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"It&amp;#039;s time for the Top 12 to take on songs from music&amp;#039;s biggest divas, and there&amp;#039;s quite a selection of covers tonight: Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Tina Turner and more. It could be the making of some pretty big stars... and it could be a total disaster for some others, but let&amp;#039;s not get ahead of ourselves.  First up tonight is Jennel Garcia, who is trying to fill some pretty big shoes - she&amp;#039;s doing Tina Turner&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Proud Mary&amp;#039;. Ah yes, a reality singing competition favourite. You&amp;#039;ve got to hand it to Jennel for working the stage so completely, for having lots of energy and really giving it her all. However, I just don&amp;#039;t think this was a great song choice for her and comes off a bit karaoke, despite her best efforts.  LA applauds her for starting the night off with a bang, telling her that she&amp;#039;s back in the competition and &amp;quot;smoked&amp;quot; it. Britney thinks Tina Turner would be proud and that she nailed it, while Simon admits that he&amp;#039;s been a bit hard on her recently but is glad that she&amp;#039;s back in the game tonight as she looks better and sounds better. Demi is &amp;quot;unbelievably proud&amp;quot; of her and wants people to vote for her.  Next, it&amp;#039;s Tate Stevens, America&amp;#039;s favourite, according to the poll results last week. He&amp;#039;s a true romantic, so he&amp;#039;s performing Shania Twain&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;From This Moment On&amp;#039;. I&amp;#039;m not a massive country music fan (though I don&amp;#039;t mind it), but even I can tell that Tate has the potential to be a massive star in the genre. The performance is really passionate, professional and just quite good. The audience seems to think so, too, from the cheers he&amp;#039;s receiving.   Britney thinks it was &amp;quot;so heartfelt&amp;quot; and that he sounded amazing. Demi calls it &amp;quot;very good&amp;quot; and leaves it at that. Simon is annoyed to have to admit that it was even better than last week because he has confidence now, adding that he would gladly write him a check for $5 million if he won the competition. LA calls those &amp;quot;big words&amp;quot; and just seems overjoyed.  Moving right along, Diamond White is up next and is really taking the whole &amp;quot;diva&amp;quot; thing seriously: she&amp;#039;s performing Beyonc\u00E9&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Halo&amp;#039;. While I think everyone who heard that at first had major concerns, Diamond really does the song some justice - especially considering she&amp;#039;s only 13. She stays in tune, adds a little beat to it and generally does a pretty convincing job. It&amp;#039;s not the most mindblowing thing you&amp;#039;ll ever hear, but it&amp;#039;s a solid effort nonetheless.  LA was concerned because she started out shaky but thinks that she started to &amp;quot;kick in&amp;quot; as she got further in the song. Demi thinks this week is perfect for her because she is a real diva and gives the rest of the singers a run for their money. Simon advises her not to walk and sing at the same time because it trips her up. He adds that when he looks at her, he feels as though he&amp;#039;s looking at a future star and he&amp;#039;s really happy that she&amp;#039;s back in the show. Britney is &amp;quot;so incredibly proud&amp;quot; and she&amp;#039;s amazed every week with her.  Beatrice Miller has made a choice in doing Cyndi Lauper&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Time After Time&amp;#039; - it really fits her aesthetic and I can&amp;#039;t think of a better song for her. I&amp;#039;m never quite sure about Beatrice - I quite like the raspiness of her voice as it seems so much older than her 13 years, but at times I can&amp;#039;t help but feel like she&amp;#039;s lacking something I can&amp;#039;t put my finger on. Nevertheless, I do quite like her and I think she&amp;#039;s got a ton of potential. This week&amp;#039;s performance is a perfect example of that - she&amp;#039;s in tune and sings well without too much stage production or distraction in the background.  LA calls her &amp;quot;so cute&amp;quot; and wonders how a 13-year-old can have such a good voice. But there&amp;#039;s some bad news: he wonders if it was a good song choice because she didn&amp;#039;t get a chance to show her chops. Demi agrees that she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;so frickin&amp;#039; adorable&amp;quot; and actually likes the song choice as it showcased a side of her that they hadn&amp;#039;t seen - she&amp;#039;s quite soulful. Simon thinks it was better than last week and he likes her in her lower register, though he thinks the song was boring and went on too long. Britney stands up for her, though, saying she has more talent in her pinky than all of his contestants put together. Ooh, feisty Britney! Someone&amp;#039;s awake this week.  