prefer some of their earlier performances. This turned out to be their swan song on the show. It should be interesting if Simon is going to change X Factor up when it hits the states.

          • jukejoint

            They have combination mentor/judges, with each one of the four judges (Simon, some old guy who managed some boy band, Cheryl Cole and one of those Minogue women) taking a category. Last year, the old guy had the groups, so he mentored Jedward and picked the song for them (I do think it was Songs from the Cinema or whatever) and I think also helped them out with staging or maybe chose the staging completely. I can’t actually remember that much detail. But I do remember the cheesiest back-up dancers and staging with most of the performers. I’ve noticed that before on British shows. They seem to like really lame female back-up dancers that remind me of Dean Martin’s Golddiggers of 1969 and girls in cages in go-go boots. That sort of thing.

            The categories are (or were) groups, Over 25-year-olds (either boys or girls, but I think they were all male — this was Simon’s category last season), Boys (under 25) and Girls (under 25).

        • Nich

          Wow!

        • et

          Hee, that is just insane.

  • caspar

    Casey is the only one who can possibly make Lee sound good. The goat might actually make the pitchy less noticeable. Lee with Mike would be a shout-o-rama, and with Crystal, it would be all too obvious that Lee isn’t on the same level.

    Also, why does anyone think Lee should sing ‘Mrs Robinson’ to get the frau vote? Read the lyrics, that song basically tells Mrs. R.that she’s old and crazy.

    • Jean

      The frauen aren’t going to read/listen to the lyrics and be offended, though – they’ll just picture the pantyhose scene.

  • SaraBaby828

    Gangsta’s Paradise – Coolio

    I would LOVE to see this done by Mike!! hahaha

  • J

    I’ve given up on getting any real singing talent out of this season from anyone not named Crystal. So I’ve decided to just sit back and enjoy the cheesiness. Tomorrow may be the best night ever. I think I’ll make a pitcher of sangria and some artichoke dip to celebrate with.

    • dresden

      what time are you starting the party, lol. i have checked out of this season as well. if i watch, it’s just to kill time, and to lmao at these bad performances, and see what lies!, damn lies!, and got-damn lies! the judges are going to be trying to sell… this looks to be another lulzy trainweek of a week. could this theme be more tired, and what is up w/the producers wanting to do duets again… it’s so unfair to contestants in seasons past who had to sing 2 songs this deep in the competition. if they can’t hack that, then none of them deserve to be there. popcorn machine is gonna be fired up for the night, lol.

      • peg

        I think the bus that had Kris’s name on it last year is being gassed up for Casey this year.

        • Pandora

          I don’t think they’re even taking the risk of a bus… they will tie him to the train tracks and send the locomotive full speed ahead.

  • Kate123

    Gangsta’s Paradise!!!!!!!! If someone raps this, I will jump the border and vote for them a million billion times

    • Kate123

      LOSE YOURSELF!!!!! Are AI contestants allowed to rap?????

    • J

      You know if Andrew Garcia was still around he would give us an epic Gangsta’s Paradise.

      • Pandora

        Argh! I’ve been trying so hard to erase him from my memory!

  • Pandora

    On a serious note, I think Crystal could KILL on Into the West, and I’d be interested in seeing Casey give Live and Let Die a shot.

    Non-seriously, please please please let somebody do a mashup of Gonna Fly Now and Eye of the Tiger.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      I don’t think Gonna Fly Now has any other words than Gonna Fly Now.

    • et

      I love Into the West. That song gives me goosebumps. Then again, I LOVE Annie Lennox. So that helps, ha!

  • Sara Elizabeth

    I would be so surprised if Crystal wasn’t paired up with Lee. If they did that then they could easily say “I see you guys as the top 2″ when they get done. And we all know that’s what they wanna do. Haha.

    Kris actually said recently that he’d been talking to Jamie and that he has some cool ideas. Oh, Kris. Always with the vague-ness.

