Final three/ three songs!

American Idol: Season 5 Forum

Next week the final three will sing three songs.

1. picked by them

2. picked by the AI judges

3. picked by Clive Davis


Thread open to this theme and song choices.

I just don't even care what any of them sing. Though, I have to say that Elliott will be getting all of my votes, and I will do everything to see him win.

As long as they don't sing an Elvis song I think everything will be cool. Elvis made the voters go insane.

I swear, McHottie must have kryptonite underpants because Superman was taken down like a clown.

For ratings I think they need Taylor and McHot. It just makes sense. Taylor would win.

If it's a McHot - Snaggs final, McHot wins. No way Snaggs wins.

-HECK!

Taylor will get a full two hours of voting from this little SP member.

I think that Randy will pick the song for Taylor. Clive always picks great songs for the contestants.

No matter what, expect Taylor to bring out the big bullet next week: Georgia on My Mind

Elliott's judges song is rumored to be "whay you wont' do for love". Picked by Paula

Shhhh! That's my song.

-HECK!

"What You Won't Do for Love"

Bobby Caldwell is very talented and that's Elliott's niche, I love that R&B music.

It is a great song and a great pick for Elliott. I love R&B too ICB.

hey, that sounded like code



Er if you crack that code it says to VOTE FOR TAYLOR and to send chocolate to Sherry.


Per radio interview this morning Taylor's song choice is "try a little tenderness"

FOX Birmingham just reported that Randy chose "You Are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker for Taylor.

Oh, that's a great song. I can see Tay doing that one.

These are some good choices, I wonder what Katharine will sing.

Simon has chosen a song for Kat.

Updated. MJ's blog is report that he chose "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for Kat.

Rumored song choices by Clive Davis

Kat- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Taylor- Walking in Menphis



Kat will blow it if she sings that song. SHe will smile through the whole thing like one of those Up With People.

That song, by Celine, is such utter perfection, and Kat will blow it, because she will have that cheesy ass grin.

Well no one knows for sure about their songs or Clive's song. Here are the new rumors:

Elliott:

“I Could Not Ask For More” (own choice)
“What You Won’t Do For Love” (Paula Abdul’s choice)
“Everybody Hurts” (Clive Davis’ choice)

Katharine:

“Too Lost In You” (own choice)
“Straight On” (Simon Cowell’s choice)
“If You Asked Me To” (Clive Davis’ choice)

Taylor:

“Always” (own choice)
“You Are So Beautiful” (Randy Jackson’s choice)
“You’re In My Heart” (Clive Davis’ choice)

This is from the Entertainment Tonight website... posted today:



'American Idol': The Heat Is On!

May 16, 2006

ELLIOTT YAMIN, KATHARINE McPHEE and TAYLOR HICKS: which one will be the next "American Idol"? There's only one more week to go before viewers crown the winner, and the tension is mounting. But first the Top 3 have to sing three songs tonight to charm viewers into voting them into the final night of competition.

Tonight, Elliott, Katharine and Taylor will each sing a song selected for them by music mogul CLIVE DAVIS, who will sign the Top 2 to a recording contract; a song picked by the judges; and one of their own favorites.

JOURNEY's classic "Open Arms" is the song that Clive chose for Elliott , whom he sees as a fighter, as someone who sang himself out of the bottom two and into the top two of last week's voting.

"He really came through with the ELVIS PRESLEY material, probably the best of any of the other artists," Clive tells ET. "What Elliott has to be careful about is that sometimes he gets too hip for the room. Sometimes he tries to show, 'I am different from the others,' and he goes into cool jazz, or he will go into songs that America does not know."

Katharine had a difficult time during Presley week, because the material did not showcase her appropriately. To improve her chances this time, Clive has selected "I Believe I Can Fly" for the beauty from Los Angeles, CA.

"When we met and spent time together, I said, 'You've got to reach down now. You've got to develop your own sound. When you turn the radio on and you hear WHITNEY HOUSTON, or you hear KELLY CLARKSON, you know when you hear those artists. You have to develop the Katharine McPhee voice. So when you are singing "I Believe I Can Fly," when it talks of everlasting arms, where it is talking of God, you've got to make the audience feel that.'"

For Taylor, Clive reached out to BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, an artist he had signed, to get permission for the first time ever for "American Idol" to use a song by the Boss -- "Dancing in the Dark."

"So I said, 'Taylor, you have to understand that "Dancing in the Dark" is about one thing, it is about sex. It is about the restless anxiety,'" Clive recalls. "I took out the lyrics and I read them to him. This is about, I am bored in this town, I am bored with my life, I need some fire to light my spark. So yes, you can prowl and command the stage, but you've also got to understand the lyric of what you are singing, and you can't do anything with artifice that doesn't ring true."

As for last week's voted-out "Idol" hopeful CHRIS DAUGHTRY, not to worry. Clive has already met with the rocker and the two will meet yet again to see about working together on a solo album for Chris. Clive has also expressed interest in PARIS BENNETT, so stay tuned for news from that front, as well.