This week, Lyric145 is performing Katy Perry&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;E.T.&amp;#039; and I have to say... I am so done with this trio. Sure, Lyric is talented on her own and they&amp;#039;re &amp;quot;fresh&amp;quot; and doing things that are really current, but they are totally nuts and end up butchering a lot of really good songs. They also mix in a bit of Queen&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;We Will Rock You&amp;#039; and I&amp;#039;m wondering which of the two artists is meant to be the diva? There&amp;#039;s just too much going on with this track, yet again, and I want it to be over.   LA points out what I said - neither Queen nor Katy Perry are divas, per se. He&amp;#039;s a bit concerned as it was better than last week (which he dubs &amp;quot;a disaster) but he thinks they lost their way and this could be the last time they perform. Britney thinks that they&amp;#039;re a hip-hop group and should be doing hip-hop songs. Demi doesn&amp;#039;t get it and thinks &amp;#039;E.T.&amp;#039; shouldn&amp;#039;t have been added, but Simon sticks up for them, saying that they bring energy that the show needs. Sorry, but that&amp;#039;s just not good enough.  Arin Ray is hoping to up his rank this week by doing Madonna&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Crazy For You&amp;#039;, which he&amp;#039;s dedicating to Fifth Harmony member Normani. Oh, snap - showmance! The performance is stripped-back, with just a simple piano track underscoring his singing - though of course a little drum beat kicks in during the second verse. Admittedly, this track is a bit hard to modernise so this comes off as slightly boring, but at least he&amp;#039;s trying. His vocals are pretty good, so that&amp;#039;s a plus.  LA is &amp;quot;really struggling with that&amp;quot;. He thinks Arin is amazing, but he wants goosebumps and he didn&amp;#039;t get a $5 million performance. Demi agrees, admitting that she was &amp;quot;really bored&amp;quot; watching it and adding that he has the tendency not to go the soulful route, which he should be doing. Simon says it looks like Arin hated it, as well, and that him taking on that song is like asking a cat to take on a tiger - it wasn&amp;#039;t right for him and he could be in trouble. Britney, of course, disagrees. It&amp;#039;s one of her favourite Madonna songs and she thinks he nailed it.  Moving right along, it&amp;#039;s Paige Thomas, who&amp;#039;s doing Donna Summer&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Last Dance&amp;#039;. She sounds fantastic and vocally, it may just be one of her best performances. I still don&amp;#039;t get the styling for her, to be honest; she&amp;#039;s wearing a Lady GaGa-esque red sequined mini dress with puffed shoulders, and it&amp;#039;s all sort of bizarre. I also really hate the fact that they&amp;#039;ve cut all her hair up, but whatever. I really like Paige and she does a great job working the stage, coming off much more confident this week, as well.   LA calls it her best yet, while Britney remarks that it was the &amp;quot;best disco throwback ever&amp;quot; and that it was &amp;quot;like a disco ball exploded on stage&amp;quot;. Simon agrees with LA that it was probably her best performance to date. However, he blames Demi for the stage production and choreography, which was distracting and kept her from being in the spotlight. Demi stands by her choice, though, and says that her performance took her mind off of anything else happening on stage.  Fifth Harmony is up next, and this week they&amp;#039;re taking on Mariah Carey&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Hero&amp;#039;. Big song, but a good choice for them. Their harmonies are spot on, they look good and are getting more comfortable with one another every week. They&amp;#039;ve figured out who&amp;#039;s better for which part of the track really well, and the great thing about them as a group is that every single one of them can sing instead of just one. The music in the background is a bit loud and they do get a little screechy here and there (probably in an effort to be heard over the music), but generally it&amp;#039;s a really solid performance.  LA thinks there&amp;#039;s something &amp;quot;really lovable&amp;quot; about all of them and says that while they struggled with the difficult song choice at first, they managed to find their way. Britney is impressed and applauds Simon for putting them together so well as a group. Demi was worried she would be bored but thinks they did really well and that their vocals were spot on. Simon thinks there&amp;#039;s a possibility that the group could win the show and urges America to vote for them because they&amp;#039;re brilliant, work hard, are fun to work with and... they love puppies. Fair enough.  