Here are my picks of girls for the Top Twelve with comments:

  1. Carly Smithson
    My favorite coming into the first week. Some pitch problems; seemed like it might have been a bit too ambitious song for her.
  2. Brooke White
    I liked her a lot from the get-go. I thought she had just a tad too much vibrato, but overall, she didn’t disappoint.
  3. Syesha Mercado
    Interesting/risky song choice. One of my favorite singers. Reminds me of a girl I dated in high school.
  4. Asia’h Epperson
    One of my favs, and picking Joplin was a great choice. Every time I’ve heard her sing on the show, though, it sounds like she’s got some vocal fold stress or polyps. Hopefully she gets that checked out.
  5. Alexandrea Lushington
    I was pleasantly surprised by her performance tonight.
  6. Joanne Borgella
    More entertaining that Kristy Lee Cook. I wonder if her saying that she’s a “plus size model” so much makes America see her as fat?
  7. Amanda Overmyer
    Okay. I get it. You sound like Janis or a female Elvis wannabe. I can’t imagine that she’d win this competition.
  8. Alaina Whitaker
    Looks like Carrie Underwood with the mouth of Anna Paquin
  9. Ramiele Maluby
    Okay, but ultimately unmemorable.
  10. Kristy Lee Cook
    Safe/okay/fine/not memorable. Although she gets points for being from Oregon, she didn’t take the song anywhere.
  11. Kady Malloy
    Neither memorable nor horrible. I fast forwarded through her song.
  12. Amy Davis
    Was it just me or did she sound like she wasn’t even singing in the same timezone as the pitch? I didn’t even listen to a minute of her song.