Paula's Ramblings 3/13

First night of the big show. I liked during the intro that they didn’t mention or show Rueben….oops. I guess he has been disavowed. Its Diana Ross night and I am curious to see what she is looking like these days. I was hoping that she would be a trainwreck, but she was well-spoken and looked pretty ok. On with the ramblings…

[In response to Ryan’s comments]
I think we have a great variety…I think that, uh, the girls have been shining but I think the guys are ready to come into their own now.

Brandon:
Its not easy to do what you’re doing…especially the first night out here and I know nerves play a big part of it going into from a small in the round now into big big big concert hall like this…but umm….You know Brandon we don’t need to tell you what you did wrong, there are many things that you do right and, uh, I think that you’ll warm up into this.

Melinda:
Melinda, just watching you…I just…I feel you’re just feeling so much joy and it’s exciting I feel I’m one big goosebump and I’m just so excited for you because look at you, I mean, this is it for you…this is it for you…you’re…you’re sailing through.
[In response to Simon’s comments]
When you see her crying like that…yeah.
[In response to Ryan’s comments]
She’s feeling like she, um, had an out of body experience.

Chris S.:
Well, that song is a is that song is so recognizable and its such a beautiful love song and sometimes I worry that your trying ultra hard to be ultra hip and cool…and sometimes you can just let the melody play, listen to the lyrics, sing the song cause you have a really nice voice…I worry less of trying to fit into some kind of contemporary thing here.

Gina:
Uhhh…well it such an exciting song, I mean that song is like a feel good you cant help yourself, you wanna get up…I feel then you’re much better…then…how you did…tonight and I feel like at times you were shouting and and enunciation and pitch were kinda off.

Sanjaya:
Sanjaya, I can understand why Diana said your pure love because you are you are the sweetest soul you smile and it it warms peoples hearts it really does. I mean, it wasn’t that you you sang on pitch its, I understand what Diana was saying, you have to start it off where you really gotta grab the audience and when a song like that happens you gotta just let go and that’s the thing we try to say you gotta exploded with your with your vocals now you gotta really jump out with reckless abandon and go…You look adorable though and he didn’t do a bad job.
[In response to Ryan’s comments]
He doesn’t listen to us anymore.

Haley:
Well, I’ll start with saying you look lovely tonight. Yeah, you heard that. But Haley that is probably not what you wanna hear right now, you know, its it’s uh the same thing with Brandon, it’s a brand new day up here forgetting the words is never a great thing to do and your pitch ay ya yay, you’re still adorable, you know, this is hard this is a hard thing.
[In response to Haley’s comments]
Half the time the audience doesn’t know…they don’t know anything.

Phil:
We were discussing that while you were performing your vocals sound very good…I just, that song, I just, were feeling it needs to be a little up tempo and it would’ve been a more exciting performance but other than that Phil you have strong vocals you really do. You really do.

LaKisha:
You’re a beautiful performer you’re a beautiful girl and your heart comes through when you sing and that’s the most important thing you can posses as an artist.

Blake:
No, I understand what you are saying totally and I I do agree, to a certain extent, but there is a difference I feel between what Blake did and Chris did and I think that what what seeing you and letting the audience see how you actually work it out and you think about it, I think that you could have a hit with that again, I really do. And you’re a good singer too.
[In response to Simon’s comments]
You know what is interesting, you don’t have to change Motown sound…you don’t have to change anything.

Stephanie:
Is there a reason why you didn’t do it, I think everyone was waiting cuase we all love that song and wait for that was there an artistic choice for that? But that is what arraging is for. There I mean you have strong vocals but you know keep keep going, you have strong vocals, you have strong vocals.

Chris R.:
Umm, I I thinik out of all the guys you nailed the blend of bringing contemporary into and and it was fun the…there is a song that back in the day, Dan Hartman, instant replay vibe and it was and it was one of the best dance songs and you kinda…turned it to that direction. You played with the vocals, you did a great job.

Jordan:
As I’ve said before you are a natural gift. You are like a breath of fresh air and your beautiful and you can sing your little heart out. I wasn’t that familiar with that song but it doesn’t matter cause you drew me in right away.