Initial Season: Season 5
Style: Contemporary/Classical
Ade, while a gifted dancer also has physical strength like few other dancers we’ve seen on the show. To someone who will never be a good dancer it almost seems unfair that Ade is blessed with the grace and balance that lets him move with a fluidity that belies his physical [...]

The reality show with the goal of finding America’s favorite dancer returns to FOX this summer, with a few shake-ups to the formula that’s worked so well for them so far. The changes to the format are as follows:

Instead of a Top 20, there will be a Top 10
12 ‘All-Star’ Dancers from previous seasons will [...]

Here we go, the jam packed 2 hour finale!  It’s really a 2 hour concert with 5 minutes of results at the end, but the results are really important.
Ryan mentions that less than 2% separated Crystal and Lee for the season but if that’s for the entire season it doesn’t really tell us anything about [...]

Two hours worth of results show, is a really long show, and while it starts out on a high level you knew there were going to be highs and lows especially given the Simon send-off aspect of the show. After writing stream of consciousness for the two hours, I’ll spare you my 1500 word rambling [...]

Rigelseven’s Take:
This night was not quite what I was expecting.  Lee was more reined in that I thought he would be and Crystal was really going for it to the point where I feel she overdid it in several places.  In the end, doesn’t it comes down to the season as a whole?  Even though [...]

Song Choice: Up to the Mountain – Patty Griffin
Rigelseven’s Take:
I’m not familiar with this song.  After looking it up on Wikipedia I think I remember Kelly Clarkson performing it on Idol Gives Back but not enough to really remember the song.  The song’s not really doing anything for me and it seems to me like [...]

Song Choice: Beautiful Day – U2
Rigelseven’s Take:
What, no cheesy coronation song this year?  Similar to Lee’s second song, I’m not a huge fan of this song.  Like R.E.M., U2 had many great songs but this is the one that won Song of the Year?  Anyway, what I like about Lee is that he has the ability [...]

Song Choice: Black Velvet – Alannah Myles
Rigelseven’s Take:
I love this song.  Let me repeat that in case you didn’t hear me:  I love this song.  I remember back when Katharine McPhee was on American Idol that I thought it would be perfect for her.  As such, I am predisposed to like this performance before it [...]

Song Choice: Everybody Hurts – R.E.M.
Rigelseven’s Take:
At first I thought this song would lead to a performance too similar to Lee’s first as it’s a slow song but Lee has flipped the arrangement a little and made the song more uptempo and it sounds really good.  Lee’s voice really fits with this version of the [...]

Song Choice: Me and Bobby McGee – Roger Miller (as done by Janis Joplin)
Chindi’s Take:
We catch up with Crystal’s parents who talk about when she started signing, and her first gig at a coffee shop when she was a kid. It’s just as endearing as the Lee Dewyze backstory, which is one of the reasons [...]

Song Choice: The Boxer – Simon and Garfunkel
Chindi’s Take:
We get an up close and personal visit with Lee’s parents, they talk about how initially they thought he was going to be a baseball player because he liked baseball and was good at it. It’s obvious from Lee’s interview that while he liked baseball it wasn’t [...]

Lee Dewyze has had several great performances on this Season of American Idol. Lee started as something of an unknown but built his profile through the show to be the favorite going into the season finale. On the eve of the American Idol finale we take a look back at some of our favorite Lee [...]