What you heard last night on American Idol was the top 8 performing, “Can’t Get You Outta My Head” by Kylie Minogue, sadly it didn’t sound like anything like the original!  The 8 contestants sang LIVE for the first time and you could tell.  For the past four weeks the idols sang to pre-recorded tracks that are available on iTunes to download which had nice harmonies and almost sounded like a choir.

Watching the intro performance, something seemed different, odd even.  They sounded off key in my opinion when they started and just was blah!  The guys were all over the place, the blind guy was moving in places he shouldn’t be moving, it was a mess…nevertheless the producers of the show gave us the real stuff!

Idol runner up from Season One, Justin Guarini said, "Every single year, we cannot stand the group performances. I know they can’t stand it either. And I think what makes [the group performances] even worse now is that they’re lip-synced. They’re really prerecorded now."

Some fans said: Last week it was very obvious the group number was prerecorded. During almost the entire song, the camera kept showing Scott’s hands supposedly playing the piano. Then towards the end of the song, Scott stood up to sing with the rest of the contestants but you could still hear the piano being played in the background in the exact same tempo and volume. I seriously doubt Scott had time to learn to play that piece that well in one week on top of all the other duties he had to learn (group number, Ford commercial, his own song).

Hmm…it’s not just me, but tonight was definitely LIVE, it was uncomfortably LIVE!