Disco night is always fun, although I don't remember one with this much variety before. It seems like most years we pretty much get a bunch of copycat stuff. Not so this year.
Unfortunately, Lil watched the previous seasons and treated us to a very lame version of "I'm Every Woman." I actually wondered if she was the lead-singer on the performance. Yawn.
Kris righted the ship and then some with a very cool take on "She Works Hard for the Money." He pretty much could've done any song with that arrangement and the cool percussion and it would've worked. I actually felt bad for Lil after Kris showed her up so badly.
Danny came close to taking a step backward, not doing much with the arrangement of "September," but doing his usual stellar job on the actual singing. Still, he clearly didn't measure up to Kris's originality.
Allison did her usual rock thing on "Hot Stuff," and it was actually pretty good. Not your typical Boogie Week stuff, anyway.
Matt committed the classic blunder of going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line...Hahahahahaha!!! Sorry, Princess Bride reference. Be very ashamed if I had to tell you that. Anyway, he took on a song ("Stayin' Alive") without much creative wiggle-room. Yes, he brought some funk to it, and it was okay, but I refer the reader back to Kris, who also chose a non-wiggly song and wiggled the ever-living-stuffing out of it.
Adam went for surprising with "Ashamed I Can't Remember the Name of the Song and I'm Not Turning the Toob Back On Just to Find It." I think he still went for a bit too much on a couple of the high notes. Not that he messed them up or anything, but I still think less is more with the glass-shattering stuff. Still, he's really good. (Although I wonder if anyone will actually want to buy his stuff. See him in person maybe, but recorded? Dunno).
Anoop happened. And he looked as pleased with it as I was. How pleased can you be with a very Drug Store version of "Dim All The Lights?" He actually looked disgusted at the end.
Paula, or at least a representative of her viscera, tells me that Danny and Adam will be in the Finals, but there's no WAY Danny outlasts Kris if America has anything resembling brains. But we lose two this week, and Anoop and Lil are made for the twin spots on the Buh-Bye-Mobile. Of course, Vote For the Worst has Lil tagged, so maybe we'll lose Allison instead.
This is as detailed I could get while spending less than fifteen minutes writing it. There, I'm admitting that I'm mailing it in. It's the least I can do. Really it is.