I like the way Nadia sings she really takes risks but last night, girlfriend should have sang another song.

Nikko still looks like Martin to me but last night he did very well, Anwar no words. Is is just me or did he darken his locs?

My prediction for the bottom three are Nadia, Constatine (sp?) and Mikkalyah.

Nadia, Anwar, Mikkalyah you guys get another chance to redeem yourselves. PICK BETTER SONGS

I just heard about this on the radio. So everyone gets to sing again tonight and they'll have a special show tomorrow? Why can't they just re-run the show and then have people vote tomorrow off of that? I bet you anything that they planned this and someone gets kicked off that shouldn't go.

I'm sure its something like that:(

DITTO!! Is it just me or has any one else noticed that since season 2 there has always been some "unforseen" drama once the competition reaches the top 12?

Well Mikalah's gone...so all eliminations will be sort of tough(except for Constantine and Anthony..I will be glad when they are GONE)

But if Anwar skips and does another Chaka Khan song I might want to see him GONE

I wanted him gone a long time ago. I'm still bitter about David Brown going home. To me, he was one of the best male vocalist. JMO!

How about I turned to BET this morning and saw none other than Anwar Robinson perfoming in a video called "Saved". I wonder if the AI producers know that he has actually recorded before?

I am hoping that I'm not the only one that saw his video this morning.

I think that Anwar was feeling that Chaka Khan song a lil TOO much...if ya know what I mean....I dunno......Something ain't stirring the Kool-Aid......maybe there is too much sugar in it.....:eek:

not that there's anything wrong with that........

Doesn't matter. They can (and many have) work in the recording industry or on broadway (or off-Broadway-- Constantine was apparently in Rent somewhere in the New York area). What matters is that they aren't currently under contract and that they were under 28 and over (whatever age it was) at the time of the auditions.

There was an article I read on Yahoo news a number of weeks back that stated the experience that the top 24 all had prior to being on AI. Of course, I can't find the article anymore. -sigh- But it listed the fact that at least one person had cut a demo album and had some play of it on the radio, but that that person wasn't under contract anymore.

Oh, ok. I was worried that him being in the video would be a cause for controversy.

Anwar - no more Chaka Khan songs, ok? Thanks. :)

Now Paula know darn well that Anwar was NOT GOOD AT ANY POINT of "I Believe I Can Fly":mad:

Nikko and Vonzelle.... BEST OF THE NIGHT AGAIN...

I would have like to have heard Vonzelle do "Run To You" just b/c I Have Nothing has been sung to death:D but she did a great job

http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2005/ph...lackplanet.jpg

Rumors of American Idol finalist Anwar Robinson's sexual orientation have been circling for awhile, but a quick search of African American community site BlackPlanet.com's personal ads for men-seeking-men in New Jersey should help clarify the issue: Anwar Robinson, clearly identifiable from photos (the same photos which have also been used on a few of his fan sites), lists in his profile that he is a man seeking a man.


Early on in the fourth season of the popular reality series, which premiered January 18th, judge Paula Abdul declared that Robinson had “the best vocal technique in this competition,” and judge Randy Jackson praised him for giving “the best performance of the whole competition” when he sang “What a Wonderful World.” But his latest performance of Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody" drew more tepid praise from the judges, with Simon calling it lazy and inconsistent, and Randy describing it as not his best.

Still, Robinson had made it to the top 10, and remains a favorite among fans and bookies. "Anwar Robinson, who performed a flawless rendition of 'A House is Not A Home' by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, is the favorite to win among nearly all internet sports betting firms," commented Thomas Jensen, Marketing Director for Sports911.com in a recent press release. "But he's also far from a lock."

BlackPlanet.com indicates that Robinson's last login was January 1, 2005, before American Idol even began auditions for its fourth season. No one knew at that time that the schoolteacher from East Orange, New Jersey would become one of the finalists on the popular Fox reality series, which makes it unlikely to be a fake profile set up by a fan (or detractor) of the popular singer. It also raises questions around why Robinson did not remove his profile once he was selected to be on the show, given the intense scrutiny he knew he was going to receive as a contestant on a show watched by over 20 million Americans each week.

The most likely answer is that, despite rumblings that Fox prefers to keep AI's gay contestants closeted, at least during the competition (one finalist from Season 1, Jim Verraros, came out after the series ended), Robinson himself is not that closeted in real life. Sources tell us that the singer has been openly gay since high school, and even now does not go out of his way to hide his sexuality, which this personal ad would seem to confirm.

Robinson did not address his sexual orientation in his official Fox bio, however, and contestants are not allowed to talk to the press until after they have been eliminated from the competition, so Robinson has not yet been given an opportunity to set the record straight himself. If he doesn't make the cut in tonight's elimination round, he may find he has that chance sooner than he would like.

http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2005/3/robinson.html