After today’s taping, I am going to Toronto for a couple for days with Steve Isaacs for some Panic business. I’ll check in when I get there and we can recap tonight’s elimination show. After seeing it on TV last night, I thought Patrice wasn’t as good as she sounded in the room live, but her song might save her. Tommy said he could make it work. If it’s not her, I really have no idea who would go tonight. We are getting to that point where they are all pretty good at what they do and they don’t really need all that much direction anymore. They are who they are. I’d say that out of all of them, Ryan has benefited the most from our comments. He has taken them and adjusted his performances while still remaining true to who he is. That, is the name of the game! Although Toby did try to go for it and step up his performance, watching it back, it felt a little forced to me. I don’t know, at least he is willing to take chances and try out new stuff. I commend him for taking such risks in front of millions of viewers like that. It’s not like he has a little club tour to try things out each night and see what works. He has to just go for it on national TV. Lukas actually came across less engaging on TV last night than I remember with a lot of back to the audience. Gilby had a great point about that. The funny thing is, that even on his worst night, he is still leaps and bounds beyond some of the other contestants. Someone asked about how I can ask the questions I ask without seeing the webisodes. Well, if you notice the recap packages that roll before I ask the singers my questions, you can see that I am only asking them about what I have seen. We see the recaps in the studio on a large screen. I will tell you, however, that after reading your comments, I went and watched the whole webisode with Dilana’s press clinic. Um… Yeah. Wow! That was really intensely stupid of her. I hope I get a chance to hammer her a little about that. If not on the show, I will grab her backstage and say, "What the hell are you doing? You are gonna crucify yourself here!" You NEVER talk shit about your peers! "But Dave, what about the K-Fed comments you made on Kimmel?" Well, all I can say to that is… There are exceptions!
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I can not wait to see what makes it to air as they rip her new one.
