Mandisa and Paris solidified their positions at the front of the pack tonight. I get what the judges were saying about Paris's performance being too old for her, but it was still well sung on a night when most weren't.
Melissa and Kinnik both made smart song choices; neither was a particularly interesting or difficult song, but Melissa showed that she does have some personality and a nice husky quality to her voice, and Kinnik wisely showed a different side than the icy Latoya London elegance we saw last week.
Beyond that, the pickings were slim. Ayla was pleasant, but her lower register is noticably weaker than her upper, and she doesn't cover the transition between them very well; compare her to, say, Paris, whose lowest notes were also a bit weak, but who got from top to bottom more smoothly than Ayla.
Katharine was a little too Broadway for this venue, milking every overly dramatic dynamic contrast, and picking a song that doesn't suit her at all.
Lisa was hugely disappointing, with a surprisingly dull performance.
Kellie has a pretty voice, but the song was all wrong for her; she came off a nice girl trying to be scandalous without quite knowing what the word means. Paula's "can you get any cuter?" is not the reaction that song should get, ever.
Heather is out of her class in this group. She gasps for air between phrases; her quiet notes are all breath with no sound at the core; the endings of her phrases tend to die and go flat.
But at least she's not Brenna, whose voice is ugly and whose arrogance comes through in every note; she thinks she's much better than she is. I fear that that attitude will play well with the audience, turning her into this year's "how the hell is she still here?" contestant.
The top five are still clearly Paris, Mandisa, Kinnik, Katharine, and Lisa; Melissa, Kellie, and Ayla deserve to come back next week and fight for that sixth spot. Heather and Brenna should be sent home on Thursday.
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