Next up, it&amp;#039;s Carly Rose Sonenclar, who&amp;#039;s doing Celine Dion&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;My Heart Will Go On&amp;#039;. Ouch, tough choice, but if anyone can do it, it&amp;#039;s Carly. Indeed, she manages to put her own Carly spin on it and the vocals leave nothing to be desired. It&amp;#039;s freakish that anyone can sing this way, let alone a 13-year-old. She hits every note and really shines during the belting parts. She also does a great job conveying the emotion behind the track and displaying conviction. I don&amp;#039;t think anyone can fault this performance, to be honest.  LA is pained to have to say that they could be looking at the winner in front of them, as it was &amp;quot;really good&amp;quot;. Demi agrees, adding that it &amp;quot;doesn&amp;#039;t make sense&amp;quot; and that she can&amp;#039;t believe it&amp;#039;s Carly&amp;#039;s real voice and that Celine Dion is there and hiding. Simon doesn&amp;#039;t believe she&amp;#039;s a human being because she shouldn&amp;#039;t have so much vocal control at only 13. He thinks the note at the end was &amp;quot;absolutely incredible&amp;quot; - and it was. Britney gets chills watching her and is very proud.  Vino Alan is taking on Marvin Gaye&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s Stay Together&amp;#039; this week, and it&amp;#039;s a great song choice for him. He just has that soulful, edgy voice that&amp;#039;s part rock, part R&amp;amp;B and just really, really good. He goes out on stage and just does it effortlessly, working the stage and coming off smooth and passionate at the same time. I think he&amp;#039;s great - a completely unconventional potential popstar, but a potential popstar nonetheless, I think.  Britney thinks his voice doesn&amp;#039;t match his appearance but &amp;quot;it works&amp;quot;, while Demi says that he has an incredible, soulful voice. She likes this performance better than last week and thinks he sounded amazing, but she was a bit bored watching him. Simon was happy to see him so high up in the rankings last week because he needed confidence. However, he says that Vino&amp;#039;s voice is designed for &amp;quot;a moment&amp;quot; with a part he can kill, and he doesn&amp;#039;t think that was the song for him. LA disagrees, though, saying that he put his soul into it and sang it strong.  Next, it&amp;#039;s Emblem3 with Alicia Keys&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;No One&amp;#039;. I love Alicia Keys but not sure if she&amp;#039;s a diva yet, per se. In any case, they&amp;#039;re doing a hokey acoustic, Jason Mraz-y version. I find their voices annoying as anything, but as I&amp;#039;ve said before, I can see them having a lot of success not just in the US but worldwide. They work the stage really well and the performance has a lot of energy, but in a sense, it goes a bit past confidence into arrogance territory. Maybe that&amp;#039;s just me.  LA thinks they had the perfect song choice and are the perfect blend of voices, calling them &amp;quot;complete superstars&amp;quot; and saying that they&amp;#039;re exactly what the show needs. Britney gets why the girls like them - they&amp;#039;re &amp;quot;complete heartthrobs&amp;quot;. Demi loves watching them as they&amp;#039;re genuinely happy on stage and thinks this week was better than last. Simon says there&amp;#039;s no way they should have been in seventh place last week and is sure that after this week, they&amp;#039;ll be right on top since it was &amp;quot;absolutely brilliant&amp;quot;.  CeCe Frey, the itch that won&amp;#039;t go away, is doing a cover of Celine Dion&amp;#039;s version of &amp;#039;All By Myself&amp;#039; and doesn&amp;#039;t start off well - the key is sharp and too high for her and it just doesn&amp;#039;t sound right. I&amp;#039;m not sure what&amp;#039;s happening with her styling this week, either - it&amp;#039;s Marilyn Monroe crossed with Farrah Fawcett and is just wrong. But this is a singing competition: the vocals are terrible, I&amp;#039;m sorry. The lower registers are too low for her, too. The only thing that manages to go halfway to plan is the belted note and even that ends roughly. I don&amp;#039;t think we&amp;#039;ll be seeing her for much longer. Here&amp;#039;s hoping, anyway.  LA thinks it was &amp;quot;an improvement&amp;quot; but didn&amp;#039;t like it, and he doesn&amp;#039;t like her dress. He guesses she&amp;#039;ll be at the bottom again this week. Britney just &amp;quot;doesn&amp;#039;t get it&amp;quot;, while Simon likes her because she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;a trier&amp;quot;, joking that she should have been better singing it alone in a room with no-one else there to witness it. It came across as cabaret and cheesy and thinks her and Demi just aren&amp;#039;t getting it together. Demi insists that she &amp;quot;nailed it&amp;quot; (though would she say anything else?) and wishes people weren&amp;#039;t so hard on her.  The X Factor USA airs Wednesday and Thursday nights on Fox. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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