I'm enjoying this season a lot. There's some really incredible talent. I made a list of the Top 24 and made some notes as I was watching. I put smiley faces after the ones I'd like to see in the Top 10.
1
Alyssa Wray 
2
Jason Warrior (This performance gave me chills.)
3
Andrea Valles
4
Chayse Beckham - Maybe?
5
Caleb Kennedy
6
Wyatt Pike
7
Cassandra Coleman
8
Beane (I love this kid. AI sure has come a long way from the Clay Aiken and Adam Lambert days when they had to hide their flare.)
9
Hannah Everhart - Maybe?
10
Graham DeFranco - Maybe?
11
Alanis Sophia (She's a fabulous Alanis Morissette impersonator, but who is she as an artist? At least Murphy knows who he is.)
12
Casey Bishop (She's totally forgettable.)
13
Willie Spence
14
Mary Jo Young (Another forgettable one)
15
Hunter Metts
16
Grace Kinstler
17
Deshawn Goncalves
18
Colin Jamieson
19
Ava August (She's so young, but she knows exactly who she is as an artist. She reminds me of a young Taylor Swift.)
20
Liahona Olayan (Ridiculous. She's terrible. Althea Grace sings circles around her but got sent home.)
21
Madison Watkins
22
Alana Sherman (Amber Riley
sang this way better as Mercedes on Glee.*)
23
Anilee List (White girls should not sing Black girl songs. She doesn't have the gravitas to pull that song off.)
24
Cecil Ray (He's a bar singer. Drake should have gone through. He's so much better. )
These two would have been on my Top 10 list, but the producers probably shot them down, because I can't imagine these judges cutting them in favor of a few of the others.
Murphy. I'm so angry that they didn't put him through. He would've been this year's Alejandro.
Althea Grace is another one I'd have placed in my Top 10. She at least has a personality and a style and isn't a generic white-girl-belter-outer.
*Funny story. My husband worked on the Paramount lot for 10 years,. He saw a lot of stars in that time, and he'd come home with stories now and then. This particular day, he came home and declared "OK, I am officially old."
So of course I asked why.
"It was overcast and chilly all day. As I walked across the lot to grab lunch, I saw the cheerleaders from Glee filming or rehearsing this car wash scene. All the girls were dressed in skimpy costumes with their midriffs exposed while spraying water all over each other, and my first thought was, 'Oh, those poor girls. They're going to catch their death of cold!'"
:: feels his forehead to check his temperature ::
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