First off, the AI producers need to sack whoever came up with the parents/loved ones in the green room thing. It's boring, and it's bad television. What, exactly, are we looking for from them?
As for the singers, I ask them, in the words of Crewman Guy from Galaxy Quest, "Did you guys ever watch the show?" Because some of these song choices were just unpardonable.
And now, random snark or praise:
Jackie - Freddy Mercury wants his pants back.
Rickey - Why haven't we seen him before?
Alexis - Good song choice, good vocal.
Brent - Boring countrified garbage.
Stevie - Buh-bye. Went for "young," came up with "eight-years-old and singing while jumping on her bed."
Anoop - Basically boring. But he'll make it through as a Wild Card if nothing else.
Casey - Altogether brutal.
Michael - I really like him, but the song didn't show off the smoothness I was looking for.
Anne Marie - Sounded a bit pageanty. Bad song choice.
Steven - Not a great performance. Yes, the song had the word "boogie" in it, and there's substantial mojo involved in that, but it wasn't enough.
Tatiana - I wrote down her name, and that's pretty much all I can bring myself to do.
Danny - I can't say I loved the song choice, but the vocal was stellar.
Predictions, you say? Danny and Alexis in a walk, and Anoop or She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-Twice as possible alternates. Oh, and there's just no way I'm watching it.