Re: Carrie Underwood Performing "Alone" (video)

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Grading the American Idol Season Seven Top 10 On The TiVo Multi-Bloop Scale
Published 3/26/2008 by The Jay at The Jay
The first episode of Idol that actually felt like a real American Idol episode since Top 4 week of LAST SEASON. Well-produced, expertly paced, fun, recognizable music, solid performances, cute video packages, a minimal amount of Ryan/Simon bitchiness, a maximum of amount of Paula Abdul train wreckiness, and just a general sense of good times. The Idol wannabes seemed outwardly relieved to be away from the Beatles fortnight, and picking songs they’ve song a billion times before in their bedrooms (you know Carly has Total Eclipsed it twice a week, every week, for two solid decades). The favorites were great, the Bottom Three was obvious ...

The Idol Countdown: Five Essential Moments From Last Night’s “American Idol”
Published 3/26/2008 by Caryn Ganz at Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
Does American Idol’s “sing a song from the year you were born” night do anything other than make a large portion of the show’s viewers feel old? Ramiele Malubay made the mistake of tackling Heart’s “Alone,” a song Carrie Underwood rocked to perfection in season four, and the judges weren’t wild for Carly Smithson’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (our theory: she must have pissed off the judges behind the scenes). The favorite was again, bafflingly, Syesha Mercado with her rendition of Stephanie Mills’ “If I Were Your Woman,” even though she broke out that ...