Chindi’s Take:
Rigelseven will be late tonight as he’s attending a hockey game (Go Caps!), but he’ll be posting his reaction to tonight’s elimination when he gets back from tonight’s elimination game, hopefully with good news. So all of our early readers are stuck with me and a corona, and what looks like it might be [...]

Shania Song Selection: Any Man of Mine
Chindi’s Take:
Siobhan gets the pimp spot for the first time in several weeks… and she pulled out every single stop. She went down into the audience, she brought back the scream and then ended the performance with one long high glory note. This performance was classic Siobhan: soft in [...]

Inspirational Song Choice: When You Believe – Whitney Houston / Mariah Carey
Why: No Reason Given
Chindi’s Take:
I’ve always said that Siobhan, at her best, was fearless as she took on members of the pantheon head on early in the competition and delivered rock solid performances. So why not take on a song that’s been done by [...]

Elvis Song Selection: Suspicious Minds

Chindi’s Take:
I adore Siobhan Magnus. Fairly quickly into this competition, while I acknowledged Michael Lynche and Crystal Bowersox as front-runners in my heart I had to acknowledge that of them all Siobhan was the one who was singing the music that most resonated with me, and I wanted her to win, [...]

Song Selection: Across The Universe – L & M

Chindi’s Take:
(My Dirty Secret: I hate this song. Hate. Hate. Loathe. Hate.)  I’m torn this week with Siobhan. On the one hand this was a restrained vocal where she showed her absolute control of her instrument, threw in one big note to pop the attention of the [...]

Song Selection: Through the Fire – Chaka Khan
Chindi’s Take:
It sounds at first like there’s a bit of an audio problem as there are a couple of tinny echoes when she starts, but that may have been in the music itself. This was the first week for me where Siobhan missed, and she missed badly [...]

Song Selection: Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Rigelseven’s Take:
Siobhan just really goes for it every time out and that’s one of the reasons I’m a big fan of her.  The irony is I thought in parts of the song tonight she was more restrained than usual and just let the cool tone of her voice shine through, [...]

Song Selection: Paint it Black – Rolling Stones
RigelSeven’s Take:
This season’s most interesting and unpredictable contestant does it again.  I wasn’t quite as enamoured with this performance as the judges were (I preferred her performance of “House of the Rising Sun” last week), but Siobhan continues to impress me.  Every week it’s something different and she [...]

Siobhan Magnus
19 – Massachusetts
Siobhan didn’t have a defined back story before the semi-finals.  We now know she is a glassblower’s apprentice who used to have a mohawk and is from a family of musicians.
Audition Song – not shown
Hollywood Week Round 1 Song – not shown
Hollywood Week Group Song – Bad Romance (w/Theri, Jareb Liewer & Todrick [...]

Song Selection: Think – Aretha Franklin

Chindi’s Take:
Siobhan gets the pimp spot, and certainly picks the right song for it. There’s a rule generally that you don’t take on certain songs and certain singers, Aretha is certainly in that pantheon of people to avoid. The exception to that rule is if you can deliver on it, [...]