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"God Bless the Child" on Idol?

Anyone catch Jacob Lusk's performance of this Billie Holiday classic last night on American Idol?

It was truly one of the most earth shattering performances I've ever seen on the show.

BH herself would have been proud.

Can't wait to hear what this guy does next.

There seems to be a fair abundance of real musical talent on Idol this year so far it seems!
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kijanki
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Judges are not judging - they simply like everything (Simon is being missed). Perhaps producers believe in better ratings without criticism. Horrible acoustics (too much of reverberation) was today aided by so much compression that all performances sounded flat (and I listen on main speakers). Oh, and "God bless the child" was overcooked.
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kijanki
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"Audiophile Idol"? - not even close to decent sound. Sound quality of many shows, including music awards got really bad in recent years.
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It is weird - judges on one hand praise being emotionally attached to the song while the same time they praised Paul singing with big smile "I shot man in Reno...".

I'm not sure why judges are even there, since they praise everything. There are some very good performances and some bad. To them everything is "just beautiful". I miss Simon. On the positive note sound got much better after first two shows.
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