    • magnacarta

      Really? Do you happen to know where you heard/read that?

      • Mimi

        Kris mentioned that he had recently spoken with Jamie Foxx in one of those radio promo concerts he did a few weeks back. He said that Jamie had a couple of cool ideas or something like that. Sorry I can’t remember which event exactly, but I think it was the one where the audience was able to ask questions…

        • Sara Elizabeth

          Yeah, what she said. Kris does so many of those little radio things that it’d take me forever to find the right one on youtube, but he did say that.

      • leastofall

        I had some time on my hands so here you go (Kris talks about Foxx around 2.25.)

  • et

    That list is so full of cheese. And I laughed when I saw they added songs, and one was fricking “Jai Ho.” I mean, I would enjoy it thoroughly if someone would attempt that but… heh.

    Ghostbusters?

    Someone can do Footloose only if they dance like Kevin Bacon.

    • suew

      It would have been truly hysterical if Turban was still around. He could have done Footloose with the slide.

      • et

        Definitely, this would have been Timmeh’s week for sure!

  • suew

    Lee HAS to sing Mrs. Robinson – unless some scheming contestant grabbed it first so Lee won’t slay it. Lee has called S&G one of his musical influences (not sure how I know this, but I heard it somewhere!).

    Casey should sing staying alive by the Bee Gees since he looks like a Bee Gee anyway. It’ll keep him in the game. Mike will probably sing Kiss From a Rose, and Crystal can sing anything and sound good.

    Would like to see Mike & Casey duet on “Up where we belong” or “You’ll be in my heart”. The list completely blows.

  • lostbrigade

    I was talking to someone last night and said Lee HAS to sing Mrs. Robinson. Or he could sing Iris. I love that song, and it’s the kind that can create an Idol “moment.” He’d probably butcher it to all hell though.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      If he did Mrs. Robinson a la The Lemonheads, the judges would cream themselves and tell him he made it current.

      • Pandora

        Hell, if Lee sang a note-by-note copy of Evergreen the judges would cream themselves and tell him he made it current.

        • et

          Dawg, you know what I say, if you can sing you can really sing. You made that join your own! You could win this, dawg!

          • et

            *Joint* – you made that *joint* your own.

          • Pandora

            This is a singing competition, and dawg, YOU CAN SING!
            (In or out of tune, doesn’t really matter.)

      • Dickory Dock

        Well, there are plenty of di-di-di-do-do-dos in there, so Lee wouldn’t have to worry about the lyrics. He’s fond of the na-na-nas and la-la-las in his songs.

        I was sort of hoping Casey would do this song. Standing right in front of the judges table. And Kara would shrivel and die of embarrassment. Then blow away in a *POOF* of acrid smoke.

        That’s my dream, anyway.

  • Jean

    If this is not the funniest/campiest night of the season, I will be sorely disappointed. Maybe impressed that the contestants were able to put together a respectable set of performances given the song list. But mostly disappointed. A big YES to both duet suggestions, TI.

  • On The Edge

    Speaking of Kenny Loggins…OMG a new Yacht Rock!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHLAq3VffHo

    If you have never seen the online web comedy/documentary series “Yacht Rock” you have been missing out. I highly recommend the pilot, episode 7 (how Dr. Dre helped Michael McDonald win a bet) and episode 11 (featuring Jason Lee as Kevin Bacon!).

    Only on topic in that a LOT of the songs on this list are covered in Yacht Rock…there’s a running plot about Kenny becoming the king of soundtrack songs in the 80′s.

    • CayKat

      THIS.IS.AWESOME! Thanks for the link. Never heard of this before. It’s perfect.

    • Lucky

      I love this! God there was some awfully shitty music in the 80′s, thanks for the reminder!

    • Dickory Dock

      God. Yach Rock is awesome. The first time I saw it I nearly pissed myself.

    • auntieaimee

      How have I gone this long having never seen Yacht Rock before? I love it so much, I want to take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.