West African Idols: Season 1 (2007)

My feelings on last nights show

Timi, not the best choice of song for his style, but did a great performance.
Jerrilyn, slightly better than last week, I don't like her baby style voice, it actually gets on my nerves,  and she   is one of the two weakest ones left
Eric, I also thought he sounded nasally, with some good moments thrown in.  I find him a little too smooth and not genuine in his performances.  I also do not see the good looks everyone is talking about.   He has a bad smile or his teeth are not great. 
Uche, erratic performance, some good moments and some poor moments.   I like him but he has yet to find a song that has really done him justice
Temitayo, I think is a great entertainer, which covers the fact that she is not such a brilliant singer,   That song of Over the Rainbow did not have nearly enough emotion or tenderness in it for me.
Joan, brilliant voice, but lacks confidence and so doesn't quite project enough of her personality into her performances, but she has wonderful potential.  She just has to believe in herself
Mercy, vocals and performance wise not good at all.  She looked awkward and unnatural on the stage and her phrasing of the strong was terrible.  She is in trouble tonight.
Jodie very good, however, I have heard that song on Idols done by a few artists and I think Jodie lacked a bit of soul in her voice.  I still think she does not make enough eye contact with her audience and performs very much into herself.  She needs to learn how to connect better with her audience and she will be excellent.
Omawumi surprised me, her voice is very good, she has a lot of class and her delivery is always good.  I enjoyed her doing a slow number for once.

Best of the night for me were Timi, Omuwami, Joan and  Jodie .

Going home Mercy or Jerrilyn, but I actually think it will be Mercy.

Alright now I've watched the performances. The participants really disappointed me today. They were all not up to average. The "Old school" theme isn't for them at all.  I still felt Jodie's performance though, she's easily the best and I see her in the top 3. Timi and Eric were OK, Uche was great but the song he chose is not such a winner. Omawumi thrilled me when she sang a slow song. She started well but went off for some time after the modulation. She was able to get back on key, and that's remarkable. Temitayo was just there, Mercy & Joan ,  good voices and less than average performance, Jerilyn, not impressed although she performed better than her previous performances.
The judges disappointed me also. Most of their judgments were off! Especially Dan. I don't know what came into them yesterday.
I predict Jerilyn, Joan or Mercy going out. We'll see what happens 8pm tonight. My fingers are crossed.

jodie jodie jodie

i predict jodie to be d winner of this idol tin

I think by now, Jerillyn scaling the hurdle again has shown she has a fan base. and the facts which can not be forgotten

• She is the only non-Nigerian remaining in a West African Competition
• She has a very sorrowful story to tell, and more emotions displayed on stage when its drop time.

I suspect a syndicate is voting for her repeatedly.
Joan has a good voice but the magic wasn't really there.

i cried when joan was announced as the one leaving last night.
i really liked her, i mean, she has a breathtaking voice.
but her performance the previous night was really below par, her worst and it proved to be her undoing. i didn't help matters either because i actually forgot to vote for her,  Imagine!
well jerrilyn is really the one to go, i don't know why i don't like her. imagine her saying "strange things do happen" when she was asked how she felt hearing onyeka say she is the one with weakest voice.
abeg make she go jooo.
since joan is gone, i guess i'll start rooting for jodie and perhaps timi.

@Bagoma, why did you cry? Pele o! But it's a shame that Joan had to go, although her performance was not the best. Her voice was quite good though. Where is LawyerChap? Wanna see what he has to say on the performances. My own review of the peformances is available here. Please read and leave a comment.

I didn't watch the Idols South Africa,  so I don't know how to compare the two. I think it's the Old School theme which did the contestants in. Last week was much better. Let's see what happens next week (they'll be singing new age songs). BTW, Uche did a Nat King Cole song and he did it well. I hope you realize that Nat King Cole's songs are not the easiest to sing. You can easily go off key if you don't know what you're doing. You need to know how to flow along Jazz Scales and all the dynamics. In my own opinion, Uche tried. When we look at relativity, I think he had the best performance.

Joan's exit is tragic. Yeah,where is Lawyer chap?

Salsera, fully agreed. Jerilyn was lucky enough to be in a "below average" group. All the group 1 performers were better than her. She's tried thus far, I guess she'll be going next. Even Onyeka said she's the one with the weakest voice.

OMG!

Thats totally correct.

I don't think you could have described it any better.

thats probably because camerounians can't sing a note! (joking)

No Ghanians in the show?Nigeria gat talent in all areas.

I agree with previous posts about Jerrilyn.

But i guess she has a fan base that's why she is still in the competition. and people are being sentimental.

I don't know about you guys but I feel that Omuwami was at her best last night. Of course leaving the room for better than the best. There's always a room for improvement. Jodie, you don't have to ask,  she choose a wrong song but hey, she turned it to something else - you can count on her all the time. That Beyonce never going to be chick - Jerrylin, what on earth was she wearing? She made it even worse when she was going on about working it out. Her work it out's were all dull & dead! You can wear Beyonce's outfit my dear, but you sure can never wear her voice. She also knows that she might be cut off tonight - she's expecting it! Mercy must take it easy. Eric needs to wipe that smile off his face and start getting serious with singing, because it sure won't win him the competition. His not there for charms! The other guy's voices are strong. I give Eric 2 more Sundays and then he's out!

mike magic?  LOL! his magic aint working @ all!
does it mean we don't av interesting anchors in naija?
i think he should do a ground work on d likes of ryan seacrest and sammi south african idols anchor guy.
d guys squeaky voice and boring and bland personality is affecting d show seriously

Uche has been voted off .

He was in the bottom 2 with Jerilyn and was not as lucky.


Looks like Jerilyn has nine lives. three gone, six to go