He said he based that on Simon saying Allison was in trouble & the fact that he praised Matt so highly. He knows Simon’s words often have power. He believed Matt & Kris were safe because Simon praised Matt to the worlds end & Kris was great & had never been in the bottom three, so he assumed they were safe. Allison has been in the bottom three every other week & Simon said she was in trouble, & sometimes you can perform the best & get sent home &, therefore, he thought Danny may be unsafe.

“I was definitely surprised that Adam was down there with me but he didn’t like his own performance. We were both goofing off from each other waiting for Ryan to call our name out to try & make it all less serious, y’know? It was a cruel twist for him to have to pick who he thought was in the B3. Me & Kris were giving him a hard time backstage, like, “Why didn’t you pick US!! Because we were sure WE were B3. We love Adam so that was uncomfortable. But you know Adam, he’ll be ok, he’ll bounce back.”

—- I have to say, I find it ludicrous that they they still persist with this farce of making the contestants choose. They are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Those who have refused to choose have been branded wusses (or “wet” ). Those who do choose get it in the neck for making a decision. It could very easily have been Kris having to make that decision with Danny on one side & Adam on the other. It’s ludicrous.

Style, schmaltz, and smarm combine to manifest as swagger and swagger is probably the most crucial element in great rock and roll. It’s what keeps the Rolling Stones from being a shitty blues band and Oasis from being Ocean Colour Scene.

I’m not saying Danny is there yet, but he’s got potential to be a great showman in a rock sense. Not in a music-theatre/arts&drama annoying way, either

I still don’t understand how you’re having trouble applying the “style, schmaltz, smarm” equation to Neil, Tom, Dean, and Elvis.

Sorry, but he just doesn’t have that charisma. He *thinks* he does though. And that’s the problem.

You shouldn’t put yourself in a target demographic. That’s how they get you.

Obviously, we’re not his target demographic here so it’s no surprise we’re all pretty down on him.

He’ll probably sell records to soccer moms and grandmas but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t just outright suck.

Diff’rent strokes, I suppose.

Adam is unbearable and will make an awful record. He also won’t be able to sell records.

And I agree with jonian2008, the similarities between Gokey and Hicks are pretty superficial