Mariah Did Idol Proud

Thank goodness!! She pulled it off! I was so afraid she couldn't, went pitchy and

hoarse and stuffs!! Hail the queen Mariah!!

Mariah Carey one of the most gifted vocallist in the world was the most enchanting

singer ever to grace any concert or show. During the 90's her vocal soar like the

sky worship the sound it vibrates on. Remember when she did If It's Over in the Grammy

back in 1992? It still gave me goosebump! Remember when she goes freestyle on

Joy To The World, "god where did she get the stamina and vocal acrobat from?"

But since Butterfly, her voice has shown signs of fatigue, overexertion of her voice, the

wrong technique that she adopt in her singing has finalloy taken its toll on the VOICE.

She became the singer whom backup singer doubles as occasional lead singer, she is credited

as much to her backup singer as much as the soaring notes that she barely reached.

Occasional lip-synch(my allegations, which is not unfounded) she has become the debate topic between

the loyal fans and loyal critics. "Does she or does she not sucks in her live performance?"

One thing for sure, she is just not as good as she was before. The charm is gone. Celine Dion and

could still belt songs which she recorded 10 years ago like All By Myself and It's All Coming Back To Me Now,

but why can;t she? The reason is arguably the surest thing you could say about her.

Her vocal technique is just not the type type which all music tacher would condone.

So it's a big surprise for me when she actually decided to grace the biggest show on earth

where vocal pitch and soaring notes are the worship deity for every contestants and are the

the demi-god where every audience searching for. She's going to actually perform live in front

of audiences who are conditioned to specifically pinpoint the pitch note and demand the soaring notes

at every chorus.

Her songbook are collection of musical Picasso, very hard to imitate and very hard to sing

by lowly idol-wannabe. In all of Idol show, songs from Mariah are as rare as songs from

say REM, because it's just begs for audience to compares the contestant to her. And this show

proves just that. All the contestants who strictly follows the arrangement of her original recording pales

in comparison. Syesha sucks big time, trying to do a Vanishing, reminiscing of her performance

in Saturday Night Live 1990, Syesha is like the earth and Mariah's heaven's heaven.

Carly flop with her rendition of WIthout You. Mariah's remake is the best version ever for that song!! What does she

think she's doing? Then again what choice does she has. The best vocallist among the idol contestants can;t even do it!

Kristy, enough said. She's clever enough to simplify the arrangement so that she could just lie her

way through this week.

Brooke! Worse Hero rendition ever! Then again was there ever another person's rendition ever done?

The guys instead prove that Mariah's song could only be succesfully pulled off by creatively

flip off the arrangement and make it say rockish for David Cook and Latino for Jason Castro. And they worked

Only Archuleta, whom we know are such a gifted and seasoned diva song's singer could do a Mariah's

version and come out victorious and glorified by Simon.

So, I am done with insulting the contestants.

The result night!

Mariah performed Bye Bye, the second single from E=MC2 which is incidentally released that day.

She could either prove her worth for a no.1 album, which would obviously hit no.1, or totally turn off

the viewers with her hoarse voice, bad flu-excuse, and weak vocal.

But as surprise as it might seem, she did the former. It was spot on! IT was pitchless and the thing is,

all the judges gave her standing ovation! Simon never gave anybody standing ovation before! And that says a lot.

I am so glad. She is so gonna sell more than 600k copies this time. I hedge my bet higher than 500k which

i said last night.

My only qualm is that she sing so like the song from the album. No vocal twist, no extra subtleties to reflect the

mood of the night, no artful melisme that defines her performance during the 90's. It could justas well lip-synched!!

But before I get myself assasinated by Mariah's fanatic, I will give her the benefit of the doubt. It's

not possible to lip-synch in the very show that promotes vocal prowess.

She has my blessing...