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"The female half of the Top 24 took to the stage last night and I&amp;#039;m sorry to say it wasn&amp;#039;t a great start to the live performances. A few stood out, but overall it was a real letdown. I kept waiting for an Adam Lambert moment, when someone would really rock the house and leave me stunned by their talent. But it never happened. Of the twelve, here are my most and least favorite. Crystal Bowersox: Her version of Alanis Morrisette&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Hand in My Pocket&amp;quot; was pretty straightforward (no bells and whistles, which the judges criticized her for), but she&amp;#039;s so natural, relaxed and in the moment on stage, playing her guitar and working her harmonica, that it seems as if she&amp;#039;s performing her own song, not someone else&amp;#039;s. I enjoyed her a lot. Katelyn Epperly: She&amp;#039;s got a great voice and she really showed it off last night. I don&amp;#039;t understand why the judges were so lackluster about her performance. Maybe if they&amp;#039;d spent less time focusing on what she was wearing and more time listening to her vocals they&amp;#039;d have come to the same conclusion as I did. Michelle Delamor: The judges weren&amp;#039;t that impressed by her handling of Alicia Key&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Fallin,&amp;quot; but I loved it. She gave the song little nuanced touches here and there that made it sound a tiny bit different than the original. But with an amazing (and difficult!) song like that, singing it like the original isn&amp;#039;t a bad thing\u2014if you can pull it off. And she definitely pulled it off. Paige Miles: I know a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this one, and I&amp;#039;ll admit that tackling a rock song was the wrong move for her, but I think this girl has a powerhouse voice that just won&amp;#039;t be denied. Give her the right song and she&amp;#039;ll make it soar. I hope she sticks around and gets the chance to prove me right. Lacey Brown: Oh dear. She took a beautiful Fleetwood Mac song (&amp;quot;Landslide&amp;quot;) and turned it into a dour, boring mess. Randy called it terrible. So true. I wish I it had been Stevie Nicks on stage singing it instead. Haeley Vaughn: I wanted to like her performance so much. She&amp;#039;s such a sweet girl, with a lightness and brightness that you don&amp;#039;t often find. But the more she sang, the more I wanted her to stop. Simon called it &amp;quot;a complete and utter mess.&amp;quot; I wouldn&amp;#039;t go that far, Simon. I commend her for trying to do something different with a Beatles classic, but as the judges said, she has no idea who she is as a singer. Until she figures that out, I&amp;#039;m afraid she&amp;#039;s going to keep stumbling. Ashley Rodriguez: If you&amp;#039;re going to do a Leona Lewis song, you better be able to live up to the original. Unfortunately Ashley didn&amp;#039;t . Her performance was bland, boring and forgettable. The guys take the stage tonight. Here&amp;#039;s hoping one of them will give me that Adam Lambert moment. \u2014Angela Ebron "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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