Maid & Butler

As we all know, next week is the showhand episode of our remaining 3 contestants. And because I’m a Kris supporter, this post is gonna be Kris-centric. I don’t care whatever strategies the other 2 are doing but I only care for Kris to go to the next level.

SONG CHOICE
Let’s tackle the most important aspect of the competition. When it boils to this stage, it doesn’t matter about your vocals, technicalities etc. It’s song choice. If your song selection sucks, you can say bye bye. For me, this is the SHOWHAND part where you really gotta DIG your trump card and slap it on their faces. What is Kris’ stronghold? I would have to say his creativity in arrangement to make a song FIT him instead of fitting into the song. Vocally, he shouldn’t have any problem. Let’s take a look at the songs that he sang and got high reviews with the judges. Those would be “She Works Hard for the Money”, “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “The Way You Look Tonight”. (For me, “Falling Slowly” and “How Sweet it is to Be Love by You” should be in there too). In fact, all of his performances are always very well received! Other than “Coming Together”, which has mix reviews. Frankly, I think it was just a mediocre performance but the more I listen to it, the more I grew to like it! Anyway, the first 3 songs are all hits and all 3 were being rendered by Kris to sound very different. So I think he should choose a really popular song and give it a real twist. That said, we wouldn’t want him to sing Britney Spear’s “Baby One More Time” do we?

Here’s my take on some songs that would suit him.

If I Ain’t Got You by Alicia Keys
I know, I know. It has been tried and failed but if it’s Kris maybe he’ll nail it! This is high risk but I’m sure it’s utterly as rewarding if it’s done perfectly. Doesn’t matter that it has very high notes, Kris could make it to suit him. In fact, I’m really interested to see him attempt this song. The genre suits him perfectly as well and he could use the help of the piano to boost artistic power, heh.

Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
Somehow, I can almost imagine Kris doing well with this song. It’s a faster paced song than “If I Ain’t Got You” though and I find that he is better off with medium to slow tempo songs. Maybe he can rearrange this to suit him? He can prolly use his 1337 guitar skillz in this one. I still prefer the first song choice, it has more ‘OOMPH’!

APPEARANCE
This is the best look from him, me thinks. Fashionable but not overboard. He could go for something like Matt Giraud too, sans the hat. I like Matt’s style even when he’s not performing, that guy has serious fashion sense.

Kris Allen's 'Numbers' Shirt with skinny tie

I think that’s all from me now. I’m really anxious to know which song he has chosen to perform. Randy has already chosen one for him. He will be singing ‘Apologize’ by One Republic as one of the songs.